The Zhelezka Project
2023-2024
Rozana Lee was selected as one of the 15 participants in the Zhelezka Project through a global open call.
This project was supported by the Volkswagen Foundation and administered by the Social Innovations Lab Kyrgyzstan, the American University of Central Asia, and the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography.
The Zhelezka Project: On the Tracks through Central Asia aimed to generate a unique space for networking and developing conceptual and methodological approaches for creating new knowledge about lesser-explored and multicultural places. During two weeks (19 August - 2 September 2023) on mostly Soviet-era trains on the rails, commonly known as “zhelezka”, a group of researchers, practitioners and artists from eight countries focused on exploring life on and off the railroad by unraveling specific travel and mobility practices, documenting urban and rural landscapes, collecting stories of strangers, local communities and railroad workers in three countries of post-Soviet Central Asia: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan.
2023-2024
Rozana Lee was selected as one of the 15 participants in the Zhelezka Project through a global open call.
This project was supported by the Volkswagen Foundation and administered by the Social Innovations Lab Kyrgyzstan, the American University of Central Asia, and the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography.
The Zhelezka Project: On the Tracks through Central Asia aimed to generate a unique space for networking and developing conceptual and methodological approaches for creating new knowledge about lesser-explored and multicultural places. During two weeks (19 August - 2 September 2023) on mostly Soviet-era trains on the rails, commonly known as “zhelezka”, a group of researchers, practitioners and artists from eight countries focused on exploring life on and off the railroad by unraveling specific travel and mobility practices, documenting urban and rural landscapes, collecting stories of strangers, local communities and railroad workers in three countries of post-Soviet Central Asia: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan.
