On Thursday, September 23 at 11:00 a.m. in the building of the Moscow School of Management “Skolkovo” the first meeting of the Town Planning Board of the “Foundation for the Development of the Center of Development and Commercialization of High Technologies”( “Skolkovo” Foundation) will be held.
Town Planning Board has been formed by the decision of the Foundation management to provide expert support in selecting and developing of the town planning concept for the future Technopolis, and to assist the Foundation in the creation of a comfortable city environment for scientists and innovators in Skolkovo.
The composition of the Skolkovo Town Planning Board includes such well-known architects, urban environment specialists and public representatives, as:
Mikhail Blinkin, director of research programs at the Scientific Research Institute of Transport and Road Engineering, member of the Public Chamber of Russia;
Stefano Boeri, professor of urban design at the Politecnico di Milano, editor-in-chief of the international magazine “Abitare”;
Vsevolod Bogdanov, Chairman of the Russian Union of Journalists;
Boris Bernasconi, a member of the Union of Moscow Architects (UIA), the founder of the architectural bureau BERNASKONI;
Aaron Betsky, professor at the Netherlands Architecture Institute, director of the Cincinnati Art Museum (USA);
Marat Gelman, director of the Center for Contemporary Art;
Veniamin Golubitsky, President of Renova Story Group;
Yuri Grigoryan, Head of the bureau “Project Meganom”;
Kees Christiaanse, Chair of Architecture and Urbanism in the Institute for Urban Design at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zьrich;
Alexander Kudryavtsev, President of the Russian Academy of Architecture and Building Sciences, President of the Moscow Institute of Architecture;
Pierre de Meuron, co-founder of the H&DM (Herzog & de Meuron Architekten), the Pritzker Prize winner;
John Munthe, Vice-President of the Swedish Environmental Research Institute;
Alexei Muratov, editor-in-chief of the magazine "Project Russia";
Mohsen Mostafavi, Dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design;
Jean Pistre, Head of the French architectural bureau Valode & Pistre;
Grigory Revzin, editor-in-chief of the "Project Classic", an architectural columnist for “Kommersant”;
Kazuyo Sejima, Head of the architectural bureau Sejima and Nishizawa and Associates, the Pritzker Prize winner;
Anatoly Smelyansky, rector of the Moscow Art Theatre School, Honored Artist of Russia;
Viktor Sidnev, Mayor of the City of Troitsk, Magister of the Russian TV gameshow "What? Where? When?” (“Chto? Gdye? Kogda?”);
David Cipperfield, Head of the architectural bureau “David Cipperfield Architects”.
Subsequently, the composition of the Town Planning Board may increase due to the inclusion of other well-known Russian and foreign experts on urban planning.
At their first meeting, members of the Board will discuss the technical specification for development of the Skolkovo Innovation Center town planning concept, prepared by experts of the Skolkovo Foundation jointly with the Swiss company Maxmakers, and will also discuss short-listed engineering and architectural companies, claiming to develop a town planning concept of the Skolkovo Centre.
28 companies have applied in mid-August to participate in the Qualification procedure to select designers for the Skolkovo town planning concept development. Later there were pre-selected 10 companies. From this short-list, considering recommendations of the Town Planning Board, there will be later selected 3-5 developers of the town planning concept.
The result of their work will be introduced at the end of the year to the Commission on the Modernization and Technological Development in Russia, and there will be made final choice of the company that will develop a master plan for the Skolkovo Innovation Center.
Attention Media:
The accreditation of journalists wishing to cover the first meeting of the Skolkovo Town Planning Board is open. The event will be held on Thursday, September 23 at 11:00 a.m. in the building of the Moscow School of Management “Skolkovo” in the audience "China".
Contact person for accreditation: Taisiya Yarmak +7 916 694 88 26, press@i-gorod.com
Journalists are invited to meet at 10:45.
About the Skolkovo Innovation Center Project
Skolkovo Innovation Center is a new town aimed to provide special economic conditions for companies operating in the priority sectors of Russia's economic modernization, such as: space and telecommunications, medical equipment and pharmaceuticals, energy efficiency, information technology, and nuclear technology. A specially established “Foundation for the Development of the Center of Development and Commercialization of High Technologies”( “Skolkovo” Foundation) is in charge of the Project. The main aim of the Foundation is to create in Skolkovo a special environment that will help concentrating intellectual resources and successfully produce innovations. On Feb. 11, 2010 during a meeting of the Commission on the Modernization and Technological Development of the Russian Economy, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev announced that a decree on establishment of Russian Research and Development Center (Skolkovo Innovation Centre) had been signed. Later, Dmitry Medvedev personally headed the Board of Trustees of Skolkovo. The Skolkovo Foundation Council is co-headed by Viktor Vekselberg, Chairman of the Renova Group Board of Directors, and Craig Barrett, the former head of Intel Corporation. Co-Chairmen of the Skolkovo Advisory Scientific Board are Nobel laureates Jaures Alferov and Roger Kornberg. More information on the Skolkovo project can be found at www.i-Gorod.com.