Join us for an eclectic Takeover Thursday for each exhibition at the Konschthal. These events are an opportunity to rediscover the exhibitions from the perspective of our guests. Each evening is uniquely conceived by participants working in various fields, it revolves around changing themes related to the exhibitions. Through concerts, readings, encounters, performances, workshops, and much more, the Konschthal reinvents itself.
In response to the exhibition Ruin Echoes, the Konschthal invites Anastasiia Zhuravel to create an evening centered around the themes that run through the exhibition.
Reading Remains
Ruins are never simply the remains of what has been destroyed. They are contested spaces where memory, violence, material traces, and possible futures intersect. What survives destruction, and who has the power to determine what is remembered, erased, or rebuilt?
Curated by Anastasiia Zhuravel and moderated by Marija Marić, this edition of Takeover Thursday, presented within the exhibition Ruin Echoes at Konschthal in collaboration with LUCA – Luxembourg Center for Architecture, approaches ruins not as passive remnants of the past, but as active sites of investigation, resistance, and transformation.
Through the lecture Surviving Fragments, Dr. Samaneh Moafi of Forensic Architecture examines how fragments of physical and digital environments become evidence of violence and instruments against erasure. In parallel, the installation Circularity on the Edge explores how the material remains of destroyed buildings in Ukraine can be reinterpreted as resources for collective recovery through AI-assisted mapping and circular reconstruction practices.
Moving between forensic investigation and material reuse, the programme asks how we might learn to read ruins differently: not only as evidence of what has been lost, but as spaces where questions of responsibility, collective agency, and the politics of reconstruction are negotiated. Ultimately, it invites us to consider whether rebuilding means restoring what once existed or imagining fundamentally different ways of inhabiting the world after destruction.
Curator: Anastasiia Zhuravel
Moderator: Marija Marić
Speaker: Dr. Samaneh Moafi
Installation: Circularity on the Edge
In collaboration with: LUCA
Evening program
7pm - 8:30pm: Surviving Fragments
Drawing on recent Forensic Architecture investigations into the massacre of aid workers in Tel al-Sultan and the airstrikes on Minab school, this talk considers ruins across physical and digital space: buildings reduced to rubble, earth moved to conceal traces of violence, and places that disappear from the internet amid blackouts. From earth berms to archived images and webpages, it examines the surviving fragments through which we reconstruct places, investigate their destruction, and contest attempts to erase them.
6pm – 11pm: On display: Circularity on the Edge installation
8:30pm – 9pm: Presentation of Circularity on the Edge
Circularity on the Edge is an installation about what a destroyed building can still hold up. It pairs an AI segmentation model — trained on drone imagery of buildings in Bucha, damaged by the russian invasion, as part of research conducted in 2023 — with physical fragments recovered from one such house in Hostomel, Kyiv region. Together they form a working prototype of a circular assessment system that grassroots organisations and local communities could use long before large industrial actors arrive. The model reads scattered debris at the town scale and assigns every segmented surface to a material category — wood, brick, metal sheets and structural elements, slate roofing, and concrete — identifying what can be returned to circulation for reconstruction efforts and what is hazardous and can contaminate adjacent materials (notably Soviet-era asbestos slate).
The project showcases a fragment of the full installation presented at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025.
Free of charge | No booking required.
Additional Info
- Audience Open to all
Curator Anastasiia Zhuravel
Anastasiia Zhuravel is an Urban and Spatial Studies Researcher. She holds a Master of Science in Urban Management from Technische Universität Berlin, and completed the Harvard Leadership for Sustainable Reconstruction of Ukraine course at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Her research focuses on critical urban studies, with an emphasis on collective civic actions, urban governance, and sustainable urban systems. In addition to her academic work, she is a consulting researcher on the reconstruction of Ukraine, contributing to projects aimed at sustainable urban recovery and resilience. Anastasiia is the co-founder of the Charity organisation LASKA in Kyiv, Ukraine, and the founder and curator of the International Design Lab, re:imagining your city, based in Berlin, Germany. She has also been a Researcher at the RIFS – Research Institute for Sustainability in Potsdam, Germany.
Moderator Marija Marić
Marija Marić is an architect, writer, and researcher based in Luxembourg. Her work, situated between architecture and urban studies, critically examines the relationships between property, finance, and the built environment. Marija holds a doctoral degree from the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (gta), ETH Zurich, with the thesis that analysed the role of real estate industries and media infrastructures in the commodification of housing, land, and cities. She has conducted research and lectured at ETH Zurich, TU Munich, and University of Luxembourg.
