This workshop is a pilot version of the new KhSA Master’s program and your opportunity to test drive the program, which will start in September 2025. In addition, if you are planning to enroll in this program, participation in the workshop will give you a 15% discount on tuition (upon acceptance into the program).
In January 2025, a two-week international workshop «Building Back Better: An International Workshop exploring solutions for the sustainable rebuilding of Ukraine», will bring together students from all over Ukraine and Europe to work together with international experts in design studios in Lviv and Warsaw.
This workshop is a pilot version of the new KhSA Master’s program and your opportunity to test drive the program, which will start in September 2025. In addition, if you are planning to enroll in this program, participation in the workshop will give you a 15% discount on tuition (upon acceptance into the program).
This year’s workshop will focus on Odesa and will bring together a powerful international community to develop proposals that will be featured as part of an exhibition in Kyiv and the French Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2025!
January 20 – 31, 2025 (arrival to Lviv by January 19)
Warsaw and Lviv (Kubiyovycha 35A)
English (B2) and Ukrainian (as you will be working in international teams)
30 places for students from Ukraine
Participation in the workshop is free thanks to our supporters. A limited number of travel stipends are available for selected applicants from outside Lviv. The number of places is limited!
The workshop will be attended by teachers and students from the following institutions:
✲ University of Limerick, Ireland
✲ Brno University of Technology
✲ Kharkiv School of Architecture
✲ Independent Ukrainian and international students from the EU and Ukraine
The theme of the French Pavilion is “Living With” which explores, from the perspective of contemporary architecture, how we can cope with a state of permanent instability, climate change, and conflict to rethink our way of life.
The workshop participants on behalf of the Kharkiv School of Architecture will create Atlases of Risk that will document how water, earth, fire and air risks develop and interact with built environments.
The teams will work on new ways of risk mapping so that the resulting documentation can serve as a material for architectural, urban and landscape innovations.
The research area of the workshop will be the city of Odesa. Work in the studios will take place in 4 stages:
✲ Stage 1: Documentation of the territory in its current state.
✲ Stage 2: Documentation of the territory’s past, taking into account its risky conditions.
✲ Stage 3: Predicting future evolution. Creating a palimpsest of the territory’s past, present and future.
✲ Stage 4: Developing an architectural response to the previous stage.
Students apply and are evaluated and selected based on the submitted documents IN ENGLISH:
○ A copy of a document confirming education in architecture, landscape architecture, urbanism or related fields with design skills
○ CV
○ Brief selection from your portfolio
○ Motivation letter
Application form is opened here
Start of application acceptance: the 2nd of December 2024
Deadline: the 22nd of December 2024
*If you require travel assistance, it is important that you apply early!
Detailed workshop schedule will be published soon.
Important: This workshop will help you to apply for a unique master’s program at the KhSA, which will start in September 2025. The workshop aims to develop, test, and disseminate the content, curriculum, and pedagogy of the new KhSA Master’s course.
The first workshop already took place last winter, where 30 participants in Lviv and 30 participants in Warsaw worked on researching the city of Dnipro at 4 scales: river, city, district, and home. The workshop ended with an exhibition that later traveled to Kyiv.
Do you have any questions about the terms of participation? Contact us at [email protected] or in the telegram: t.me/kharkivschoolofarchitecture
Yes! And even if you’re not currently studying but have an academic background in architecture and are curious about applying to the KhSA MA program, or to gain further practical and theoretical knowledge and experience in architecture and urban planning and design in the Ukrainian context of future transformation and reconstruction.
The KhSA has been invited to join 5 other international universities in submitting work to the French Pavilion for the Biennale 2025. The theme of the Biennale is “Living With” and the French Pavilion will focus on “Atlas of Risks”.
We will be building a pop-up exhibition as the main outcome of the workshop, held on the final day of the workshop, the material will then travel on to an exhibition in Kyiv in March 2025.
While we would prefer to have all workshop participants in one physical location in Ukraine, the current realities prevent this. For that reason, we will arrange virtual studio rooms where students from Warsaw and Lviv will collaborate together and interact with teachers from different locations as well. Students from both locations will be divided into four different studio groups, integrating and mixing students from different backgrounds.
The workshop will consist of design studio group work complemented by lectures and talks by invited guests. It will be a great chance to get to know other students and young professionals in Ukraine and abroad. The outcome of the proposals created by students will be an exhibition which will launch simultaneously in Warsaw and Lviv, and then travel to Kyiv. The developed proposals will be featured as part of the French Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2025.
Thanks to the generous support of our partners, the workshop will be free for all participants! Just apply! A select number of participants traveling within Ukraine from outside Lviv will qualify for sponsorships for transportation or/and accommodation in Lviv.
A limited number of participants who are traveling from outside of Lviv qualify. Notify us in your application if you need accommodation or transportation and we will then contact you to make arrangements.
By participating in the workshop, you will get to know the atmosphere of KhSA and we will get the chance to meet you. Also participants of the workshop who are successfully admitted into the MA will be offered a discounted tuition rate of 15%.
Professors and professionals from the participating universities and schools, as well as invited guests who are practitioners, researchers, and academics.
Among them: Professor Robert Mull, teachers from University of Limerick School of Architecture, professors from Brno University of Technology, KhSA teachers who will possibly join the teaching team at KhSA MA program.
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