Planuyemo Razom is an urban planning competition where, over the last 6 months, Ukrainian and Canadian students have collaborated and learned together to redesign cities in Ukraine devastated by war. Teams have used their expertise to propose plans for cities like Bakhmut, Mariupol, Lysychansk and more.

Each student team was assigned a small urban district (raion) in Ukraine. Most of these are municipalities (hromada), roughly containing between 50,000 and 120,000 residents, that have been thoroughly devastated through the course of the invasion. Teams began research into the city, through analysis of planning documents and news about these cities during the war, they came up with a future vision for how the city should look and function once rebuilding had been completed. 

The three main design principles are as follows: Familiarity with residents, historical identity and expression of tragic loss, and the ideas of hope, resistance, and regeneration. The expectation is that, using multimedia graphic designs, teams will create a general overview of the new city, and include examples to showcase how each design principle has been incorporated into the overall design. These will be complemented by the core elements of accessibility, mobility, safety, and sustainability to create forward-thinking plans with tangible future applications.

Participants’ Universities

Canada
Toronto Metropolitan University, University of British Columbia, Dalhousie University, McMaster University, Queen’s University, University of Alberta, University of Saskatchewan, University of Manitoba, York University, McGill, University, University of Guelph

Ukraine
Lutsk National Technical University, Vinnytsia National Technical University, Zaporizhia National University, Kyiv National University of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, East Ukrainian National University, Pryazovskyi State Technical University, Lutsk National Technical University, Lviv Polytechnic National University, Kyiv National University of Construction and Architecture, National Technical University of Ukraine, Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Fine Arts, Kharkiv National University of Urban Economy, О. М. Beketov National University of Urban Economy