The past, we recreate it for descendants
Basic information
Project Title
The past, we recreate it for descendants
Full project title
Ukrainian identity: reproduction of the house of 1910, Podillia customs and crafts
Category
Regaining a sense of belonging
Project Description
The war has changed us, it changes our attitude to the material environment, our attitude to each other. Spirituality, a sense of belonging to a nation that is fighting for its independence and the right to life in a terrible war, are becoming the main priorities of Ukrainians. We have to promote Ukrainian culture, preserve the cultural heritage, created by our ancestors, from destruction. Transfer Ukrainian traditions, customs, rituals, and crafts from generation to generation.
Geographical Scope
Local
Project Region
Zatyshne village, Ukraine
Urban or rural issues
Mainly rural
Physical or other transformations
It refers to a physical transformation of the built environment (hard investment)
EU Programme or fund
No
Description of the project
Summary
The goal is to promote the involvement, identity and distinctiveness of the Ukrainian village.
Over the past decades, the process of urbanization has continued rapidly. The main factors of this are the introduction of scientific and technological progress in production, digital technologies and climate change. There are very few young families left in rural areas, and young people travel to cities and abroad in search of a better life. There is also internal migration of the population. Few people can boast that the family has lived in one place for a century, or even more. Attitudes towards rural life began to change with the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, when partial isolation became important, and job loss forced people to go to their parents or relatives in the village. With the beginning of russia's full-scale invasion of UKRAINE, many families also temporarily moved to rural areas, where there is less threat of shelling and rocket hits.
Recreating a village house built by my grandfather in 1910, arranging it with furniture and household equipment of those times, will make it possible to create an eco-estate - museum. Here you can live, prepare dishes on the stove or in the oven from products grown in the vegetable garden (potatoes, vegetables, fruits, cereals, flour) and on the own farm (dairy products, meat, eggs). In this part of Zatyshne village, there is no centralized water supply or street lighting. 50 meters from the construction site there is a well, which was dug in the XIX century. Spring water, nature and silence will provide rural tourists with the opportunity to feel belonging to nature and Ukrainian culture of the twentieth century. From the clay that is in the vegetable garden, dishes were made and burned, so it is planned to try to recreate the craft of making pottery.
Over the past decades, the process of urbanization has continued rapidly. The main factors of this are the introduction of scientific and technological progress in production, digital technologies and climate change. There are very few young families left in rural areas, and young people travel to cities and abroad in search of a better life. There is also internal migration of the population. Few people can boast that the family has lived in one place for a century, or even more. Attitudes towards rural life began to change with the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, when partial isolation became important, and job loss forced people to go to their parents or relatives in the village. With the beginning of russia's full-scale invasion of UKRAINE, many families also temporarily moved to rural areas, where there is less threat of shelling and rocket hits.
Recreating a village house built by my grandfather in 1910, arranging it with furniture and household equipment of those times, will make it possible to create an eco-estate - museum. Here you can live, prepare dishes on the stove or in the oven from products grown in the vegetable garden (potatoes, vegetables, fruits, cereals, flour) and on the own farm (dairy products, meat, eggs). In this part of Zatyshne village, there is no centralized water supply or street lighting. 50 meters from the construction site there is a well, which was dug in the XIX century. Spring water, nature and silence will provide rural tourists with the opportunity to feel belonging to nature and Ukrainian culture of the twentieth century. From the clay that is in the vegetable garden, dishes were made and burned, so it is planned to try to recreate the craft of making pottery.
Key objectives for sustainability
The built house will function as a museum of the Ukrainian peasantry, as well as as an object of rural green and white tourism. Here one can see the arrangement of housing at the beginning of the twentieth century (furniture, bed linen, dishes), taste food from ecologically grown crops in the vegetable garden and products produced on the farm (milk, meat, eggs), as well as drinks from medicinal herbs and wild fruits (apples, pears, plums, blackthorn). People can also see how dishes are made from local red clay.
Key objectives for aesthetics and quality
A rural house built as a log house and covered with straw will be the only object of rural tourism in Srudena territorial community of Tulchyn District of Vinnytsia Oblast of Ukraine. It will be a reproduction of the house of my grandfather Kyrylo Safronovych Kichmarenko, born in 1882. After his marriage, in 1905 he was allocated a land plot of 47 acres for construction. Oaks grew on the plot and the young man cut them down and built a house, thereby freeing up the land plot for the possibility of cultivation in order to grow rye, wheat, corn, potatoes and vegetables. It was the first hut in the village of Odai (the current name is Zatyshne village), at that time the inhabitants of Odai lived in dugouts.
The implementation of the project shows that using local natural materials, it is possible to build rural ecological housing.
The implementation of the project shows that using local natural materials, it is possible to build rural ecological housing.
Key objectives for inclusion
Goals:
Ensuring accessibility and inclusion by recreating rural housing and everyday life of the XXth century.
