a discovery guide for ukraine

“A discovery guide for recovery” – a project run by Sineglossa (IT), with NGO Territory (UA) and Fundacja Ziemniaki i (PL), co-funded by Creative Europe – has just launched an open call for six international artists (including two Ukrainians) interested in co-designing with Ukrainian communities a “non-touristic” guidebook on the present and future of Ukraine.

Applicants are called to design unconventional tours to discover the Ukrainian region of Bakota, in Western Ukraine, by involving the inhabitants in a process of recovering memories of the past, raising awareness on opportunities and problems of the present, foreseeing possible future scenarios. Artists will be hosted for a two-week art residency at Bakota Hub, a cultural centre in Horaivka, Khmelnytskyi Oblast (Southwestern of Ukraine), created on the basis of a former abandoned school and used in the two past years as a shelter for internally displaced people. The tours will be printed and published in an international guidebook dedicated to non-tourists, those who do not travel to collect postcards but to discover the authentic spirit of a territory. The publication will be designed in the style of a traditional travel guide with a mixture of essays, images and image essays. The texts will be in Ukrainian and English. The art direction and design of the publication will be overseen by a graphic design studio or individual designer. It will be published together with Fundacja Ziemniak i.