Team
Fulco Treffers
NL/UA
Founder, CEO
Lead architect and urbanist 12N Urban Matters. Works in Ukraine since 2015. Tutor and developer at Kharkiv School of Architecture. Specialism: social urban design, participation and circularity.
Oleg Drozdov
UA
Co-founder
Lead architect Drozdov&partners Founder and tutor Kharkiv School of Architecture Specialist in modern architecture, innovation
Valentyna Shulimborska
UA
COO
Experienced Program and Project Manager with extensive experience in leading large-scale transformational projects with a demonstrated track record in manufacturing and supply chains. Has a proven track record of driving projects to completion in a demanding environment while managing geographically dispersed stakeholders of various cultures and seniority.
Lilet Breddels
NL
Project manager
Researcher, curator and editor. Director of Archis.org, architectural thinktank in Amsterdam and publisher of Volume Magazine. Teaching at Academy of Architecture Amsterdam. Specialism: architecture in post-conflict zones
Alevtyna Drazhenko
UA
Project manager
Urbanist, activist, manager of urban, participation, and educational projects. Student of Master's in Public Policy and Governance at the Kyiv School of Economics. She has experience working in project office teams at the municipality and in the public sector. In 2023, she coordinated a project to increase the educational capacity of Kyiv activists in the context of the Russian-Ukrainian war. In 2021, she coordinated the March for Kyiv event. Specialism: project management in urban fields — public participation, urban planning.
Elina Polianska
UA
Project manager
Architect, urbanist, urban researcher, coordinator of the projects Previously, director of the library at the Kharkiv School of Architecture. More than eight years of experience in urban and educational project management.
Margo Didichenko
UA
Project manager
Architect, researcher, project manager. Former Head of the Foundation Year at Kharkiv School of Architecture, member of KHSA Lab, architectural competition and urban grants manager at CANactions. Specialism: project management in urban and architecture education fields
Albertas Tamashauskas
UA
Project manager
Safety expert, project manager for Urbanism and Urban Mobility at Mariupol City Council.
Specialism: housing and communal sphere, city promotion, city brand and public spaces, urban mobility
Ganna Negatina
UA
Social media manager
Digital content creator, photographer
Anastasia Kaluhina
UA
Project assistant
Previously: an event and logistics manager
Serhii Bochkarov
UA
Assistant to CEO
Experienced in communications, media production, account and event management in multicultural environments.
Task Force
Arranged alphabetically
Alice Alexandrova
UA
Architect, researcher, graduate and lector at KhSA, former member of NGO «Urban Reforms», columnist
Oleksandr Anisimov
UA
City planner and researcher, head of the NGO «Understand the Soviet Division», researcher and co-author of the concept of Integrated Development of the Podil district in the NGO «Agents of Change»
Ruslan Antonenko
UA
Professional with 8-year experience in the practice, focusing in small and medium rise housing, public and private interior design. Holds a Master of Architecture degree’ 16 from University of California, Los Angeles. Main focus was Singularity in Architecture. Since 2016 he had been developing sustainable housing in architecture in semi-harsh and harsh climates.After full scale invasion, Ruslan’s main aim is to assist rebuilding and redesigning cities and villages in Ukraine.
Hlib Antypenko
UA
Architect, designer, urban planner
Viacheslav Bezushko
UA/SK
Architect, visualizer, 3D modeler
Mykyta Biriukov
UA/NL
Before war: Deputy director of Department transport and Communication Mariupol's City council
Now: Beleidsadviseur/ Projectleider Mobiliteit Gemeente Utrecht
Hanna Bondar
UA
Architect and politician, member of the Ukrainian Parliament, member of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on the Organisation of State Government, Local Self-Government, Regional Development and Urban Planning, Honored Architect of Ukraine.
Anastasiia Borodiienko
UA/SE
Architect SAR/MSA and urban designer at Urban Minds (Stockholm), former urban planner at the City Planning Office of Stockholm. Specialty: urban planning in the European context, sustainable development, housing, public spaces, strategic urban design.
