and the place, i notice a guy in the corner smoking a cigarette and looking very upset, so i talk to him, and i find out that he is a german ukrainian, born in the dnipro, named herman, you just imagine it, a ukrainian german on the name herman, it's funny, right? i told him that i was going to ukraine to volunteer, he said that he would deal with supply lines somewhere from poland or germany, somewhere in the west of ukraine, so we agreed to be in touch, in a few weeks i will be in lviv or strya, somewhere in the west of ukraine. i get a message from herman. he says: "hey, dude, you should go to ivano-frankivsk, there's a woman named tanya, she runs a thing called love, you should appreciate it." hello, now we are packing and leaving to go to kalush, because today we will search in kalush. a new

object to love. oh, the guys have already arrived. tell them to wait a bit? can we go i say, my god, i'm like, well, it's just not that i 've never lived in such a modest house, in principle, i'm from donbass, there are no such old houses there. my house has always been in a panel. good morning, good, who is so handsome , so stylish, and why are you in such a light, are we going, are we going to the construction site, my name is varya, varya yagnasheva, i am an architect, now i live in ivano-frankivsk, and the air alarm begins , excuse me, i was engaged in completely different work, well, that is, we were also engaged in such urbanism. that

sociological-architectural work was designed, but we never made housing, we never engaged in construction, well, that is , a completely different focus of architectural work, but it all ended, uh, look, they were heated with gas convectors, i think that they have stoves and ovens, and they also heated, and... you see these convectors are removed, that is, it may also have been heated, well , it is as if it is not visible that somewhere very it was leaking a lot, well, it looks dry, my colleague nastya, she came at the very beginning of the war, she was familiar with the girls from metalab, she came here for industrial equipment, in the first days, they did something, and then they realized that the city was bursting and it was necessary to resettle people, because everyone is coming, coming, coming friends and there is no place to push around anymore,

it’s... the prefix is ​​just love, so it’s more about this cohousing, that is, we realized for ourselves that during this war we began to live a communal life, for example, three, four of us, even with we, the ones we were beginning to love, we all lived, anya separately in her apartment, i in mine, mariana in hers, and at that moment we shared our apartments as if to friends, acquaintances, who came there from kyiv , and the four of us came together to live in one apartment, that is, we all slept together, ate together... walked together all together, such a large part of the country has moved from such a, let's say, ordinary life to this coliving, we are such a laboratory of urban development, and it really is, for sure, because we experiment, and implement, and teach, and well, that is, it is the whole mix of such laboratory conditions, yes, in which some new projects are created, during the war it was not an exception. we responded to the need, but

still we have some cross-cutting principles that are important to us, this is co-creation, this is sustainability, this the environmental friendliness of all processes there, yes , well, it is very important for us to democratize access there to housing, to production, to cool public spaces, to high-quality education, such equality, so that somehow this society lives fairly, so that... those who more vulnerable, especially in such critical situations, did not turn out to be on the sidelines, so , at first we started with such crowdfunding, that is, we simply raised money from our friends, that is, the first building was completely on a volunteer basis, people started coming to this building. that is, it is some kind of word of mouth radio,

these are some posts somewhere in social networks, it was super active a year ago, you posted stories, hundred posts and 50 people came to you, that is, a lot of people started coming. to that first hostel and in principle it was formed after that hostel and it was super fast, well, a super cool project, it is clear that two months later people actually started to think about how to arrange their lives and what to go to work, they have a family, children, understood that it is necessary to continue, that it is necessary to scale up, well, we actually started writing various applications from the very beginning of the war. to various funds, and after about six months this money began to come, and we were already able to build on a large scale, that is, we immediately began to build three buildings, with a total capacity of about 600 people, in two cities, that is, in frankivsk and in kamianets-podilskyi , but this is so

far the best of what we have seen, in terms of the plan, here i can already see how we are scraping it, and it can still be all rotten, well, there is such an assessment first, of course... we come as a team to object and see what needs to be changed here , what should not be changed, if, what are our actions in general, we check the roof, check the basement, check all the communications, native, native looks, familiar, there are not many such roofs, what are there, such roofs, there was also such a thing, work, work for four months, if you take it well, but we do it differently, and we only do it that way. i imagine a person, she lives in this gym since march, a person, well , actually from somewhere in mariupol, and she lives there in this gym, and she has two dogs, an old mother and there is a child, if we understood that we need to develop such furniture so that they

are comfortable, if we do not expect that they will sleep on bunk beds, that is, we do not do something according to the principle of taking a room of 15 squares and stuffing five people there. well, that is, it is unrealistic, they will not be able to live like this, it is not much better than a gym, to give people as much as possible so that they have something of their own, their own silence, their own peace, and then they are rehabilitated from this life experience of 100 people in one gym, and then they will be able to go out little by little, make friends , do something together in the yard, sit, only after that, in short, varya, where are we going, tell me? we go to a kindergarten, a dormitory , a kindergarten, it used to be a kindergarten a long time ago, and then no one needed it, and there was some department of education there, and then it was abandoned, no one needed it either, so we did not take it to kindergarten children, if anything, well

