HERITAGE PRESERVATION SCHOOL "SPACES OF CULTURE"

For specialists in the fields of culture, architecture, heritage, urban planning, sociology, museum and library studies, as well as for urban environment researchers, students, and representatives of cultural institutions. Participation is free based on selection results. The school will take place in the Republican Children's Library. Field research of urban objects will also be organized.


Narine Tyutcheva is an architect, ICOMOS expert, and founder of RE:School and the Rozhdestvenka Architecture Bureau. She is the author of a unique methodology for working with historical environments through research, preservation, and development.


Which spaces are becoming the hubs of cultural life today? Throughout the 20th century, houses of culture, palaces of culture, and pioneers' palaces were vital components of urban life. These were places where people played music, danced, attended theater and literary clubs, met friends, spent their leisure time, and received extracurricular education.

For several generations of Tashkent residents, these spaces were not just recreational spots, but environments where cultural habits, communities, and professional trajectories were formed.

Today, the city’s cultural landscape is shifting. New institutions, public spaces, and formats of cultural engagement are emerging. Meanwhile, many historical sites have lost their original functions, undergone reconstruction, or vanished entirely from the urban fabric.

Together with Narine Tyutcheva—architect, restorer, and founder of RE:School —participants of the school will explore these "spaces of culture" through an interdisciplinary lens, combining architecture, sociology, cultural studies, and urban research.

About the methodology: The program is based on the RE:School methodology, which views heritage not as an isolated object, but as part of a broader system of connections between space, community, culture, and territorial development.

During the course, participants will immerse themselves in the RE:School methodology and apply it in practice: they will analyze the programming experience of the Republican Children's Library and other cultural institutions in Tashkent, and develop potential development scenarios for cultural centers.