The Occupy Movements in Moscow

This slideshow is part of: Master of Architecture II Fall 2013

        The Occupy Movements in Moscow
        Moscow, Russia
 
        Chia-Yu Liu
 

This project is about the relationship between the Occupy Movement areas and the local zones watched by the police in the downtown Moscow from 2011 to 2013. Furthermore, the project focuses on the issue of Occupy Abai that happened on the Boulevard Ring in 2012 in order to investigate the transformation of all the Occupy Movement areas from past to present during the past three years, and the range of future possibilities. Occupy Abai was not so much a protest movement as a stroll between parks on the Boulevard Ring. The reason why it’s named “Occupy Abai” is that the first speech for this movement was held beside the monument to the Kazakh poet Abai Kunanbayev on Chistoprudny Boulevard. Unlike other occupy movements in other countries, Occupy Abai was a legal and peaceful protest which lasted more than ten days.

 
 
 

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