In spring 2018, Garage Museum and NRC HSE (National Research Center Higher School of Economics) announced a long-term partnership aimed at the development of academic and research programs for training professionals of all levels. The annual HSE Day in Gorky Park, organized in collaboration with the team at Garage, will allow participants to learn more about the upcoming projects within this partnership.
HSE Day is a major holiday embracing all university departments that has been held in Gorky Park every September since 2012. On this occasion the park will transform into a genuine open-air HSE campus, that will introduce visitors to life at the university and enable them to become acquainted with students and teachers, learn more about the faculties and education programs, attend lectures delivered by HSE professors, and engage in workshops. Garage's program of discussions will be available at the Museum’s Education Center, where the world’s largest archive of contemporary Russian art and Russia’s first public library dedicated to contemporary art and culture are also located. The staff from Garage and HSE’s joint program will answer questions regarding upcoming education courses, Garage’s student membership, publishing program, research initiatives, and other points of intersection between the two institutions.
Speakers include Garage Director Anton Belov, HSE Rector Yaroslav Kuzminov, First Vice Rector Vadim Radaev, Vice Rector Sergey Roshchin, and Acting Dean at Vysokovsky Graduate School of Urbanism, Director at HSE’s Institute of Transport Economics and Transport Policy Studies Mikhail Blinkin, among others.