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 Nikita Tokarev, Mikhail Skorokhod, Liza Vintova architects From the Studies of Cognitive Mapping Russia 1999, 16' Moscow is in the middle of a living reconstruction process that poses a challenge beyond that of the stability of architecture. This film explores how the inhabitants of a particular urban area, Ostozhenka, perceive the continuous changes in their environment. The film's creators are interested in the most immediate approach to urbanity, that which permits them to deal with signs, streets, cars, trees and people in the same way. The heroes of the film, however, are the inhabitants, those that use the city, the residents or even the occasional visitors. These groups create the experiences of the city as a gradually unfolding landscape and they impose on the urban areas their own preferences which are often quite foreign to the preferences of architects. The studies for this project were conducted from 11 to 17 August 1999 in Ostozhenka. Six sites with diverse characteristics were selected where 23 of 60 passersby agreed to participate in the experiment. These 23 people presented and discussed for the video fragments of the surrounding environments from their point of view. These clips last 30 seconds each and all of the shots were done with a VHS camera. Elizaveta Vitrova was born in 1971 and Mikhail Skorokhod in 1969. Both studied architecture at Moscow's architecture institute (MARCHL) and they graduated in 1998 and 1995 respectively. Currently, they are both architects at the "Ostozhenka Architects" studio. Nikita Tokarev, born in 1969, also studied at MARCHL until 1994 and then pursued a degree in Urban Management at the Institute of Housing and Urban Management (Olanda) until 1997. Tokarev is currently an architectural critic and teaches at MARCHL as well as works at "Ostozhenka Architects." |
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