Space Transformation

Lviv. Revitalization of the Hnat Khotkevych Palace of Culture

The Hnat Khotkevych Palace of Culture in Lviv, as well as the district in which it is located, is undergoing a period of change and renewal. In 2018, a new team began revitalization and searched for a new concept for...

New life of legendary Kharkiv apartments

In Kharkiv, two apartments in historic buildings have been redeemed. A prominent critic, essayist, and linguist Yurii Sheveliov lived in one of them, and writer Petro Lisovyi lived in the other. These apartments have not been redeemed for the sake...

Zhytomyr: how the Electrovymiriuvach is being revitalised

Formerly an important industrial enterprise, today Zhytomyr’s “Elektrovymiriuvach” (“Electromeasurer”) plant mainly produces equipment for physics classrooms. In 2019 Andrii Chyburovskyi became its co-owner. He decided to preserve the plant’s capacities and create a socially meaningful project on its basis. An...

Dnipro Center for Contemporary Culture

The Center for Contemporary Culture in Dnipro is a new center of the city’s artistic life, where festivals, exhibitions, and concerts are held. Having trudged a difficult path in search of a permanent location, the center operates in the place...

Promprylad. The Renovation changing Ivano-Frankivsk

Promprylad.Renovation is a former Soviet plant, which has been successfully transformed into one of the most modern urban spaces in Ukraine. A dance school, a contemporary art gallery, a multimedia laboratory, children’s informal education clubs, a city development laboratory, and...

The Museum of Ideas: Culture, Glass and Refectory

The Museum of Ideas in Lviv has always been a place of origin for various initiatives: the festival of independent movies ‘KinoLev’, the first glass foundry workshop, a gallery, a refectory and even a fictitious republic began here. The Museum...

What is ‘Izolyatsia’ and IZONE?

Ten years ago an abandoned plant for processing insulation materials was turned into a giant art space ‘Izolyatsia’ in industrial Donetsk, but recently became a prison and a torture chamber by Russian militants. The creators of ‘Izolyatsia’ were forced to...

Promprylad. Investing in Ivano-Frankivsk

Promprylad.Renovation is an unprecedented example of transforming an abandoned Soviet plant into a modern business cluster involving private investment in Ukraine. Following the example of the Urban Space 100 project (a social restaurant in Ivano-Frankivsk — tr.), Yuriy Fylyuk and...