Niall Buckley
IRL
Senior project manager at IES R&D. PhD focusing on geo-spatiotemporal energy flows. Visiting doctoral candidate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and PhD graduate of University College Dublin (UCD).
Julian Chaplinskyy
UA
Architect and urbanist. Former Cheef architect of Lviv and former Deputy Minister of Community and Territorial Development for European Integration, AVR Development
Olena Chernyshova
UA
Project manager in the planning and management in transport industry, PhD in Transport Systems. Specialism: Transport Planning, Market Research, GIS Analysis, Stakeholders’ Management, Strategic and Operations Planning, and General Management
Tim Van Epp
USA
FAICP. Environmental Planner, IAIA, AICP, NJPP, ULI.Managing Director of Eurasia Environmental Associates LLC, has over 45 years of experience providing environmental sustainability and climate action planning to clients in over 40 countries and 25 US states. Team Leader of the APA International Division's Ukraine Rebuilding Action Group. He has been active in organizing and moderating NPC sessions on the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals and New Urban Agenda.
Pavlo Fedoriv
UA
Urban geography and housing policy researcher. Co-author of Public Housing Policy in Ukraine: Current State and Prospects for Reform (2019), author of the online course “Housing and housing policy: Where and how we will live”
Iris Gleichmann
DE/UA
Studied Architecture and Urban Planning in Stuttgart and London. From 2009-2015 she was a director of the Ukrainian-German cooperation Project “Municipal Development and Rehabilitation of the Old City of Lviv” for the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH in Lviv.
Cees de Graaff
NL
Cultural diplomacy and strategy. Former director of DutchCulture, centre for international cultural cooperation and of several (international) cultural organisations. Now independent consultant and coach
Bart Gruyaert
FR/UA
Project Director Ukraine at NEO-ECO
Dmytro Gurin
UA
Member of Parliament of of Ukraine, public relations specialist, public communications consultant, urban planner. Developer of territorial development projects in Kyiv and Baku. Member of the development team of the Mariupol reconstruction project after de-occupation. People's deputy of Ukraine, member of the VRU committee on national health, medical care and medical insurance. Developer of new construction standards for medical facilities.
Tigran Haas
SWE
Urbanist, Professor of Urban Design + Planning at Stockholm University, Former Director of the International Center for the Future of Places
Specialism: post conflict research (a.o. Bosnia-Herzegovina)
Nathan Hutson
USA
Professor of Urban Planning and consultant to the World Bank on trade and transportation in the ECA region. Currently involved in project to assess how different war resolution scenarios may impact goods movement patterns and economic restructuring within Ukraine and its trading partners. Experience with maritime, rail, urban mobility, Soviet-era housing and historic conservation.
Gala Korniyenko
UA/USA
Researcher who works on nexus of planning, urban design and policy to solve the problem of sensory overload and unnecessary stress triggers for neurodiverse persons, with a particular focus on autism and inclusive public participation; member of Ukrainian Rebuilding Action Group International Division of American Planning Association.
Nataliya Kozub
UA
Architect in Drozdov&Partners, studio assistant in KhSA, researcher at NGO ‘The Other Way Kharkiv’. Expertise: landscape urbanism, green-blue infrastructure, strategic urban master planning.
Anuschka Kutz
UK/DE/BE
Architect, urbanist and researcher based in London, UK. Visiting professor at KU Leuven, Belgium. Senior Lecturer, University of Brighton, UK. Co-founder Offsea / office for socially engaged architecture and urbanism. Founder Urban Field Work. Specialism: Cities under Stress, Fragility, Critical & Investigative Practice, Spatial Ethnography.
Julie Lawson
PL
Adjunct Professor at the Centre for Urban Research, RMIT, experienced international housing policy researcher, urban planner and public policy analyst. Has conducted and managed research for international organisations, national and regional governments, industry and advocacy bodies in the field of housing and urban development for over 20 years.
