Kharkiv by capturing contrasts and reflections as I walked the streets in 2013 which you can see in the visual diary in the end of the book.

Text in the post by Hjørdis Clemmensen
Collage by Vasylysa Shchogoleva

entered the buildings, talked to people, joined concerts and exhibitions, Kharkiv changed for me. I started seeing Kharkiv as a sensitive, diverse, and genuine place with a strong creative energy pulsing through. I tried to express this experience of being introduced to 👇

and hopefully, others, can refer to when time would come to re-fresh the memory that quickly fades away. Welcome to Kharkiv of summer 2023 mixed with other seasons and following yers in between 🫶

Text in the post by Vasylysa Shchogoleva
Illustration by Vasylysa Shchogoleva

documenting the city of my birth in 2023 through a personal experience. At times, I would argue with myself on the relevance of this writing, but at the same time, what keeps me doing it is a sense of - it just makes sense - along with a feeling of necessity to create a physical artefact to which2/3

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shared research and perspectives on and from our beloved city.

Such meetings are the sources of support and essential Kharkiv’s building blocks that is facing Fire on the daily basis.

Autumn 2024

Text by Hjørdis Clemmensen
Collage by Vasylysa Shchogoleva

Text by Victoriia Grivina
Illustration Vasylysa Shchogoleva

the old fortress. And forward is Sumska street, named after Kharkiv’s pretty twin city Sumy, and leading to the Central park, and the new centre, and the new new centre. Here, under the thermometer, all stories begin. The book cover by Vasylysa takes you there.

former German street, where first German philosophy professors of the Kharkiv university settled. Now it is Skovoroda street, named after our main philosopher. To your back opens a wide expanse of the Constitution Square, with its Baroque cathedrals and mayor’s office, place of 👇

thermometer on a 19th century mansion. You are at the heart of Kharkiv. To your left the road sinks down the Bursa descent all the way to the river Lopan and the famous Central market. To your right, past the lions of the former Land Bank you go along a sleek Mechnikov lane to the beginning of the 👇

Text by Hjørdis Clemmensen
Collage by Vasylysa Shchogoleva

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Text by Hjørdis Clemmensen
Collage by Vasylysa Shchogoleva

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