Public Space is a publishing and production house for publications, exhibitions and interdisciplinary research on city, landscape, heritage and society.
Public Space is led by Joeri De Bruyn. He studied philosophy in Antwerp and Leuven. From 2001 to 2008, he was editor at A+, the Belgian magazine for architecture. In 2008, he founded Public Space. Besides being a book and exhibition maker, publisher and editor, Joeri De Bruyn is also the author of numerous texts, articles and books on city, landscape, urban planning, architecture, heritage and society.
Public Space combines interdisciplinary research (urban planning, historical, sociological, technological, cultural, heritage, artistic) with contemporary design insights and theorisation. The publications, exhibitions and research projects always strive for a synergy between academic relevance and appealing to the widest possible audience. For each project, Public Space assembles a changing team of authors, designers, designers, photographers, cinematographers, scenographers, artists and experts from different disciplines.
Public Space is, in a sense, an atypical publishing house. Public Space focuses on a very specific niche within the book market, namely publications on architecture, urban planning, landscape and heritage. In addition, our operation is also atypical. Unlike other publishers, we work very intensively ourselves - like a production house - on our publications. We help think about concept, content and composition. We do the editing and final editing ourselves, and supervise design and printing intensively. In this way, we can best guarantee the quality of our publications.
Our books are available on our website, on the usual online bookshops and in bookshops. For bookstore distribution in Belgium, the Netherlands, the EU and the world, we cooperate with publisher Luster
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Public Space is a member of the Group of Educational and Scientific Publishers (GEWU) and as such is authorised to award the GPRC (Guaranteed Peer Reviewed Content) label for its publications.