In the Sololaki district of Tbilisi, it’s not unusual to see an Armenian woman photographing buildings and taking notes in a red notebook tucked under her arm. This 55-year-old thin and tall woman is Inna Gyodakyan—a professor at Gyumri State University and an art historian. She takes photos of Armenian names engraved in stone mosaics at the entrances of buildings, and  interviews current residents of various ethnicities about what they know of their buildings’  history—who built those buildings nearly 200 years ago, what their lives, civic values, professions, passions, and dreams were.

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