Fixing the Future

De Structura

DE STRUCTURA’S goal is to empower young people in the arts and to provide them with the tools to, on the one hand, be successful in pursuing a meaningful career, and on the other, bringing innovation to an environment daunting for newcomers. Leading the project is a team of young artists and art professionals, who through first- hand experience understand how difficult it usually is to build a meaningful career in the sphere of arts and culture. What is the problem? One’s decision to become an artist or an art professional is often challenged by numerous questions. “Art is a hobby, not a profession, shouldn’t you choose something more sensible?” “It is a vocation for the wealthy and the elites, they will never let you in. Do you want to deal with this cruel reality?” “How are you going to pay your bills or get health insurance?” Being bombarded with such questions externally as well as internally, a lack of understanding of the institutional structures of the art world an...

Culture 31. Dezember 2021

Windmill restoring and museum in Ukraine

I am Denys Kabanenko, head of the non-profit public organization School of Robotics «Forward to the Future», located at Zaporizhzhya, Ukraine. Our team plans to restore and make an acting museum of cultural heritage Windmill built by the Mennonite Germans in 1888, located in the Zaporizhzhya region, Ukraine. In August 2021, thanks to grant opportunity program I-portunus by European Community our team visited the UNESCO Museum Kinderdijk Windmill Region at the Netherlands, where we met with miller community. After the visit, we already made a model of the windmill with mechanisms and prepared a preliminary reconstruction project. We hope that this museum will become a national symbol of Ukraine as an agricultural grain country. It will also become a popular tourist point for Ukrainian and international visitors. There is no future without history.

Culture 31. Dezember 2021

Cultural and Innovative Tourist Center

I am Denys Kabanenko, head of the non-profit public organization School of Robotics «Forward to the Future», located at Zaporozhye, Ukraine. I present a project of Culturally and Innovative Tourist Center with a clock of Unity at Zaporozhye Ukraine as a plan or reconstruction of the urban square. Purpose: 1. Main Cultural and Tourist Place of the City - 1 km Zaporozhye. 2. The place of meeting citizens. 3. Pointer of Time, the largest in Europe 12 meters. 4. Center of culture - the area of professions and workshops. 5. Children's circles. 6. City Museum. 7. Observation platform. 8. Center of ethnic groups. 8. Toilet. 9. Waterfall. 10. Cafe. 11. Ecological design and technology. Additional main quirks: 1. Changing the shape and length of the clock hands - as in the painting by Salvador Dali. 2. Autonomy - will run on solar and wind energy. And much more. Sphere: public space, tourism, leisure, innovation, energy efficiency. We hope that this project will become a center th...

Culture 31. Dezember 2021

Youth social graffiti festival

We are a relatively small regional NGO and since 2014 we are working with the youth. Last year our NGO planned and held a 4-day regional youth social graffiti festival “Under the sign of Banksy”. During the festival, we combined contemporary art forms, such as forum theater and the graffiti itself, with lectures on human rights, held by famous Ukrainian lecturers from the Human Rights House in Chernihiv as well as experts in the field of forum theatre. Andriy Yermolenko was invited to act as a mentor for the participants in the process of creating their graffiti. 36 people ages 14 to 21 from all over the Vinnytsia region took part in this festival. We would like to network our experience with the organization of our festival to a national and international levels. A short video about the festival is available through this link: https://www.facebook.com/avtomaydanvin/videos/349046486295304

Culture 31. Dezember 2021

Ngbaka EP

FULU MIZIKI roughly translates as “music from the garbage”, which in a literal sense is an accurate description of the thrillingly chaotic eco-friendly Afro-Futurist collective. The instruments they design, build and play are masterclasses in upcycling. From guembris built out of computer casing, to jerry-can drum-kits, keyboard inventions from wood, springs and aluminium pipes, and old flip-flops used as pads by plastic tube-wielding percussion players, the Democratic Republic of Congo-formed group’s ethos lies in the respect of nature, the celebration of its gifts and the importance of its preservation through environmentalism. The band explain on new single 'Bivada' - “This is for the man who walks without shoes in the middle of the bush to find food for their loved ones, this is for the Congolese women who have lost their lives trying to protect and raise us. This is to all the standing and fallen men and women around the world who wake up with nothing but manage to find f...

Culture 7. Oktober 2021

On equals: Only your talent makes you special

According to the State Statistics Service of Ukraine the number of people with disabilities of working age is about 2.7 million, of which only 26% are employed. Therefore, the project "On equals" was created that progressed towards resolution of this problem: 1. a sociological study was conducted; 2. an informative and educational campaign is being carried out on social networks; 3. we shot public service videos and a short film about the active life and work of people with disabilities; 4. we developed an online platform that collects vacancies from various fields for people with disabilities. Why is there a need for a separate platform? In an ideal world, any vacancy is equally available for everyone, namely for people with needed qualifications and experience. Unfortunately, the situation in Ukraine is different. Based on the experience of nongovernmental organizations engaged in the employment of people with disabilities, there is a tendency for people to be more encouraged...

