What does a border look like in space? How can we understand a geographic 3000 kms line?

The „Frontier Survey“ database offers 238 interactive sheets, describing in their own way the reality of unusual places, for they were located on a border that separated the elder EU-countries from the new ones in the heart of the continent until December 2007. Conducted during the summer of 2006, this gathering of information in the form of photographs, interviews, texts, diagrams and sound pick-ups builds up living evidence and status reports one year before the demolition of frontier infrastructures and the ending of controls following the entry of 9 new countries in the Schengen Area. Given their geographic location and their history, these places are at the heart of the stakes of the European expansion, and are therefore now living important changes.

> Consult the database under database.atelier-limo.eu

Is the shared memory of Finland, Russia and Estonia to be seen along the road?

This database makes available all the data collected in 121 places along the itinerary "Turku-St Petersburg-Tallinn" connecting Finland, Russia and Estonia. Each place has been selected depending on one and only criterion: ithad to have a direct or indirect connection with a historical event regarding at least two of the three countries. All the photographs, the sounds and the stories we collected on the premises as well as the interviews of the people we met are all made available on this internet site through various tools: the mosaic which gives an overview of each place, the long and detailed list, maps, the search module.
 

> Consult the database under www.detour2011.eu