Presentation

A study of the Tbilisi neighbourhood of Gldani will be presented by Tinatin Gurgenidze. Tinatin lives and works in Berlin. She has studied architecture and urban design in Tbilisi and Barcelona. Currently she is working on her PhD thesis concerning the (post) Soviet mass housing settlement Gldani that is located in her hometown Tbilisi. Tinatin’s work concentrates on the sociological approach towards architecture and urban space. In her work she aims to understand what has happened with the Gldani neighbourhood in the transition period after Georgia became an independent country from the Soviet Union.

With her presentation on the ONE ARCHITECTURE WEEK Tinatin will introduce Gldani and will explain the societal change that took place after the independence. She will describe what effect have those events had on the architecture of a strictly planned and standardised district like Gldani. Tinatin’s work is part of the main exhibition of ONE ARCHITECTURE WEEK – “Living spaces”.

Photo Credits Tako Robakidze

For more information about the work of Tinatin Gurgenidze: http://archiveoftransition.org/?article=standardized-lifes#magazine

Entrance: free