METASITU

Established in 2014 by Liva Dudareva & Eduardo Cassina, METASITU is a collective practice based in Kyiv/Athens, but operating globally. METASITU was conceived to explore the ways in which people relate to the built environment across times and disciplines, to usher in a queerer tomorrow. Through publications, gatherings, installation, and video, their practice is situated at the intersection of visual arts, urbanism, and knowledge-exchange formats.
Centered around non-hierarchical symbiotic pedagogies, their work spans a wide range of territories and approaches, from Donetsk to Dubai, from organising encounters to building large-scale installations.

Since 2015, METASITU has been developing different facets of The Degrowth Institute, a long-term project exploring how to masterplan for degrowth in post-industrial cities with dwindling population demographics. Rather than fighting against demographic shrinkage, The Degrowth Institute seeks to build conversations around ebbing populations, ruinification, rewilding and preservation.

METASITU’s work has been commissioned and exhibited internationally at Alserkal Arts Foundation (Dubai), MANIFESTA (Prishtina), The Biennial for Architecture (Venice), Mala Galeriya Arsenal Mystetskyi (Kyiv), Kunsthalle Hamburger Platz (Berlin), ZK/U (Berlin), Izolyatsia (Kyiv & Mariupol), among others. Liva and Eduardo have curated numerous urban events and programs, such as the City Scanning Sessions in Ivano Frankivsk and 86 Film and Urbanism festival in Slavutych, Ukraine. They have taught at Trojan Horse Summer School, INDA Chulalongkorn University, Innes Institute / TU Vienna, TUMO, CANactions, and the Strelka Institute.