Archi.ru:
What will you show at Zodchestvo?
Anton Shatalov:
- We will show our city. His birth, growing up, his current illnesses and problems. Let's outline modern challenges and, of course, show strategies using the example of specific, urban transformations that are only planned today.
What can the audience expect from your exhibition, what is its main meaning?
- It seems to me that there is nothing to wait, you just need to come and see. I must say that the site of Zodchestvo was chosen by us for the premiere. At the end of the festival, the exhibition will move to Krasnoyarsk. This is not an ordinary static exposition, but a light projection show, where in a few minutes we will be able to fix the main counterpoints of the city's development, see mistakes, formulate problems and find their solutions. We are trying to show the connection of times in a modern, but at the same time accessible language. The city must produce, earn, and compete in our global world. But the main object of the competition between cities today is a person, his intellectual potential, his happiness and his ability to create and improve the environment around him. Cities should become magnets, attract new talented young passionaries. Namely, for them in Siberia, the best environment is an unplowed field, there is something to create, only you need to allow them to do it, create conditions for them, build a humanitarian, physical and material infrastructure.
Who is your audience, who are you addressing?
- We turn to a city dweller, in whose head questions arise: what kind of Krasnoyarsk should become, so that one would like to live and work here; how the environment and infrastructure should be transformed; what new can the city offer so that I vote for it with my registration? The city, which was once built on production, is rapidly developing the service sector, becoming more and more convenient for the townspeople. Krasnoyarsk is at the stage of social evolution, when people are given an unlimited choice of opportunities to express themselves. Freedom of choice reveals the competitive advantages of the habitat. The consumer chooses the space for life and architecture, as the shell of his life, as if he chooses clothes in a store. A person is mobile, a person strives for happiness. The task of architects and urban planners is to make the path to happiness of every city dweller the least thorny, to preserve and attract bright brains for a qualitative transformation of the habitat called "city".
Does your exhibition touch on the theme of this year ("actual identical") and if so, how?
- Certainly. Nature and this landscape have been forming here for millions of years, and only a little less than four hundred years this land has been inhabited by people. The anthropogenic landscape is roughly opposed to the natural landscape. The strategies we have laid down are like a return to innocence - an attempt to do justice to the physical space in which we live. Landscape evolution is the main leitmotif of our exhibition.
Do you think it is right to look for identity and uniqueness now, or it might be more logical to focus on the quality of life? Or, on the contrary, on common human problems, forgetting about the originality?
- Balance is important in everything. In this case, one does not exclude the other, but rather complements. You can follow the global trend of improving the quality of life in a completely unique way. The criteria for quality and convenience vary from country to country, from one locality to another. Being determines consciousness, the landscape forms the culture and psychotype of the people inhabiting it. This is where our originality lies.
Will your exposition include a special section on Krasnoyarsk constructivism and will it end up in the “past”, that is, together with the pseudo-Russian style?
- In Krasnoyarsk, constructivism is poorly represented. Unfortunately, many expressive objects have been lost today. It can hardly be said that this era formed a niche for the search for our Siberian identity. In this sense, eclecticism and modernity are much more widely represented in our country. But a short story about this era, along with other periods of history, will be woven into the general outline of the exhibition.
How would you describe the "real" architecture of Krasnoyarsk?
- Krasnoyarsk architecture is experiencing a difficult period, which is mainly due to the long absence of a coherent urban planning policy and an interconnected system of urban regulation. Today this policy is beginning to take shape. We will try to devote most of our time to this story.
- What will the future represent? How clear is it now, or, on the contrary, is it vague? What, in your opinion, does the future depend on, in particular, architecture, in particular, Krasnoyarsk?
- The future of our city, like any other city, depends on a lot of factors. And from the budget, and from investments, and from the consistency and consistency of political decisions. The future of the city largely depends on the self-awareness of its citizens. To what extent are the townspeople ready to consider the city "theirs"? How tightly do they tie their future to the future of the city? The quality of the city, first of all, is determined by the people who live in it. We will show one of the possible options for the development of the future - a certain vector, an ideal picture. Let reality correct us later.
