The majority of present-day Lviv residents lives in the environment built in the second half of the 20th century. However, images of prefabricated panel-type buildings can be rarely found in guidebooks or in promotion materials. Home to huge numbers of citizens, this space is perceived as a grey background of mundane everyday life. The collection of essays on the largest and the last centrally planned Lviv mass housing area aims to launch a broader discussion on the future of modernist districts and the role of education programs as tools for their transformation.
The book "Sykhiv: Spaces, Memories, Practices" resulted from the two-week research conducted during the summer school on planned urbanity run by the Center for Urban History. The authors tried to cover a number of different aspects of life in Sykhiv: its development due to the migration of people and flows of capitals, changes in the symbolic landscape, transformation of the role of water resources, childhood memories, practices of gardening, leisure, consumption, and sports. Hence, the book offers a stigma-free view on modernist estates through the lens of human experience.
Compiled by: Natalia Otrishchenko
Research editing: Natalia Mysak, Iryna Sklokina, and Svitlana Odynets
Authors: Anna Barbieri, Mariya Benovska, Otakar Bursa, Yevhenii Vasiukov, Dimitra Glenti, Oscar Damerham, Yelitza Yovanovich, Kacper Kępiński, Yana Kochkova, Yoanna Litskievich, Tetyana Mandzyk, Alla Onopchenko, Aliaksandra Strashynska, Oleksii Tkachenko, Hanna Tsupko, Matas Shupshynskas
Translation: Svitlana Bregman
Literary editor: Bohdana Melikh
Design: Oksana Nesterenko
Language: Ukrainian (E-book is available in English)
We hope our efforts will inspire more careful attitudes to the space we live in, and also help to generate new ideas and active engagement in the process of transformation and renewal of our cities.
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Cover Image: Iryna Sereda
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