Akvieduk is an urban project focusing on psychogeography - an exploration of cities from a perspective of a game and playfulness. The project is mainly researching the ways citizens move around cities and interact, while also studying an image of the city, urban structures and their historical contexts.
The main form of akvieduk is a telegram-channel, in which notes are published. Currently there are more than 20 notes on urban studies and psychogeography. Those texts take their examples mostly from the cities of Minsk and Vilnius and explore their urban spaces.
All of the notes are illustrated with photos and/or sketches (those from this page are made by me). Above are some of the shots from a note "How Internet is Turning Us into Citizens*"
*this note, as well as other notes on a tg-channel, are in Belarusian.
*this note, as well as other notes on a tg-channel, are in Belarusian.
Animations like this usually serve as announcements of a note, but in the case of the animation on the left, it's the whole new season being announced.
Some of the notes were later published by informational and urban sites on demand of editors of those resources. Here are some examples:
http://greenbelarus.info/articles/25-09-2018/mnenie-iz-chego-dolzhen-sostoyat-horoshiy-gorodskoy-park (published with some changes*)
https://citydog.by/post/minsk-kak-paris/ (a bit changed and given a "catchy" name)
There are also videos. Below are ones made on subjects connected to public transport:
Topics which akvieduk has researched:
the design of the street; street food; urban culture; access in buildings; architecture; songs about the city; ghost signs; history marks; street modification; city of augmented reality; design of public transportation system; small communities; a problem of Kastrychnickaya Square; city maps; restrictions in the city; interactive elements of urban environment; parks in the city; conservation of a cultural heritage; the division of city center from outskirts; image and perception of Minsk city center; haussmannization; continuity of urban structures; influence of web on the public life of cities; flaneurs; regular city and the history of city structures; ethnographic and sociological research of the city; movement in the city; gamification of the city; situations and their influences on choices in an urban space; stimulus in the city and others.
Notes (in Belarusian) are here:
https://t.me/akvieduk
