Ro3kvit at Dutch Design Week with the exhibition Fight, Flight or Freeze? 

Ro3kvit’s participation in Dutch Design Week became part of a broader dialogue between Ukrainian and Dutch designers — a conversation about how war reshapes our cities, our relationship with nature, and our ways of protection.
The project brought together urbanists and textile designers exploring how people respond to danger — by staying or leaving, by building new connections or trying to restore those that were lost.
In Zaporizhzhia, where the frontline and a nuclear power plant lie side by side, this experience becomes especially acute.
Ro3kvit participants Daryna Pasiuta and Marjo van Schaik transformed the feeling of living next to constant danger into “soft maps” made of hemp canvas and woolen armor — objects that both protect and remind us of our vulnerability.
The second part of the exhibition presents a project created with the Hirske community, in collaboration between Ro3kvit and its residents. Together, we explored how shared memory and care can become a foundation for the future. People from Hirske recalled the landscapes, scents, celebrations, walks, and collective actions — everything that once shaped their sense of home. These memories became a series of maps printed on hemp and woolen coats reflecting both fragility and hope.
The project unites Ukrainian and Dutch designers, volunteers, and researchers standing against the urbicide and ecocide of war.
All materials are natural or repurposed: hemp from the Carpathians, wool from Dutch sheep, and dyes made from birch, sorrel, rapeseed, and chestnut.
This is not only about design — it is about connections between people, about nature as part of culture, and about searching for calm in places long dominated by fear.
The exhibition Fight, Flight or Freeze? can be seen at De Kazerne (Paradijslaan 8, Eindhoven, the Netherlands) throughout 2025.
Admission is free.