The City You Imagine: An Art Game
28.8.2025
Medzhybizh
Children are an important part of any community. Gradually, they build their relationship with the place where they live, study or come for summer vacation. They go for walks, look at old and new buildings, gain experience and form their own unique view of the village, town, or city. How do children see the surrounding area? What do they notice and what goes unnoticed?
We invite schoolchildren aged 7-10 to participate in the art game "The City You Imagine" to find answers to these and other questions together. The event will take place on August 28 at the Medzhybizh Public Library.
The game involves artistic practices to understand what schoolchildren associate with their town and its space, how they see it and tell others about it. Using graphite rubbing on paper (the artistic technique of frotting), relief prints, and photography, we will also try to find out how to interact with space, what heritage is, what shapes it can take and how visible it is, how heritage can be understood and talked about.
The game will result in the creation of a map of how children see space. They will put on the map what they consider worthy of marking, what they imagine as heritage, including multicultural heritage. The unbiased children's view is an important step for the further process of marking the space, identifying the visible and invisible heritage of Medzhybizh and working with it expertly.
The author of the art game is Oleksandra Kushchenko, a researcher, art critic, lecturer at the Lviv Academy of Arts and the Ukrainian Catholic University.
The event will take place as part of the public program of the REHERIT 2.0 project — "Weaving the Heritage" .
The event is organized by:
- Center for Urban History,
- State Historical and Cultural Reserve"Mezhybizh",
- Medzhybizh Public Library.
As part of the three-year project REHERIT 2.0: Common Responsibility for Shared Heritage, representatives of the Mezhybizh State Historical and Cultural Reserve, the Medzhybizh Village Council, and the NGO Medzhybizh 2000, together with the team from the Center for Urban History, are working to identify multicultural heritage sites in Medzhybizh, create a map, and an educational game for children.
The REHERIT 2.0 project is implemented by the Center for Urban History and the Regional Development Center of the PPV Economic Development Agency with the financial support of the European Union.
This publication has been produced with the financial assistance of the European Union. Its contents are the sole responsibility of the partners of the REHERIT 2.0 project and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Union.
