Change
The November issue of SALT explores the parts of life in Yerevan that often go unnoticed but quietly shape our days: from the city’s increasingly chaotic rental market and the struggles of those living with celiac disease, to caring for our bodies in the age of Google and wandering a neighborhood layered with memories that refuse to fade, to reshaping public and retail design from Yerevan to Milan.
Cover photo by Roubina Margossian.
An architecture studio born out of burnout is reshaping public and retail design from Yerevan to Milan. With bold color, local craft, and a philosophy they call “Vivid Minimalism,” Studio SHOO is forging a new design language. Tatevik Avetisyan reports from Milan.
In a world overflowing with online health advice, Dr. Mariam Manoukian helps readers separate noise from knowledge. Blending medical insight with personal experience, she highlights how small, consistent lifestyle choices, not trends or fear, can prevent disease and support long, healthy living.
In Armenia, low awareness and limited gluten-free options make life with celiac disease a daily struggle. Through personal stories, Eliza Barkhudaryan reveals how every meal can feel like a gamble, and how a small community is fighting for understanding, their wellbeing and change.
A walk through Kond during an autumn drizzle becomes a sensory meditation on one of Yerevan’s oldest neighborhoods with its layered histories, lived realities and fragile beauty. In this evocative essay, Maria Gunko explores how rain transforms the district’s mood, revealing both its charm and its unresolved uncertainties.
A darkly funny dive into Yerevan’s rental market, where outrageous prices, crumbling “designer” homes, and Soviet-era domiks collide with the everyday despair of tenants just trying to find a livable space. Ella Kanegarian-Berberian’s sharp, witty look at a city caught between illusion and reality.
EVN Report’s mission is to empower Armenia, inspire the diaspora and inform the world through sound, credible and fact-based reporting and commentary. Our goal is to increase public trust in the media. EVN Report is the media arm of EVN News Foundation registered in the Republic of Armenia in 2017.
