Yekaterinburg activists, the “Ural Chronotope” public organization and PODELNIKI, an association of young architects, have presented a map and catalog of Yekaterinburg’s cultural heritage sites.
The project has been started two months ago with 30 volunteers participating. They have walked around the city, photographed objects and recorded information in the catalog. Volunteers also took into account information that no one had paid attention to before. For example, they noted that among the buildings there are wooden buildings, red-brick ones, wooden ones with a stone semi-basement or the first floor made of stone.
Based on the collected data, the activists have made a map and catalog of cultural heritage sites, where you can see photos and information on all objects and their current status. The catalog allows sorting objects and finding out how many in the list of wooden houses, apartment houses, and how many objects have been destroyed or rebuilt. The first monitoring results can be viewed on the project website.
According to the authors of the project, the register of cultural heritage objects has been kept since the 1970s; however, it is a legal document that is practically impossible for a nonspecialist to use. For example, the White Tower in it is called the Water Tower, and 158 objects have no address. In total, the list includes 801 objects of cultural heritage, but there are no public statistics on the status of these buildings, which of them require restoration and which do not. There is also no official list of demolished buildings.
The team plans to complete monitoring in two months and invites volunteers who are ready to take pictures and know how to work with tables, visualize data.
Source: design-mate.ru