https://architectureukraine.org Wed, 10 Aug 2016 09:02:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.16 https://architectureukraine.org/resident/romea-muryn-and-francisco-lobo/ Fri, 31 Jul 2015 09:24:02 +0000 https://izolyatsia.org/au/?post_type=resident&p=611 Romea Muryn (Poland) is an architect and urban planner with experience in understanding users needs and demands, interested in analyzing social and geographical boundaries that can limit or expand a city’s dynamics. Francisco Lobo (Portugal) is a filmmaker with a deep interest in working with social activity to determinate what is important to define a certain culture or idea.During the residency program Romea and Francisco will draw their research on anthropological, economical, social and cultural history, literature and philosophy to reach an understanding of the Ukrainian – Mariupol architecture and the network of cities adjacent to it.

]]> https://architectureukraine.org/resident/svetlana-demchenko/ Fri, 31 Jul 2015 09:23:09 +0000 https://izolyatsia.org/au/?post_type=resident&p=610 Svetlana Demchenko is a Ukrainian-American architect. She works in the United States, China and Ukraine. Svetlana seeks to research the topic of decommunisation using data visualisation and design. She is interested in the links between the categories of ‘power’, ‘society’ and ‘architecture’.

]]> https://architectureukraine.org/resident/danielle-rosales-and-robin-coenen/ Fri, 31 Jul 2015 09:22:40 +0000 https://izolyatsia.org/au/?post_type=resident&p=609 Danielle Rosales and Robin Coenen (Germany) are the representatives of the Civic City Network, an independent association and evolving network of designers, architects, sociologists, political scientists, geographers, urban planners, etc. The group was founded in 2011, and today includes specialists in various areas of activity all over the world. Group members organise courses of design, architecture, sociology, urban planning and urban development in different regions of the world by means of networking. The project aims to create a platform for exchange of knowledge and experience. Danielle and Robin use design and data visualisation as their main tools. They wish to decode the community in Mariupol with the help of design and data visualisation.

]]> https://architectureukraine.org/resident/wot-tak/ Fri, 31 Jul 2015 09:22:04 +0000 https://izolyatsia.org/au/?post_type=resident&p=608 Сolleсtiv wot tak (Germany) consists of 4 members — Anna Bajanova (Kyrgyzstan), Martha Dyachenko (Ukraine), Mitya Churikov (Ukraine) and Eric Zapel (USA). The group specializes in developing a social and architectural projects in the area of renewable energies, and applying them in the real world. In particular, kollektiv wot tak is interested in the concept of autonomy. Complete or partial autonomy implies individual or collective independence from external entities or resources. This autonomy can facilitate the overcoming of volatile periods in the development of society caused by inflation and deficit in crisis regions, where there is always damage to the communication systems, the delivery of food and fuel. In particular, the researchers want to focus on a model house in Mariupol. They will develop a series of innovations that will allow residents to cover their own basic needs for food and fuel, to reduce heat loss in the cold season and to prevent overheating of buildings in summer. The authors emphasise that all developments are low-budget, and that common household items are sufficient to implement them.

]]> https://architectureukraine.org/resident/lucia-maffei/ Fri, 31 Jul 2015 09:21:17 +0000 https://izolyatsia.org/au/?post_type=resident&p=607 Lucia Maffei is an architect and urban researcher from Italy. Her research is focusing on architecture as contingency, as it conceived in its social and political implications. Starting from this, Lucia aims to investigate on the nature of the architectural practice in relation with the recalibration of the urban praxis believing in the necessity of a continuous spatial research. Exploring this perspective, Lucia works in-between the process of re-thinking the traditional discipline of architecture and the notion of borders at the territorial scale as a spatial and virtual praxis of division – and thus as a prototype of biopolitical architecture. Recently, Lucia has experience of working in Palestine and Cambodia. The project aims to reveal as the spatial structure for the city planning process can be subverted allowing to reconfigure new ground of relations and new public and common functions.

]]> https://architectureukraine.org/resident/anna-balazs/ Fri, 31 Jul 2015 09:19:04 +0000 https://izolyatsia.org/au/?post_type=resident&p=606 Anna Balázs, the anthropologist from Hungary, researches post-socialist cities. The topics of her research are public space and memory. Anna explores the meanings and problems behind the Soviet spatial legacy. During the residency program in Mariupol she will work on a mapping of national, regional and local identities in the city. In addition, Anna will try to link urban space and the most relevant issues facing the residents of Mariupol every day.

]]> https://architectureukraine.org/resident/metasitu/ Fri, 31 Jul 2015 09:17:35 +0000 https://izolyatsia.org/au/?post_type=resident&p=605 METASITU is a strategic art collective and urban consultancy founded by landscape architect Liva Dudareva (Latvia) and urban sociologist Eduardo Cassina (Spain). The duo was formed in early 2014. During this time, the group implemented projects in Palestine, Austria, Serbia, Russia, Greece, the United Arab Emirates. METASITU’s research interest lies in the study of the different fibres that weave it, the social and communal layers, the built matrix and the infinite networks that traverse it. From this departure point, their intention is to dissect the inhabited territory and bring architectural and urban sociological research to a wider audience through art in order to bridge the gap that currently exists separating urbanites from a global understanding of their immediate surroundings. This project, according to the authors, will be able to bridge the gap between the local community and the global world.

]]> https://architectureukraine.org/resident/fulco-treffers/ Fri, 31 Jul 2015 09:16:37 +0000 https://izolyatsia.org/au/?post_type=resident&p=604 Fulco Treffers is an architect and urban researcher from the Netherlands. He is the founder of 12N, a studio of urban design. His works are mostly connected with city development and social housing. During the residence program in Mariupol the architect will work with the “camp” concept. Fulco believes that the term has several meanings. In particular, Fulco refers to the tourists tradition of the city of Mariupol and the coastline of the Azov Sea. On the other hand, the concept is connected to military operations in the ATO zone and the fact that Mariupol hosts refugees from other cities affected by the war. Thus, the term ‘camp’ attains a militaristic character. At the end of the research Fulco will devise a line of camp (meeting places) sites which will “defend the city” with social and cultural means.

]]> https://architectureukraine.org/resident/justin-tyler-tate/ Fri, 31 Jul 2015 09:15:58 +0000 https://izolyatsia.org/au/?post_type=resident&p=603 Justin Tyler Tate (United States/Canada) works on the edge of architecture, art and engineering. His works has been presented in Latvia, Estonia, Great Britain, Canada and other countries. Justin questions whether it is possible to develop a multi-purpose instruction that could save an individual from the consequences of war. He will try to find the answer to this question during the architectural residence organised by IZOLYATSIA foundation in Mariupol. In particular, the architect will try to focus on the creation structures for habitat creation, food production, and power generation by using such tools as design, photography, drawing and modelling.

]]>