Projects

The project consists of three components:

1. **Educational Component**
A series of lectures and seminars aimed at exploring and improving methods of implementing rights to an inclusive urban environment. Speakers include researchers, human rights activists, and advocates.

2. **Human Rights Component**
Several trainings focusing on the media and legal aspects of working with urban administrations and other government representatives to defend rights and ensure their implementation across different institutions.

3. **Research Component**
Researching the urban environment of Almaty from the perspective of inclusivity, incorporating the approaches discussed within the framework of the school.

The project is dedicated to the preservation of architectural heritage and the right to collective memory embodied in the city's architecture. It summarizes the advocacy experience of the "ArchCode Almaty" initiative over six years.

[NoN] Museum Almaty is a participatory independent museum located in the former NKVD building. Its objectives include: engaging citizens in the topics of "Right to Memory and Right to Heritage," critically examining the theme of collective memory, involving the community in dialogues about parallel historical narratives, and publicly addressing the complex memory of the former NKVD building through engagement with communities of architects, artists, illustrators, videographers, and sound designers in creating collective interdisciplinary exhibitions that resonate with the historical context of the building in various ways.

Cityzen Playground is a series of culture interventions into vacant public spaces/wastelands in the non-central areas of the city using mobile pavilion with foldable temporary solutions to organize a temporary public pop up space for the local communities in non -central city areas of Almaty.

This is a project dedicated to participatory design of the future city, combining elements of sociological research, futurology, urban moderation, community engagement, speculative design, and interdisciplinary contemporary art.

The "Future City Manifesto" project is a speculative research project exploring the right of citizens to participate in the collective future of the city, using Almaty as a case study. It is based on sociological surveys and creative strategic sessions with various community groups of citizens.

"An educational project aimed at discussing the public agenda in the field of urban environment. One of the goals is to bring certain topics to the forefront. We have started talking more often about the necessity of research before project implementation and about critically evaluating projects."

This is an attempt to archive the architectural DNA of our city by inventorying the remaining buildings of old architecture that serve as its carriers. Archcode Almaty is a snapshot of the architectural landscape that has been inherited and that we will pass on to those who will live in the city after us. We aim to popularize the topic of preserving Almaty's architectural heritage and elevate the discussion to a qualitatively different level: creating an active professional community and a sustainable information environment around this issue, involving broader segments of the population in the discussion, and drawing the attention of urban administration, developers, and builders to the preservation of the city's architectural identity.