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At COP17, CSN Lab, together with EUNIC Armenia and the EU in Armenia, presented Green Armenia: Towards Sustainability in Culture, exploring how culture can contribute to Armenia’s green transition. 🌱
Read more: csnlab.net/article/greenamco…
For nearly two weeks, Blue Yerevan was presented at the #COP17 Green Zone, bringing CSN Lab’s long-term research on Yerevan’s water heritage into an international and intergenerational space.
To learn more, read the article on our website. csnlab.net/article/blueyvnco…
Through environmental anthropology, urban studies, and oral history, CSN Lab brought cultural perspectives into biodiversity discussions at COP17’s Blue Zone, highlighting the connections between water, environmental justice, and the rights of nature.
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CSN Lab at the Blue & Green Zones of @COP17_Arm2026
Cultural and Social Narratives Laboratory is participating in COP17 in Yerevan, joining both the official programme of the Blue Zone and the public programme of the Green Zone.
Find the official programme in this thread.
Throughout COP17, we will present our projects working at the intersection of culture and the environment, contributing to greener and bluer futures.
Blue Zone | Official Program
BLUE YEREVAN: Rethinking Urban Water Heritage
Project Presentation
21 October | 15:00
CSN Lab joins EU4Culture!
We’re happy to join the new phase of #EU4Culture in Armenia with a project focused on cultural decentralisation and the development of visual arts across Armenia’s regions, with a particular focus on Syunik.
Learn more here: shorturl.at/3asIg
Recap from “We Lived in Each Other’s Houses” at ZK/U, curated by CSN Lab. Armenian and Azerbaijani filmmakers Varduhi Balyan and Rena Effendi came to reflect on shared landscapes, memory, displacement, coexistence and peace through film and conversation.
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Kond: Urban Utopias, Living Futures explored Kond as a living network of architecture, landscape, memory, and community.
CSN Lab contributed the Kond Memory Tour and presented its research on Kond’s networking architecture.
Read the full story: csnlab.net/article/kndurbutp
Other Stories: Queer Autofiction(s) Now is a CSN Lab project exploring queer literature, self-expression, memory, identity, and the politics of writing through collective reading and discussion.
Read more: csnlab.net/article/qaut
This year as well, CSN Lab is joining the Türkiye–Armenia Fellowship Scheme as a host organisation in Armenia.
Deadline: September 14, 2026.
Learn more and apply:
csnlab.net/article/atnp26
This year’s Re-Lentus brought Georgian architects & designers to Yerevan for three days of exchange, concluding with a public event at TUMO Studios featuring Nana Zaalishvili, Tika Shelia & Ano Jishkariani (Around the Studio), and Irine Lomadze.
Read more: shorturl.at/v5B9l
Open Call for historical content creators (18–30) from Armenia, Germany, and France!
Another collaboration between CSN Lab and our partners, and another opportunity to join an international educational and co-creation programme.
csnlab.net/article/hwecall
As part of our receptiON project, CSN Lab hosted French scholar Anne Simon with her lecture "From Zoopoetics to Ararat."
At CSN Lab, we continue to develop interdisciplinary conversations that bring together culture and the environment.
Read more here: csnlab.net/article/annesimon
🌱 Congrats, Arsen!!
We are proud to share that CSN Lab’s Arsen Abrahamyan is participating in the Ecological Futures residency program in Berlin, a joint initiative of the Goethe-Institut and ARCH+.
Read more here: spreepark-artspace.de/.../ec…
School of Complex Past 2026: S/election/s
This year’s school explored elections beyond the ballot box, examining political discourse, media, disinformation, and gender through lectures, discussions, and workshops.
Read more: csnlab.net/article/scop26
We hosted Anatoli Beifert and Marine Karoyan from EU4Culture for a discussion on cross-sector collaboration and culture’s role in sustainable development in Armenia and the region.
@EU_Armenia
On Friday, 24 April, the Danish Cultural Institute and ICON× officially launched the publication "Displaced Culture(s): Migration, Displacement, and the Shifting Cultural Landscape(s) of the Eastern Neighbourhood Countries".
Read more on our website!
csnlab.net/article/dpclt
Five years of building connections, shaping dialogue, and reimagining culture ✨
Celebrating ICON× with the Danish Cultural Institute & partners in the ENC
Join us at Copenhagen University as we launch a new chapter across the ENC. More soon...
#ICON× #CulturalDialogue
It was our pleasure to meet and to introduce CSN Lab publications and initiatives to Her Excellency Bergljot Hovland, the Norwegian Ambassador to Georgia and Armenia.
We value this exchange and the perspectives it opens for future collaboration.
@NorwayAmbGeoArm
