{"id":8179,"date":"2023-08-30T09:16:52","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T07:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/objects.yalanzhi.com\/?page_id=8179"},"modified":"2023-08-30T11:16:24","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T09:16:24","slug":"designing-a-movement","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/objects.yalanzhi.com\/uk\/designing-a-movement\/","title":{"rendered":"Designing a Movement"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Yesterday was Ukraine\u2019s Independence Day. It was also the seventh day of a brand new annual design event,\u00a0DVRZ Design Days<\/a>\u00a0in Kyiv. Driven by the same spirit of independence, determination, and ingenuity that the world has come to admire in the Ukrainian people following the brutal Russian invasion over the last year and a half, the event organizers brought together 18 Ukrainian design ateliers to launch a movement aimed at uplifting local culture and commerce.<\/p>

As the promotional materials explain: \u201cThe curatorial team of DVRZ Design aims to support\u2026 Ukrainian designers and brands that continue to work despite difficult times; to establish communication between brands and designers and a wide audience; to popularize leading Ukrainian professionals on the local market in the Local2Local format; as well as to arouse interest in Ukrainian object design on the part of the press, influencers, and a wide audience, in particular progressive youth.\u201d<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Installation view of DVRZ Design Days 2023. Photo \u00a9 Serhii Savchenko<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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The team includes design historian and critic\u00a0Larysa Tsybina<\/a>\u2014who curated the event\u2019s exhibitors along with its preceding, sister project, the Ukrainian Pavilion at the London Design Biennale last June\u2014as well as Roman Mykhailov, partner at Panoptikum Collections, the event\u2019s hosting gallery, located in Kyiv\u2019s industrial district, known as DVRZ.\u00a0<\/p>

Selected for their scalable and ecological approaches that can sustainably meet large-scale demand, DVRZ Design Days’ 18 exhibitors comprise\u00a0NOOM<\/a>,\u00a0Kint Bureau<\/a>,\u00a0Joyf<\/a>,\u00a0SVITANOK<\/a>,\u00a0DONNA<\/a>,\u00a0Litvinenko Design<\/a>,\u00a0AMAZE vase<\/a>,\u00a0buro150<\/a>,\u00a0FURN OBJECT<\/a>,\u00a0Yalanzhi Objects<\/a>,\u00a0llab. design<\/a>,\u00a0LOFU<\/a>,\u00a0Varenycia Design<\/a>,\u00a0oitoproducts<\/a>,\u00a0PANOPTIKUM COLLECTIONS<\/a>,\u00a0ReStyle<\/a>,\u00a0EasyStory<\/a>, and\u00a0Gardi<\/a>.<\/p>

According to the exhibition’s set designer,\u00a0Yuriy Zimenko<\/a>, \u201cAt the exhibition, there are no prototypes\u2014no collectible design. We wanted to gather designers and brands in one place, to introduce manufacturers to designers and stimulate communication between them. We want to show that production is impossible without designers. We succeeded, and I hope we will see new products very soon.\u201d<\/p>

Through the course of the event, in collaboration with the\u00a0Union of Responsible Citizens NGO<\/a>, donations\u00a0are being collected for the reconstruction of the Center for the Rehabilitation of Military and Civilian Victims of the War.<\/p>

Inspired by the vision behind\u00a0DVRZ Design Days, we reached out to the event organizers to hear how it\u2019s going so far.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Installation view of DVRZ Design Days 2023. Photo \u00a9 Serhii Savchenko<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Design Miami\/<\/strong>\u00a0How does it feel to see your vision for the event come to life, now that it\u2019s open?<\/p>

Larysa Tsybina\/<\/strong>\u00a0When there is a war in your country, it isn’t easy to be sure of the future. DVRZ DD was a dream that came true despite the difficult times for the Ukrainian design community. We are happy with the fact that it was realized and with the format.<\/p>

Roman Mykhailov\/<\/strong>\u00a0I am pleased to see how people attending our event interact with the objects presented. I am proud that we have something to show Ukrainians, something to be proud of in modern Ukrainian industrial design. The manufacturers represented by us create a high-quality product that is worthy of being part of the daily life of Ukrainians\u2014and the whole world.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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DM\/<\/strong>\u00a0Can you share a few highlights?<\/p>

LT\/<\/strong>\u00a0It was vital for me to stick to a serial design format, so we chose to present the event in the industrial district of Kyiv. Each of the 18 participants is very important, because in this wartime they produce products at a certain volume. It was also essential to present our exhibition at the London Design Biennale to Ukrainians live, which talked about Ukraine’s resources.<\/p>

RM\/<\/strong>\u00a0I think that one of the main points is the location where the event takes place, the Panoptikum gallery, which is unusual for the Ukrainian viewer. At the same time, we created a new event format\u2014an exhibition event where the scenographer arranged the objects to create a general aesthetic beauty in the exhibition.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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DM\/<\/strong>\u00a0What has the response been like so far?<\/p>

LT\/<\/strong>\u00a0The uniqueness of everything that is happening with Ukrainians now is that some things we didn’t have time to do in peacetime, we are doing in wartime. It fills us all with optimism and faith. Now everything takes on a new meaning and sense of life.<\/p>

RM\/<\/strong>\u00a0We received a lot of positive feedback from those who visited our location, who are representatives of modern Ukrainian design, a professional audience, and participants of our lecture hall, among others. We also got pleasant feedback from people who discovered the event and were able to spend 2-3 hours of their time at our location on weekends.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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DM\/<\/strong>\u00a0What do you most hope the public will take away from this event?<\/p>

LT\/<\/strong>\u00a0In my opinion, this is more than an event. It already feels like a Ukrainian design movement that will change the design system of Ukraine in the future. I sincerely thank everyone who stands at the origins of this.<\/p>

RM\/<\/strong>\u00a0We hope there will be more Ukrainian industrial design products in Ukrainians’ homes. And the Local2Local trend will become standard for the Ukrainian industrial design market as well.<\/p>

DM\/<\/strong>\u00a0How can people abroad best support Ukraine\u2019s design community and Ukrainians more broadly?<\/p>

LT\/<\/strong>\u00a0We are open to any friendly collaborations. Help in rebuilding the future is important to us, and we will be grateful for the knowledge, sharing experience, and the opportunity to participate in international research and events where we can build communications through design.<\/p>

RM\/<\/strong>\u00a0People abroad\u2014and Ukrainians abroad\u2014can support in a very simple way: by starting to buy Ukrainian products for their homes, creating distribution centers filled with Ukrainian industrial design products, and inviting leaders of Ukrainian industrial design to exhibition events to increase their audience.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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We express our gratitue to Design Miami<\/span> for providing the article and the visual materials.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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