Faculty

Drozdov is an architect, urbanist, artist, academic, and EU Mies van der Rohe Award expert. Since 1997, he is the founder and Chief Architect of Drozdov&Partners architectural office. In 2017, Drozdov became a co-founder of the Kharkiv School of Architecture and its Technical Bloc curator and lecturer. Since 2020, he is a co-founder and the Chief Architect of the Paragraph studio of architecture and urbanism in Montreux, Switzerland.

In 2015, Drozdov curated the Terralogia art project in Shcherbenko Art Centre, Kyiv, and YermilovCentre for contemporary art, Kharkiv, Ukraine. In 2012, he curated the Circumstances project representing Ukraine at the Moscow Architecture Biennale, winning the First Prize in the “Best Curated Project” nomination. In 2011, Drozdov was the co-author and critic of the Columbia University GSAPP semester project. In 2005, he represented Ukraine at the Flood International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (IABR) with the “Monisto” project. In 2003, Drozdov initiated the Architectural Ambulance international project design workshop, Kharkiv, a ground-breaking event for Ukraine.

The most widely discussed project by Drozdov is the Podil Theatre reconstruction in Kyiv, Ukraine: it showcased issues crucial for Ukrainian society and expanded the limits of traditional architectural aesthetics. This project received a number of awards and, in 2019, was nominated for a prestigious EU prize for architecture, EU Mies van der Rohe Award. In 2021, two new objects by Drozdov&Partners were nominated for EU Mies van der Rohe Award: the VG Horse Club and the Sense Dental Clinic.

Drozdov is positive that architects must develop their sense of place, culture, climate, and time. To this end, his whole team is engaged in international projects in France, Korea, Kuwait, Spain, Switzerland, the USA, and other countries, which expand their world view and provide a better understanding of themselves and their own culture. The key project method practised by the team is discussion and peer revision. Another crucial factor for the team’s development is a regular exchange of functions between the architects: their work ranges from urban design and large-scale area research to interior design and even scenography. This practice provides the team with a broad scope of competences and experience, which can be applied to expand their understanding of the situation, visibly improve the quality of their solutions and make them more insightful.

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Degree in Architecture and Urban Planning, Kharkiv National University of Construction and Architecture; worked in the Portal-21 architectural office with projects of historic buildings reconstruction, public and private interiors.

In 2016, as a participant of the Urban Forms Centre civil organization, coordinated the conference on Gender Issues in Art, Architecture and Urban Planning. Co-author and coordinator of the Modernism Women awareness-rising project focusing on the contribution of women to science, culture and art. Curator of the School Module. Urbanism children’s educational project aimed at increasing young people’s participation in urban decision-taking.

Participant of architectural workshops and summer schools, including the Idea of a City. Reality Check interdisciplinary summer school, Slavutych, History and Memory studio, with results published in the Journal of East Central European Studies. During the New Lviv summer school, as a project team member, designed the revitalization concept for the Polyaron plant and the development concept for the whole New Lviv district.

2020–2021, lecturer in the Studio, Architecture and Construction Site courses, DASH children’s architectural school.
Co-founder and architect of the NOEMA studio, which focuses on architectural projects in the residential and the public sectors, competitions, and public interiors.

In 2020, joined the KhSA teams as a Tutor for the Foundation Year and the 1st Year Studio. Since 2021, Head of the 1st Year, designs 1st-year curriculum and its content together with tutors, visiting lecturers and coordinators.

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Like many Kharkiv architects, Oleksandr Kolesnykov is a graduate of the Kharkiv National University of Construction and Architecture. His professional work covers three main areas. The first includes project design and construction and focuses on urbanism, architecture, interiors, object design, graphics and texts. In late 1980s, Kolesnykov worked in the State Institute for University Building Design, participated in the design of universities in Rivne, Simpheropol, and Zaporizhzhya and the Sumy Agrarian Institute, the Krasnodar Higher Military Institute, the Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute and other institutes. In August 2002, Kolesnykov became a founder and Chief Architect of JSC Nice-Project. This architectural office designed projects for the East-West residential development, Sumsky Market, town-houses and office centres, Kharkiv.

Another area of Kolesnykov’s professional interests includes international competitions. At first, Kolesnykov took part in competitions individually or together with his friends; lately he has also started to invite his students. Regular participation in competition design enables an architect to work with various landscapes, climates, cultures and relevant and well-prepared briefs and ToRs. Victories add to the portfolio and contextualize architectural work in the international trends. About 30 projects by Kolesnykov have won prizes (from Grand Prix to Honourable Mention) from the international associations Habitat and Oistat, and also are recognized in Spain, France, Italy, Germany, Yugoslavia, USSR, Ukraine and Japan. During the last three years, his victories include the Theatre Space, Taiwan (Oistat competition), a conference hall,  Pisa, Italy (just 18 m from the Tower of Pisa), and a school restoration project for the 24 Hours international competition. During the same period, Kolesnykov completed several more competition projects, which remain equally interesting, even if not included in the number of prize-winners.

Kolesnykov’s third area of interest includes academic work. For five years, while continuing his project work, Kolesnykov has worked as a lecturer in the Kharkiv Technical University of Construction and Architecture and for another year – in the KhSA. Kolesnykov believes that independent Ukrainian architecture can be created only through comprehending and processing international experience. Cultures, methods, landscapes, materials, project topics, goal setting and implementation, attitude towards the void, responsibility, patterns, and adjacent arts: all this range should be available for Ukrainian students. This will provide them with material to create Ukrainian architecture.

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Architect, practising interior designer, PhD in Architecture and Urban Planning

2008–2012, licensed architect-technician, Kharkiv College of Architecture, Construction and Design; 2012−2016, BA and MA, Kharkiv Beketov National University of Municipal Engineering;

2016−2020, PhD student, Kharkiv Beketov National University of Municipal Engineering, Specialization 191 Architecture and Urban Planning. Defended a thesis on Innovative Principles of Forming the Visual-Communicative Environment of a Contemporary City, PhD in Architecture, Specialization 191 Architecture and Urban Planning.

Participant of national and international research conferences and workshops. Published articles in national and international SCOPUS and Index Copernicus journals.

Besides research, practises architecture. A former staff member of S-Invest construction company and HB Interiors; an Interior designer (layout solutions, drawings, and project documentation).

In September 2021, joined the KhSA team.

Link to thesis

Link to research index

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Історикиня, кандидатка історичних наук.

