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Connecting the disconnected: eco-friendly dryers
Bu Suel Huseynzade and Sona Dilanyan If you live in Caucasus, the chances are, everyone in your neighbourhood knows all about your underwear. Sounds disturbing? Not at all, perhaps you just haven’t been to any of the urban centers in Armenia or Azerbaijan yet. While their highly consumeristic and claiming-to-be ‘ecologically aware’ Western European kins … Continue reading
Street food culture in Yerevan and Baku (in Connecting the Disconnected)
Street food and its culture are closely linked to the urban culture. Along with a small number of fast food chains located in highly urbanized areas, both Baku and Yerevan offer a large number of small street food businesses. The phenomenon of street food is often perceived very negatively among the citizens of both countries, … Continue reading
Littering and cleaning (in Connected the Disconnected)
“Every public space is like a billboard, with messages from the collective subconscious of the nation. There one can passivity, rage, indifference, fear, double standards, subversion, bad economy, a twisted definition of ‘public’ itself, the whole Weltanschauung – an entire range of emotions and attitudes accumulated and exposed.” Slavenka Drakulić, How We Survived Communism & … Continue reading
Connecting the disconnected: do-it-yourself architecture
The following photo story captures the tale of so-called ‘samostroikas’ (from Russian “самостройка”, considered as one of the first private initiatives in ex-USSR, unconventional way of expanding low-cost, tiny flats known as khrushevkas, massively built during the rule of its namesake Nikita Khrushchev) that can be found nearly in any part of both cities. Even … Continue reading
Peace drawings
We always consider little children innocent and there is certainly a reason behind it. Their opinions are free of society’s stereotypical general thinking and their judgments are free of any prejudices and taboos. And though they are little human beings, they are our reflection of a time when we (the grown ups) too once upon a … Continue reading
