Leading partners: the Royal Danish Academy, National Union of Architects of Ukraine
Part 1. Needs of knowledge in materials and techniques
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Memorandum on Knowledge Needed for a Common Ground in National Heritage Restoration Practice_EN
Memorandum on Knowledge Needed for a Common Ground in National Heritage Restoration Practice_UKR
The memorandum is a part of the Ukrainian and pan-European project UREHERIT (2023-2026) funded by Creative Europe. It aims to support Ukrainian architect with knowledge, methods and strategies for restoring and rebuilding Ukrainian cultural heritage. Furthermore, the project strives to knowledge share between European and Ukrainian architects. The memorandum is produced by The Royal Danish Academy, Henriette Ejstrup, Ulrik Stylsvig Madsen together with National Union of Architects of Ukraine (NUAU), Olena Oliynyk, Mariana Kaplinska in the spring of 2024.
Scope of the memorandum
This memorandum serves as inspiration for further development of Ukrainian national strategies for preserving architectural heritage. It points to experiences and prioritize interventions either within a monument or between monuments. This way, it becomes clear, where to put efforts politically, economically and professionally. Moreover, the memorandum will feed directly into The Royal Danish Academy’s next work package, work package D3.5, which is a workshop on practical knowledge set to be held in May 2025 resulting in a report on the same theme to be delivered in July ’25.
Approach of the memorandum
The first part of the memorandum is an article by Olena Oliynyk scoping recent trends in restoration and architectural heritage in an Ukrainian context. A supplement to this study is a short review by Maryana Kaplinska and Ihor Bokalo on the influence of modern materials on historical architecture with an emphasis on wooden architecture. The second part is a analytic discussion based on observations done from an theoretical architectural heritage perspective during the first project period of UREHERIT (2023-2024, June) as well as the first conference in Lviv (October 13th, 2023 – see appendix 1) and especially at the second conference in Stockholm (May 14th 2024 – see appendix 2) by Ulrik Stylsvig Madsen and Henriette Ejstrup.
Part 2. Practical knowledge on sustainable materials and techniques in large scale reconstruction of heritage
Download pdf: Recovery and Revitalization of Historic Crafts and Technologies Based on Sustainable Strategies. Learnings from a Ukrainian/ Scandinavian seminar_EN (coming soon)
The report is produced by The Royal Danish Academy, Henriette Ejstrup and Ulrik Stylsvig Madsen in the autumn of 2025. It contents a reporting of knowledge extracted from the joint CPD session together with Sveriges Arkitekter (SA) lead by Pehr Mikael Sällström the 13th -14th of May 2025. The purpose of the joint session between the CPD program together with Sveriges Arkitekter and the Royal Danish Academy was to discuss practices regarding vernacular and modernistic cultural heritage across the transcultural knowledge of Ukraine, Sweden and Denmark.
This report is no. 3 in the series of work package deliverances from the Royal Danish Academy (RDA) in the UREHERIT project. It concludes RDAs activities in the UREHERIT project by addressing the transformation and conservation of national heritage in the context of rebuilding a sustainable building culture and the need for knowledge in large scale preservation and training of local specialists in the field on analysis of historical materials and techniques in relation to the production system (traditional or industrial). The aim is to establish a platform for knowledge sharing and capacity building on this subject between Ukrainian and European Union architects and is an introduction to research on traditional building materials and techniques from the point of view of architectural transformation, conservation on a large scale with modern construction industry. The angle of the CPD session is based upon two reports produced earlier in work package 3 lead by RDA:
- ASSESSMENT METHODS OF ARCHITECTURAL HERRITAGE A summary on Legal Framework, Methodologies and Practices in Denmark, Norway and Sweden present methods for heritage evaluation. This report presents and discus the Scandinavian experiences with assessment tools for cultural heritage. The tools includes DIVE (NO), Kulturhistorisk värdering av bebyggelse (SE), Plattform Kulturhistorisk värdering och urval (SE), SAVE (DK) and fredningsgennemgangen (DK). The superior content was digitally presented on the first conference in Lviv (October 13th, 2023) and in depth at the second conference in Stockholm (May 14th 2024).
- MATERIALS AND TECHNOLOGIES IN RESTORATION Memorandum on Knowledge Needed for a Common Ground in National Heritage Restoration Practice is an analytic discussion and a set of recommendations for the development of the area of assessing cultural heritage in a Ukrainian context. The recommendations are produced based on observations done from a theoretical architectural heritage perspective during the first project period of UREHERIT (2023-2024, June) as well as the discussions at the first conference in Lviv (October 13th, 2023) and the second conference in Stockholm (May 14th 2024). This publication also includes an article by Olena Oliynyk focusing on recent trends in restoration and architectural heritage in Ukraine.
“UREHERIT: Architects for heritage in Ukraine. Recreating identity and memory” is a project co-funded by the European Union under a dedicated call for proposals to support Ukrainian displaced people and the Ukrainian Cultural and Creative Sectors. The project is a cooperation between the consortium of 11 organizations: Architects Association of Lithuania (LT), Architects Sweden (SE), Federal Chamber of Architects and Chartered Engineers BKZT (AT), Royal Danish Academy, The Institute of Technology and Architecture IBT (DK), Romanian Order of Architects OAR (RO), The National Council of Architects, Planners, Landscapers and Conservationists CNAPPC (IT), Federal Chamber of German Architects BAK (DE), Estonian Association of Architects (EE), The National Union of Architects of Ukraine (UA), Ro3kvit: Urban Coalition for Ukraine (UA), Kharkiv School of Architecture (UA) with the Architects’ Council of Europe (EU) as associated partner.
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