Five years ago, Zaryadye Park opened two minutes away from Moscow's Red Square. Its location in the immediate centre of the city, and thus of Russia, leaves no doubt about the importance attached to the project. The park is an extensive building complex whose surface has been planted with greenery. On several horizontal levels and by using different visual strategies, media and spatial staging, an immersive pull is created that not only immerses the visitor in a temporally and spatially naturalised image of Russia. Rather, this image is simultaneously internalised and multiplied by the visitors themselves through suggestively provoked actions. The lecture examines these strategies and discusses the effects that evoke a suggestive coupling of urban space and geopolitical imagination.

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