The organizers — Platforma Ostriv and ArchiLife — are creating an experimental educational environment where the city will become a space for interaction, learning, research, and cultural exchange. CHOCOLOCAL.DOJO is a place where each participant can find their “path” in architecture through real-world experience, interaction, and co-creation within the local history of Chokolivka.
The festival will bring together young architects, students, activists, artists, and researchers from different cities of Ukraine. Together with tutors, they will work with real city needs, create small architectural forms, explore social relationships, and rethink the role of the architect in transforming space.
Participants at the festival will enjoy intensive workshops with cool tutors, light and not boring lectures. Open evenings will feature DJ sets, informal discussions about architecture with invited guests. The focus is on practical workshops, spatial interventions, field research, open lectures and live networking.
This is a chance to convey something important, find like-minded people, and create an environment in which architecture is not about form, but about relationships, processes, and living interaction.
Why is this necessary?
The organizers explain: “We want to return architectural education to its human and tactile dimension. At a time when many processes have gone online and war has changed the usual routes, it is important to come together again — in the city, in context, in action.”
How to join?
Participation is open to students, young architects, tutors and initiatives upon prior registration. Participant call (application deadline 06.06) Tutor call (application deadline 15.06). You can also support the festival as a patron or partner — financially or materially. All details, applications, and ways to support — on the page at Notion and Instagram events.
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