Закінчила Львівський національний університет імені Івана Франка. У 2001-2007 роках викладала на кафедрі історію Центрально-Східної Європи історичного факультету Львівського університету. Була стипендіаткою Німецького історичного інституту у Варшаві (2007). Проходила річне стажування в Інституті історії Варшавського університету за програмою уряду Республіки Польща для молодих науковців (2007-2008). З 2008-2019 роках. У 2008-2019 роках працювала академічною координаторкою Центру міської історії, згодом заступницею директора і керівницею напрямку публічної історії.

У квітні 2021 року доєдналася до команди ХША.

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Architect; in 2015, MA, Kharkiv National University of Construction and Architecture. During a 2-year work experience in the Drozdov&Partners architectural office, Kharkiv, designed projects of residential and public buildings and interiors. In 2016, intern, BIG Architecture, New York, participated in the Spiral project; coordinator of the Visions and Experiences urbanism summer school, Slavutych. Participant of numerous inter-disciplinary workshops, including Funding Urbanism, Wonderlab, Berlin, and the New Lviv urbanism summer  school, Centre for Local History, Lviv.
In 2017, together with like-minded associates, founded the NOEMA architectural studio, focusing on public interiors, architectural projects and competitions. In 2020, as a team member, participates in Europan 15 Productive Cities and Central Glass Competition.

In 2020, joined the KhSA as a Studio Tutor. Within the Studio, deals with a wide range of issues: from project design and housing research to district planning projects and landscape urbanism.

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Maria Tselik is an architect with MA in Architecture from the Kharkiv National University of Civil Engineering and Architecture. Since 2011, she is a practising designer of public interiors. In 2016, Tselik won the Ukrainian Design: the Very Best of 2017 Award in the Interior Design nomination. In 2017, she won the First Prize of the SALON Design Awards in the “Bars under 150 sq m” nomination.  Her additional professional interests include urbanism, urban sketching, and civil work in architecture.  In 2012-2014, Tselik co-organized the Architectural Adventures pro-active community of young architecture in Kharkiv, Ukraine. In 2014, she set up an open experimental Concrete Workshop No. 1 in Kharkiv, Ukraine. In 2016, she joined a project design team for Pavilion 78 architectural residence in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine, with the “Park in front of a Printing Shop” project. Since 2016, Tselik is a co-organizer and administrator of the Urban Sketchers Kharkiv regional organization. In 2018, she participated in the Urban Sketchers International Symposium in Porto, Portugal, and in 2019, took part in this Symposium in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. In September 2019, Tselik co-organized and participated in the First Ukrainian National Urban Sketchers Camp.

Since 2017, Tselik cooperates with the Kharkiv School of Architecture. In 2017–2018, she was a Foundation Year Tutor in Material Implementation and Ethics; since 2019, she is a BA Studio Tutor.

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У 2018-2020 роках – архітектор та предметний дизайнер у компанії The good plastic company, де займався окрім дизайну дослідженнями та роботою над технологією переробки пластику. З 2020 року учасник ініціативи з відкритого дизайну Holabuda, автор проєктів ініціативи.
Учасник Terrain Vague platform – співавтор публічної програми Recercle, тьютор воркшопів Plastique fantastique workshop та Ta chaise! – в рамках Terrain vague international placemaking festival 2021.
Призер конкурсу молодих архітекторів 2021.
Член команди та автор проєкту в “Парклет на Хорива”.
З 2021 року працює в архітектурному бюро “Дроздов та Партнери”.
З 2022 року є частиною команди ХША як тьютор студії.

Treffers is a Dutch architect and urban researcher, founder and former director of the Temporary Art Centre in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. In 2005, he founded 12N Urban Matters network studio.

In 2015, Treffers participated in the Architecture Ukraine residence organized by the Isolation cultural initiatives platform in Mariupol, Ukraine, and tried to elicit this city’s key positive feature which can serve the foundation for its new image and concept.

Treffers believes that in urbanism much depends on good will, passion to change things, and a pro-active social position of stakeholders at all levels.

Besides tutoring the Cherkasy Zoo workshop Treffers gave a lecture for the KhSA’s Public Programme on participatory Open Source Urbanism, because he shares the opinion that any process starts from communication with people.

https://nl.linkedin.com/in/fulcotreffers

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Bidakov graduated from the  Kharkiv National University of Civil Engineering and Architecture. In 2016, he continued his education with an internship at the Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), Germany, and in 2018, he had an internship at the University of Coimbra, Portugal, both sponsored by the grants from the European Committee COST Action FP1402 “Basis of Structural Timber Design: from research to standards”.

Bidakov holds a Candidate’s Degree in Technical Science; he is an expert for the European Committee COST Action FP1402 “Basis of Structural Timber Design: from research to standards” and a co-designer of the State Construction Regulations V.2.6.-161:2017 “Timber Structures. Basic Provisions” and V.2.3.-35:2016 “Transportation Structures. Bridges and Piping. Project Design Regulations. Timber Structures”. He is the founder and the Head of the Eastern Europe Conference on Timber Constructions, EECTC, www.eectc.pro and a designer of the Decor SCAD Soft solution software for timber constructions calculation.

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In 2004, Oliynyk obtained a degree in architecture from the Prydniprovska State Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture in Dnipro, Ukraine. He joined the Research Institute of Reconstruction Projects, where he worked on reconstruction and restoration of architectural monuments. After moving to Kyiv, for 5 years Oliynyk worked on numerous architectural projects in Zotov&Co. architectural office. In 2010, he participated in the CANactions workshop focused on the strategic initiative to attach the cascade of Kyiv parks to the Dnipro embankment. In 2012, together with partners, Oliynyk founded a private architectural practice and  since then, he is Chief Architect of the BURØ architectural office.

As a team member, Oliynyk has won many international and local architectural competitions, including the First Prize of the “Territory of Dignity” International Open Competition in the “Ukrainian House on the Yevropeiska Square” nomination; the First Prize of the “Kontr/act: the Contract Square Reconstruction, Kyiv”; the Second Prize of the international open competition for the “Revolution of Dignity Museum,” and numerous private and closed competitions. He is a co-author of the “New Kontraktova” reconstruction project of the historic square in Kyiv Podil envisaging a major transformation of adjacent streets, automobile and pedestrian traffic. Since 2016, besides architectural projects, Oliynyk works in area planning both in Ukraine and abroad: he is Chief Architect for the ongoing Rybalsky Peninsula revival project.

