Who's Public Sphere?

So we launched our Grafton Street Game yesterday morning, and much to our dismay, our posters were taken down within a couple of hours due to 'sensitive material' printed on the posters. This came as quite a shock considering that the project was in collaboration with Dublin City Council and all of the information printed on the boards were public knowledge available to the public realm.
Such a swift dismantling of our project and of most of the other collaborators work raises a number of  interesting questions, some of which we initially set out to question.  Who owns the public realm? It might seem a silly question but considering our project was not allowed to be visible due to the critical nature of some of the material suggests it is not as open as it is perceived to be.
In light of yesterday's actions we hope to pursue the reasons behind the sabotaging of the collaboration.
This is not the end!.......

Here are some of the posters that were taken away

The way we were...

Rummaging around the internet I found some lovely images of how Grafton Street used to look. Have you ever felt a nostalgia for an era gone by, but one in which you were not even born?
I thought I'd share.

Its happening!

Hello everyone!

Our game is complete and ready to go!
We will be playing on Grafton Street on the afternoon of Thursday 3rd of May. We are very excited and hope you come and join in. You never know, you might learn something!
Also watch out for our fellow classmates who will be staging their own individual projects scattered throughout the area  on the day