Research & Expertise

The start of a new academic year is an excellent time to plan the next steps in your academic career. On September 1, HSE University announced the start of its annual Student Research Paper Competition (SRPC-2022). Participation is open to students of Russian and international universities and to 2022 graduates. Last year, a total of 2,196 papers were submitted to the SRPC, of which 435 were from external participants.

Researchers from HSE University conducted a study of 15 of the world’s largest cities in Europe, Asia, and North America that assessed the cities’ labour market activity, post-quarantine economic recoveries, and the extent to which their digital infrastructures were prepared for the crisis. The study showed that Seoul and Shanghai, followed by Moscow, dealt with the crisis most effectively. Singapore and Stockholm ranked 4^th and 5^th, respectively.

A special issue 'Urban Standard and Norm and Their (Post)-Socialist Transformation' is edited by Nikolai Erofeev (Oxford University) and Marina Sapunova (HSE University).

Daria Klimova, a graduate of the international master's programme ‘Prototyping future cities’ and a fellow of the grant of the President of the Republic of Tatarstan, presented the concept of revitalizing the territory of the ‘Santekhpribor’ industrial enterprise at the II Russian Youth Architectural Biennale in Kazan.

Vera Smirnova, Ivan Mitin, Varvara Molodtsova, and Alexander Mikhaylov spoke at the 8^th Urban Geographies Conference held at the University of Belgrade

Do you want to participate in the Shenzhen Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism 2019? Do you want to imagine the future of Moscow? The HSE Laboratory for Experimental Urban Design Shukhov Lab together with the Committee for Architecture and Urban Planning of Moscow invites students, young architects and designers to apply for the International workshop curated by chief architect of Moscow Sergey Kuznetsov and ex-chief architect of Barcelona Vicente Guallart.

Within two weeks 20 students will fabricate a full-scale prototype of an interactive object and present it at the popular science festival Geek Picnic 2019 in Moscow

Anna Budnikova, alumni of the international Master’s programme ‘Prototyping future cities’ received the Outstanding Science Award at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) for her research ‘Mycokarst: New Generation of Self-healing Urban Materials Based on Fungal Spores’ conducted under Elena Mitrofanova leadership.

Anna Budnikova, graduate of the GSU Master’s programme ‘Prototyping future cities’ and finalist of the Biodesign Challenge 2019, will present her project ‘Mycokarst: New Generation of Self-healing Urban Materials Based on Fungal Spores’ in New York.

Faculty took part in an international conference at TU Darmstadt dedicated to cities and post-socialist urban change