, like, it is very important, and what kind of drift in general, oops, hello. the department of education came to us, there is no money in the city budget, they are they say, this is what you do, let's go, i immediately thought that this is a super cool object, because it is in the super center of the city, a beautiful white building, well, it does not look like an abandoned building, there are beautiful walls, white, nothing falls out, well if everything was beautiful, and we started to dismantle and repair there, well, then, let's move to august, i returned to ivano-frankivsk, this time we are in building number two, in the very center, but next to a beautiful

park, in the very heart of ivano -frankivsk, this is an old great-grandfather. i was impressed by this tenacity and ambition when i was here first once, but by august they were really able to organize and i'm like, wow, these dudes from... really know what they're doing and they 're growing really fast, they started putting up drywall and there was only one guy who understood , how it's done, and he showed them all, they've mastered it all in construction, now they're mastering furniture production, nothing, i'm talking about you, how well done you are, but okay, hello, here they all are. almost all immigrants like to learn, because at first they came to the construction site and did not know how to build, now they have come to collect furniture and also in the chat, but we want to do something very high-quality, push, well, into a limited space and

a limited budget, the maximum quality that we can, and we had a furniture design workshop, and we are on it workshops were divided into teams. and they thought: yes, a kindergarten is being built in our country, a hotel is being built on top of the cake, construction, assembly, dismantling are going on in our country right now, we need furniture for that, and they came up with it. a table, a locker and a bed, well , just a minimal set of these exactly what we need, plus so that we can produce them locally in frankivsk, we started production on the umbrella, no, it's very fast, because one bed requires six such legs and slats and a sling. and everything , that is, there, everything is very simple there, that is, even these legs , they just assemble themselves,

there are no self-tapping screws, nothing, it’s just so chik-chik, and it is done very quickly, and then it decomposes even faster , all the elements are small, that is, i came, and i calmly disassembled this bed myself, put these lamellas on them, the garden was a very cool light object, because in reality , everything went as we planned. it wasn't like we put up walls there and the fungus went away, we almost stuck to the plan, we finished it by the new year, it was kind of chaotic. we had, of course , the organization of work, but that's absolutely normal, we're like

a bottom-up organization, and we're like that, everyone does everything, it's just that everyone did a lot of work and got very tired, but in principle, it's that kind of work , in which even this chaos is such a plus in the plan the fact that everyone knows everything, almost every person can replace someone there, help something there, because everyone understands that everything is on fire, if someone is going to stay away now, it will be for some time. these people for whom we are doing this, they will live somewhere in the gym for some time, or everyone understands that this is an emergency situation, and we just did, we are somewhere for weeks, we just , well, at lunch they got to know each other a little, and then already at some dinner, we started to ask something there after weeks, who is doing what, and it turned out that there was a business there at that time, there was an event there agency, these are just cool, we'll take them with us and teach them. yes, yes, but these are just trying so hard and like as much as they want, it’s just that you understand

that there are 10 people there, they can do everything, but we already made a construction crew from these idps, who built this whole kindergarten, then we from them they made this furniture manufacturing team , taught them how to use this and that, and they were like, i don't know, they made our beds like that, then they moved their families closer here and... my name is marina darnostup, i'm from the city of dnipro, a war began, which, god forbid, come on, the first steps, we started going to the village to visit my parents, so it turns out that nikopol and the village where my parents live are located. 7 km from the zaporizhzhya nuclear power station energodaru, that is, through the kakhov

reservoir and this terror of nikopol began, constant shelling began, and the old defenses called us and said that 150 russian vehicles were coming our way, and this remained until the village where they live parents, 30 km, either you are leaving, or you will have this equipment now. i guess it was like that, they got together in 10 minutes, they just stood there, everyone left, me and my husband, children, dad, mom, my brother and sister, so we left for ivano-frankivsk on march 9, we drove here for 17 hours and all 17 hours i was just mad in the literal sense, i'm not me, it was just how much it was for me it's hard, probably right from march 10, i started looking for a volunteer, i wanted something for... to have, because i couldn't be like this, inactive in this war, i wanted to be useful. a little later i