Oliynyk is a regular speaker in the Urbanina, InLab and Urbanland educational projects.

In 2019, he joined the KhSA team as a visiting Studio Tutor.

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Nefyodova graduated summa cum laude from Kharkiv State University, holds a PhD in Germanic Languages. She is a lecturer in the English Language and Literature, linguist, and translator whose research interests focus on intertextuality, linguistic and cultural components of translation, and multimodal texts; author of more than 50 publications.

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De Iacobis studied architecture in Rome, attended a two-year programme of basic and advanced photography, and participated in several exhibitions, including the Internazionale di Roma photography festival. De Iacobis previously worked in Urhahn Urban Design, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, STAR, Strategies+Architecture, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and cooperated with Studiometrico, Milan, Italy. He is a laureate of both architectural and photography competitions, a former member of the Akademie Schloss Solitude, a team member of the CENTRALA group of architects, Warsaw, Poland, who generate artistic criticism about Polish spatial environment.

Every semester, first and second-year KhSA students participate in a Technical Bloc workshop focused on the interaction between architecture and natural phenomena, discovering architecture as a process and studying gravity, water circulation, atmospheric and celestial phenomena.

Kuciewicz studied in Warsaw, Poland; Montpellier, France, and Tampere, Finland. She wrote about architecture, studied the perception of space, and worked on her own unique interior design ideas. Kuciewicz was a visiting tutor in several workshops and a former member of the Akademie Schloss Solitude. She is a team member of the CENTRALA group of architects, Warsaw, Poland, who generate artistic criticism about Polish spatial environment.

Every semester, first and second-year KhSA students participate in a Technical Bloc workshop focused on the interaction between architecture and natural phenomena, discovering architecture as a process and studying gravity, water circulation, atmospheric and celestial phenomena.

Stryzhevska studied architecture in Politecnico di Milano and interdisciplinary project management in Alta Scuola Politecnica, Italy. She is a practising architect, researcher and competitions participant. After completing her internship in Salottobuono and Alta Scuola Politecnica, Milan, Italy, worked in Drozdov&Partners. In 2016, together with a colleague, Stryzhevska founded the AER architectural office in Kyiv, Ukraine.

Stryzhevska has joint the KhSA faculty as the Humanities Bloc tutor.

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Кандидат філософських наук, PhD (спеціальність: філософська антропологія,
філософія культури), викладач філософського факультету Харківського
національного університету ім. В. Н. Каразіна та Каразінської Школи Бізнесу (KBS).

Викладав курси: «Культурологія», «Філософія», «Філософія мистецтва»,
«Економіка культури», «Міфологія голлівудського кіно», «Міфологія
реклами», «Структуралізм і постструктуралізм» та ін.
Був запрошеним спікером та лектором: «Інститут проблем сучасного
мистецтва» (Київ), «Форум креативних індустрій» (Львів), «Otium» (Київ) та ін.

Співпрацював з низкою видань у якості автора: журнал «НАШ» (Дніпро),
журнал «Ego» (Київ), журнал «Code» (Київ), «ZBRUČ» (Львів) та ін.

Pavlov is a parametric design artist, architect, and CG artist. He holds MA in Architectural Environment Design from Kharkiv National University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Ukraine. For over 10 years Pavlov has been promoting parametric tools in architecture and design. Pavlov is an author of a YouTube channel on parametric design http://www.youtube.com/c/AndruPavlov and co-organizer of courses, workshops and lectures in parametric design at the Kharkiv National University of Civil Engineering and Architecture and the Odesa State Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture as part of the Odesa International Forum of Architecture and Civil Engineering, 2012, NODE’15, 2015, and ArchiForum, 2016. In 2018, Pavlov was a tutor of parametric tools course (Rhino, Grasshopper) at the METHOD laboratory. In 2010–2012, he worked in the Arte architectural office with project design and visualization. In 2012–2014, Pavlov co-founded the Architectural Adventures pro-active community and in 2014, an open experimental Concrete Workshop No. 1. In 2016, he was a co-initiator of the Urban Sketchers Kharkiv regional organization and in September 2019, he co-organized the First Ukrainian National Urban Sketchers Camp. In 2018 and in 2019, Pavlov participated in the Urban Sketchers International Symposia in Potro, Portugal, and in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Pavlov has over 6 years of architectural visualization experience. Since 2012, he is a freelancing designer of algorithms and scripts in design and architecture. In 2019-2021, he was the chief designer for the Voxel Bridge project, Vancouver Biennale, Canada.

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In 2017, Vovchenko obtained MA in Architecture from the Kharkiv National University of Civil Engineering and Architecture. In 2015–2017, she worked on architectural monuments renovation and as a housing project designer. As a team member of the MiR creative workshop, she designed a concept of ecological parks and parks renovation for Kharkiv, Ukraine. Since 2018, Vovchenko has been working as an architect at Drozdov&Partners. In 2019, Vovchenko joined the KhSA as a Technical Bloc Tutor.

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Інженер-проєктуваник

Отримала ступінь спеціаліста за фахом “Промислове та цивільне будівництво” у ХНУБА.
Має понад 7 років практики, з яких 3 роки у складі команди SBM Studio, як інженер-проєктуваник.
Брала участь у розробці проєкту парку “Саржин Яру” в м. Харків, парку “Зелений Гай” у м. Дніпро та чисельних житлових, громадських та промислових будівель.

У 2021 році почала співпрацю з ХША у ролі тьюторки Технічного блоку.

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Additional Training: CANactions School of Urbanism, Kyiv; “Baggage [Luggage]” School of Marketing and Communication, Kharkiv; traineeship at Zuerich Municipality, Department of Social Projects

Formerly, an architect of the Nice Project architectural practice, Kharkiv, designed project documentation and corporative identity; participated in public hearings, organized exhibitions, made reports and presentations. Co-founder and art-director of the “Syaivo [Shining]” creative agency, Kharkiv; supervises design projects, marketing research and visual production. Co-founder of the “COMIXANS” urban-planning project, Ukraine, which designs urban-planning projects, does project-historical analysis, facilitates public hearings; responsible for art-direction, preparing and legalizing documentation, field research, etc. Also implemented a social educational project in art “Urban Sketchers Kharkiv”, which gathers those who love sketching outside.

