Chapter 3. 2013, Hjordis: Kharkiv came across as a fairly rough and unpolished place when I first visited. The particularly huge square in the very center, the huge buildings surrounding it, and the wide roads with lots of traffic gave an impression of toughness. But then, when I 👇

Запрошую на прогулянку і квартирник до відкриття нового сезону резиденції Тихий Центр в Харкові. Подробиці за реєстрацією 👇

Chapter 1, Vasylysa: Writing my own chapter felt for me as an intuitive process, at times as a detective one, as if I tried walking with a flashlight through the dark corners of the mind and heart. Therefore, the nature of this writing might be a bit chaotic, but, for me, its purpose is in 1/3

Kharkiv is a dream finally available via Ibidem and @columbiaup.bsky.social Look inside via the link below.

Honoured to have a wonderful architect Bohdan Volynskyi to write a preface for Kharkiv is a Dream:

About a year passed before all three of us met in person. The occasion was a Workshop organized at @fernunihagen in Berlin initiated by the Kharkiv-native Viktoria Naumenko with the support, by Felix Ackerman. Exciting days in the company of Kharkivites and enthusiasts who 👇

Kharkiv has two famous meeting spots: “na Steklyashke (at the Glass thing)”, meaning a glass metro entrance at the Freedom square, and “under the Thermometer” in the old centre near the Historical Museum. And so we meet here, where the story of the city began. Close your eyes, and imagine a giant 👇

@iwm.at - the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna, became an ally and patron for us. They believed in our project and granted us financial support to type out the words, design the cover and the images inside, discuss, and type again. We are grateful grantees of IWM’s Documenting Ukraine project.

Soo..when people publish books they need a publisher, right? Ibidem Verlag became our ally and partner in the endeavor of turning our dreams into a real, physical object. We became proud members of their Ukrainian Voices series!

The authors of Kharkiv is a Dream. 3. Viktoriia Grivina - writer and anthropologist.

The author of Kharkiv is a Dream. 2. Hjørdis Clemmensen - social anthropologist.

Meet the authors of Kharkiv is a Dream. 1. Vasylysa Shchogoleva, the architect and the artist.

The concept is clear! Kharkiv anno 2023 and Kharkiv anno 2013 are two different cities. Vasylysa takes us to her hometown on her first visit since the full-scale invasion. Viktoriia takes us to 2018, and Hjørdis opens a window to the distant past, right before Euromaidan in 2013.

The sound of connections and ideas in the making. Our first email exchanges when we were just introduced were packed with words like “observation”, “walk-along interviews”, and “research”. They were followed by words like “urban space”, “Kharkiv’s mythological and👇