F.M. Dostoevsky Literary-Memorial Museum and CISR invite to the photography exhibition "Square lives".
Exhibition opens on the 4th of July 2008 at the exhibition hall of Dostoevsky museum (Kuznechniy lane 5/2).
"Square lives" is first art project representing a view of social scientists to the social and public life of European cities. This exhibition is one of the results of research project, investigating visual transformation of urban public spaces in Russia, Britain, Bulgaria and Ukraine.
During two years anthropologists, sociologists, human geographers and architects from Manchester, St.-Petersburg, Sofia and Lviv investigated, observed and photographed social lives at the squares in their cities - spaces, inhabitants, architecture, etc. The idea of public space, that some scholars call "a blood and stone" of a city (Richard Sennet), and some other consider a "windows to the soul of the city" (Sharon Zukin) formed a conceptual framework for the data collected in four different cities.
See general exhibition concept, and concepts for St. Petersburg, Lviv, Manchester, Sofia.
Participants of the exhibition (researchers, photographers):
Oleg Pachenkov, CISR
Lilia Voronkova, CISR (curator of the exhibition)
Svetlana Hristova, South-West University, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria (coordinator of the research project) - sv.hristova@abv.bg
Luchezar Antonov, South-West University, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria - lucho1111@yahoo.com
Craig Young, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK - c.young@mmu.ac.uk
Oleg Rybchinskiy, National University 'Ivan Franko', Lviv, Ukraine
Ihor Savchak, National University 'Ivan Franko', Lviv, Ukraine - ihorsav@gmail.com
Contact person: Lilia Voronkova.