Geographer and housing policy researcher. In 2015, MA in Political Geography, Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University; in 2017, MA Euromaster in Urban Studies, 4Cities UNICA programme. Research focuses on urban housing policy. Since 2018, has worked with the topics of local transformations and regional development, housing and housing policy in the projects of the CEDOS analytical centre 2019, co-author of the comprehensive research Public Housing Policy in Ukraine: Current Situation and Prospects for Reform. Co-host of the Will the Market Solve It? podcast on urbanism and urban development; author of the Prometheus on-line course Housing and Housing Policy: Where and How We Will Live

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Kozub is an assistant tutor, architect, and landscape designer with BA in Architecture from the Kharkiv School of Architecture and MA in System Analysis from the Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute. In 2010, Kozub started to design private gardens and to work with landscaping. Since 2016, she has been a member of “Another Way” civil organization; together with colleagues, she analyses Kharkiv green and blue infrastructure and residential structures. In 2018, Kozub participated in designing the “Kharkiv Green Network” landmark project, which took the First Prize in the Ukrainian Urban Awards competition. She focuses on ecological and social architecture, adaptation of cities to climate changes and sustainable urban landscaping.

In 2021, after graduating from the KhSA, Kozub joined its team as an assistant tutor for the third year Studio focused on urban planning.

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Pravyk is a model-making expert with a Specialist’s Degree in Architectural Environment Design from the Kharkiv National University of Civil Engineering and Architecture. For over 15 years he has been designing and producing architectural models and participating in competitions; for 10 years, he has worked as a model-maker for Drozdov&Partners architectural office. In 2012-2020, Pravyk participated in numerous competition projects, including the House of Europe culture and education pavilion, Kharkiv, Ukraine, 2020; College in Sion, Switzerland, 2019; Wien museum neu, Vienne, Austria, 2015; Dalseong Citizen’s Gymnasium, First Prize, Daegu, South Korea, 2014; and In the Shade of Pyramids library, Daegu, South Korea, 2012.

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Спеціаліст архітектури, сертифікований архітектор. Закінчив Харківський інженерно-будівельний інститут за спеціальністю «архітектура». Під час навчання стажувався у проектних інститутах Латвії та Естонії. Десять років працював у сумському філіалі (провідному у регіоні) проектного інституту «Міськбудпроект»: був автором проектів різного рівня — від урбаністичних до окремих будинків та комплексів. У 1996-м повернувся до Харкова та долучився до викладання архітектури у Харківському національному університеті будівництва та архітектури. Паралельно займається архітектурною практикою

Actor, culture activist, co-founder of the Kharkiv Slovo Residence. Graduate of L’école internationale de théâtre Jacques Lecoq and the Lir National Academy of Dramatic Art at Trinity College, Dublin. In 2016–2018, participated in staging and performing plays at the students’ theatre at Newcastle University, Great Britain. In 2019, joined the theatre On Simon’s Pillars, Lviv, took part in its DaemoNOcracy performance;

participated in the International Performative Laboratory, Nuremberg, Germany. In theatre, focuses on the research approach to movement and space and their integral interaction. In summer 2021, produced and took part in a dancing documentary What Shall We Do With These Buildings? dir. by Jonathan Ben-Saul focusing on the subconscious dialogue between Kharkiv’s Soviet architecture and Kharkivites. Conducted courses and master-classes in physical theatre,  Ivan Franko University, Lviv,  Ivan Kotlyarevsky University of Arts, Kharkiv, Ukrainian Catholic University, Lviv, Academy of Culture, Kharkiv, On Simon’s Pillars theatre, Lviv, the Neft’  theatre, Kharkiv, Kolo theatre studio, Lviv, and PTI theatre studio, Kharkiv.

In 2021, joined the KhSA as tutor for the Skills Bloc, where, together with students, researches the space through movement and rhythm, and the interaction between the body and the space.

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Tutor, Technical and Humanitarian Blocs

Architect, urban planner, public and political activist, graduate of Lviv National Polytechnic University licensed in Architecture of Buildings and Constructions. In 2011 to 2015, headed his private architectural office CHAPLINSKYY&Associates. In 2015, in partnership with Stephan Behnisch, worked as Chief Architect in the project of the Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Centre, nominated for the EU Mies van der Rohe Award in 2019.

In 2015, as Lviv Chief Architect, worked on the projects of a villa in 26 Yefrymova st. and a new office of the SoftServe company.  An organiser and a panel member of a number of competitions, focusing on changes in Lviv and the Lviv Region. In 2019, Deputy Minister for Communities and Territories Development of Ukraine. As a YouTube blogger, discusses urban planning, architecture and urbanism in Ukrainian cities.

In 2021, joined the Kharkiv School of Architecture as a donor and a tutor of the Technical and Humanitarian Blocs for 3rd-year students.

Maistat is an architect, designer, visualizer and A_form_studio founder. In 2018, she obtained MA from the Kharkiv National University of Civil Engineering and Architecture. While a student, Maistat acquired practical experience from Ryntovt Design and NICE-Project studios. As an international team member, she participated in the Paths to Self-Sufficiency workshop on Ljubljana modernization and development. More experience in international cooperation was provided by the Unloved Heritage workshop, which brought together researchers from Germany, Ukraine and Russia in an attempt to meet the challenge of reviving/substituting the standardised panel high-rise residential development of the Soviet era.

After graduating, Maistat started A_form_studio for visualization projects. Its portfolio includes photo-realistic renderings of private, public and urban-planning projects in the USA, Spain, Germany, Italy, Great Britain, Estonia, Ukraine, Indonesia and other countries. The team’s works are published in the second issue of 3Disciple, a professional journal on 3D graphics. Maistat taught 3Ds Max in the METHOD creative laboratory at the Kharkiv National University of Civil Engineering and Architecture.

Besides 3D visualization, Maistat works in the interior design of private and public spaces: in 2020–2021, together with Nata Holub, a Kyiv-based designer, A_form_studio, designed and implemented a private school project “Spilno [together] School,” Kyiv, Ukraine. In 2020–2021, Maistat worked as a tutor in the “Southern Coast of Ukraine: from research to development” workshop. As a result of the workshop, the team presented a development concept for Henichesk to the local authorities.

In 2021, Maistat started to cooperate with the KhSA as a 3Ds Max tutor for BA students.

