2004-07-08

Vyacheslav Glasychev: "I'M A PROVOKER AND INVESTIGATOR OF URBAN PROCESSES"

V.Glazychev, a Professor at the Moscow Institute of Architecture (MARCHI), a consultant for the Spatial Development Commission of the Volga Federal District, and the president of the interregional public foundation "Urban Institute", shares his experience in managing the development of city environment by means of innovative cultural projects. V.Glazychev accentuates the importance of combining efforts of different social communities (groups of intellectuals, artists and businessmen) for making a reality of the cultural projects, invented by art managers. The range of the professional activity of the latter ones, from Glazychev's point of view, includes: generating the ideas of changing the city environment (an art manager as an innovator and a script writer), organizing some concrete deeds for fulfilling these ideas (an art manager as a connecting link between city planning administration and autonomous executors), and examining the effects of these deeds (selfreflection).