Dissemination of our project results
Our team had a pleasure to disseminate the findings of our research through several online events. Suzy Harris-Brandts presented the results at the Institute...
The project examines the social impacts of large, private sector urban development in Batumi and Tbilisi. Socio-Spatial Georgia is funded by the Rustaveli National Science Foundation of Georgia under the grant program for fundamental research (grant number FR-18-862). The project is administered by Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University
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Policy document exploring Tbilisi residents’ opinions on urban development
Our next policy document investigates how Tbilisi residents feel about urban change in the city. The text is absed on six focus groups conducted in late 2019...
Policy document exploring Batumi residents’ opinions on urban development
Based on Batumi survey data, our team prepared a policy document that investigates Batumi residents’ opinions towards various urban development issues. It re...
Dissemination of our project results
We are pleased to announce that we will be participating in this year’s Tbilisi Architecture Biennial under the category of ‘Educational activity / Workshop,...
Collective Domain Selected to Participate in the 2020 Tbilisi Architecture Biennial
We are pleased to announce that we will be participating in this year’s Tbilisi Architecture Biennial under the category of ‘Educational activity / Workshop,...
New publication on urban activism in Tbilisi by our team members
Dato Sichinava co-authored a piece on urban social movements in Tbilisi which was published as a part of the edited volume on urban activism in Eastern Europ...
Focus groups in Batumi
Over the weekend, our team conducted six intensive focus group discussions in Batumi. Participants were eager to share their ideas regarding large-scale cons...
New publications from our team members
Dato Gogishvili and Suzy Harris-Brandts published an article titles “Coinciding practices of exception in urban development: mega-events and special economic...
Green Mobilizations Conference in Bishkek and Tbilisi
Between November 24th to December 1st, 2020, Dato Sichinava and Suzy Harris-Brandts participated in the International Conference on Green Mobilizations (Gree...
Suzanne Harris-Brandts interviewed on Batumi’s ghost apartments
Prominent regionally-focused news and analysis outlet OC-Media published a photo-essay on Batumi’s ghost apartments by Ian McNaught Davis. Our co-PI Suzanne ...
Suzanne Harris-Brandts interviewed on Batumi’s urban development
Georgian news outlet Investor.ge interviewed our co-PI Suzanne Harris-Brandts on development in Batumi. While Batumi is experiencing a construction boom, w w...
Focus groups in Tbilisi
We held six focus group discussions last week. Together with participants, we discussed how large-scale urban development impacts their lives and how they se...