A “Chelyabinsk: ARCHI-SPECTRUM 290” photo exhibition of student projects on the occasion of the 290th birthday of our city has opened on the third floor of the main building of South Ural State University.
“This exhibit has been organized with the support from the Extracurricular Activities Office and jointly with students and teaching staff members of the Institute of Architecture and Construction, and it is timed to coincide with the Chelyabinsk Anniversary,” explains Deputy Head of the Extracurricular Activities Office Kseniia Gernega. “This was the initiative of the Institute’s student enthusiasts. One year ago, first-year students approached us to support their idea of a creativity contest, and today we can see how this master plan has been put to life and has become something even more than that.”
According to one of the organizers, student Timofei Bakharev, for this exhibition, they were selecting mockups and documents from the Institute’s archive, which allow to learn more about Chelyabinsk. In the process, they gained unique experience that would be of help to them in the future.
Student Irina Anufrieva believes that participation in such projects helps develop organizing skills.
“We started it last year, while still in the first year of our studies. We collaborated with the SUSU Museum and the Institute’s Director’s Office,” she reminisces. “We made stretchers for the presented pictures ourselves, glued together the wooden parts – that’s how involved we were!”
Simultaneously with the exhibition organization, a creativity contest was held, the results of which have been announced at the exhibition opening ceremony.
“For this contest, I wrote a poem about Chelyabinsk to express my love and admiration of our city. Participation in such campaigns helps us develop new interesting skills: for example, it teaches us how to work in a team,” one of the winners, Svetlana Dolgova, shares her impressions.
Senior lecturer of the Department of Architectural and Engineering Design Irina Kostiunina notes that the student organizers do indeed deserve praise since they were the ones to do the major part of the work on the contest and exhibition arrangement, though they are majoring not in architecture, but in construction. They found photos and mockups, and made these look appropriate. They came up with creative ways and put much effort into it all.