Short CV
Liubov Chernysheva is an urban sociologist and a postdoc researcher at Bauhaus Universität Weimar, Germany. She obtained her PhD from the University of Amsterdam, where she developed a project focused on collective neighborly life in a post-socialist city. She studied practices of sharing, governing, and digitally mediating everyday realities in large housing estates.
Her recent projects were related to the research on urban grassroots and collective initiatives under authoritarianism, neighborly self-governance, and urban commons. Liubov was a participant in applied research projects aimed at the development of participatory planning methods. She is also the author of several art-science projects based on her studies.
Research focus
- housing, care & maintenance
- shelters
- natural disasters & resilience
- urban grassroots
- neighborly relations
- digital mediation
Recent projects
- “Sheltering (with) care: politics of projecting, constructing, and maintaining emergency shelters for people affected by disasters”: The current project explores the politics of preparedness and reactions to natural disasters, namely planning, constructing, and maintaining emergency shelters for individuals affected by natural disasters. The research incorporates the inspiration from STS and material semiotics to study the politics of architecture and relies on the concept of care taken from feminist critical theory to investigate how care is embodied in shelter projects, shaping their material environment and determining their functioning and change over time. I question how care is translated into concrete designs, technological and spatial solutions, documents, regulations, and practices related to the preparation of shelters in cases of natural disasters. The project focuses on preparedness for disasters in Almaty, Kazakhstan. The study employs a multi-method approach, including semi-structured interviews with various stakeholders involved in shelter planning and implementation, document analysis of relevant guidelines and regulations, and systematic observations in relevant spaces.
- PhD Thesis: “Neighboring alone? Digitally mediated communal life in a post-socialist large housing estate”(More details)