On November 15 and 16, an international conference in Irkutsk will focus on modernizing the urban environment and developing public recreational spaces. Participants will discuss restoring and designing such areas in the city and review projects by Russian and foreign experts. On the second day, IrGTU students will present their work, then experts and representatives of government and business will discuss the prospects for public spaces in Irkutsk.

This will be discussed at the international conference “Modernization of the Urban Environment. Public and Recreational Spaces of the City.” The event will take place on November 15-16 as part of the preparations for the 14th session of the International Baikal Winter Urban Planning University (IBWUPU).
As Evgenia Yamova, Deputy Director of the International Baikal Winter Urban Planning University, said, the conference will feature reports on what the public and recreational spaces of Irkutsk are and how to restore them. Sites for the prospective placement and design of a general system for modernizing the urban environment will be presented. There will be a presentation of projects for the development of public and recreational spaces in cities in Russia and abroad. It will be conducted by leading specialists in this field, conference guests Christian Piel (France), Barbara Engel (Germany), and Alexey Myakota (Krasnoyarsk).
On the second day of the conference, the “heroes of the day” will be students of the Institute of Architecture and Construction of IrSTU. They will present their best projects to the architects for review. On the same day, a creative workshop will be held with the participation of the conference guests. Over the course of two hours, they will have to develop several versions of force projects for the modernization of Irkutsk’s urban environment. Later, a round table discussion titled “Public Spaces at the Expense of Business: a Competitive Advantage or an Additional Burden” will take place. Representatives of the architectural community, the authorities, and the construction business will discuss the prospects for developing a system of public and recreational spaces in Irkutsk.
Based on the results of the conference, a presentation and analytical report will be prepared, which will form the basis of the technical assignment for design work during the 14th urban planning workshop of the Winter Urban Planning University.
Based on materials from the press service of the administration of the city of Irkutsk