The project that we co-ordinate entitled, "The long stories of Ekaterinburg" is part of what we describe as the Open City, and in my opinion is very close to the elements of the Learning City. The project, which takes the form of competition to produce murals has been in existing for 8 years. Volunteers make new drawings each summer.

The photos that are featured below include projects about the poet Vladimir Majakovskij and the Second World War, which are very conceptual: one picture about the War is a copy of famous photo.  Through this process, the city can educate, and can become a space of education.  

Furthermore my Masters students are designers, and together we make the projects for orphanages, children, museums, communities, and the city as a whole.  So we have much experience about using art to initiate new actions about learning.

I`m happy to know about your work in PASCAL about the Learning City, because it`s so very close in content to the topics of the project Open City, details of which can be found at https://www.facebook.com/groups/308269456045969/, and I hope to develop our cooperation.

We hope we can be the first Russian Learning City and we have all preconditions for this purpose because Ekaterinburg was rationally designed by European builders in 1723 and has a lot of connections with European tradition, also in the education.

And I believe that the Ural Federal University can play the main role in this process.