Various actors including Austrian diplomats, Czech autonomy strivers (culture, politics, urban policy), local citizens, church.
Local knowledge on pre-Habsburg architecture/art/cultural traditions – and on Prague mythology fuel content and expression of 19th Century Czech-Slavic emancipatory movement.
Mostly a top-down (policy makers, cultural leaders etc.) process, though local citizens supported and identified with the emancipatory movement; the production of typical Czech-Slavic places did address ordinary citizens/daily use of public space and movement through Prague.
Enlightenment > Emancipation > Language/culture/literature/architecture > The example of Prague/Bohemia, starting in late-18th C. and resulting in a revolutionary narrative and in concrete urban interventions as of mid-19th C. (Vltava embankments/bridges/culture and academic buildings/cemeteries/parks/housing) Ongoing research, based on primary and secondary historical sources.
Securing access and identification of Czech citizens with city, history and culture through urban programs and architecture; reverse traumatic effects of foreign rule (officially since 1620) into Czech-national place-making, stimulated by local knowledge
No digital tools used originally. The historic process could be made accessible/understandable by digitization?
The 19th Century process was a top-down process, though stimulated and supported by regular citizens.
Architecture/town planning history.
Publication on Czech-Slavic campo santo, Vysehrad-Prague (published 2019; in Dutch)