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Practice:  BEYOND THE FRONT

19/5/2016

 
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. 
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Photo: Danielle Rosales and Robin Coenen, installation image for Architecture Ukraine, IZOLYATSIA, Kyiv/Mariupol, 2015. Photo by Valerii Miloserdov
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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.
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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

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