Project name : City without borders

Location: Moscow/RF

Client: VDNKh

Collaboration with Harriet Fink

As a part of the Moscow City day Studio Fink designed a temporary installation for children called City without borders. The installation was a response to the festival theme of introducing children to notions of charitable work and of caring for others and the environment. As a response the City without borders explored the notion of all children playing together, whilst specifically exploring how ‘disability’, i.e. not being able to do something, is a socially constructed situation rather than something that necessarily follows from someone having a physical impairment, or a neurological difference.

A workshop in the first project space used the short story of Winnie the Witch, by Valerie Thomas and Korky Paul, to introduce children the ‘social model of disability’. The subsequent spaces explored further how we could try to adapt our existing built environment, and our attitudes to each other, in order to make cities in which everyone is happy just as they are.