Celebration as a Design Event in the Urban Environment Authors Petr Kapustin Voronezh State Technical University image/svg+xml Downloads PDF (Russian) DOI: https://doi.org/10.7480/projectbaikal.63.1583 Published 2020-03-10 Issue No. 63 (2020): celebration in the city Section refereed articles How to Cite Celebration as a Design Event in the Urban Environment. (2020). Project Baikal, 17(63), 27-36. https://doi.org/10.7480/projectbaikal.63.1583 More Citation Formats ACM ACS APA ABNT Chicago Harvard IEEE MLA Turabian Vancouver Download Citation Endnote/Zotero/Mendeley (RIS) BibTeX Keywords: city celebration, projectivity and design, “theatricality” in architecture and theatricalization in architecture, utopia, agora, event, everyday life, ritual, the sacred and the profane Abstract A city celebration has been an event welcomed by urban dwellers for a long time, but it also has a more fundamental mission rather than entertainment. We can suppose that this mission is related to the search of possible ways of development of the city and its culture. The article presents a possible approach to restoration of design meanings of a celebration and outlines a strategy for interpretation of the role of architecture in this process.