Young urbanists and architects invite Satka residents to visit the All-Russia Urbanistic Hackathon “Cities” to be held with the support of strategic partner – the Sobranie Fund. The finale will take place in Satka in June.

Roskultcentr opened additional receipt of applications – registration for participation in the All-Russia Urbanistic Hackathon “Cities” in Chelyabinsk Oblast is available from May 13 through May 30, 2021.

Expert council will choose 30 finalists who will unite in teams and create architectural solutions for improvement of assigned territory, under supervision from the Sobranie Cultural Initiative Supporting & Preservation Fund, Moscow Institute of Architecture (MARKHI) and Union of Architects of Russia. Finale of the urbanistic hackathon is to be conducted from June 16 to 18 in Satka.

Project of the winning team will receive expert and financial support for the project implementation in Chelyabinsk Oblast in years 2022–2025. Awarding ceremony will be held in Moscow within the framework of the Russian Creativity Week.

“Being happy means to fulfill own professional ambitions and to be successful in creative activity. And young architects and urbanists have perfect conditions to do so – they can take part in the Roskultcentr’s project “Cities” the finale of which will be held in Chelyabinsk Oblast for the first time” – tells Marina Abramova, Director of FSBI Roskultcentr. “We are thankful for our partner – the Sobranie Fund – for providing the territory and aid in organizing the project. Young specialists will train and work under supervision of experienced and prominent tutors, will reliably receive an order for implementation of their solution. And Satka residents will obtain new and contemporary space for comfortable living”.

“Urbanistic hackathon is a desired project for Satka, a project that steadily continues improvement of urban environment and cultural landscape performed by Sobranie Fund, municipal and regional authorities. For us it is important that the hackathon invites residents of the city to take immediate part in the city life, motivates them to participate in improvement within their powers and strengthens the role model of an active citizen. Anyway, it is the residents themselves who know best how to satisfy their actual requests, solve existing problems and what shall be changed and improved. We hope that special educational program which will support the hackathon will help both Satka residents and young architects – immediate participants of the hackathon – to better fulfill their artistic potential, obtain new experience and knowledge in communication with invited experts” – comments Natalya Nikiforova, Director for Corporate Development and Strategic Communications of Magnezit Group, Director of the Sobranie Cultural Initiative Supporting & Preservation Fund.

Beginner architects, urbanists, environment designers and industrial designers from Russia, at the age of 18–35, having experience in development and implementation of solutions for improvement of territories and urban objects are can send their application.

HOW TO APPLY:

1. Register on web portal of AIS “Young Generation of Russia”.

2. Select the All-Russia Urbanistic Hackathon “Cities” in “Events” section.

3. Load one project from your portfolio in required format to the participant’s account. Full requirements are available after registration on the web portal via link.

An educational program is planned for participants along with execution of the main task and includes: study of the territory to be improved, sociological, historical and social-cultural study of the region, motivational cases. Leading architects and local history experts are among the tutors.

The previous hackathon resulted in 4 projects for improvement of territories in urban locality Kamskoye Ustye, Republic of Tatarstan, Volkhov, Salekhard and Lipetsk which will be implemented in years 2021–2022 with the support of Government of the constituent entities.

The All-Russia Urbanistic Hackathon “Cities” is annually held by Roskultcentr in association with the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs (Rosmolodyozh). Its tasks and objectives are to discover and support young Russian specialists in urban studies and architecture, to create a platform for sharing experiences and to draw attention of the community to problems of small towns and territories.

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Strategic partner of the All-Russia Urbanistic Hackathon “Cities” in Chelyabinsk Oblast: Sobranie Cultural Initiative Supporting & Preservation Fund.

Official partners of the All-Russia Urbanistic Hackathon “Cities”: All-Russia Organization “Urban Renovation”, Union of Architects of Russia, Moscow Institute of Architecture (MARKHI).

Media partners of the All-Russia Urbanistic Hackathon “Cities”: information and education resource ARCHITIME.RU, “Project Russia” magazine, RIA “Construction Exert”.

Read details of the project on official website of FSBI Roskultcentr.