Viktoriia Grivina Author

Hjørdis Clemmensen is a Danish anthropologist and writer based in Vienna, Austria, previously residing in Kyiv, Ukraine. She holds an M. Sc. in Cultural and Social Anthropology from the University of Copenhagen. Her research focuses on urban identity in Kharkiv. Hjørdis’s diverse career spans academia and the IT sector. Viktoriia Grivina holds two Master’s degrees in English, German and Cultural studies from Kharkiv and Tübingen University, and studied also in Bergamo and St Andrews. In 2020–21, she participated in the (Un)Archving (Post)Industry Project dedicated to the photographic legacy of the Donbas. Vasylysa Shchogoleva, M. A., studied Architecture at the Hochschule Anhalt at Dessau-Roßlau (Germany) and at Kharkiv National University of Civil Engineering and Architecture. She worked as an architect both in Ukraine and Germany while developing her practice as a visual artist with a focus on art in public space. Bohdan Volynskyi is an architect and founder of the “dash!” Design School for Children in Kharkiv.