Resilient Futures: Architecture of Recovery
Working with Post-Conflict and Post-Disaster Communities
for a Stronger Tomorrow
Journal
10 February 2025
Building Back
Better: Odesa
In January, we hosted a second nternational workshop focused on developing Ukraine-led strategies for the sustainable recovery in Ukraine. The workshop that took place simultaneously in Lviv and Warsaw, emphasised the need for interdisciplinarity, knowledge transfer, and collaborative efforts towards sustainable development planning in Ukraine.
This year's workshop, supported by UN-Habitat, facilitated the ongoing integration of architecture, urban design, research, academia, engineering, and the humanitarian sector, strengthening connections and building bridges between these disciplines.
Through this edition of the workshop, we continued to contribute to the development of tools and frameworks for a locally-driven recovery approach, with a broader focus on the subject of the Architecture of Recovery we have been shaping. By creating spaces and places that empower local communities with self-reliance, we aim to positively impact and encourage psychological recovery, while supporting scalable and sustainable reconstruction practices, community empowerment, and the rebuilding of not just physical structures, but lives, post-natural disaster and conflict.
The culmination of the workshop was an exhibition of projects exploring four scales: sea, city, neighbourhood, and home. In March, the exhibition will be open to the public in Kyiv, and elements of the workshop will be featured at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale, as part of the French Pavilion.
Building Back Better: Odesa
26 September 2024
Architecture of Unity
Sustainable Recovery through Education and Collaboration
The event in Kyiv, organised by Alex Davies (Norwegian Refugee Council), the Kharkiv School of Architecture, and Aga Podgajna, convened stakeholders dedicated to supporting Ukraine and advancing sustainable rebuilding efforts. It served as a vital platform for networking, knowledge exchange, and strengthening partnerships.
The exhibition showcased themes developed during Building Back Better: Dnipro, providing an opportunity to discuss sustainable recovery in a multisectoral setting. Attendees included representatives from ministries working on sustainable recovery, members of the humanitarian sector, local NGOs, international embassy representatives, architecture and urban design students, researchers, and professionals.
The discussion centered on empowering local actors to develop initiatives, projects, and strategic frameworks both medium- and long-term that not only support sustainable reconstruction but also enhance resilience, address current challenges, and lay the foundation for a strong and sustainable future for Ukraine.
Thank you for joining us in Kyiv.
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