Anna Grichting

How a Willow Tree Changed Russia Anna Grichting

This manual describes the Tatarstan public Space program as a model of participative design. It is also a memory of the people who co-created public spaces in the urban and rural areas of Tatarstan over the past five years. It displays a selection of the different scales and typologies of public spaces with personal narratives from the multiple actors and stakeholders of the participative design process.

This book presents the award-winning program for co-creating public spaces in Tatarstan. It is both a memory of the people and a manual of the processes that created parks, promenades, embankments and public squares across the urban and rural areas of the Rebublic. Presented as a Model of participative public space making, it displays a selection of the different scales and typologies of public spaces with personal narratives from the multiple actors and stakeholders of the design process. Participating, Training, Managing, Manufacturing, Partnering, Communicating and Monitoring are the key components that compose the resilient Tatarstan Model for creating public spaces that is now being replicated across Russia.