Tribal Land: the workshop by Theo Deutinger

«Game Changers 2: Tribal Land» workshop led by Theo Deutinger, architect and researcher. Using research-based design, they explore Moscow's Belyaevo district in order to understand, how different groups of local citizens can influence the urban environment, adapt to and change it

Students during the workshop at Shukhov Lab

Students during the workshop at Shukhov Lab

These groups are the "new tribes", and it presupposes that they have own rituals and habits. 
To dive into the world of "tribes" within Belyaevo district, students started their work from meeting with the specialists. At Shukhov Lab Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov (HSE) spoke about anthropological methods of exploring the city and its social groups. Denis Romodin took a tour of Belyaevo and talked about its citizens and structures. Dmitriy Oparin (HSE) told the students about migrants and Muslim community, and Anton Kalgaev («Strelka») spoke about folk art.

On the last day of the workshop, students will share the whole story of Belyaevo and the New Tribe with the experts from Graduate School of Urbanism and Strelka Institute