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Interdisciplinary design studio
led by Sasha Topolnytska
in New York City
in Chicago
Exhibition at the Chicago Architecture Center, Chicago, IL, USA
March 10 - September 1, 2025
Curated by Sasha Topolnytska, Ashley Bigham
& Betty Roytburd
Exhibition Design by Sasha Topolnytska & Ashley Bigham
Graphic Design by Aliona Solomadina
Media Coverage: Chicago Tribune, Block Club Chicago
Image Credits: Chicago Architecture Center
Curatorial, exhibition design, advocacy, and humanitarian work
Chicago is the second location for this exhibition, which first ran in 2024 at the Center for Architecture in New York. Constructing Hope: Ukraine focuses on decentralized reconstruction efforts, presenting the work of grassroots initiatives happening inside and outside of Ukraine. The exhibition brings together a wide range of projects—from modular furniture designs and housing for internally displaced individuals to detailed documentation of destroyed buildings and spatial memories—to illustrate how architecture can foster mutual aid and facilitate crucial support networks for entire communities. Constructing Hope: Ukraine presents these resourceful initiatives to demonstrate how, even during wartime destruction, these actions provide the hope necessary to move forward.
Alongside the exhibition, we organized a series of public programs and lectures discussing topics such as emergency housing, mutual aid networks, environmental recovery, community development, care and feminist practices, and the complex entanglements of war, imperialism, militarization, ecology, and construction as a form of resistance.