Architecture Ukraine: Beyond the Front

ARCHITECTURE UKRAINE – BEYOND THE FRONT is a project by IZOLYATSIA presented in Venice, as a collateral event of the 15th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia.

The exhibition consists of data visualisations, interviews, models, film and printed material to engage the visitors with the diversity, history and culture of the Donbass region of Ukraine.

The main focus of the exhibition is the video material created by Architecture Ukraine 2015 residents Romea Muryn and Francisco Lobo juxtaposed with media reports from Donetsk.

Centrallurgy documentary goes together with map of Mariupol projected over wooden surface depicting different aspects of everyday life in the city.

For example this layer represents different infrastructural objects of Mariupol, especially roads.

Another layer represents educational facilities like schools and universities.

Donetsk video is also accompanied by map of Donetsk divided into separate layers.

For example this layer represents comparison between educational facilities versus industry in the city.

Danielle Rosales and Robin Coenen (Germany), representatives of the Civic City Network present their findings of the visual identity of Mariupol.

Through a series of social interventions they have engaged local communities into a dialogue about topics of expectation, change, looks of a city, migration, Europe and others.

Project is presented through graphics and printed materials.

Data visualizations serves as the hard facts on a timeline of the current conflict displaying various information.

Data represented on the map is ranging from occupation, death rates, gender and nationality to industrial export, oligarchy, power as well as road blocks and fights.

A physical and metaphorical boundary will seamlessly engage the visitors to shift and displace it.

Liveuamap is open data-driven media platform that uploads daily maps, messages, pictures and videos from the conflict zone in Ukraine. 300.000 Km/s have extracted and processed more than 29.500 events in the Donbass Region from April 2014 to April 2016 to build up the map.

Data for map layers was taken from different sources, for example checkpoints have been geolocated according to United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reports 2014, 2016.