Our workshop took place at the beautiful Eco Resort Kara Bulak, 30 km away from Bishkek. The following three days and two nights we spent here. The nomadic yurt served us a conference room, where we presented our work, kept discussions, brain storm sessions, proposal presentations. We also had a plov party in the yurt. Our first day in yurt started with the welcoming note of Karen Davidov and followed by our artists Alexey Lysogorov, Meder Akhmetov, Rafael Vargas, Suleiman Sh

On June 29, 2015 the “Artystan” project, implemented by the American University of Central Asia in partnership with HMA2Architects and supported by The Christensen Fund brought together artists, artisans, designers and curators from Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and the United States to create several public art works at the new AUCA campus. AUCA’s new campus has a lot of exposed concrete as a part of the design concept, which sometimes is “forbidding and col