Kateryna Lopatiuk
UA/USA
Fulbright Visiting Researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Member of Ukrainian team of European Architectural Student Assembly; Architect Research focus: bottom-up initiatives and urban morphology
Dominika Ludvikova
SK/PL
Architect, urban planner and researcher from Slovakia, based in Poland. PhD candidate in urban and regional planning at Silesian University of Technology. Specialism: post-war recovery, participatory planning, brownfields.
Martine de Maeseneer
BE
She is Head Collaborate-Internship and Alumni programme, part of the International Affairs Office and professor at the Faculty of Architecture KU Leuven, founding partner MDMA l Martine De Maeseneer Architects. Specialism: Architectural Intelligence of Hypertransforming Cities
Tommi Mäkynen
CH/UA
Architect, Partner at Helsinki Zürich Office. Architects ETH SIA SAFA Specialism: architecture and urban planning, real estate and city development
Kateryna Malaia
USA/UA
Assistant Professor of Architecture at the School of Architecture, University of Utah. Kateryna's research focuses on the history of change in residential architecture, as well as contemporary global and local struggle to house diverse urban populations. Since the beginning of full-scale russian invasion, together with Philipp Meuser, Kateryna started a project cataloguing the existing urban housing typologies in Ukraine.
Philipp Meuser
DE/UA
Managing director of Meuser Architekten, head of DOM publishers. Honorary professorship at the O.M. Beketov University in Kharkiv, Visiting Professor at Brown University in Providence/Rhode Island. Specialism: typology of Soviet mass housing
Dora Merai
HU/US
Art historian, archaeologist, cultural heritage expert. Specialization: heritage policy and management, memory studies, industrial and urban heritage, adaptive heritage reuse.
Mariia Mnatsakanian
UA
Associate Professor of the Department of System Analysis and Information Technologies at Mariupol State University
Vaagn Mnatsakanian
UA
Certified engineer in the field of energy and a PhD in
environmental safety. 12 years of experience in the city of Mariupol - leader among the cities of Ukraine in terms of development. Proven task solving skills based on qualifications and experience.
Robert Mull
UK/US/SWE
Architect, educator and urbanist, founder member of the architecture collective NATO, Professor at the University of Brighton and Visiting Professor at Umeå University where he is developing the Global Free Unit
Maciej M. Mycielski
PL/B
Head of MAU city planning studio, with focus on sustainable urbanism, urban design, and workshop strategies
Gyler Mydyti
CH
A committed architect, an enthusiastic urban planner, and a curious researcher.Brings over ten years of experience in conducting and managing projects at different scales—from architectural to urban and territorial. Her works aim to understand territories’ socio-spatial transformations and planning processes, envision sustainable development, and create liveable spaces for people.
Mirjam Niemeyer
CH/DE/UA
Architect, Partner at Helsinki Zürich Office Architects ETH SIA SAFA, researcher, lecturer at ZHAW, curator of the Homes for tomorrow program at CANactions. Specialism: housing, housing cooperatives, architecture, urban planning, strategic urban design
Tetyana Oliynyk
UA
UREHERIT project manager
Communications professional with 15+ years of experience and expertise in creative industries, cultural diplomacy, and environmental communications.
Daryna Pasyuta
UA/NL
Architect and urban planner with 15 years of experience in Ukraine. She has been working with developing strategies, general plans for localities, detailed plans of territories and other spatial planning documentation. Now architect at Inbo (Eindhoven, the Netherlands)
Anastasiya Ponomaryova
UA/CH
Architect, current research fellow at ETHz. Co-founder of NGO Urban Curators and СO-HATY initiative. Anastasiya’s academic background includes fellowship in Levental Center for Advanced Urbanism at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her current project focuses on integrated, sustainable and rapid housing for forcibly displaced people in Ukraine.
Roman Puchko
UA
Roman Puchko is a Co-Founder and CEO of ReThink – a circular economy and green innovations NGO, based in Kyiv, Ukraine. Roman holds an MSc degree from Wageningen University in Management, Economics, and Consumer Studies (2011) and has completed a course on Circular Cities at the University of Amsterdam (2019).
