Svitlana Usychenko

Svitlana Usychenko is an urbanist and spatial researcher based between Paris and Kyiv. With a background in architecture and a MSc in Urban Design from Politecnico di Milano, she focuses on contributing to socio-ecological transitions through urban planning tools.

Over the past three years, she has worked with Ro3kvit: Urban Coalition for Ukraine on recovery and climate adaptation of Ukrainian cities, developing the “Climate-Proof Urban Strategy” for Kremenchuk and contributing to the “Comprehensive Recovery Program of the Kyiv region”.

As part of the NGO ReThink she led the development of POVTORNO, a digital tool for circular construction. In collaboration with Greenpeace CEE Svitlana worked on the “Dnipro River Integrated Vision”, which has been exhibited at the 19th Venice Architecture Biennale (French Pavilion), and she was a guest lecturer on integrated urban planning and decolonial thinking at Harvard GSD and MIT.