Tender Urbanism
Tender Urbanism is a collective that explores how to awaken tenderness in the city. Nastya Halauniova, Olya Mnishko, and Liuba Chernysheva explore everyday urban life through texts, events, and art projects, create a podcast, teach urban sociology, and build networks of like-minded people in post-socialist cities. Tender Urbanism seeks to make everyday urban care visible, exploring how to make our urban life fair, egalitarian, accessible, and non-sexist.
If you want to be a part of our collective, write to us here.
Peshcom Media Activist Initiative
Peshcom is a civic initiative. We are fighting for the development of the pedestrian environment in Bishkek, cycling infrastructure and public transport. We want Bishkek to become an inclusive city, which takes the needs of all people without exception into account. We want the capital to have more comfortable, accessible and safe public spaces. We want to live in an environmentally friendly and socially just city.
We promote the right to the city - we implement urban interventions, create media content on urban themes, conduct research, interact with the state and city agencies.
Tender Urbanism
Tender Urbanism is a collective of Liuba Chernysheva, Nastya Golovneva, and Olya Mnishko who explores how to evoke tenderness in the city.
Year after year, the city has grown stale because it has been treated in a user-driven way. It has become an instrument for profit accumulation. Out of desperation, the city strikes back: blowing up houses, breaking down trees, and making people lonely. It is afraid of appearing stupid and ineffective. It is constantly reminded of its unpleasant past.
We want to understand how and why the city became this way. At what point did tourists and entrepreneurs become the people for whom cities exist. Why does the city need so many fences? Why do traffic lights have to be red,yellow, or green? And why do we build cities for people and not for pigeons? We want a city where things break - and that's okay, because residents know how to fix them. We want a city in which dirty isn't gross, and females aren't dirty. We want a city where everyone can easily breathe, not just businessmen on the fortieth floor with air conditioning. We want a city that accepts us with all our peculiarities and a city that we accept too. We want to know the city better. We want to share with the city. We want a city that knows how to keep our secrets.
Peshcom Media Activist Initiative
Peshcom is a civic initiative. We are fighting for the development of the pedestrian environment in Bishkek, cycling infrastructure and public transport. We want Bishkek to become an inclusive city, which takes the needs of all people without exception into account. We want the capital to have more comfortable, accessible and safe public spaces. We want to live in an environmentally friendly and socially just city.
We promote the right to the city — we implement urban interventions, create media content on urban themes, conduct research, interact with the state and city agencies.