He has been a member of Innovations development council under the Prime Minister of Ukraine. Roman is also an evaluator of the USF Calls (within Energy & Environment sectors).
Brent D. Ryan
USA
Brent D. Ryan is Vice Provost and Professor of Urban Design and Public Policy in MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning in Cambridge, MA, USA. His research focuses on the aesthetics and policies of contemporary urban design, particularly with respect to current and pressing issues like deindustrialization and climate change. Has written two books: Design After Decline: How America rebuilds shrinking cities and The Largest Art: A measured manifesto for a plural urbanism. Co-editor of the Journal of Planning History. Currently conducting research in several countries around the world, including China, India, Ukraine, Japan, and the United States.
Natalie Samovic
LV/PT/UA
Co-Founder Resilient Group, several chairs in European context of Energy TransitionSpecialism: energy / sustainability, innovation
Marjo van Schaik
NL/UA
Researcher public space and public and cultural values, cultural manager Guest teacher Kharkiv School of Architecture
Specialism: public buildings, culture, identity
Diana Sidko
UA
Specialisation: working on Ukraine's economic recovery and rebuilding projects, building partnerships and cooperations. 10+ years of experience in public and private sectors with a focus on international relations, strategic development, public-private dialogue, government relations and tech cooperation. Vast network both in public and private sectors internationally and in Ukraine. Management of a professional team of 10 investor advisors throughout Ukraine. Coordination of CSR activities with a focus on local communities’ development in Eastern Ukraine.
Aleksandr Strulyev
UA
Chief at Bureau O.S.A. Design
Galyna Sukhomud
UA
Urbanist, Researcher of housing politics, expert on participation and critical urban pedagogy. MSc. European Urban Studies (Bauhaus University Weimar), co-founder of NGO Cultural Geographies and initiative Children’s Geographies in Kyiv.
Peter Tanghe
BE
Engineer-architect and urban planner, working for and living in the city of Kortrijk, Belgium. Specialism: revitalising urban sites, public space projects and re-naturing.
Urs Thomann
CH/UA
Specialties: Urban planning, Urban design, Integration of Urban Infrastructures, Revitalization of mono-functional areas, extending of towns, Intensification of town space, Strategic planning
Mykola Tryfonov
UA
An expert with over 15 years' experience in project and investment management in both business and municipal projects. Prior to the war in Ukraine he worked for a municipality in Mariupol and is now a mid-sized international advisor in Utrecht in the Netherlands.
Hubert Trammer
PL
Architect. Member of the High Level Roundtable of the New European Bauhaus. Engaged in the support for the Ukraine. Nominator for the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture Mies van der Rohe Award. Member of the jury at architectural competitions. Member of the teams of Archigrest and Toposcape offices.
Svitlana Usychenko
UA
Researcher and designer in the fields of architecture and urbanism. Part of the NGO ReThink, focusing on circular solutions in the build environment.
Yegor Vlasenko
UA
Urban researcher, works in the field of urban management, cooperations with GIZ Ukraine, CANactions Specialism: Hromadas, municipal amalgamation in Ukraine
Andrii Vorobiov
UA
Multidisciplinary designer, architect. Co-founder of Cullmann Workshop (UA). Volunteer at Hire Ukrainian Designers (USA/UA). Designer at Ellenzweig Architects (USA). Specialization: public spaces design and planning, architecture.
Jolanta Zarzycka
BE/PL
PhD Urban Planner & Landscape Architect with over 25 years of international experience in urban development, town planning, carbon-neutral cities transition, project integration, coordination and management. Participatory and inclusive approach in delivering strategic documents on green cities. Recognized professional within the International Society of City and Regional Planners. Founder of Just Consultancy SRL.
Jing Zhang
USA
Planner, AICP. Chair of the American Planning Association (APA) International Division and Co-chair of the APA Japan-United States Collaboration Interest Group. 10+ years of transportation planning in the U.S. No-code software developer. Pianist.