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On November 6, 2014, Dr. Mariam Didebulidze, Director of the Chubinashvili Research Centre was invited by the WB Resident Mission to accompany the Vice- president of the WB Ms Laura Tack together with Mr. Narmania, the mayor of Tbilisi and Mr. Alibegashvili, the Head of the City-hall around Old Tbilisi.

Dr. Didebulidze presented to the Vice-president the projects implemented  in the Old Tbilisi under the WB financed Cultural Heritage Project in 1997-2002.

On November 3, 2014 at the G. Chubinashvili Centre a meeting was held with the representatives of various foreign tourist companies that visited Georgia upon invitation of the Georgian tourist company “Explore Georgia”.
Dr. Mariam Didebulidze, the director of the Centre, presented to the guests the activities of the Centre, its goals and objectives. Contribution of the Centre in the development of the Cultural tourism was highlighted as well.
The guests viewed   the exhibition “Vernacular Architecture in Tousheti and Racha”   and purchased the books on Georgian cultural heritage published by the Centre.

Since August 2014, the George Chubinashvili Centre has started working on  elaboration of the Gelati Monastery Management Plan. The project is commissioned by the Municipal Development Fund of Georgia (MDF).

On October 24, the members of the working team of the project (M. Didebulidze, D. Khoshtaria, K. Mikeladze, N. Chitishvili, N. Natsvlishvili, M. Gabunia, I. Van der Weide) held an informational meeting on ongoing project at the Kutaisi Historical-Architectural Museum-Reserve. All stakeholders attended the meeting including the representatives of the diocese, the monastery and the local government. The goals and objectives of the project as well as the results of the performed activities were presented to the audience. The participants of the meeting expressed their interest, their concern with particular problems in regard with Gelati architectural Ensemble.

On October 22, under the aegis of the Ministry of Culture and Monument Protection of Georgia and with the support of the UNESCO Georgian Affairs National Commission an interdisciplinary science conference by name “Traditional Hall Architecture in Georgia” was held at the Chubinashvili Centre. Art historians, ethnologists, archaeologists, architects, specialists of ethno-design and experts of cultural heritage protection took part in the conference.

The papers concerned a complex conception of the hall phenomenon in Georgia, its adaptation in modern life and the question of its nomination in the UNESCO list of the monuments. The conference was dedicated to the 100th anniversary of V. Beridze. An appropriate attention was paid to the hall genesis, its spatial composition, its connection to church architecture, building principles, semantic meaning, adaptation, social functions and other issues. A new material, unknown before, discovered during expeditions by archaeologists, as well as by art historians was presented. It showed the significance of hall architecture from the new point of view. Together with the conference there opened an exhibition “Rachian and Tushian Dwelling”, which clearly demonstrated the variety and high artistic quality of traditional folk architecture. The photographs belong to Mariam Kiladze and Nestan Tatarashvili, while still library of hall architecture belongs to Shalva Lezhava.  Zurab Lezhava’s ethnographic sketches and sketches of Colchian dwellings (“odas”) executed by an architect Katsia Giorgobiani were presented at the exhibition.