Current projects
Rethinking Cities in Ukraine 2.0
“Rethinking Cities in Ukraine” is a practical-oriented capacity-building program for Ukrainian municipalities, that aims to support local-level officials and community leaders in Ukraine in a deeper understanding of the challenges of current and post-war strategic spatial development and to provide methodologies and tools to solve these tasks.
Looking at Hirska Community: Recommendations for Occupied Territories and Displaced Communities
In July 2022, the Hirska Town Council approached us with a request to develop a strategic vision for the recovery of their community. Since the early days of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the area had suffered severe losses: destroyed homes, mines, and social institutions, while the town itself fell under Russian occupation. Despite these challenges, residents remained determined to return home and rebuild their community.
Kremenchuk – climate‐proof urban strategy
In December 2024, Ro3kvit team startes working on a spatial strategy for Kremenchuk that will help the city become more resilient to climate change. This means more green spaces, better energy efficiency, adaptation to hot periods and the development of environmental solutions. Together with the municipality and local initiatives, we plan to develop urban strategy for the city of Kremenchuk and a plan for the transformation of the embankment on the left bank of the Dnipro River.
Communities at the Heart of Urban Changes
Ro3kvit, in partnership with INBO, Stipo, and Play the City, has launched an ambitious 18-month project aimed at involving Ukrainian communities in creating sustainable spatial solutions for cities. We will collaborate with municipalities and local organizations to develop tools that bridge the gap between decisions made at the government level and grassroots initiatives.
UREHERIT: Architects for heritage in Ukraine. Recreating identity and memory
«UREHERIT. Architects for heritage in Ukraine: recreating identity and memory» -- is a three-year international European cultural project with the aim to build competence on the heritage protection, regeneration of culturally meaningful plans and projects and empowering of local communities.
Project team: Tetyana Oliynyk, Alevtyna Drazhenko
TEPLO: thermal bio-based renovation of a building in the Chernihiv region
Ro3kvit: Urban Coalition for Ukraine, ReThink, Neo-Eco Ukraine and Matek are launching a pioneering initiative dedicated to renovating a Soviet-era residential building in the Chernihiv region in Ukraine, using prefabricated biobased panels. The project is supported by the EU LIFE Programme, contributing to the EU's mission to achieve climate neutrality by 2050.
Project team: Alevtyna Drazhenko
Sustainable Urban Net Zero Network for Ukraine (SUN4Ukraine)
Sustainable Urban Net Zero Network for Ukraine (SUN4Ukraine) is a four-year project aimed at pairing Ukrainian cities with cities in the EU Mission for Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities to support their journey to climate neutrality. SUN4Ukraine offers technical support and tailored capacity-building to help Ukrainian cities design and integrate Climate Neutrality Plans into their recovery strategies.
Project team: Anastasia Kaluhina,
Margo Didichenko, Fulco Treffers
Strengthening of Urban Resilience: Dnipro, Zaporizhzhia, Kryvyi Rih
The work of the Ro3kvit urban coalition within the SUR project involves collecting data, providing needs assessments (and possible projects for implementation), and spatial strategies. The focus is on content, advice on how to strengthen the resilience of the cities of Zaporizhzhia, Kryvyi Rih, and Dnipro in all its aspects, keeping in mind the connection of short-term projects with the long-term perspective.
Project team: Anton Herasymovych, Ruslan Antonenko, Dmytro Matviishyn, Anna Guskova, Sofiia Bondar, Iryna Tsyba, Anna Lytovka, Caroline Michel-Macaya, Yevhen Kabasin
Finished projects
Mariupol
For the City of Mariupol we have worked since August 2022, with support of USAID, on a city strategy for postwar Ukrainian Mariupol given the expected demographic development: from 250.000 to 500.0000 to 900.000 residents. The goal is to define the strategy about identity, memory, and future, a vision on new residential areas, a new post-industrial economy, new functional zoning plan and a clear vision on ecology and nature.