saw an ad that there are such houses that build housing for displaced people, i thought it was quite interesting, and i am a displaced person myself, i i know how urgent the issue of housing was for us when we arrived here, so my life was divided into before and after, then he joined... my husband has been in our team since august, he is also in the team, but they recently returned, again here, my brother and mother came, my brother started helping, making furniture, and my mother is already the administrator of this counter on makuhi. hey hello we are on vakuhi 2g, welcome. we are now in a five-story hotel building, currently 23 people live there. from 80. this is yulia rosylo, the best

the top manager of the building in... ever, this is nazard nes, he is the architect of this project, nine months of our life together, living, passed here, day, night, dawn, and it was a lot of fun, i don't know how we still i can communicate with yulia, yulia and i called at six in the morning and vodokanal scheduled a meeting for us at 7:30 7:30, because then they have a meeting, they don't have time and you come to the meeting, sit in the corridor for an hour, because you have to. no, well, the hardest part was actually dealing with state structures, somehow, unfortunately, everything is very difficult there, although from the forest it was very pleasant at the farm, in fact, people came to meet you, because when you come and say: good afternoon, i want to crash into the sewer, you say seriously, well, honestly, who are you, who are you, and then during

the conversation you explain that you are doing such and such a project, that it is not right for me, for mine. families, it is for people , and the perspective completely changes and everyone is like, wow, class, you are so good, they give permission, they shake hands there, they want everything to be cool, well, construction is a very corrupt story in general, it is in in principle, the most corrupt type in the world is probably the most corrupt type, the sphere of business, not only business, in principle, how rooted in all these practices are, like when some tried to give us kickbacks, and people like that, you know there, well, 3% there, that’s what it’s like you know, i don’t know, buy a seed at the bazaar, well, you think so, well, that is , the basic feeling that there is no idea, that something is wrong, in particular, we are already moving so smoothly on this scale to the issue of housing policy in ukraine in general, just to understand that in the whole country until february 24, the 22nd

last year, social housing was created for 1,500 people, if kokhat had made it for another 700 this year, and now let's fast forward another six months, now we are in march of the 23rd year, and we are at object number three, and they have already are working on object number four, and what i'm really impressed with is how far this whole project has come, i think what metallab is doing and what cohats are doing is...really something that's full permanently, you need a place to live for years, not two months, right? and therefore, i really hope that they will be able to love to attract more housing that will be invested in this comprehensive care, to develop these shelters for displaced people that they are doing, which i don't see other big organizations doing

well, these... two days i was most looking forward to in my life and most worried about, that is yesterday we had an introduction to the residents, and today is an open house day, all our friends, all our assistants, all ours came to visit us, that is, everyone who was related to this object, even not so far, came, and they just came today come it's so cute i love them very much, so why are we looking for the keys, or are we going to a common space, and we haven't been here yet? this is our love in general, because this grandmother with crocs from yesterday, this grandmother with crocs from yesterday, she came up to me and said that i am an engineer, a builder, there is a lot of work here, thank you, and tako menky, so beautiful, how much you have done so much, that's right, it 's a lot, doctors,

anesthesiologists, it specialists, models, well, that is , a different, different category worked for us. yes, this is a super small room, but we also have such, it is, roughly speaking, a standard room, how do we provide ourselves with a bed, a table, a shelf, a chair, a hanger, bedding, mattresses, you can do that, you can, i have it here, and we also ask people, that is, how they

are going to live, whether they are comfortable in a two-bedroom apartment or a two-story apartment, then they also depend on the type of room, how many people there are, how they choose their comfort, and the curtains are cool, they make it dark, i think there are now plus 50 people, because they could already come in like that, they already need it, well, marina had it. a lot of calls per day, she said, different numbers called her, she just finished the conversation , a new call was starting, hello, olesya, good morning , my name is marina, you recently called me about the settlement, is there any other relevant information for you, and yes, there is a room for exactly three now available, if you are interested, then you can come over here already, yeah, now we are then i'll come down the door, meet you, uh, yeah , let's go, yes... good day, good day, you still without things, so when are you planning to come by, tomorrow, tomorrow, yes, yes, we have mattresses,

blankets, yes, look, we have curtains, here there are hooks, yes, then, when you wash the windows, then hang the curtains, mother, germs, yes, this is a dining room, i work with people, with immigrants, every day. and i hear what is happening in their lives, those people who lost their homes, who have nowhere to return to, who also lost their relatives, well, it is difficult, it is difficult to work with people, it is difficult to listen to these difficult fates every day, well, physically, when volunteered there on the construction sites and we were, let’s say, before that there was no such physical load, yes, everyone was engaged in something of their own it was another matter when we came from the first days and started to scratch there. to carry these garbage bags there on your own, then of course such a tyranny, oh, oh, this happened, this team spirit, how much it worked, because this happened,