Marija co-curated exhibitions including Down to Earth — Luxembourg Pavilion at the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale as well as The Great Repair at AdK Berlin, also in 2023. She is the co-author of Staging the Moon: Resource Extraction Beyond Earth, and a guest editor of several volumes, including Off-Earth for e-flux Architecture and The Great Repair: Politics for a Society of Repair for ARCH+ 250/253. Marija's work has been presented and published internationally. She is currently working on her publication-project Real Estate Poetry, which explores language as a tool for unpacking the hidden violences of property regimes upon bodies, communities, and environments.
Speaker Dr. Samaneh Moafi
Dr. Samaneh Moafi is the Assistant Director of Research at Forensic Architecture (FA). Since joining the team in 2016, she has led and contributed to the development of the team's bespoke research methods and themes over two dozen investigations, including the Situated Testimonies of Grenfell . She earned her PhD in 2018 from the Architectural Association (AA), with a thesis on Home Rebellion, the contemporary history of state-initiated mass housing in Iran and the architecture of shared practices of resistance. She is a Trustee of the Mosaic Room and a Geddes Visiting Fellow at the Edinburgh School of Architecture.
Forensic Architecture
Forensic Architecture (FA) is a research agency based at Goldsmiths, University of London. Our mandate is to develop, employ, and disseminate new techniques, methods, and concepts for investigating state and corporate violence. Our team includes architects, software developers, filmmakers, investigative journalists, scientists, and lawyers. Since 2020, FA has supported the growth of agencies worldwide that practice and apply our methods. The Investigative Commons is both a global network of practitioners, and a physical space in Berlin.
Biographies of all curators
Kateryna Lopatiuk (author and curator) is an architect and researcher specializing in interdisciplinary approaches to urbanism, architecture, and technology. She is the author and curator of the installation Circularity on the Edge, presented at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale main exhibition, Intelligence. Natural. Artificial. Collective. A Fulbright scholar (2021–2022) at MIT under the supervision of Professor Brent D. Ryan, and later an MIT GMAF fellow (2024), in 2024, she co-taught a course on urbanism, history, and activism with Professor Elizabeth Wood and co-curated the exhibition Roots of Resilience. Kateryna has worked with Ukrainian non-profit organizations, including Ro3kvit, Restart, and Rethink on GIS-based recovery and circular economy strategies. A teacher of the Urban Data Course at the Kyiv School of Economics (KSE) in 2026. Kateryna is a 2025 Spotlight LINA Fellow, developing research on war-related damage and debris recycling.
Yana Buchatska (set designer (SETS Studio) is a Ukrainian architect, researcher, and set designer, currently a senior spatial designer at Random Studio in Amsterdam. She was a Fulbright Fellow at the Self-Assembly Lab at MIT, where she carried out research aiming to design and test flexible assemblies for natural disaster contexts, and participated in the Venice Biennale 2025 as part of the Circularity on the Edge project. With various projects ranging from urban strategies and public spaces to exhibitions, scenography, and material science, Yana explores new ways of human interaction, generating emerging identities. She gained her experience in various studios in Kyiv and Rotterdam and has completed projects across Europe and the United States.
Nastia Lopatiuk (installation artist and maker (Metåfora)) is a Ukrainian artist and designer based in Kyiv and founder of Metåfora, an upcycling art project. She works with reclaimed, discarded, and leftover materials, exploring their properties and potential for transformation. Her practice combines traditional craft techniques, material experimentation, and contemporary technologies to create artistic and functional objects. Through her work, she seeks to reveal the overlooked value of materials, while reflecting on the human stories and memories connected to them.
The full team also includes:
- Herman Mitish - developer, project co-author (OPT Industries)
- Orest Yaremchuk - graphic design
- Dmytro Tentiuk - visual art projection (Photinus Studio)
- Andrii Hazin - sound design (OCP)
- Romakh Sakh, Kostiantyn Kuchabskyi, Olena Vakhnina - architects (Ostriv Platform)
With former contributions from:
Oleksandr Sirous, Pavlo Sirko, Roman Puchko, Ivanna Lipych, Oleksandra Dyvnych, Svitlana Usychenko, NGO ReThink.
Circularity on the Edge Venice Biennale Opening May 2025 (c) Ivanna Lipych
Circularity on the Edge IABR 2026, Rotterdam (c) Kostiantyn Kuchabskyi
Circularity on the Edge IABR 2026, Rotterdam (c) Kostiantyn Kuchabskyi
Circularity on the Edge Kyiv 2025 (c) Olena Vakhnina
Circularity on the Edge Material scans (c) Orest Yaremchuk
