All my life I live in Moscow. I’d been born here, then studied in a super-duper democratic primary school, then worked in all different kinds of places: kinda famous design studio (wasn't a designer though), the first anti-cafè in the world, freedom-ish summercamp and now — even free-ier democratic school.

In between I play all music instruments I can lay my hands on, compose and occasionally write poetry. Maybe code a little. Plus a bit of everything.

https://www.instagram.com/sergedmitriev/

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I plan to travel alone and want to communicate with people living in cities I'll travel to. It would be great to find some friends, to learn about day and night cultural life of a city. I guess that couchsurfing is a good way to find some connections. And, well, I don’t have much free money to spend too.

Interests

• literature
• poetry
• theater
• design
• music
• cinema
• democratic education

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Radiohead, Modest Mouse, LCD Soundsystem, Bjork, Metronomy, Talking Heads, Devendra Banhart, a Silver Mt. Zion, Charles Mingus, Philip Glass (sometimes), John Cage (no, not 4’33”), Caribou, Four Tet, Flying Lotus, Rachmaninov, the Smiths, Chopin, the Wave Pictures, the Strokes, Brahms, Satie, late Frusciante, Аукцыон and more

Films: Takeshi Kitano, Bertolucci, Dogville, Ida, Зеркало, La Vie d’Adèle, What We Do In the Shadows, Gravity, Her, Jarmusch, mother!, Room

Books: The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Chekhov, Pavich, Stoppard, Ivanov, Tolstaya, Rhinoceros, Sartr, Goralik, Lindgren, Jansson, Borges, Márques, Cortázar, Korchak, Gippenreyter, Dolto, Taleb

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I and my friend have organized a music festival at a flat of hers. There was light, and sound, and stories, and music, and we even filmed something: https://vimeo.com/234285570

My other gig: https://vk.com/video8027812_456239080

Teach, Learn, Share

I know English not brilliantly, but pretty well, and I'm even teaching it at school now, maybe it could be of any use. Besides, I play piano, guitar, bass, ukulele, accordion, drums and computer programs (mostly Logic, but now I learn Ableton). We could try to compose something while I'm at yours.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Have an idea or two about children upbringing and education. I've spoken a lot with the grandson of Summerhill (the oldest and most famous democratic school in the world) founder, studied and worked in democratic schools, and would be glad to discuss the topic. Or music. Or poetry. (Can show some marvelous examples of both in Russian). Or web / graphical design. Or startups. IT. Scientific fabulousness of the world. Basically, everything.

Countries I’ve Visited

France, Georgia, Germany, Netherlands, Russian Federation, Spain, Turkey, Ukraine

Countries I’ve Lived In

Russian Federation