you come home, it’s like that, god , i can’t, i can’t anymore , that's all, i won't go tomorrow , but tomorrow i'll take a day off , i won't go, and then you wake up in the morning, you think, damn it, and there are already mine, and there they are already grieving today, and i won't come, you understand, i'm all my life worked for the sake of his enrichment, that is, i am there did interiors. earned a penny, rode somewhere, drove somewhere, there is a full-scale invasion, you understand that your design is not needed by anyone now, and what can i do, i can make housing for anyone, for displaced people, and we are just right, and this thing, oh work , i really needed it, because i calmed down, that is, for the first week i was just on the phone, day and night, i wrote letters, read the news, and this is how the week goes by, you understand, man, you just sit in one place and are generally useless , and it somehow... you know, that's just how the therapy was for us, we needed it, well, we met at a time when it was very difficult, and it was especially difficult for those who moved, and i

did not think about it that way, only then we were at the tbilisi architecture biennale, i understood that there are a number of practices that allow you to be close to people, but not to talk with them and not to share your thoughts, pains, experiences, because at some point it is... too traumatic, and this, for example, common gardening practices, there may be some dances, but for us it was a repair, that is, we are really in some kind at that moment there were 50 people there every day who were just scraping these walls, painting, there was a lot of different energy in it, mainly anger, well, what kind, well, there were injuries and my god, as i remember how i scraped, you just know in me now , but i have a little of that. rises, well, that is, it really was, some kind of group therapy, this renovation, and plus you seem to

be useful, you understand, you do something, your hands are busy, your head is busy, so it’s like we are building a house, but in fact there we are now helping in evacuation, we create a community, we provide all there physical, mental needs, training for, that is, we take care of these people, and it's a little bit more. than just creating a home, but it's really about reinventing your life and often about this kind of treatment with such peace and care, that is, it's about the fact that you somehow release this kind of potential, this goodness, some kind of love, we try to create a little together with everyone some kind of better life for ukrainians, for sure, i really believe, i don't want to believe, i know that... " it will definitely be different, because we all people have changed a lot, we have all become different, and we reassessed a lot of things, reconsidered, and

i very much want it all to be not in vain, so many innocent deaths and how many of these things, so that it was all not in vain, so we believe in a bright future , we believe in some that will be it's true that there will be some kind of justice, and there will be peace in the first place . somehow, when we had some, when we were scraping the walls or twisting the cardboard, i always come in, andrii wearing headphones, i tell andriukha, what are you doing, like, you can you hear me at all, i'm telling you something, like, he's like that sorry, i'm at a lecture, i'm in the sense that a person, while we were building, generally studied at the university, and i'm still doing something.

it was a shock to me that we were given housing absolutely free of charge, if i was treated like that, it is a good thing, well, it should be given further so that it does not end, there is some vision of the future of this social housing, we are now showing that there is such a possibility, i once an organization asked... i wanted to explain and tell how metalap works, how this team works, how love works, and i couldn't explain, because i started with the fact that we are very we respect, love each other, and we have such a common good vibe, it seems to me, and everyone is very cool.

we left the dnipro and we never returned home, and for me it is very wild, to be honest, i am very homely, there was such a rethinking of all such and some material values ​​that home can be where your relatives and friends are, what we do, we do with an open heart, i think our main motivation is people, helping people, it's so nice to see, you're just with people, and we all grow, we all change, all we are learning something, and i see how each of us has become better this year in different aspects, i just never wanted to come from donetsk when i was at school, i thought that i would live there,

what do you think about.. people stay there in danger, i know many people who stay because of such circumstances, which are very objective in terms of looking after their elderly relatives, and a lot of people stay there simply because they have housing there . well, they can't afford it, especially people where in the long-occupied territories, well, they don't understand this thing , what's going on now, well, there are a bunch of volunteers and we, well, we 'll do something, we'll do something, no, they don't, well, they don't have such trust, because they haven't seen it, unfortunately, this thing , that we are creating some kind of community here, cool, that's all, well, it also shows people that they

can join something. you still come and here is not just a place, there is a company here, you can volunteer with us, you can get to know us, we will communicate with you, here we will make a garden for you, you are leaving there, there is a place for you here, don't be where it is dangerous, please. and what the americans see is the incredible resilience, flexibility and courage of the ukrainian people, their spirit is indomitable, despite the frenzied bombing, and shelling, and missile strikes by the russians, i felt it myself in the

short time that... i was here for last year.