The aim of the project is to study Tbilisi as urban assemblage where human-nonhuman, infrastructure – nature, formal-informal, public-private, past – present are entangled and constitute each other. The project will analyze layers of architecture, infrastructure, and landscape and their multiple relations from the interdisciplinary perspective. Adopting the Actor-Network Theory approach the project will concentrate on 1. LifeWorlds and Infrastructure of Tbilisi, and 2. Landscape: Domesticated and Undomesticated Nature of Urban Spaces. The city in the 20th and 21st centuries will be studied as an assemblage of changing attitudes towards nature and by the response of nature to human changes. The main methods include ethnography, interviews, archival research, anthropology of architecture, and computational analysis. The project will analyze and create a visualization of layers (neighbourhoods, infrastructure, and landscape/’waterscape’) as something overlapping and mutually constitutive.

Principal investigator: Ketevan Gurchiani