Preservation and restoration of cultural traditions, crafts, customs, and rituals.
Presentation of ethno-dishes made from local ecological products.
The village house will be accessible to all categories of the population, regardless of gender, age, physical health, or financial viability. Visiting the house-museum will be free of charge. Food and accommodation services will be lower than in other regions of Ukraine.
Ensuring accessibility and inclusion by recreating rural housing and everyday life of the XXth century.
Preservation and restoration of cultural traditions, crafts, customs, and rituals.
Presentation of ethno-dishes made from local ecological products.
The village house will be accessible to all categories of the population, regardless of gender, age, physical health, or financial viability. Visiting the house-museum will be free of charge. Food and accommodation services will be lower than in other regions of Ukraine.
How Citizens benefit
The reconstruction of a village house will become an example for local residents of preserving housing built in the last century, restoring and promoting local Ukrainian culture of Podillia region.
Physical or other transformations
It refers to a physical transformation of the built environment (hard investment)
Innovative character
The innovation of the project lies in the fact that there are no village houses built as a log house and covered with straw in Studena community and adjacent communities: Pischany, Kryzhopil, Horodkivka. Older locals do not remember such housing, because it was almost never built in our area. Houses were built from wooden stakes and clay, and later from hollow bricks.
Disciplines/knowledge reflected
Builders, employees of the community culture industry, members of the NGO "Studena Community Development Center" and members of the NGO "Regional Development Agency of Tavriia Association of Territorial Communities" will be involved in the implementation of the project.ยป.
Methodology used
When developing the project, the following approaches were used:- purposefulness - the goal unfolds into a sequence of goals and tasks of the project to the level of individual measures, actions, works with the determination of the order of their execution;
- comprehensiveness - covered design, organizational and production activities, as well as works aimed at achieving the goals and results of the project;
- resource balance - tasks and works are provided with the necessary resources;- systematicity - application of a systemic approach and taking into account the impact of the factors of its environment on the project; the project is a complete system with the definition and consideration of interrelationships inside and outside it;
- flexibility - forecasting and considering possible changes in the influence of external factors and their consequences;
- multi-functionality - mandatory planning of all project management functions;
- optimality - acceptable plans are formed according to the selected criteria;
- informativity and communicativity - informing project participants, target groups and beneficiaries.
- comprehensiveness - covered design, organizational and production activities, as well as works aimed at achieving the goals and results of the project;
- resource balance - tasks and works are provided with the necessary resources;- systematicity - application of a systemic approach and taking into account the impact of the factors of its environment on the project; the project is a complete system with the definition and consideration of interrelationships inside and outside it;
- flexibility - forecasting and considering possible changes in the influence of external factors and their consequences;
- multi-functionality - mandatory planning of all project management functions;
- optimality - acceptable plans are formed according to the selected criteria;
- informativity and communicativity - informing project participants, target groups and beneficiaries.
How stakeholders are engaged
At this stage, there was no involvement of stakeholders at different levels. However, with the start of the initiative, information will be posted on the website of the Studene village council, the Mom-governmental organization "Center for the development of Studene community" and social networks. Information about the project will also be presented at the level of Vinnytsia Oblast council, the department of culture of Vinnytsia regional military administration.
The project is a component of the Studena community's tourism development strategy until 2030. The project is planned to be scaled both on the territory of Studena rural territorial community, as well as beyond it's boundaries. The project has an impact on the economic and social development of the community, development of the region and Ukraine. Studena community's tourism development strategy until 2030 was developed with the support of the United Nations Development Program in Ukraine within the framework of the project "Gender-sensitive planning of safe public spaces as a response to the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic", implemented in the community in 2021.
The project is a component of the Studena community's tourism development strategy until 2030. The project is planned to be scaled both on the territory of Studena rural territorial community, as well as beyond it's boundaries. The project has an impact on the economic and social development of the community, development of the region and Ukraine. Studena community's tourism development strategy until 2030 was developed with the support of the United Nations Development Program in Ukraine within the framework of the project "Gender-sensitive planning of safe public spaces as a response to the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic", implemented in the community in 2021.
Global challenges
Project solutions are aimed at the following global challenges:
danger due to hostilities, spread of infectious diseases, worsening access to clean drinking water and ecological food products, decrease in the degree of social security, increase in unemployment, high probability of a blackout.
danger due to hostilities, spread of infectious diseases, worsening access to clean drinking water and ecological food products, decrease in the degree of social security, increase in unemployment, high probability of a blackout.
Learning transferred to other parties
The following elements may be copied and transferred from the project to other places: the method of building eco-housing, the style of Ukrainian rural life of the beginning of the 20th century, Ukrainian traditions, rituals and crafts, promoting the restoration of ecosystems and ecological food.
Keywords
House
Ukrainian style
pottery
rural tourism
ethnic dishes
