Jaar: 2022

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Dnipro, you were a blast!

11 Oct 2022

Two important sessions in two days, including a quick tour around the town with local architects. And including a lunch with the Mariupol team, that came to see us all the way from Zaporizhia, where they are now working and living, temporarily.

It was amazing to see how the importance of the Ro3kvit values arose during the meeting with representatives of the Dnipro architecture community and the head architect of the city. From their opinion, changes and new developments in their city need to begin now. This meeting was a very good start to talk and see how Ro3kvit: Urban Coalition for Ukraine can support.

During air strike alarms, there was a meeting about the future urban strategy for Mariupol. A very delicate, beautiful and sometimes emotional topic. I am proud of the group that was present, offline and online. The bomb shelter workshop did a good job facilitating wifi and light.

Unfortunately, we did not make it to see people in/from Kryvvy Rih and Zaporizhia. Next time, for sure! I love these cities so much…!

These days are very hard for Ukraine. The destruction is huge. The loss of people, buildings, parks, infrastructure is enormous. Please, support the country and the Ukrainians you know.

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Check is not mate

This is a damaged building in Baryshivka, a village near Kyiv, Ukraine. A sports and community hall. The local residents and politicians showed us around, we discussed the way to help. Part of the tour for Ro3kvit: Urban Coalition for Ukraine to Kyiv region and Rivne.

The Ro3kvit coalition starts working on various projects for local municipalities to develop strategies of recovery. Ro3kvit is a Ukrainian organisation that has been founded fo

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Berlijnplein mijlpaal

Een feestelijke dag voor Berlijnplein! 

RAUM, DePlaatsmaker, Kanaal30 en HKU hebben vandaag een samenwerkingsovereenkomst getekend met de Gemeente Utrecht. En op hetzelfde moment is de opdracht voor het ontwerpen en bouwen van de nieuwe gebouwen verleend aan het consortium De Pleinmakers (onder aansturing van Vink Bouw). 

Het consortium bestaat uit Vink Bouw, Studio R, Inbo, bureau SLA – we are architects, Overtreders W, Woonpioniers, BOOM Landscape, SPIE, Adviesbureau DWA, New Horizon Urban Mining B.V., Pieters Bouwtechniek, Koen Koch, DVDL en BLOC bv

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Open Day

5 May 2022

The Kharkiv School of Architecture organised an OPEN DAY for new students in Lviv today. The academy is working in exile, 1000 km away.

I talked about future challenges and opportunities in both Ukraine and The Netherlands. And about possible student projects for next year.

What a great atmosphere to work, to study, to be a tutor.

War in Ukraine

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Kharkiv School keeps on functioning during the War

12-March-2022

So proud to be part of this school, this team, this movement…

The Kharkiv School of Architecture decided to reopen online again. Here is their statement.

Dear Friends,

The first weeks of the war, announced to Ukraine by russia, was extremely difficult for the Kharkiv School of Architecture. Everyone tried to get out of the hell into which russian troops turned our Kharkiv. Our teachers and students are now relatively safe. Almost all fled Kharkiv; some are still on their way to a safe place.

After these two weeks, we try to calm down as much as possible and think about our future. Kharkiv School of Architecture has decided that we will continue working and staying in Ukraine. We need to think about the long term in this challenging time, and this is the education of our young generation of architects who remain in Ukraine and will rebuild our cities.

We also strive to become a platform for communication and dialogue between our friends and expert architects from different countries except russia to rebuild Kharkiv and other destroyed cities after the war.

The support that European education community give us now and shelter to Ukrainian students is invaluable, but we must do everything possible to accumulate all forces and efforts in Ukraine.

The school is now reformatting its program, and we are resuming online learning. It is not easy, as many of our students and faculty now do not have an uninterrupted Internet connection. We are all involved in volunteering. Several of our students and staff have joined the defense and the army. Nevertheless, we need to keep in touch, support each other and continue training in combat because we all will return to our destroyed cities with new knowledge and experience to rebuild them.

We do believe in Ukrainian victory! Therefore, despite the horrific war, we have been working closely together with locals and the architectural community to (re) build our country.

uitwerken

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Gestoord

16 feb 2022

Sinds de zomer van 2021 is de wereld gelukkig weer een beetje meer open gegaan en zijn de projecten in Oekraïne weer meer los gekomen. Sinds september ontving ik weer Oekraïense delegaties in Nederland, en maakte ik korte (1 week) en lange (4 weken!) trips richting het oosten. Op de architectuur academie in Kharkiv begeleidde ik een groep studenten, online en offline. Samen met Marjo van Schaik was ik ‘architecture-artists’ in resident in Soledar. In diverse steden hield ik lezingen en waren er korte studies en adviezen over publieke ruimte en mobiliteit.

Het werk in Oekraïne bevalt goed, en krijgt een steeds grotere plek in mijn agenda. Een aantal nieuwe projecten ligt op stapel, en in elk geval zijn mijn taken bij de Kharkiv School of Architecture verder uitgebreid. Naast een eerstejaars studio project ben ik ook aangesteld als hoofd van de masteropleiding, die na de zomer van start moet gaan. Flink wat hoge bergen liggen er de komende maanden nog op me te wachten. Maar ze zijn oplosbaar met een fijn team om me heen, en – niet onbelangrijk – we kunnen met een heldere opdracht ongestoord aan de slag!

Tenminste, ongestoord… dat geldt alleen als ik de geo-politici even buiten beschouwing laat… Vervroegd kwam ik deze week terug van weer een aantal afspraken in Kharkiv en Kyiv. Gevlucht voor dreiging. Met een enorm gevoel van onmacht. En een nog groter voornemen om het Oekraïens en Russisch onder de knie te krijgen. Om zo snel mogelijk weer terug te kunnen. Om zowel hier als daar ‘thuis’ te kunnen te werken. En niet te hoeven zwichten voor dreiging. Want een volk dat voor tirannen vlucht….