Niche Berlin co-founder and Making Spaces initiator Nele Heinevetter looks to the programme of the upcoming Venice Architecture Biennale to find inspiring architectural practice by women.
Talking of inspirational women: we’d like to introduce Luba Michailova und Victoria Ivanova. Successful businesswomen and founder of Izolyatsia Foundation, human rights-lawyer and brilliant art theorist, they bring new perspectives to Eastern Ukraine and this year's Venice Biennale.
Talking of inspirational women: we’d like to introduce Luba Michailova und Victoria Ivanova. Successful businesswomen and founder of Izolyatsia Foundation, human rights-lawyer and brilliant art theorist, they bring new perspectives to Eastern Ukraine and this year's Venice Biennale.
 Photo: Danielle Rosales and Robin Coenen, installation image for Architecture Ukraine, IZOLYATSIA, Kyiv/Mariupol, 2015. Photo by Valerii Miloserdov |  Architecture Ukraine, poster image, IZOLYATSIA, 2015. Rendering by Dima Sergeev |
ARCHITECTURE UKRAINE – BEYOND THE FRONT is literally a collateral event: After all the effort their team had invested in their non-profit art and education platform in Donezk, the seizure of Izolyatsia by the militia of self-proclaimed „Donetsk People’s Republic“ forced them to start from scratch in Kyiv. Their initial goal was to activate the creative potential of the quasi-post-industrial area (entrenched in the post-soviet mafia mentality ), offering more meaningful avenues for education, employment and even opinion-making through working with the local population and international artists alike. This became the least of their problems when they found themselves in a war zone.
For their 2015 residency program Architecture Ukraine Izolyatsia invited architects, designers and artists to conduct research on the Ukrainian-held conurbation of Mariupol and the adjacent cities within the war zone that adjoins with Russia. The aim of the eight-week program was not only to draw attention to the area, but also to identify ways to improve the live quality of its inhabitants.
The resulting exhibition with works of participants Romea Muryn, Francisco Lobo, Fulco Treffers, Danielle Rosales and Robin Coenen, and more, wants to open the findings to a broader perspective. It asks how to give justice to the complexities of these embattled contexts, how to envision the future of cities in war zones and how to comprehend a possible impact of architecture and design to the living – not only housing – conditions of the people beyond the front.
What a sincere collateral contribution to Reporting from the Front curated by Alejandro Aravena.
P.S: COULD’T IT BE MORE CYNICAL: Russia’s contribution will be the glorification of the V.D.N.H: Moscow's Soviet "Amusement Park"
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ARCHITECTURE UKRAINE – BEYOND THE FRONT
A COLLATERAL EVENT
Spazio Ridotto, San Marco, 1388 (calle del Ridotto)
May 28 – June 30
10 am – 6 pm, closed on Monday
Promoter: Izolyatsia
http://www.izolyatsia.org/en
For their 2015 residency program Architecture Ukraine Izolyatsia invited architects, designers and artists to conduct research on the Ukrainian-held conurbation of Mariupol and the adjacent cities within the war zone that adjoins with Russia. The aim of the eight-week program was not only to draw attention to the area, but also to identify ways to improve the live quality of its inhabitants.
The resulting exhibition with works of participants Romea Muryn, Francisco Lobo, Fulco Treffers, Danielle Rosales and Robin Coenen, and more, wants to open the findings to a broader perspective. It asks how to give justice to the complexities of these embattled contexts, how to envision the future of cities in war zones and how to comprehend a possible impact of architecture and design to the living – not only housing – conditions of the people beyond the front.
What a sincere collateral contribution to Reporting from the Front curated by Alejandro Aravena.
P.S: COULD’T IT BE MORE CYNICAL: Russia’s contribution will be the glorification of the V.D.N.H: Moscow's Soviet "Amusement Park"
Find out more here
ARCHITECTURE UKRAINE – BEYOND THE FRONT
A COLLATERAL EVENT
Spazio Ridotto, San Marco, 1388 (calle del Ridotto)
May 28 – June 30
10 am – 6 pm, closed on Monday
Promoter: Izolyatsia
http://www.izolyatsia.org/en