re/visions: An Online-Journal of Ideas and Culture

We are happy to present to you re/visions – an online-journal of ideas and culture based in Ukraine, Europe, and open to the world.

After the start of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the world was no longer the same for us. In an attempt to make sense of the massive upheavals of our times, the team started wondering about some of the concepts we thought we were familiar with. We felt a need to explore them more. That's how the idea of re/visions was born.

The name, re/visions, is drawn from how this war has triggered an intense revisiting of previous experiences and narratives, a rethinking of words, even creating new ones. re/visions wants to explore how our life experience is shaped, articulated and put into words and images.

Each of the monthly issues will dive into a carefully chosen, overarching topic or concept and will contain five sections:

• Conversations: long-form interviews with experts, academics, civic activists or cultural actors, connected to the topic of the issue.
• Context: essays by thinkers, researchers or cultural actors, offering both a broad view and personal insights.
• Visual: short pieces that explore visuals as such, analyzing archival photography or film footage, and reflecting on their role in our lives.
• Reviews: in-depth reviews of films, books, exhibitions, conferences, theater plays, art performances and more.
• People: pieces that focus on a thinker, writer or artist whose life story may have been overlooked, falling between the cracks of established canons, or whose legacy we want to revisit.

The first issue – Grief and Healing – reflects on deep loss and paths through pain, at a personal level and within society at large, on grief in wartime, and how something can still blossom in and around us, despite it all.

The idea of re/visions appeared at the Center for Urban History in Lviv. Support from the Center and from the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen (IWM) in Vienna enabled the journal’s launch in the spring of 2025. re/visions additionally received grants from ERIM and the Ponte Foundation.