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MA, Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts 2009, PhD thesis on Ukrainian Art-Design in the Context of Contemporary Art. In 2002, intern in Akademie fuer Bildende Kunste, Nuremberg 2003, an intern in Hochschule fuer Kunst und Design, Halle. Fellow of the National Union of Designers, Ukraine. Researcher, published in professional journals, Ukraine.

Since 2000, designer and an active exhibition participant with over 100 personal and collective exhibition projects as part of national and international art projects and design competitions in Ukraine, Italy, Germany, France, and the Netherlands. In 2001, listed in the Homo Faber Guide of the Swiss Michelangelo Foundation.

In 2009-2016, lecturer of Material Implementation, Composition, and Design; Department of Furniture Design and Interior and Equipment, School of Environment Design, Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts. Since 2016 till now, senior lecturer, Department of Multimedia Design, School of Design, Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts; Shape Development. Designer of innovative syllabi recognised by the academic community and successfully implemented in students’ exhibitions and art objects (paper plastics, collages, art objects and installations).

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Smolenska is a lecturer with extensive academic experience focused on architectural monuments restoration. In 1977, she graduated from the Kharkiv Civil Engineering Institute, with a license in Architecture, Specialist’s Certificate No. 535 732. In 2017, Smolenska became Doctor of Architecture, specialization 18.00.01 Theory of Architecture, Architectural Monuments Restoration, DD006795, having presented a thesis “Architecture of Avant-Garde Modernism in Ukraine: Genesis and Legacy”.
In 1999, Smolenska was awarded the academic title of a reader of the Department of Architectural Project Design at the Kharkiv State University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, DC AE No. 001262. She has 34 years of research and academic experience and 44 years of professional experience. Since 2011, Smolenska is a member of the Ukrainian ICOMOS and Senior Architect of the Kharkiv Architectural Planning Directorate. Since 2018, she is also a panel member of the National Ukrainian Student Research Competition in architecture and urban planning.

Kochkaryov is Professor of the Department of Urban Construction and Civil Engineering, at the National University of Waterworks and Environmental Management, and a founder and head of the new research trend in the theory of reinforced concrete: a method of concrete calculated resistance. Calculation models for reinforced concrete structures stress-strain behaviour designed by Kochkaryov integrate the reinforcement resistance with the concrete resistance to generate the reinforced concrete resistance concept and to assess its strength and bearing capacity more accurately. These models simplify the calculations of building structures and use the fundamental concepts of material resistance science to take into account the redistribution of forces between the reinforcement and concrete, to calculate the concrete and reinforcement deformation at every stage of work under static loads, and to save on materials due to more effective reinforcement of cross sections. The research results are implemented in many objects built in Ukraine and are introduced into the academic process for students of civil engineering and architecture.

Kochkaryov is a fellow of the Academy of Construction of Ukraine, a panel member of the research council of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, a panel member of the Specialised Research Council for Doctoral Theses at the Poltava Kondratyuk National Polytechnic University and the Specialised Council for PhD Theses at the National University of Waterworks and Environmental Management.

Kochkaryov is an author of numerous research works and practical guidelines for project designers, and over 80 research articles, including 11 articles published in SCOPUS database.

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Braha graduated from the Kharkiv State Academy of Culture licensed in Social Pedagogy and also from the Kharkiv State Academy of Physical Education licensed in Physical Education with MA in Fitness. She is a personal trainer, group programmes instructor, and gym trainer, a certified expert in TRX, body and mind, and functional training. Braha also works with rehabilitation, supporting and strengthening the spine, and correction and prevention of spinal curvature and postural disorders with the Evminov board.

Nilina is an urban planner, civil activist, leading lecturer of the Urbanism module at the MARCH Architecture School. She is a graduate of Parsons School of Design and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Boston, USA, with a vast practical experience in Europe and the USA. Since 2011, Nilina heads urban-planning projects in the KCAP Architects and Planners office, Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Her projects implemented in Russia include the development plan for the three cities of Verkhnekamsk agglomeration: Berezniky, Solikamsk, and Usolye. She is an independent consultant for UNESCO, member of the International Society of City and Regional Planners (ISOCARP).

Together with Prof. Ronald Wall, Nadia Nilina, architect, urban planner, expert in master planning and historic heritage conservation, leads the course Urbanisation in Developing Countries for the joint MA Advanced Urban Design programme at the Strelka Institute and the Graduate School of Urbanism at the Higher School of Economics. She is an urbanist and urban planner at the ReThink studio, New York, USA.

e-mail: [email protected]

Mysak is an architect and researcher with a candidate’s degree in Architecture.

She focuses on transformations of modernist residential districts in Europe, architecture as a spatial practice and its agency potential.

Mysak previously worked as a researcher, focusing on educational and exhibition projects at the Centre for Urban History, Lviv, Ukraine. Having obtained a PhD in Architecture, Mysak worked in the Lviv Polytechnic National University and completed internships at the TU Wien and Malmö University.

Mysak also worked with participatory design of public spaces in Lviv. As a tutor, she participated in international educational projects in cooperation with the Centre for Urban History, CANactions, and the City Institute. Mysak is an art projects participant and curator.

e-mail: [email protected]

Ponomariova is an architect, urbanist, researcher, co-founder of the  Urban Curators urban agency. She works at the intersection of artistic activism, architecture, urban design and community development and designs concepts and strategies for various forms and scales of the Post-Soviet urban environment. After graduating from the Donbas National Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture and the Kyiv National University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, in 2010-2015, Ponomariova worked with CANactions and Zotov&Co. office. In 2017-2018, she was a Fulbright student in Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA. Four year ago, together with colleagues, Ponomariova founded an independent agency Urban Curators. Since then, she has implemented a number of projects in different cities of Ukraine, including its Eastern Region, to change urban environment and direct the cities into the future.

Lähteenmäki is a Finnish architect, art historian and a research officer of the post-graduate programme on history and theory of architecture at the School of Architecture at the Federal Graduate Technical School, Zurich, Switzerland. His doctoral thesis researches into the art and architecture of Soviet avant-guard. Lähteenmäki studied at the University of Helsinki, Moscow State University, Finnish Institute in Rome and Courtauld Institute. He is a co-founder of the New Academy in Helsinki, Finland.

Ghinițoiu was born in Romania, where he got his architectural training. After moving to Germany, in 2014, he obtained MA from Dessau International Architecture (DIA), Germany, and worked there for two years. Soon afterwards, he switched to photography as a tool to document architecture and travelled the world implementing independent and commissioned projects.

