Time
Mar 27, 2024
5:30pm–7:00pm
Location
Knowlton Hall, Gui Auditorium
United States
Oleg Drozdov
Oleg Drozdov is the co-founder and president of the Kharkiv School of Architecture. The Kharkiv School of Architecture (KhSA) is the first private university in Ukraine to offer undergraduate (BA) and graduate (MA) degree opportunities in architecture and urbanism. Founded in 2017 to respond to the social transformations and the need to reinvent Ukrainian cities and to reform national higher education, the Kharkiv School has set its goal to equip its students with globally-informed and locally-relevant knowledge to improve the quality of urban life. In addition to serving as president of KhSA, Drozdov founded the award-winning architectural office Drozdov&Partners in 1997. Since 2022, he has been a European Commission expert and co-founder of Ro3Kvit: urban coalition for Ukraine.
Iryna Matsevko
Iryna Matsevko is the deputy vice-chancellor and a professor at the Kharkiv School of Architecture. Her professional experience encompasses various formats of public history: developing and coordinating a series of public lectures; organizing discussions and exhibition programs in Lviv and Kharkiv; engaging wide audiences in dialogue about the multicultural pasts of cities in Ukraine and Eastern Europe; developing new heritage tools for varying professional audiences; team member of the Synagogue Space Commemorative Project in Lviv, Ukraine; and coordinator of the three-year project “ReHERIT: Common Responsibility for Shared Heritage”. In 2021, she was a co-designer of signs for cultural heritage sites in Uman, Ukraine, and editor of “Uman. (Un)known Stories of the City”, a collection of texts about Uman’s past, memory, and heritage.