POST-MOSCOW [2019-ongoing]
by Fyodor Konukhov
portfolio winners call 'URBANAUTICA INSTITUTE AWARDS 2020', 2020
Category: Representations of Space, Architecture, and Conflicts
The term “post-city” is described by Russian geographer Dmitry Zamyatin as a global city that is “stitched together with communications but lacks integrity,” where “a united space is split into fragments” and “communication is replaced by alienation.”
“POST-MOSCOW” examines the notion of “post-city” in contemporary Moscow, the largest post-socialist metropolis with a population of more than 12.5M people (as of 2020). In this project, I’m searching for signs and traces of what constitutes a post-city by depicting the landscape, architecture, infrastructure elements, and empty spaces and territories that for some (either economic, political, or spatial) reason remain unused: wild river valleys, wastelands, ravines, abandoned construction sites, etc.
While my main goal is to represent the landscape, whose evolution is now dictated mostly by market laws and the local interpretation of neoliberalism, I’m also observing how individuals interact with this landscape, thus investigating the cultural implications of living in a post-city.