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Neeraj Mazumder, a native of India, is a first-year student in the Master’s programme Prototyping Future Cities offered by HSE’s Vysokovsky Graduate School of Urbanism. He received his Bachelor’s in Architecture from Jawaharlal Nehru Architecture and Fine Arts University in Hyderabad and came to Moscow to study how cities can be analyzed and smart cities designed.

The ‘Green Spark’ installation by Elena Mitrofanova and Ivan Mitrofanov, project coordinators of the Shukhov Lab, and Paolo Bombelli from Cambridge University, has been selected from 68 projects to be exhibited as part of the Polytech Festival of Science, Art and Technology in May 2018. The festival, organized by the Polytechnic Museum, will take place in Moscow’s Gorky Park.

Vicente Guallart talks about prototyping, smart technologies and cities of the future.

HSE Graduate School of Urbanism has announced the results of the first international contest ‘Cities For a Flying World’.

Altynai Nogobaeva, Dmitry Mamaev and Michael Omona, students of the Master Programme ‘Prototyping Future cities’, presented their project ‘AgreeCulture’ in the Ecology section during Hackathon 2025 in Skolkovo Technopark.

Last year, a team of Advanced Urban Design students from the Graduate School of Urbanism and Strelka Institute embarked on a research expedition to Johannesburg, where they studied problems associated with food security, poverty and inequality.

A new issue of ‘Urban Studies and Practices’ Journal has been released

Vysokovsky Scholarship of the Higher School of Economics is awarded  to the students of the Graduate School of Urbanism who conduct research and contribute publications in the field of city planning, urban studies or urban regulation. Those candidates who specialize in the research areas of Alexander Vysokovsky gain an advantage.

The project supported by European Union is focused on the subject of European housing policies and regulation planned for the period between September 2017 through February 2019 (18 months)

The second year of the Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design and HSE Graduate School of Urbanism joint programme 'Advanced Urban Design' has begun.