{"id":4465,"date":"2023-07-10T13:10:30","date_gmt":"2023-07-10T13:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mysourcefunding.com\/startups\/rebuilding-ukraine-is-an-act-of-resistance\/"},"modified":"2023-07-10T13:10:30","modified_gmt":"2023-07-10T13:10:30","slug":"rebuilding-ukraine-is-an-act-of-resistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mysourcefunding.com\/?p=4465","title":{"rendered":"Rebuilding Ukraine Is an Act of Resistance"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"paywall\">The museum was damaged by shelling, but most of its exhibits survived. It now also houses items rescued from destroyed cultural sites, like a wooden icon, still speckled with shrapnel, from a church that was gutted by fire last year. As we walk around Irpin\u2019s central plaza, Antonyuk points out the scarred facade of the library. \u201cWe replaced the windows, but we can\u2019t restore that,\u201d she says. \u201cIt\u2019s difficult and expensive. There are 10,000 people without homes here, it\u2019s not the right time for doing stuff like that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Irpin\u2019s cultural institutions aren\u2019t just rescuing and restoring artifacts from the city\u2019s early years, they\u2019re also trying to memorialize the past year and a half. It\u2019s hard to curate history in real time. There are too many physical remnants of war. But they have huge amounts of digital material. They want to create a VR experience based on footage captured in the immediate aftermath of the Russian withdrawal from Irpin, to capture that moment even after the city is fully restored. It would be one of many attempts to digitize Ukraine\u2019s heritage and culture, as volunteers take 3D scans of significant buildings, make high-res copies of art, and even catalog wartime memes for future generations. These are needed because cultural heritage hasn\u2019t just been collateral damage in the war. The invasion has been motivated by the Russian idea that Ukraine doesn\u2019t exist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">\u201cThis war is not only about territory, but it is also about culture,\u201d Antonyuk says. \u201cThe first thing that Russians do when they occupy territory, they destroy the cultural institutions, they destroy everything Ukrainian, and they destroy everything that can identify us as Ukrainians.\u201d Rebuilding stronger is an act of defiance and a way to reiterate the Ukrainian identity. \u201cCultural institutions are there to show us who we are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">It\u2019s also important to remember and record the present. The war in Ukraine is the first conflict of its scale and scope to happen in the era of mass digitization, with an almost unlimited ability to store and record information.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">I met caf\u00e9 owner Yefimenko and council member Antonyuk through the Museum of Civilian Voices, a project by the Rinat Akhmetov Foundation, a philanthropic organization that started in 2014, taking video testimony of people living near the front lines of the proxy war being fought between Ukrainian forces and Russian-backed militias in the eastern Donbas region. Over the first four years, they collected thousands of hours of videos covering how ordinary citizens had experienced the conflict. When the larger invasion began, they expanded the project to cover the whole country. It\u2019s an effort to make sure that the stories of individual civilians\u2014small business owners, homemakers, school teachers\u2014are visible within massive meta-narratives of conflict, an eye-level story of the war told in 75,000 individual accounts. The idea is \u201cto save as many stories as we could find to create this [360-degree] understanding of what happened, of the scale of the tragedy,\u201d says Natalya Yemchenko, one of the foundation\u2019s board members, who has been involved in the project from the beginning. And there\u2019s a healing aspect to it. The country needs to learn how to remember, Yemchenko says. \u201cOtherwise we will keep these traumas with us in our future, and it will traumatize us again and again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Yefimenko, outside his coffee stall in Irpin, in a park which a year before was pocked with craters and strewn with bodies\u2014where children are now playing on a bouncy castle\u2014says rebuilding has given him a sense of mission and has become his own act of solidarity and defiance. It\u2019s something I heard over and again in Ukraine: that reconstruction and reform, even the smallest acts, are ways to honor the sacrifices being made, and that rebuilding isn\u2019t just a consequence of victory, but a way to achieve it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">\u201cThe only reason we can sit here with the coffee is because other people died on the front line,\u201d he says. \u201cI believe that everyone should do their thing in their place. Some people make coffee, some people fight, some people make bread, and that makes up the economy of Ukraine. We are fighting for our independence. Our financial independence is also important.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\"><em>This article appears in the September\/October 2023 edition of WIRED UK<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/ukraine-war-rebuilding-already-begun\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The museum was damaged by shelling, but most of its exhibits survived. It now also houses items rescued from destroyed cultural sites, like a wooden icon, still speckled with shrapnel, from a church that was gutted by fire last year. 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