picture credits: Justin Tyler Tate
Today I swam in the Azov Sea. I can take that off my bucket list. The beach where we were is about an hour drive from Mariupol. So everything was a lot cleaner than in the city itself, where all the steel factories dump their waste into the river and the sea. But anyway, for coral and special species you really don’t need to come to this region at the moment.
‘How do you feel?’ a lot people from the Netherlands ask me.
Well, up till now, honest? Great.
This area is beautiful. The landscape. The cities and villages. The language sounds good, although I don’t understand a word of it. The people are nice and friendly. I feel really well.
It’s hard to imagine:
PSV Eindhoven plays a home game in Rotterdam. Oh no, not.
But…
Press conference
A lot of cameras, microphones and press about the coming project in Mariupol. We didn’t even start yet!
July 7, can be memorised as the very first day of the Architecture Ukraine residency — all 13 project participants arrived to IZOLYATSIA.Platform for cultural initiatives (Kyiv) where they were introduced to the IZO team, met project curators Krists Ernstsons and Rick Rowbotham, and discussed the residency schedule and plans for the next two months.