The Shape of Recovery

The publication gathers expressions and practices emerging from Ukraine’s ongoing processes of struggle, adaptation, and renewal. Engaging community-based practice, governance, architecture, ecology, and cultural memory, it understands reconstruction not as the restoration of what was lost, but as the continuous transformation of social, territorial, and ecological relations. Recovery here unfolds as a political, ethical, and cultural practice in which material rebuilding intertwines with the repair of institutions, environments, and collective meanings. Bringing together multiple perspectives, the book traces how, under the pressure of war, the work of reconstruction becomes an act of care and imagination, shaping the conditions for resilience and the possibility of a shared future.