Project launch and exhibition
Design Institute, Tbilisi, 2025
Dineba – A Digital Archive of Georgia’s Ecological Landscape is a multi-phase project directed towards establishing a digital archive of the ecological landscape in Georgia, alongside a step-by-step decentralization of the archive’s governance. By decentralizing its governance process, the archive will become more stable, contextual, and relevant, while ensuring its polyphonic nature – involving and vocalizing the numerous voices that have, over the years, shaped this landscape in different ways.
The archive currently includes more than 70 items uploaded to the Internet Archive, addressing environmental, social, and infrastructural dynamics across Georgia. It brings together research on environmental risk formation, climate change–intensified disasters, and state approaches to disaster management, as well as questions of river access, collective rights, and the relationship between communities and natural resources. It also explores hydropower infrastructure, patterns of resistance to extractivist development, and the lasting material and psychological impact of industrial activity on landscapes and communities.
The project is now entering its next stage of development, focusing on the archive’s website and the long-term preservation of its materials. Dineba has also been accepted into “Community Webs”, a program of Archive-It and the Internet Archive that supports cultural heritage organizations in documenting and preserving digital heritage through web archiving and community-based practices.
Dineba aims to use the tools and infrastructure it has developed to empower communities and researchers to both contribute to and engage directly with the archive, fostering awareness of the importance of archiving practices, while supporting the creation of narratives and collective memory around it.
Archive contributors: Elisabed Gedevanishvili, Ana Mikadze, Tatuli Japoshvili and Giga Tsikarishvili (platform wit[h]nessing), Eka Tsotsoria
Curator: Nina Akhvlediani
Exhibition design: Julie Dalsgaard Hvass, in collaboration with Nina Akhvlediani
Graphic design: Archil Tsereteli
Texts: Lika Gulbani, Elisabed Gedevanishvili, Giorgi Tsintsadze, Ana Mikadze
Website design: Cent Holsten
Photos courtesy of: Grigory Sokolinsky and Dineba
Project launch and exhibition, Design Institute, Tbilisi, 2025
Dineba – A Digital Archive of Georgia’s Ecological Landscape is a multi-phase project directed towards establishing a digital archive of the ecological landscape in Georgia, alongside a step-by-step decentralization of the archive’s governance. By decentralizing its governance process, the archive will become more stable, contextual, and relevant, while ensuring its polyphonic nature – involving and vocalizing the numerous voices that have, over the years, shaped this landscape in different ways.
The archive currently includes more than 70 items uploaded to the Internet Archive, addressing environmental, social, and infrastructural dynamics across Georgia. It brings together research on environmental risk formation, climate change–intensified disasters, and state approaches to disaster management, as well as questions of river access, collective rights, and the relationship between communities and natural resources. It also explores hydropower infrastructure, patterns of resistance to extractivist development, and the lasting material and psychological impact of industrial activity on landscapes and communities.
The project is now entering its next stage of development, focusing on the archive’s website and the long-term preservation of its materials. Dineba has also been accepted into “Community Webs”, a program of Archive-It and the Internet Archive that supports cultural heritage organizations in documenting and preserving digital heritage through web archiving and community-based practices.
Dineba aims to use the tools and infrastructure it has developed to empower communities and researchers to both contribute to and engage directly with the archive, fostering awareness of the importance of archiving practices, while supporting the creation of narratives and collective memory around it.
Archive contributors: Elisabed Gedevanishvili, Ana Mikadze, Tatuli Japoshvili and Giga Tsikarishvili (platform wit[h]nessing), Eka Tsotsoria
Curator: Nina Akhvlediani
Exhibition design: Julie Dalsgaard Hvass, in collaboration with Nina Akhvlediani
Graphic design: Archil Tsereteli
Texts: Lika Gulbani, Elisabed Gedevanishvili, Giorgi Tsintsadze, Ana Mikadze
Website design: Cent Holsten
Photos courtesy of: Grigory Sokolinsky and Dineba