We are GOROZHANYM,
experts in urban planning,
specifically, focusing on topics such as urban dialogue, community interaction, engagement, and research across the cities of Kazakhstan and Central Asia.
experts in urban planning,
specifically, focusing on topics such as urban dialogue, community interaction, engagement, and research across the cities of Kazakhstan and Central Asia.
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WE CREATE FOR THE COMMUNITY, WITH THE COMMUNITY
WE CREATE FOR THE COMMUNITY, WITH THE COMMUNITY
When do you need research in the city?
The tools that work here are - qualitative methods of working with people: interviews - expert and in-depth, mental mapping, observational methods and environmental analysis.
- When you want a clear roadmap for a large infrastructure project.
- When you want to hear the voices of everyone involved in urban change and receive an in-depth study of how people use a particular territory.
- Or when you need to understand what to rely on in tourism programs - where is “our genius loci,” “cult symbol,” “place of pilgrimage”?
The tools that work here are - qualitative methods of working with people: interviews - expert and in-depth, mental mapping, observational methods and environmental analysis.
“The first step in working with a territory is immersion in the context, understanding identity, aligning the image in your head with the image that its users see. Sociological and anthropological research is the key to a treasure box of stories, meanings, and ideas that float around a place”.
Daria Kovalenko, project manager at the international company ATLAS, ex Strelka KB.
Daria Kovalenko, project manager at the international company ATLAS, ex Strelka KB.
Research
When do you need urban moderation?
We offer a wide range of flexible communication formats: facilitated sessions, discussions and roundtables, focus groups, expert panels, public hearings, open talks, and foresight sessions.
- If you want a safe, constructive dialogue between communities, experts, and municipal services
- If you need to gather expertise from very different fields to make a complex decision (building a hub city, a new airport, or a resort)
We offer a wide range of flexible communication formats: facilitated sessions, discussions and roundtables, focus groups, expert panels, public hearings, open talks, and foresight sessions.
“As a communications specialist, I need stakeholder dialogue to be handled professionally. That’s why the moderation of the strategic session was entrusted to Gorozhanym.
I want to highlight the moderators’ strong facilitation skills, their ability to guide discussions and keep the momentum. They managed to create an open and trusting atmosphere.
Well-structured process helped us cover all key issues and arrive at constructive solutions”.
Assel Kuzhakhmetova, Communications Director, Sergek Group
I want to highlight the moderators’ strong facilitation skills, their ability to guide discussions and keep the momentum. They managed to create an open and trusting atmosphere.
Well-structured process helped us cover all key issues and arrive at constructive solutions”.
Assel Kuzhakhmetova, Communications Director, Sergek Group
Vision Zero, Перезагрузка, Sergek Group, qualitative Research, Expert Moderation, Co-creative Strategy Development, 2024
Moderation
When do you need placemaking?
You can rely on placemaking, tactical urbanism, and festival-based formats to co-design and - most importantly - co-implement transformations of urban spaces.
- If you want to be confident in your investments
- If you need a fast pilot to test flexibility, clarity, usability, feasibility, donor potential -and uniqueness
- If you want your projects to support long-term territorial development
You can rely on placemaking, tactical urbanism, and festival-based formats to co-design and - most importantly - co-implement transformations of urban spaces.
“As an anthropologist, participatory tools feel like an extension of our core method - participant observation. They help not only study reality but gradually become part of it, and even transform it.
From this perspective, participation is more than a tool - it’s a bridge that connects different groups, helping them hear one another and co-create new solutions through genuine dialogue.”.
Zarina Adambusinova, Anthropologist, Head of MONO Urban School: Rethinking Urban Spaces: Central Asian Post-Mining Towns in Focus
From this perspective, participation is more than a tool - it’s a bridge that connects different groups, helping them hear one another and co-create new solutions through genuine dialogue.”.
Zarina Adambusinova, Anthropologist, Head of MONO Urban School: Rethinking Urban Spaces: Central Asian Post-Mining Towns in Focus
Participation & Placemaking
Körpe - captures the state of community development in Almaty as of 2023.
A research book and a dialogue on community engagement. Alongside principles, it includes numerous checklists, methods, and practical tools for sustainable cultural and social development of territories
Team
The team behind engagement and
co-creation projects
co-creation projects
- Alesya NugaevaResearcher, Head of GorozhanymUrbanist, urban researcher, expert in community work, participation,
and city identity.
PhD candidate; Professor of Practice, Urban Center AlmaU.
Curator-methodologist of educational urban programs: Design Thinking Lab, Digital Urbanism, Urbanitarium, Almaty City Design School, FIELD SUMMER SCHOOL: Rethinking Urban Spaces.
Curator of city festivals and installations: «Belka – Atakent», Art Energy, EXPO Nauryz (FUNK Agency). - Nadezhda ChervyakovaModerator, Curator at GorozhanymFacilitator of the “WeAlmaty” British Council program (2017–2020).
Program Director of the Living Cities Forum (2019).
Co-author of the Almaty community
book Körpe.
Moderator of public consultations in co-design projects in Almaty
and Pavlodar.
Calls herself a “specialist in urban communications [not pipes].” - Kirill VshivkovResearcher & Media Manager at GorozhanymExpert in digital urban solutions; urbanist; researcher of women’s urban safety and
pedestrian–micromobility interactions.
Co-author of the water resource conservation project “TAMSHY.”, Social marketing & PR specialist.
Graduate of Urban Center AlmaU’s “Digital Urbanism: Smart City Engineer & Digital Urban Planner” minor program
+7 707 700 8258
+7 777 236 4298
gorozhanym@gmail.com
+7 777 236 4298
gorozhanym@gmail.com
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Our Partners
A network of partners and experts who share our values and priorities
Media Partners
The research was conducted in February–March 2020 using the Face-to-Face method. It includes an analysis of the needs and demands of Almaty residents, as well as expert insights from district administration officials and industry specialists. Partners: Public Council of Almaty, Soros Foundation-Kazakhstan.
The document contains a preparation plan for the survey or interview.
The document contains the meeting structure, the flow and logic of moderator and participant actions, key guiding questions, and organizational nuances of the process.
The document covers all stages of public engagement in the creation or transformation of public spaces, from the invitation campaign to the feedback survey.
Neighbor Theater is a project focused on participation, placemaking, and local community building. It is based on the concept of creating a public space and a local theater stage in Tastak, a non-central district of Almaty, 2017–2019. Partners: Urban Forum Kazakhstan, Soros Foundation-Kazakhstan.
