Building a new vision for Ukraine:

How civil society, architects and technologists are working together to strengthen democracy and rethink institutions

ONLINE EVENT

📅 Date and time: 03 April 2025 at 18:00 (Kyiv) 17:00 (Budapest) 11:00 (Washington DC)

SIGN-UP BELOW: Registration closes on 03 April at 3pm CET (Budapest)

Across Europe and beyond, growing frustration with the system - and lack of positive vision for future change - has led many to turn toward authoritarian leaders who offer the illusion of certainty and control. Ukrainians have shown that in the deepest crisis, tapping into the collective intelligence of its citizens helps to forge a new vision and defend the country. What can we learn from Ukraine to rethink institutions, and develop creative solutions to open them up to citizens?

  • How do you facilitate the co-creation of a new vision for society by bringing different groups together? What tools have been created and tested in Ukraine?

  • What is the mindset and the values that are embraced by Ukrainians to re-imagine the future?

  • What role does a future-oriented thinking play in the country’s defence and forging a post-war vision for a New Ukraine?

Speakers:

Victor Liakh is one of Ukraine’s leading voices on technological and social innovation. Since 2012 he has been President of the East Europe Foundation (EFF), which pioneers innovations in e-governance and civil society, local economic and social development, and energy efficiency. EEF works with a broad range of partners including state and local government agencies, community leaders, NGOs, research institutions, and technical assistance organisations. Before joining EEF in 2008, he was executive director of the Child Well-Being Fund Ukraine. Before that, he worked at the Ukrainian State Center for Social Services for Youth (1996–2001) and UNICEF.

Fulco Treffers is an architect, urban designer and co-founder of Ro3kvit, Urban Coalition for Ukraine. Ro3kvit brings together over 100 professionals from Ukraine and beyond to create methodologies for rebuilding the country’s urban and rural areas and infrastructure. Fuelled by studies on other post-war countries, they work to develop future-oriented urban design methods, co-creative organisation and sustainable development. Fulco is director of the Dutch studio 12N Urban Matters, and former director of the Temporary Art Centre in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. Treffers won national and international awards with the project Space-S, a social housing block, co-made by the residents.

In partnership with the Civil College Foundation (CKA)