Platform of Action: development of the “SUN Territory”

Funding: European Union
Partners: NGO PLAI, SUN Territory, City Marketing and Tourism Department, Spatial Development Agency, Urban Development Institute, “TOWER” Information Portal
Duration: February 2024 – June 2024
Coordinators: Yuliia Alenina, Sofiia Levchenkova
Contact: office@insha-osvita .org

Platform of Action: development of the “SUN Territory” is a project implemented by NGO PLAI in cooperation with Insha Osvita. The goal of the project is to create a platform for cross-sectoral cooperation, research, exchange of experience and finding solutions based on the revitalization of the urban space, the territory of the former Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky Children’s sanatorium (“SUN Territory”) in Vinnytsia.

In order to create an effective platform in Vinnytsia for the interaction of professionals from various fields (ecology, landscape, architecture, urbanism, creative industries), a three-part residency program is planned. Each of them is dedicated to the reinterpretation of abandoned Soviet spaces, using the example of the revitalization project of the Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky Children’s sanatorium. The results of the residency participants’ work will help the public sector team and the city government to launch a useful space in Vinnytsia, which will become a new point on the tourist map of the city and unite the local community of artists, activists and workers in the cultural and creative industries sector.

The Insha Osvita team was engaged in the formation of the residency program and the involvement of external experts. All residencies will last 3 days and will take place from April to May 2024 in Vinnytsia.

The first residency on the topic “Tourism and Cultural Creative Industries” took place in April under the curatorship of Marjana Kuzemska — cultural manager and researcher, senior expert on community participation and development at the Cedos Analytical Center. Together with Maryana and other experts in the field, the participants got to know Vinnytsia and talked about the importance of strategic documents of the urban space revitalization project, the prospects of the territory and the relationship with the requests from the local community of artists, managers and veterans, and about formal and informal connections between them.

A second residency on ecology and landscape and a third residency on revitalization and urbanism are planned for May. Follow the news on the SUN Territory page.

The Platform of Action: development of the “SUN Territory” project was created by the NGO PLAI with the support of EU4CULTURE, financed by the European Union, and implemented by the German cultural center “Goethe Institute in Ukraine” at the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Ukraine.