The Ukrainian project Dnipro River Integrated Vision is being presented at the 7th Lisbon Architecture Triennale 2025, which runs from 2 October to 8 December under the theme How Heavy is a City? It was created by specialists from the urban coalition Ro3kvit in collaboration with Greenpeace.
This year’s triennial explores how “heavy” cities are in material, energy, and social terms. The Ukrainian team offered a different perspective — the weight of the river that shapes cities, landscapes, and life around it.
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The Dnipro River Integrated Vision project views the Dnipro as a living system — natural, cultural and infrastructural at the same time. It was created during the war, when the river became not only a source of water for most of Ukraine’s population, but also a witness to destruction and environmental change. Researchers draw attention to pollution, the vulnerability of the Dnipro, and the complex interaction between natural processes and human intervention.
As part of the Fluxes sub-theme, dedicated to the movement and interdependence of natural and social systems, the project proposes to see the river not as a resource, but as a space for coexistence. Water, people, stories, and ecosystems — all of this appears in Dnipro River Integrated Vision as a single dynamic network that shapes life along the river.
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