OBJECTS

FESTIVAL ARCHSTOYANIE 2025

2025

A 13 hectare field was proposed for the site. At first sight of it I thought that it would be a good site for UFO landing. Who knows what a UFO looks like? Nobody does. Maybe it's not a platter, maybe aliens are transmitting information via waves to another planet and there materialise from local materials? An extraterrestrial intelligence flew to a field in Nikola-Lenivets and materialised here. He did it because this year they decided to build a perfect city here. Maybe the extraterrestrial intelligence is symbolically an artificial intelligence that has evolved to such a level that it is far superior to human intelligence?


To answer the question posed by this year's festival curators, the question of what is my main thing? What is "my most important thing?" I can say that "my main thing" is my mind, my consciousness, which should not pass up to the challenges that may come my way. Be it extraterrestrial or artificial intelligence.

the 1st metaverse architecture biennale 2023

2023

The Pavillion simbolicaly is the shards of our civilization washed ashore in another Universe after billions of years. We think about what they will be like & whether we can reach such a level of development that would save them and transfer to the new world. We show possible scenarios for the evolution of the world, so that everyone can reflect. The life of one person seems small on such a scale, but it is important, & everyone can influence the future if he understands what direction to take.

The project is consciously progressive in nature. It reveals the future of different scenarios
of the relationship between man and the world in the most important spheres of this relationship.

And if we talk about the visual component, for me, the sharp peaks of mountains are associated with the peaks of knowledge that we have yet to conquer.
Smirnova M.E., research associate of the Research Institute of Archaeology RAS

TOWER

2022

Tower concept for the Archstoyanie festival, the theme of which in 2022 was Happiness. We expressed our understanding of happiness through a tower made of 6000 ice cream cans and capable to generating electricity. Happiness for us is the ability to exist in harmony with the world around us, while remaining an integral being, able to become a support for itself and others, and always striving for development, each time as if in a spiral moving to the next turn.

The base of the tower is a rod, which is turned by the movement of the wind, and through a system of gears drives a dynamo machine, which eventually gives electricity.

Symbolically, this can be transferred to our understanding of happiness in this way. Harmony with the world is minimizing consumption by reusing ice cream cans. Integrity and support is the pivot that runs through the entire tower and holds it together. The energy to move to a new stage of development is the electricity generated by the dynamo machine.