Ghinițoiu’s works have won prizes at international competitions in architectural photography, including Arcaid Awards (2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018) and Sony Awards (2016), and are published by Architectural Record, Phaidon, Domus, and A+U. Ghinițoiu also conducts workshops in photography at the DIA and master-classes at architectural schools. His approach consists in a patient search for meaningful visual moments, when developed and informal elements of artificial environment coexist in the objective, but sensitive look. This collection of images by Ghinițoiu sends us on a round-the-world journey, balancing physical and social topics of contemporary urban landscape.

Atelier NL, founded by the Dutch designers Nadine Sterk and Lonny van Ryswyck, creates objects of daily use, which highlight the material they are made of. In 2017, the duo collected sand samples from all over the world to create regional glass objects to reveal the importance of local production and local materials.

https://www.dezeen.com/2017/07/18/atelier-nl-calls-for-sand-samples-from-all-over-world-make-region-specific-glassware-dutch-design-week/

Partner in the Lithuanian Do Architects architectural office. specializing in innovative projects transforming the urban landscape. Its projects include a transformation of a military base into a multifunctional district and multi-storey buildings with public gardens in downtown Vilnius, Lithuania. Do Architects are the finalists of the Open International Competition for the Architectural Concept of Standard Housing and Residential Development.

Вивчала графічний дизайн в Харківській державній академії дизайну та мистецтв. Брала участь у великих міжнародних професійних виставках, таких як International Eco-poster Triennial the 4th Block, Moscow Global Biennale of Graphic Design Golden Bee, Plaster та ін. Є запрошеною викладачкою у Харківській Державній Академії Дизайну та мистецтв. У даний час працює у студії Grafprom та у ХША.

Michiel is a landscape architect and founding partner of Felixx Landscape Architects & Planners. Michiel graduated cum laude as landscape architect in 2007 at the University College in Ghent and obtained the Master of Arts in Landscape Architecture at the Amsterdam Academy of Architecture in 2012.  He has a strong focus on environmental challenges and specializes in strategic planning. His strength as a designer lies in spatial research and large scale planning projects, as well as in complex public space projects. Michiel is mainly in charge of the international portfolio of Felixx.

Закінчив факультет архітектури Токійського університету мистецтв (Tokyo Geijutsu Daigaku) ​​та Південно Каліфорнійського університету архітектури (Southern California Institute Of Architecture) у Лос Анжелесі. 

Одним із засновників архітектурного та містобудівного бюро MAXWAN, у портфелі бюро проєкти від містобудівних до архітектурних в Україні та закордоном. У 2015 році разом із партнером Рене Сангерсом заснував MASA architects – компанію, орієнтовану на архітектуру, інтер’єри та промисловий дизайн та розглядає архітектуру як частину середовища, а не як самостійний об’єкт. 

Викладав в Інституті ім. Берлаже (Berlage Institute) у Роттердамі, запрошений тьютор у Делфтському технічному університеті (Technical University in Delft) та Академії архітектури (Academy of Architecture) у Роттердамі. Виступає із лекціями й воркшопами з розвитку сучасного містобудування.

Anderson is an American architect working in London. Anderson obtained an MA in Architecture from the MIT, USA, and a degree in art from Central Saint Martin’s School of Art, London, Great Britain. Since 1997, he combines academic and design work. He has devised a unique methodology for technical drawings and visualization, which he has implemented in numerous architectural offices and universities, including Architectural Association School of Architecture and the Rural Studio at Auburn University, AL, USA.

Chekachkov is a photographer and the founder of Chekachkov Photo Academy. He started his career as a photo journalist and later found his inspiration in artistic photography with his works published in National Geographic, the Guardian, Le Monde, Forbes, Bird in Flight and other journals and magazines. Chekachkov’s projects have been presented in numerous exhibitions and festivals, including La Quitreme Image, Paris, France, Galerie Claude Samuel, Paris, France, Ukrainian Museum, New York, USA, Ukrainian Cultural Centre, Los Angeles, USA, EEP Berlin,  Germany, HYBRID, Madrid, Spain and others.

e-mail: [email protected]

Kempster is a Canadian designer, artist and pedagogue, residing in Buffalo, NY, USA. In cooperation with Julia Jamrozik, he attempts to create spaces, objects, and situations which interrupt the daily humdrum in critically exciting and playful ways. Their multifocal practice works in various scales: from temporary installations to permanent public objects of art and architectural projects. In 2018, their work won the Prize for Young Architects and Designers from the Architectural League of New York.

Podoltseva is a team member of Comixans Collective and the Garden-City civil organization. As a graphic designer, she works with Docudays UA, the Mystetskyi Arsenal charity, Ukrainian House, Warm Place and others. She is a participant of the Mezha cultural residence and Who Am I research exhibition. Podoltseva is a co-author of a project on Kyiv panel residential districts, Series___ Special Mentions @ Ukrainian Design, ADC.UA, Kakadu.

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Avdeyev is an architect, urban researcher, the Look Festival co-founder, and graduate of the Strelka Institute. Once an architect with Drozdov&Partners and Project Meganom, he participates in numerous international workshops and competitions.

Manukian is an industrial designer and architect. In 2018, he joined the KhSA faculty. He is a regular participant of the FabLab movement in Ukraine and abroad. For over 7 years Manukian has been working with digital production laboratories (IZOLAB, FadLab Fabricator, and Ostriv Lab). He also continuously cooperates with cultural institutions, like IZOLYATSIA, Mystetskyi Arsenal, and Dovzhenko-Centre, galleries and civil organizations. He works in industrial design, exhibition design, furniture manufacture, architecture, interior design and graphics. In 2020, Manukian participated in the Cherkasy Zoo Roshen Master Plan workshop; in 2018, he joined the American Arts Incubator; in 2017, he studied architectural graphics with Oleksandra Kryvtsova; and in 2017, participated in the Maker Library Network. His implemented projects include Ukrainian national pavilion at Frankfurter Buchmesse, 2016; an entrance group project for the Mystetskyi Arsenal, 2017−2018; the Brighter Worlds Museums Connect Project, 2016; the Maker Library at IZONE, 2016−2017; exhibition design for the 1890s BikeBoom project about the evolution of bicycle movement in the late 19th century, 2017−2018; and the printed graphics PRINT FEST, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019.

Herrmann is a co-founder of the architectural Outpost Office, USA. In 1966–2017, he was a student of Walter B. Sanders at A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning (A&AB).

