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• How To Have Fun and Learn New Skills in Russia (Without Speaking Russian)

  The language barrier might keep you from pursuing your passion or finding a new hobby. Thankfully, there are ways to learn a new skill, be creative, and overall enjoy yourself without – or almost without – the need to use Russian.

  12.07.2024

• How To Draw Every Day Without Going Crazy

  While some artists believe that it’s a bad idea to force yourself to draw every single day, many others claim this is the best way to improve your skills. In my experience, this approach does work, but only if: a) it’s compatible with your lifestyle, b) you’ve prepared for it in advance. Read on for more tips, ideas, and useful links.

  30.01.2024

• The History of ITMO.Megabattle

  Year after year, our students converge at ITMO.Megabattle to compete in creativity, athleticism, intelligence, and scientific prowess – all to prove that their school deserves to be called the best. ITMO.NEWS has decided to look into the event’s history.

  07.06.2022

• This Stay-at-Home Weekend in St. Petersburg: Creativity Galore

  Bored in quarantine? Here are some activities to get creative and have fun while you’re at it!

  13.05.2020

• ITMO University’s Personal Development Center Launches a Course on Team Creativity

  The international educational platform Global Education Futures, which unites the world’s leading experts in the field of futurology, considers co-creation the key skill of the 21st century. Futurologists predict that by 2025, the approach to hiring workers will have undergone a radical change: instead of individual specialists, employers will take on creative project teams. Helping master this new but vital competency is Carousel of Creative Technologies, a team creativity development course developed by ITMO University’s Personal Development Center “Rhythm” together with the coaching company T&D Technologies. Over the course of a month and a half, from March 5 to April 16, the participants will attend six workshops and undertake a business quest which will result in completed team projects. 

  03.03.2020

• Maker’s Day by ITMO FabLab: Hands-On Workshop for Robotics Beginners

  At the end of September, the FabLab of ITMO University’s Technopark opened its doors to everyone wanting to dip their toes into the world of robotics, learn to work with microcontrollers, and find out how they could code their first smart device. ITMO.NEWS attended the event, dubbed Maker’s Day, to find out how to build your first robot. 

  02.10.2019

• Creative Technologies: A New Core Course at ITMO University

  In September 2018 ITMO University launched a new core set of disciplines titled ‘Creative Technologies” for first-year Master’s degree students. Based on the experience of leading global universities, the course aims to foster the students’ creative thinking and abilities and consists of online classes involving top creative figures from Russia and abroad. The program was developed by ITMO University’s lighting design experts Natalya Bystryantseva, Ilia Smilga, and Elena Lekus. In an interview with ITMO.NEWS, the course’s authors shared some insights into the new university-wide initiative.

  28.12.2018

• ITMO Master's Student on Creating Virtual Museums and Getting Motivated

  IT technologies have long become an integral part of medicine, finance, city planning and other areas. They are making their way into arts, too. Russia’s oldest theatres present multimedia plays, and, soon enough, museums will allow their visitors to hear the sounds of musical instruments that have long been held behind glass cases. Yulia Trushina helped implement the latter concept; in collaboration with a team from St. Petersburg State University, she helped create a virtual museum that brings to life musical instruments of old – and presented the project to one of the city’s museums. This year, Yulia has enrolled at ITMO University on the Master’s degree program “Multimedia Technologies in Theater, Cinema and Television.” In an interview with ITMO.NEWS, Ms. Trushina discussed what makes multimedia more interesting than classical art, why designers need to be good at math and how students can make the most of their newfound skills even in the course of their studies. 

  06.10.2017

• Baltic Weekend 2017: Why Creators Will Always Be In Business

  ​Why is it that robots will never replace talented creators? Why do investors often make their choice based on who presents some product or service? How can one draw attention to the ethical problems of our high-tech future? These are the questions that were widely discussed at the recent Baltic Weekend conference that brought together experts in the field of PR and journalism that recently took place at ITMO University.

  14.09.2017