Culture 15. September 2021

Plantstation

My name is Marta Kluba. I am a design graduate from Poland. I have played the violin since I was a child. As an adult, I have been looking to connect music, new technology and design, trying to channel people's thinking into climate issues. In my work I try to put emphasize on climate changes and the power of nature which can change people's lives and make them much happier. First, I have designed an instrument for plants, Fasola si do. It is a wooden box with metal wires, containing electronics. The instrument is programmed to play violin sounds for plants. For my master deegre project I have designed a modular installation, Plantstation, where I cooperated with a music composer, scientists, craftsmen and an IT programmer. Having obtained sponsorship helped me to bring the project into effect and create a working prototype of the installation. To me, music is an enormous, exciting and emotional medium. Combined with new technology, music can create extensive possibilites, ...

Culture 9. August 2021

Artificial Museum

Our mission is to create, procure, research, distribute, and preserve digitized art of a wide variety of artistic fields. At its core, the *Artificial Museum* challenges the status quo and creates new perspectives of the term museum, rethinking the questions ’what is art?’ and ‘who perceives it’. There are more artworks by dead men stored in museums than can be exhibited. What remains is the virtual, imaginary area, in which there is also an almost infinite amount of space. Instead of continuing to practice the status quo of art in “temporary used” spaces, we decided to just use the space between the worlds on a permanent and self-determined basis, as an experimental playground for reawakening imagination in public space. We resolve this through a decentralized platform using *AR technology* in public space, making gps-anchored artifacts accessible to everyone, both at home and abroad. Our 'building' is based on public participation that can inscribe itself anywhere an...

Culture 6. August 2021

freedom

I am Ahmed, a student at the faculty of Law in Cairo, I am a writer of short stories, poetry and storytelling. The problem I am talking about is the "problems of refugees in the host countries." I am organizing workshops and events to talk about their problems, fears and hopes, and tell their inspiring stories to the world by publishing them in brochures and books with illustrations. One workshop every year, ten refugees attend each workshop with the help of 3 facilitators, two of whom participate online because they are refugees in Germany and Austria. Performances are organized in several centers, such as the Goethe-Institut in Cairo and the Jusoor Center of All Saints' Cathedral. All participate by filling out an electronic form, and for a seven days, we share with everyone their stories and organize a storytelling show, then for a month we organize an exhibition of illustrations..

Culture 28. Juli 2021

Sister Mary

Who are you? Sister Mary is the very first company, which provides sustainable services for film and TV projects in Russia. What's the problem? CO2 emissions from the production of one feature film can be compared to the emissions of one small city of 20,000 citizens. What are you doing that’s new/different? That is why for over a decade around the world green film alliances have been formed, emissions studies are being conducted, guides for sustainable filming are being produced, sustainability managers are hired for film projects and in big production studios, work systems are planned to create carbon-neutral projects. There is no such activity in Russia. We (Sister Mary) are starting it now, in 2021. Our website features are fully-functional for filmmakers in Russia. It is available for everyone who visits our website. We adapted all the best practices from all over the world to Russian reality and added some local ideas for our audience.

Culture 10. Juni 2021

Cross-Border Sound for Persons with Disabilities

The objective of the project was to foster cultural and art creation of young people with disabilities in the field of music, by using new technologies and enabling their active role in the cultural life of the community in the cross-border area. Implementation of the project was enable young people with disabilities a chance to actively participate in cultural and public events in their communities. They have become more visible and the project contributed to the creation of positive attitudes towards people with disabilities and removing of psychological and social barriers.The organized events and performances enhanced the participation of the person with disabilities in the life of their communities making them less subject to discrimination trying to solve some of their basic problems

Culture 23. Mai 2021

Music for All

The main issues that the project wanted to tackle are insufficient cultural cooperation among young people in the Western Balkan region and lack of motivation to get to know culture and society of neighboring countries. Also the project wanted to encourage participants to get to know the musical heritage, culture and history of other nations, to create space for mutual learning and cultural cooperation young people with disabilities from Serbia and young people from Albania through active participation in music workshops and performance. An innovative part of the project is the use of technology to include young people with disabilities in the cultural life of the community and thus encourage them to participate in other aspects of life and overcome social barriers and prejudices.

Culture 21. Mai 2021

Participate! The stage of new ideas