New Map of Tbilisi - One Architecture and FAST
The map exposes for the first time all spatial and infrastructural projects being imagined or built in Tbilisi, showing the city’s recent atomized development and lack of strategic coherence. It also shows how refugees from earlier civil wars and current residents are displaced. And, it tracks how public buildings, spaces, and parks were privatized, left to stand empty due to the crisis, then to be reclaimed by internally displaced persons. The map reveals a city in which its people, institutions, and form are as unstable as its economy.
The “New Map of Tbilisi”, however, is more than a research tool. By exposing corrupt land deals and making the effect of failed statehood transparent, it will empower citizens to take positive action. The interactive map provides a platform for grass root initiative, civil society institutions and municipal authorities alike to re-engage in a strategic discussion on the urban future of Tbilisi.
