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Kharkiv is A Dream @kharkivisadream.bsky.social · Sep 5

Kharkiv by capturing contrasts and reflections as I walked the streets in 2013 which you can see in the visual diary in the end of the book.

Text in the post by Hjørdis Clemmensen
Collage by Vasylysa Shchogoleva

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Kharkiv is A Dream @kharkivisadream.bsky.social · Sep 5

entered the buildings, talked to people, joined concerts and exhibitions, Kharkiv changed for me. I started seeing Kharkiv as a sensitive, diverse, and genuine place with a strong creative energy pulsing through. I tried to express this experience of being introduced to 👇

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Kharkiv is A Dream @kharkivisadream.bsky.social · Sep 5

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 👇

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Viktoriia Grivina @brams884.bsky.social · Aug 31

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

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Kharkiv is A Dream @kharkivisadream.bsky.social · Aug 28

and hopefully, others, can refer to when time would come to re-fresh the memory that quickly fades away. Welcome to Kharkiv of summer 2023 mixed with other seasons and following yers in between 🫶

Text in the post by Vasylysa Shchogoleva
Illustration by Vasylysa Shchogoleva

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Kharkiv is A Dream @kharkivisadream.bsky.social · Aug 28

documenting the city of my birth in 2023 through a personal experience. At times, I would argue with myself on the relevance of this writing, but at the same time, what keeps me doing it is a sense of - it just makes sense - along with a feeling of necessity to create a physical artefact to which2/3

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Kharkiv is A Dream @kharkivisadream.bsky.social · Aug 28

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

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Kharkiv is A Dream @kharkivisadream.bsky.social · Aug 16

Look inside the book: t.co/cbaVxrq75v

https://www.ibidem.eu/en/Topics/Social-Sciences/Sociology/Kharkiv-Is-a-Dream.html

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Kharkiv is A Dream @kharkivisadream.bsky.social · Aug 16

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

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Kharkiv is A Dream @kharkivisadream.bsky.social · Jul 30

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

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Kharkiv is A Dream @kharkivisadream.bsky.social · Jul 18

shared research and perspectives on and from our beloved city.

Such meetings are the sources of support and essential Kharkiv’s building blocks that is facing Fire on the daily basis.

Autumn 2024

Text by Hjørdis Clemmensen
Collage by Vasylysa Shchogoleva

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Kharkiv is A Dream @kharkivisadream.bsky.social · Jul 18

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 👇

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Kharkiv is A Dream @kharkivisadream.bsky.social · Jul 14

Text by Victoriia Grivina
Illustration Vasylysa Shchogoleva

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Kharkiv is A Dream @kharkivisadream.bsky.social · Jul 14

the old fortress. And forward is Sumska street, named after Kharkiv’s pretty twin city Sumy, and leading to the Central park, and the new centre, and the new new centre. Here, under the thermometer, all stories begin. The book cover by Vasylysa takes you there.

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Kharkiv is A Dream @kharkivisadream.bsky.social · Jul 14

former German street, where first German philosophy professors of the Kharkiv university settled. Now it is Skovoroda street, named after our main philosopher. To your back opens a wide expanse of the Constitution Square, with its Baroque cathedrals and mayor’s office, place of 👇

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Kharkiv is A Dream @kharkivisadream.bsky.social · Jul 14

thermometer on a 19th century mansion. You are at the heart of Kharkiv. To your left the road sinks down the Bursa descent all the way to the river Lopan and the famous Central market. To your right, past the lions of the former Land Bank you go along a sleek Mechnikov lane to the beginning of the 👇

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Kharkiv is A Dream @kharkivisadream.bsky.social · Jul 14

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 👇

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Kharkiv is A Dream @kharkivisadream.bsky.social · Jul 10

Text by Hjørdis Clemmensen
Collage by Vasylysa Shchogoleva

#kharkivisadream_book #kharkivlove #kharkivlife #kharkivart #kharkivstreets #kharkivworld #artinpublicspaces #urbanexploration #streetarteverywhere #urbanlife #urbanlivingroom #bookproject #kharkivconnectingpeople #architecture

Kharkiv is A Dream @kharkivisadream.bsky.social · Jul 10

@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.

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Kharkiv is A Dream @kharkivisadream.bsky.social · Jul 8

Text by Hjørdis Clemmensen
Collage by Vasylysa Shchogoleva

#kharkivisadream_book #kharkivlove #kharkivlife #kharkivart #kharkivstreets #kharkivworld #artinpublicspaces #urbanexploration #streetarteverywhere #urbanlife #urbanlivingroom #conversationsovercoffee #bookproject

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Kharkiv is A Dream @kharkivisadream.bsky.social · Jul 8

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!

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Kharkiv is A Dream @kharkivisadream.bsky.social · Jul 3

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

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Kharkiv is A Dream @kharkivisadream.bsky.social · Jul 1

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

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Kharkiv is A Dream @kharkivisadream.bsky.social · Jun 27

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

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Kharkiv is A Dream @kharkivisadream.bsky.social · Jun 27

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.

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