He is a former visiting research officer at the Institute for Computational Design and Construction (ICD), the University of Stuttgart. As an architect, Herrmann worked at Gray Organschi Architecture, New Haven, CT, and Trahan Architects, LA, USA.

Besides other exhibitions, his works were exhibited at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Yale School of Architecture and A+D Museum of Architecture and Design, Los Angeles, USA

Bigham is a co-founder of the Outpost Office architectural office, USA. Before college, she was a Fulbright researcher in Lviv, Ukraine, and a lecturer in the Centre for Urban History of East Central Europe. Her research focused on castles and fortresses of Western Ukraine as globalisation factors in defensive architecture. Bigham obtained MA in Architecture from Yale University, and BA in Architecture from Tennessee State University, where her graduation project won the Bronze Medal. Bigham’s works in design were exhibited in the A+D Museum of Architecture and Design, Los Angeles; Michigan University; Harvard Graduate School of Design; Yale and Princeton Schools of Architecture and published in professional architectural editions, including Magazine Mark and CLOG.

Abrosimov is an architect and, together with Oleksandr Sidnev, a founder of the CONC company. The company manufactures high-quality products from high-tech ultra-strong concrete.

Hryshchenko is an urban development analyst and a former project manager of CEDOS Analytical Centre.  She is a sociologist by training and an urbanist by vocation. At present, Hryshchenko is a CANactions team member.

Kryvtsova graduated from the Dessau International Architecture School (DIA), Germany, with an MA.

Kryvtsova previously worked at Zotov&Co. and Buro, Kyiv, Ukraine; Laisne-Roussel, Paris, France; and Drozdov&Partners, Kharkiv, Ukraine.

She is the winner of the Roshen competition for the best façade and landscaping concept of its storehouse in Vinnytsia, Ukraine. Kryvtsova also holds the Third Prize of Victor Nilssen competition for the best square and office building concept (together with Ivan Skachko and Margaryta Borysova); in 2014, she became one of the 15 best young Ukrainian architects presented at the CANactions festival.

In 2018, Kryvtsova joined the KhSA faculty as a tutor in Architectural Graphics for beginners, Portfolio, and Studio. At present, she is a tutor of the Skills Bloc and Architectural Graphics for the Foundation-Year students.

Since 2020, Kryvtsova is a freelance architect working predominantly with small-scale objects.

e-mail: [email protected]

Zayats holds a Candidate’s Degree in Sociology and MA in Sociology from Lancaster University, Great Britain. His research focuses on the interaction between people and their material environment embodied in the social-spatial units of a courtyard, park, square, children’s playground, etc. Zayats publishes articles in international professional journals, he is a regular participant of Ukrainian and international research conferences. In 2011 and 2013, Zayats won the Silver and the Bronze Awards of the Institute of Sociology of the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences in the “Best Young Sociologist of the Year” competition. Since 2014, Zayats works in community management and participatory design as a team member of the SOOBSHCHA [together] Research Laboratory. The Laboratory has performed dozens of commissions from the civil and business sectors in public space research and programming for Auchan, IKEA and other companies. Since 2017, Zayats joined the Kharkiv School of Architecture as a lecturer of Sociology.

e-mail: [email protected]

Nikitenko is an architect and founder of the Nikitenkoteam architectural office and a co-founder and CEO of the Caustica architectural visualisation studio.

Nikitenko is a DAAD grant winner and graduate of the Dessau International Architecture School (DIA), Germany. She previously worked at Zotov&Co., Kyiv, Ukraine, Christian Kerez AG and June14 Meyer-Grohbrügge&Chermayeff, Berlin, Germany, and Junya.Ishigami+Associates, Tokyo, Japan. As a team member of Junya.Ishigami+Associates, she participated in the competition for extending the Gund Hall in the Harvard Graduate School of Design, USA.

In 2018, Nikitenko joined the KhSA team as a faculty member. She is a co-author of the KhSA BA curriculum. In 2019–2021, she worked as the Skills Bloc Curator and lectured for the Technical and the Skills Blocs and the Studio. Nikitenko conducted four Basics workshops, a Portfolio course and a course in modelling and technical drawing for the Foundation Year students. She is also a jury member of the KhSA competition for secondary school students. At present, Nikitenko is a BA Programme Consultant and curricula development counsellor.

e-mail: [email protected]

Filonenko is an art critic, curator, IST Publishing editor, and tutor of the Humanities Bloc at the Kharkiv School of Architecture. He writes about contemporary Ukrainian art and comics and has published “Louvre. Volodymyr Kostyrko. Yevhen Ravskyi” (Artbook Publishing, 2017); “Comics in a Museum of Modern Art” (IST Publishing, 2018), and a series of articles, including texts on Pavlo Makov, Tiberiy Silvashi, Ihor Yankovych, Vladyslav Krasnoshchok, and others.

Filonenko was a co-curator of the Second National Biennale of Young Art (Kharkiv, 2019). a joint Italian-Ukrainian project “Aeneas’ Progress. Artists of Today Confronted by the Past” (YermilovCentre, Kharkiv, 2019), and an exhibition project “Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors: an Exhibition” (Kyiv, Lviv, 2016). He curated the exhibitions “Mykola Kolomiiets: a Threat” (Come In Gallery, Kharkiv, 2014), “Queueing Moles” (Come In Gallery, Kharkiv, 2016), “Aza Nizi Maza. Miracles” (as part of the “Arsenal of Ideas” festival, Mystetskyi Arsenal National Art and Culture Museum Complex, 2017), “Aza Nizi Maza. Mummy, Switch on the Light” (as part of the “SlobodaCult” festival, Mukachevo, 2018), “Poster Museum” (as part of the “4th Block” eco-poster festival, 2018), “Expectation” of Pavel Makov (Botanical Garden, Kharkiv, 2019), and others.

In 2018-2021, Filonenko joined the KhSA as the Curator of the BA Humanities Bloc Programme.

e-mail: [email protected]

Architect and curator of the “Method” Laboratory for Experimental Design and Applied Architectural Research at the Department of Fundamental Architecture, the Kharkiv National University of Civil Engineering and Architecture; author of “SketchUp Swift Simulation”. Researcher and artist, virtualizing Kharkiv reality and its abnormalities; a local expert, botched tattoo artist. 2019 “Kyiv City Live” VR project (artist, 3D modeller) 2019 FRONTIER VR Art Hackathon, “x-city” project (author, artist, 3D modeller) 2019 “The Last Day of Kharkiv” project (author, photographer) 2018 “Method” project (founder and curator of the Laboratory) 2015 “Render Ninja” project (“3Ds MAX for Architects” course designer, co-founder and project manager).