Project team: Fulco Treffers, Alice Alexandrova, Dmytro Hurin, Nathan Hutson, Nataliya Kozub, Nikita Biriukov, Mykola Tryfonov, Nataliya Shulga
Vision for Zaporizhzhia City 2030
Zaporizhzhia Vision 2030 is a document that aims to define the future of the city of Zaporizhzhia during and after the war.
Ro3kvit Urban Coalition for Ukraine provides expert support to Zaporizhzhia City Council to ensure the use of modern methods and tools in the development of the Vision. Experts from intersectoral working groups - representatives of civil society organizations, scientists, educators, and city council officials - will also be involved in the development of the vision for Zaporizhzhia's future. They will share their knowledge and experience in various spheres of city life and contribute to the formation of a common vision of the city's future development.
Project team: Alevtyna Drazhenko, Elina Polyanska, Vadym Denysenko, Daryna Pasyuta, Andrii Vorobyov, Anna Lytovka, Vaagn Mnatsakanyan, Maria Mnatsakanyan, Karolina-Michel Makaya
Dnipro River Integrated Vision
«Dnipro River Integrated Vision» is a project in cooperation with Greenpeace.
Dnipro River Integrated Vision provides an in-depth analysis and future scenarios for the river, offering a comprehensive vision of its unused potential. It attempts to bridge the gap between all of the different scales, but also between people. By presenting the various topics, we aim to reveal diverse perspectives of looking at the Dnipro River, encouraging the different actors and stakeholders to try to understand each other better, in order to reach better solutions together.
Project team: Fulco Treffers, Svitlana Usychenko, Antoine Korchagin, Vaagn Mnatsakanian, Angel Bondov, Hristo Panchev, Tim Van Epp, Niall Buckley
Rethinking Cities in Ukraine: capacity-building program for Ukrainian municipalities
“Rethinking Cities in Ukraine” is a capacity-building program for Ukrainian municipalities initiated by Stockholm Business School, Stockholm University, and Ro3kvit: Urban Coalition for Ukraine with the support from the Swedish Institute
Project team: Margo Didichenko, Ievgenia Dulko
Art Therapy Center Concept, Lviv
Art Therapy Center Concept, Lviv project aims to bridge the gap between the increasing need for psychological rehabilitation and the availability of tailored spaces to host corresponding programs. Art therapy has proven to be particularly effective in dealing with post-traumatic conditions by helping individuals conceptualise, share and work through their experiences, even when they appear to be unspeakable. This kind of therapy is valuable not only for people who have personally experienced hostilities, urbicide, and loss, but also for a wider group, including those who are experiencing secondary trauma.
Project team: Maria Tselik, Andrii Bidakov, Alice Alexandrova, Fulco Treffers, Nataliya Kozub
Directory of spatial development organizations and independent experts
This Directory is a first attempt to collect information about service providers in the field of spatial planning in Ukraine. The first edition contains data on organizations and independent experts providing services in the design of spatial planning documents, strategies, industry concepts, as well as non-formalized territorial development documents.
Project team: Alevtyna Drazhenko, Vadym Denysenko
Trends in spatial planning in reconstruction processes
The goal of this project is to understand the key challenges and problems faced by the professional community of spatial planners in the time of war and reconstruction of Ukraine and to determine the potential for its consolidation to overcome them.
The research allows to look at the challenges faced by the planning community and assess their relevance within six types of interaction
Project team: Alevtyna Drazhenko, Vadym Denysenko
Kyiv Oblast
The Kyiv Oblast has defined many urgent challenges. From all different departments the analysis has been made of the new reality and possible future. Ro3kvit provided the opportunity to support this by adding up the different sectoral plans, and made an integrated design strategy. Special attention is given to a combination of ecological and economic solutions. The project has ended and results have been introduced into the working group on oblast level. More than that, the outputs of the project have been actively incorporated into Kyiv Oblast strategic development documents
Team: Fulco Treffers, Svitlana Usychenko, Alice Alexandrova
Bucha
The city faced tragic events in 2022, garnering significant media and political attention. The municipality is seeking to manage potential support with available resources. Ro3kvit analyzed and gave feedback on existing urgent infrastructure and housing plans.
