The Right to Focus
Oksana Hrabchak
Iryna Tsyba
Oksana Hrabchak is a communications strategist with a background in psychology. She is interested in how everyday environments shape attention, emotions, and behaviour, and how design can support mental well-being. Within the project, she explores how communication and spatial experience can together create conditions for recovery.
Ruslan Antonenko is an architect, urban planner, and researcher exploring the intersection of architecture, resilience, and sustainable urban development. His work combines design, research, and material experimentation to create housing, public spaces, and recovery strategies that strengthen communities and reconnect people with their environment.
Iryna Tsyba is an architect and urban planner and artist whose interdisciplinary practice bridges contemporary theatre, spatial design, urban research, and visual arts. Working at the intersection of architecture and documentary theatre, she combines spatial thinking with artistic research to create immersive stage, exhibition, and site-specific environments that explore the relationship between people, place, and collective memory.
The Right to Focus is a replicable framework that combines architecture, making, and mental recovery to help communities restore focus in times of prolonged stress. In Ukraine, continuous disruption caused by war has made sustained attention an increasingly scarce resource.
Rather than proposing a single makerspace, our team explores how existing spaces can be transformed into environments that support concentration through hands-on making. The activity itself becomes a tool for recoverе, allowing participants to step away from the constant background of stress and immerse themselves in a simple, tangible process of working with craft.
By combining architecture, making, and collective care, The Right to Focus proposes a new spatial practice that strengthens individual well-being, repair culture, and community resilience.