Illya Pavlov, PhD, is a researcher and design director. In 2006 he established the Grafprom studio with his partner Maria Norazian. They had also worked for leading creative agencies and press houses in post Soviet capitals and designed several nation-wide brands and corner-stone editions. Though the urge to be free and mobile didn’t let them stay too long anywhere including their own studio in Kharkiv. Illya has taught in Kharkiv State University and Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts. Conducted workshops across Europe and USA. Also in 2014 established his own independent course about poster design “Poster FAQ”. Currently a Senior Lecturer at FH Joanneum, Graz, Austria and guest teacher at School of Visual comunication, Kyiv, Ukraine and Kharkiv School of Achitecture.

In 1986, graduated from the Kharkiv Institute of Civil Engineering and Construction; started professional work at the Kharkiv Institute of Civil Engineering (now Kharkiv National University of Construction and Architecture) and then in the Ukrainian Institute of Urban Construction and Project Design.

1996-2003, co-founder and chief editor of the Vaterpas, one of the first magazines on architecture and construction.  Since 2003, Chief Editor of the ACC magazine.

2008–2012, Director for Architecture and Urban Planning, JSC Habitat Vivendi.

2012–2018, reader, Department of Architecture, Kharkiv National University of Construction and Architecture.

Since the Soviet period, participant and organizer of numerous design seminars and architectural workshops.

Laureate of the State Prize of Ukraine for Architecture, 2006.

e-mail: [email protected]

Additional Training: Creative Enterprise courses

VR-Evangelist, tutor in VR and AR, co-founder and CEO of the OCHI company, co-founder and project manager of the “ART optimists” CSO, coordinator of the FRONTIER VR art festival, musician

Founder of the OCHI company, specializing in architectural visualization, art director. Hobbies: photography and contemporary art.

Education: BA, MA, Kharkiv National University of Civil Engineering and Architecture
Additional Training: FAUL, Lisbon, an exchange programme

Architect at Drozdov&Partners, a tutor of the Technical Block and 0-Year, Kharkiv School of Architecture. Graduated from the Kharkiv National University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Ukraine; attended FAUL, Portugal. As a team member of the “MIski Reformy [Municipal Reforms]” CSO, worked in municipal and urban projects.

Має магістерський ступінь з архітектури в ХНУБА. Основною сферою діяльності є архітектурна практика та участь в конкурсних проєктах, понад 4 роки професійного досвіду. У 2016-му році брав участь у воркшопі “Ljubljana / Self-Sufficient City” у Любляні, Словенія. В складі команди BONDARENKO GROUP у 2017-му році зайняв перше місце у міжнародному конкурсі “STONE BARN MEDITATION CAMP” – Bee Breeders. З 2017 року доєднався до команди архітектурного бюро Drozdov&partners.

У період з 2020 рр. співпрацював з ХША у ролі тьютора – викладав у рамках технічного блоку дисципліну “Тектоніка”.

Architect and co-founder of the “Agenty Zmin [Agents of Change]” organization focusing on the projects of urban space improvement: from architecture and research to graphic design. TEDx Kyiv speaker and urban designer.

Магістр з графічного дизайну. Запрошена викладачка ХДАДМ (Харків, Украіна), ХША (Харків, Украіна), FH Joanneum (Graz, Austria), SVC (Київ, Украіна), PJATK (Warszawa, Polska) та ін. Співзасновниця та арт-директорка студіі Графпром, що зробила візуальне обличчя багатьох украінських та іноземних культурних та комерційних закладів. Співорганізаторка та кураторка міжнародноі триєнналє екоплакату “4й Блок. Лауреатетка низки національних та міжнародних нагород та стипендій.

Була запрошеним експертом ХША.

Практикуюча архітекторка з більше ніж 15 річним досвідом проєктування архітектурного проєктування та 10 річним стажом викладання в університеті. Закінчила аспірантуру ХНУБА. Приймала участь у ряді міжнародних наукових конференцій. Спеціалізується на терії архітектури та урбанізму, архітектурній критиці. Співласниця архітектурних студій у Бельгії та Великобританії.

Приймала участь у освітньому процесі ХША у якості тьютора.

Michal is an anthropologist of architecture and of cities based at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, where he is Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Critical Area Studies. During 2017-2018, he carried out ethnographic fieldwork in Moscow, where he was Visiting Professsor at the Vysokovsky Graduate School of Urbanism, Higher School of Economics. 

His work focuses on the complex social lives of monumental buildings and on the architecture and planning of Eastern European communism. He is especially interested in the powerful – and subversive – impacts that communist-era built environments continue to exert on the capitalist cities of the 21st century.            

He received his PhD in social anthropology from Cambridge University in February 2014. 

Shevchenko is an urbanist and a co-founder of Comixans Сollective. For seven years, Shevchenko has worked with projects in urbanism, architecture and spatial planning. His work experience covers commercial, civil and public sectors. Shevchenko participates in international projects in regional development and urbanism in Italy, Germany, Malaysia, and different cities of Ukraine.  He has MA in Engineering from the Kyiv National University of Civil Engineering and Architecture. Shevchenko also is an MA Erasmus Mundus grant-holder in Spatial Planning and a graduate of the CANactions School of Urbanism.

e-mail: [email protected]

Kakhidze is a conceptual artist, focusing on the topics of consumerism culture, gender, love and politics, and the world of plants and dogs. She is a co-founder of a private residence for international artists at the Muzychi village and an online art edition, kram.in.ua Kakhidze participates in numerous international and Ukrainian art projects.

Yesayan is an architect in the Nikitenkoteam office and a Studio Tutor at the Kharkiv School of Architecture. A graduate of the Kharkiv National University of Civil Engineering and Architecture and a team member of the MIR creative workshop, she designed projects of large residential districts. As a team member of the “Urban Reforms” civil organization, Yesayan designed urbanistic projects of street culture parks. In 2018-2019, she designed and coordinated the KhSA Public Programme.

e-mail: [email protected]

Sidnev is an architect and, together with Oleksandr Abrosimov, a founder of the CONC company. The company manufactures high-quality products from high-tech ultra-strong concrete.