Maxim Bulanov, a Russian educator who completed a Fulbright program at IUPUI in 2019, has returned to IU’s Indianapolis campus following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Using his years of experience as an urban education researcher in Russia, he is helping students in Indianapolis’s Near Eastside think differently about the ways they view their neighborhood.
Bulanov, an educational program specialist with the Collaborative for Equitable and Inclusive STEM Learning, is leading the development of a STEM Studio, a pop-up educational makerspace for elementary and middle school students. Using art activities and participatory research methods, students will engage in conversations and practices about their dreams for the neighborhood.
Through the project, he…
