HLUKHIV URBAN RESEARCH
1 new culture house 2 city lighthouse 3 collaboration space 4 hemp & linen museum
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New Culture House is the platform where invited artists, local activists, graduates and citizens are planned to collaborated: workshops, lectures, media library, modern theater, music recording studio, cinema. New Culture House is the platform where invited artists, local activists, graduates and citizens are planned to collaborate through the workshops, lectures, media library, modern theater, music recording studio, cinema. It is a space to organize an open city lab on its base where local residents can launch his/her own urban initiative to change the city. It is also a hub where people are sharing the experience and knowledge to launch a new project or join the existing urban or social initiative. It is also can be a place for local communities participation that means that every resident alone or with the whole community will be able to make a proposition and organize his/her own event at this space and invite his/her own audience.
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Lighthouse symbolically returns to provide city with another life important resource-culture. Now the Art Tower lightens the city and serves as a space for temporary Modern Art exhibitions.
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Collaboration space Today, there is a tremendous flowering of artistic and cultural activity in urban parks, from large-scale performing arts festivals to long-term residencies with arts organizations. Parks and the arts have become mutually beneficial: the arts can play an essential role in revitalizing a park, and parks in turn can help solve problems faced by artists and arts organizations. Since parks are the democratic spaces of a city, where communities can come together to express their identities, the marriage of parks and the arts makes perfect sense. Parks can be a vital place for the cultural expression of a community and a city. Changing exhibitions of sculpture, regular concerts, hammock of linen and hemp, solar panels for reused energy – these are incomplete list of plans for the park activities.
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Hemp & Linen Museum Exhibition representing past, present and future. Originally a museum focusing on the local history of Hemp And Linen manufacture. The Museum and its collections are planned to be exhibited in an early nineteenth-century building, and should be heavily modified. Visitors are guided through the history of linen and hemp and its manufacturers, from its use in Europe in the Middle Ages – right through to its cultivation in modern Hluhiv. A recreated 18th-century cottage scene gives visitors a sense of the lives of workers in local domestic linen industry before industrialisation. Women spun the flax into yarn – visitors can try this for themselves. Display that shows off a number of linen and hemp creations.
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Jewish Museum Glukhov had always been considered a Jewish city. So, in 1912, 6000 of overall 18 thousand population were Jews, representing more than 30%. The city had three synagogues. There also were 4 Jewish school. The city preserved old existing Jewish cemetery where famous people are buried. One of the rabbis is mentioned in Chassidic writings in Jerusalem. He told to be a Ha’admor†Ha’zaken disciple. In 2003, Jewish Museum was organized in Hlukhiv. Among more than one and a half thousand exhibits there is the unique specimen like Sefer Torah (1870) that was saved after the fire that destroyed synagogue. Now it needs renovation and modernization to preserve the memory of those famous and prominent Hlukhiv’s jews.
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Information Center If you need help or inspiration during your stay in Hlukhiv, Information Center is a good place to start. If you need a map of the city, or if you want to buy a City Card with access to top attractions and unlimited public transport, then the friendly staff at the tourist office can also help you with that. Or maybe you just want to rest your feet while enjoying a good cup of coffee and writing an email home. Information Center is located in the heart of the city, so it’s the best place to start Your journey. You can book sightseeing tours as well as buy quality posters, postcards and other souvenirs from Hlukhiv, relax in the free Wi-Fi lounge. If you are running low on battery, you can also charge your devices in the lounge. The friendly and knowledgeable staff will help city guests navigate the city, plan customized itineraries, find restaurants, book a room and sightseeing tours and events. One can find here chargers for various devices, souvenir shop, bicycle rentals, tour with certified local guides, discount coupons (partner restaurants, museums ) as well.
Urban research team Marharyta Shekel, organisator (RIZE.SPACE) Anton Iaroshenko, analytics (RIZE.SPACE) Dana Kosmina, architect, urbanist (Pylorama) Artem Shevchenko, architect, urbanist (Pylorama) Oleh Perkovskyi, artist, urbanist Maria Semenenko, curator of urban and social projects (Misto Diya , Public Spaces)
Hlukhiv 22.01.16