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‘Being Smart’ Will Mean Different Things for Different Cities
Neeraj Mazumder, a native of India, is a first-year student in the Master’s programme Prototyping Future Cities offered by HSE’s Vysokovsky Graduate School of Urbanism. He received his Bachelor’s in Architecture from Jawaharlal Nehru Architecture and Fine Arts University in Hyderabad and came to Moscow to study how cities can be analyzed and smart cities designed.
Students of the Master Program 'Prototyping Future Cities' are Recording Moscow
The first joint project of the art-gallery ‘Peresvetov Pereulok’ and Shukhov Lab is underway

Project by Shukhov Lab Wins Polytech Festival Open Call
The ‘Green Spark’ installation by Elena Mitrofanova and Ivan Mitrofanov, project coordinators of the Shukhov Lab, and Paolo Bombelli from Cambridge University, has been selected from 68 projects to be exhibited as part of the Polytech Festival of Science, Art and Technology in May 2018. The festival, organized by the Polytechnic Museum, will take place in Moscow’s Gorky Park.

How does prototyping change the way we investigate, plan and build the city?
Vicente Guallart talks about prototyping, smart technologies and cities of the future.
2017 ‘Cities for a Flying World’ International Contest Winners Announced
HSE Graduate School of Urbanism has announced the results of the first international contest ‘Cities For a Flying World’.

The Student Initiative Winter Competition Has Begun!
Every quarter at HSE, we hold a competition to support student initiatives. Projects that foster university development, as well as projects that have benefits for wider society, are recognized and awarded financial and organizational assistance.
Students of ‘Prototyping Future Cities’ Master Programme are finalists of Hackathon 2025 in Skolkovo Technopark!
Altynai Nogobaeva, Dmitry Mamaev and Michael Omona, students of the Master Programme ‘Prototyping Future cities’, presented their project ‘AgreeCulture’ in the Ecology section during Hackathon 2025 in Skolkovo Technopark.

Students from Bartlett School of Architecture (UCL) visited Shukhov Lab
Students from Bartlett School of Architecture (UCL) and HSE Graduate School of Urbanism met at Shukhov Lab
We Are Prototyping Future Cities: 16 Faces of New Master Program
This September HSE Graduate School of Urbanism has launched an international master program ‘Prototyping Future Cities’. The programme is focused on the use of new city models and emerging technologies in urban planning and management.