Color up Peace: Peacebuilding — Ukrainian Style
September 24 - October 29, 2024
Artist: Lisa Glybchenko
Collor Up Peace is a peacebuilding initiative at the crossroads of art and technology, which uses artistic innovation as a tool for fostering peace. The exhibition displays a collection of photographs from around the world that capture the essence of peace.
Collor Up Peace is a peacebuilding initiative at the crossroads of art and technology, which uses artistic innovation as a tool for fostering peace. The exhibition displays a collection of photographs from around the world that capture the essence of peace. Each image has been transformed by the artist Lisa Glybchenko into coloring pages through digital tools, inviting people to contribute their own vision of peace through color.
The initiative aims to prompt reflection on the meaning and experience of peace. Additionally, it creates opportunities for sharing visions of peace through digital and visual means, challenges the proliferation of violent imagery in the media and popular culture, and employs digital image transformation as a tool for democratic design and implementation of a peaceful future.
How to visit
The exhibition is available for viewing at America House Kyiv every Tuesday, from 15:00 to 20:00, till October 29. Please make sure to register below before visiting. The registration form will be updated on a weekly basis.
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About the exhibition
Color Up Peace is a peacebuilding initiative at the crossroads of art and technology, which uses artistic innovation as a tool for fostering peace.
Founded by Lisa Hlybchenko, FLEX alumna, in 2016 in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the illegal annexation of Crimea—Liza’s homeland—the project began as a student endeavor at the American University in Bulgaria. Since then, Color Up Peace has expanded into numerous programs not only in Ukraine but also across 15 other countries, including Israel and Palestine, Kenya, Iceland and the Faroe Islands, Lithuania and Georgia (with a special support program for Ukrainians who relocated to Finland during the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine from 2022 to 2024).
Through Color Up Peace, Lisa has collected photographs from around the world that capture the essence of peace. Each image has been transformed into coloring pages through digital tools, inviting people to contribute their own vision of peace through color.
The initiative aims to prompt reflection on the meaning and experience of peace. Additionally, it creates opportunities for sharing visions of peace through digital and visual means, challenges the proliferation of violent imagery in the media and popular culture, and employs digital image transformation as a tool for democratic design and implementation of a peaceful future.
Meet the organizers
Lisa Glybchenko - an artist, (social) entrepreneur, and researcher, FLEX alumna, working at intersections of visual design innovation and digital technologies. In 2016, Lisa founded her peacebuilding startup Color Up Peace, which uses digital visual art-making as a futures design strategy of peace arrangements. Lisa’s entrepreneurship is at the core of her current PhD project “Visual PeaceTech: Digital Visual Images as Security-Building Tools” at Tampere University, Finland. Together, Lisa’s academic and practitioner work got a number of international awards such as awarded the 2024 Transformative Futures in Peace and Security Prize (Geneva Centre for Security Policy, 3rd prize), 2023 Jon Rieger award for exceptional work in visual sociology (International Visual Sociology Association), and the 2023 Creative Achievement Award (International Visual Literacy Association).
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