Team: Fulco Treffers, Andrii Vorobiov, Daryna Pasyuta, Anastasiia Borodienko
Ochakiv
City strategy on how some pressing urban issues like erosion, military land use, and transportation of this town-at-the-beach can be solved in the context of war and post-war developments. Ro3kvit team developed urban strategic plans, with support of the VNG international.
Team: Fulco Treffers, Svitlana Usychanko, Mariia Mnatsakanian
Vysokopillya
City strategy on how life can be restored in Vyskopilya after the heavy war-impact. How can old 19th century monuments made by German immigrants be the base for recovery, both economically and socially and culturally? How can architecture, heritage and public space play a role in this? Ro3kvit team developed a strategy, with support of the VNG international.
Team: Fulco Treffers, Daryna Pasyuta
Circular housing
Ro3kvit did research on circular building and design. How can damaged buildings and abandoned sites be the start of new building developments? For reasons of climate and limited resources (and therefore process) the research is important for rebuilding Ukraine. Research is conducted for The New European Bauhaus
Publications
Dnipro River Integrated Vision
«Dnipro River Integrated Vision» is a project in cooperation with Greenpeace.
Dnipro River Integrated Vision provides an in-depth analysis and future scenarios for the river, offering a comprehensive vision of its unused potential. It attempts to bridge the gap between all of the different scales, but also between people. By presenting the various topics, we aim to reveal diverse perspectives of looking at the Dnipro River, encouraging the different actors and stakeholders to try to understand each other better, in order to reach better solutions together.
Project team: Fulco Treffers, Svitlana Usychenko, Antoine Korchagin, Vaagn Mnatsakanian, Angel Bondov, Hristo Panchev, Tim Van Epp, Niall Buckley
Book "Urban Coalition for Ukraine: Strategies and Proposals"
This publication reflects the work of the first year of Ro3kvit: Urban Coalition for Ukraine team.
In six chapters it covers topics ranging from urbanism to housing and from identity to circular building and governance, the many different aspects of rebuilding and reconstruction are addressed in the form of longer essays, conversations, and project descriptions.
Book "A Vision for Mariupol: The Easternmost Gateway of Europe"
Inspired by the Ukrainian people’s faith and determination to rebuild, the authors join forces with displaced Mariupol residents to imagine a dynamic future for Mariupol that will begin the day the Ukrainian flag rises.
Despite the unavailability of reliable information and the difficulty of communicating with the scattered population, the team illustrates the case for planning rebuilding while the city is still under occupation, both so as to exorcise the scars of war and colonialism and to establish a viable economy and human-centred city that draws strength from its tragic past.
The Participation Handbook of Urban Planning for Ukraine
The Ro3kvit and the URAG of the American Planning Association International Division have developed "The Public Participation Handbook of Urban Planning for Ukraine” (Handbook) in response to the need for community involvement in the rebuilding effort for the Ukrainian post-war recovery.
The Handbook aims to furnish practical insights into public involvement in urban planning for planners, administrators, and public officials who are engaged in urban planning and development in Ukraine. It serves as a comprehensive guide for the formulation of regulations and procedures concerning urban planning. Moreover, it can be utilized to create public participation frameworks tailored to specific projects. This publication can also prove to be a valuable resource for trainers and educators who wish to incorporate urban planning education into their courses.
Directory of spatial development organizations and independent experts
This Directory is a first attempt to collect information about service providers in the field of spatial planning in Ukraine. The first edition contains data on organizations and independent experts providing services in the design of spatial planning documents, strategies, industry concepts, as well as non-formalized territorial development documents.
Trends in spatial planning in reconstruction processes
The goal of this project is to understand the key challenges and problems faced by the professional community of spatial planners in the time of war and reconstruction of Ukraine and to determine the potential for its consolidation to overcome them.
The research allows to look at the challenges faced by the planning community and assess their relevance within six types of interaction
Project team: Alevtyna Drazhenko, Vadym Denysenko