Share your photos! #DeepNic Project

Nicosia through the years: Share your photos! #DeepNic Project 

The DeepNic research team of CYENS Centre of Excellence digitizes photos of the historic centre of Nicosia!

When and where: 

May 24 | 09:00-16:00 

📍 Home for Cooperation, 28 Markou Drakou St., 1102, Nicosia 

May 25-27 | 09:00-16:00 

📍 CYENS Centre of Excellence, 23 Lellos Demetriades Square, 1016, Nicosia

Do you have photos of the historic centre of Nicosia? 

Be a part of history through the DeepNic project! 

From Wednesday, May 24 to Saturday, May 27, the DeepNic Research team will be at the Home for Cooperation and the CYENS Centre of Excellence to digitize photographs of the historic centre of Nicosia! 

The DeepNic project and seeks to collect photographs of 10 important points of the historic centre of Nicosia from 1960-2020: 

1. Faneromeni Square (Church and School) 

2. THOC area (THOC, old GSP stadium, Administrative Centre) 

3. Nicosia Municipal Gardens (Parliament Building, Cyprus Museum, CYTA) 

4. Eleftheria Square (link to the commercial centre Stasikratous, Makariou and Evagorou Avenues) 

5. Ermou street (Ayios Kassianos, Chrysaliniotissa, Famagusta Gate, Omeriye) 

6. Kyrenia Avenue (Kyrenia Gate, Inönü Sq, Atatürk Sq, Sarayönü) 

7. Arabahmet Quarter 

8. Bandabulia (Agia Sofia area and Büyük Han) 

9. Haydarpaşa, Yeni Cami 

10. Ledra and Onasagorou Street 

DeepNic aims to investigate the evolution and transformation of Nicosia’s urban centre from a historical and sociological perspective using several types of data such as written, oral, and visual. It takes the whole of the urban centre of Nicosia as a case study, to examine how its transformation within a certain period is affected by key political and social developments that have occurred from 1960 until today, namely, the proclamation of the independence, the 1963-64 intercommunal strife, the 1974 war and the division of the island; the beginning of the Master Plan in 1979; the unilateral proclamation of the regime in 1983; first mass granting of employment permissions to immigrants in the 1990s; the opening of the crossings in 2003; the financial crisis in 2013; and the pandemic measures in 2020. 

In this project, historical research is combined with geography and technology in a data visualization effort that allows a multi-temporal and multi-dimensional historical narrative.  

Website: 

Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/deepnicproject

Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/618515539915897/618515546582563?ref=newsfeed 

Instagram page: 

@deep_nic_project

Host Organization: CYENS Centre of Excellence

Partner Organisations: The Association for Historical Dialogue and Research, Appios Communications