Participants
Production
Research & Art Museum
Idea, methodology, art direction, storytelling, curating:
Aleksei Poleukhin, Ksenia Diodorova
3D interactive designers and architectors:
Alina Chereyskaya, Stepan Kuhkarskiy
Visual designers and 2D artists:
Aleksei Poleukhin, Ekaterina Farutina
Composer:
Marina Poleukhina
Coordinator:
Viktoria Belenikina
Research & Art Museum
Idea, methodology, art direction, storytelling, curating:
Aleksei Poleukhin, Ksenia Diodorova
3D interactive designers and architectors:
Alina Chereyskaya, Stepan Kuhkarskiy
Visual designers and 2D artists:
Aleksei Poleukhin, Ekaterina Farutina
Composer:
Marina Poleukhina
Coordinator:
Viktoria Belenikina
Researchers:
Anna Alimpieva
is a sociologist (PhD, 1999), urban researcher, and project manager. Сurrently an independent researcher. Areas of interest: social identity, historical heritage and cultural memory in the Kaliningrad region (former part of East Prussia); urban planning, public participation, development of water and green infrastructure; women's history.
Bengi Güldoğan Tame
is an architect. Currently based in İstanbul. She holds a Master of Science in Architectural Design and a Bachelor of Architecture from İstanbul Technical University (İTU). Her studies focus on narrative techniques in architectural representation. She has worked as a lecturer in several universities in İstanbul and as a researcher in various art institutions, including Garanti Gallery and SALT. She has participated in domestic and international exhibitions as a researcher and artist. Bengi’s work excavates architectural and geographic narratives from the perspective of ruins and erasure, focusing specifically on memory and displacement.
Deanna Cachoian-Schanz
is a translator and literary theorist who writes on translation, gender and nationalism, and technologies of racialization in the geographies of Armenia, Turkey, and their diasporas. Deanna holds a Laurea Magistrale (M.A.) in Southwest Asia: Languages, Cultures and Institutions/Armenian Studies from l’Università Venezia Ca’ Foscari (2014) and an M.A. in Cultural Studies from Sabancı University (2017). Currently, she is a doctoral candidate in the Program of Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Pennsylvania, with a graduate certificate in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies.
Olga Sezneva
Dr. (Ph.D.) is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Amsterdam. She specializes in research on material culture, memory, and displacement. She is also a published fiction author, an art curator, and a leader of pedagogical innovation.
Vanessa Rauche
M.A., is a Research Volunteer at Tempelhof-Schöneberg museums. She completed a B.A. in Museology at HTWK Leipzig and an M.A. in Applied Museum and Heritage Studies from Reinwardt Academy (AHK) in Amsterdam. Her research centers on employing object biography as a methodological tool, with a focus on archival practices. Her primary interests lie in the German expellee history of Silesia and Sudetenland, displacement studies, and strategies for decolonizing museum collections and overarching institutional systems.
Anna Alimpieva
is a sociologist (PhD, 1999), urban researcher, and project manager. Сurrently an independent researcher. Areas of interest: social identity, historical heritage and cultural memory in the Kaliningrad region (former part of East Prussia); urban planning, public participation, development of water and green infrastructure; women's history.
Bengi Güldoğan Tame
is an architect. Currently based in İstanbul. She holds a Master of Science in Architectural Design and a Bachelor of Architecture from İstanbul Technical University (İTU). Her studies focus on narrative techniques in architectural representation. She has worked as a lecturer in several universities in İstanbul and as a researcher in various art institutions, including Garanti Gallery and SALT. She has participated in domestic and international exhibitions as a researcher and artist. Bengi’s work excavates architectural and geographic narratives from the perspective of ruins and erasure, focusing specifically on memory and displacement.
Deanna Cachoian-Schanz
is a translator and literary theorist who writes on translation, gender and nationalism, and technologies of racialization in the geographies of Armenia, Turkey, and their diasporas. Deanna holds a Laurea Magistrale (M.A.) in Southwest Asia: Languages, Cultures and Institutions/Armenian Studies from l’Università Venezia Ca’ Foscari (2014) and an M.A. in Cultural Studies from Sabancı University (2017). Currently, she is a doctoral candidate in the Program of Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Pennsylvania, with a graduate certificate in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies.
Olga Sezneva
Dr. (Ph.D.) is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Amsterdam. She specializes in research on material culture, memory, and displacement. She is also a published fiction author, an art curator, and a leader of pedagogical innovation.
Vanessa Rauche
M.A., is a Research Volunteer at Tempelhof-Schöneberg museums. She completed a B.A. in Museology at HTWK Leipzig and an M.A. in Applied Museum and Heritage Studies from Reinwardt Academy (AHK) in Amsterdam. Her research centers on employing object biography as a methodological tool, with a focus on archival practices. Her primary interests lie in the German expellee history of Silesia and Sudetenland, displacement studies, and strategies for decolonizing museum collections and overarching institutional systems.