“Ukraine’s heritage before the challenges of war”. A presentation by Iryna Matsevko at a workshop, the Birkbeck School of Arts
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05
2022
📌 May 24, 18:00 BST
Birkbeck School of Arts
Dr. Iryna Matsevko, a Deputy Vice-Chancellor of KhSA, tool part in the event Ukrainian Architecture Heritage: Modenism, Identity and Survival, organized by ASSC, Birkbeck’s School of Arts. Three experts have raised awareness of Ukraine’s architectural history, the threat it is currently under, and possibilities for the future.
Difficult and Complex Heritage of Ukraine: lessons not learnt in understanding the past and new challenges of war
Like most post-Soviet countries, Ukraine has gone through a difficult (re)discovery of its own heritage, emerging after the collapse of the socialist bloc and the Soviet Union. Still, after 30 years of independence, Ukraine is facing many acutely unresolved issues, which keep it stuck in the vicious circle of conflicting and competing aspects of heritage. These “lessons not learnt” in understanding the past are now overlapping with the new challenges of war. What is our current benchmark? What is our response to the destruction of heritage? What do our discussions and decisions during the war time imply? Will the burden of our undiscovered heritage allow us to tackle our post-war work with the heritage?
Photo “Destroyed Kharkiv” by Julia Gush.
