In memory of Veronika Klancnik, who died last month in Ljubljana. Veronika Klancnik was the creator of the 'INT/EXT Hotel California' project amongst other things.

Something over a month ago, an editor of "WORK|OUT European Students' Review" contacted us, asking if we could provide photos of the HOTEL CALIFORNIA project by Veronika Klancnik, as we feature this project on our website urbanfields.net. Unfortunately we could not provide the pictures, as we only possess the low-resolution photos we feature on the website.

This was the first time I heard about Veronika in quite a while. The last time being, when her friend Li Weingerl passed by our house, to give us the postcards they had made of the Hotel California project.

Today I had been looking at the log files for urbanfields.net and wondered about the reason for the unusually high demand for the Hotel California section of our website.
After some research, I saw that part of the reason for this high demand was the article about Veronika's project published on the WORK|OUT website with a link to urbanfields.net. The other reason was a shocking discovery: Veronika had died in Ljubljana on August 18th of the injuries from a traffic accident with her bicycle.

We at the CUE Institute are touched and deeply sorry about this loss. Our hearts go out to her family in Slovenia, to Li Weingerl and those that were close to Veronika.

Veronika Klancnik was born in Maribor, Slovenia in 1974, studied cultural sociology in Ljubljana and later literature and visual arts in Geneva. She lived and worked in both Ljubljana and Geneva. In what appears to have been a very active life, she was amongst other things an artist, a journalist, translated a book from French into Slovene and wrote screenplays for two feature films.

By Kevin Mueller, The Institute of Contemporary Urban Encounters, September 18th 2005

The first photo is a picture of Veronika Klancnik by Li Weingerl, the other pictures are from the INT/EXT Hotel California project

Read about INT/EXT Hotel California on fieldreport.net
www.3via.org/index.php?htm=veronika/ang
www.work-out.org/wo28/europa/wo28_europa_veronika.html
www.work-out.org/wo28/europa/wo28_europa_home.html

The urbanfields.net urban photo section has received a beautiful update with the cities of Tehran and Belgrade.

The magnificent city of Tehran has been added to the urbanfields.net fields-section. Franz Ermel and Michel Schneider took the pictures on a trip to Tehran this July. They show a quiet, poetic view of this bustling and congested city with its amalgam of religion, culture, science and commerce. Visit wikipedia (link below) for more information on Tehran.

Besides this, the Belgrade fields have received a significant update with beautiful pictures taken by Zera in the course of the past three years.

urbanfields.net/fields/tehran/index.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tehran
urbanfields.net/fields/belgrade3/index.html

The UK newspaper The Guardian launches an online travel project called Been There, which will create guides to cities for readers by readers.

At the same time as The Guardian newspaper yesterday appeared redesigned and in the smaller "Berliner" format, the newspaper's website launched the beta version of its new travel project Been There. Readers can submit tips for any city they like and upload corresponding photos on the Been There website. The project is a blog really, with the added weight of Britain's most popular newspaper website.

If this project turns out to be a simple tourist guide or something more profound, depends entirely on the material submitted. Since this project is open to contributions from anyone, there's a good chance it will turn out to be strange enough to be interesting and contain enough odd places to become a useful addition to standard city guides.

www.ivebeenthere.co.uk

The urbanfields.net urban photo section now has two additional Marseille pages by Urs Birchmeier and Michel Schneider.

http://urbanfields.net/fields/marseille2/index.html