What makes a place "home"? Not just walls and an address. Home is when the city begins to reciprocate: a favorite route appears, a sound that soothes, a corner where you feel like yourself, and a story you want to continue. In the "Where I Am" course, we will explore the city in three ways: with our eyes, our body, and our imagination. To understand how we can appropriate space and transform it into something personal.
Street Photography
We will learn to see the city through new filters: noticing light, rhythms, lines, the gestures of people and buildings. In this way, we will begin to assemble our own map of the city—not a geographical one, but a personal one, one created from favorite corners, quiet routes, and discovered coincidences.
Psychogeography
Through walks, drifts, sensory tasks, and observations, we will experience the city with our bodies. Where do you want to speed up? Where do you want to slow down? What do you hear when you listen closely? What smells lead you forward? Everyone will have their own map of the place: atmospheric and truly alive.
Creative Writing and Worldbuilding
We will explore why people invent worlds and how imagination helps them find a foothold in a new place. Participants will create their own world: its rules, portal, voice, tasks, routes, and moods, and then assemble it into a digital walk or mini-adventure, created in the form of a chatbot.
This will be a world that speaks in your voice and is born from your observations: photographs, sounds, texts, and experiences.
Who is this course for?
For those who love the city and want to better understand it and themselves within it. For those interested in photography, stories, creativity, and new formats. For those searching for their home, in reality or in their imagination.
At the end of the course, each participant will create a chatbot adventure walk—a personal digital art project and route through the city that can be gifted to friends or posted on online platforms.
The course begins on January 17th and consists of 11 weekly group classes on Saturdays from 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM (Kyiv time), as well as several additional workshops and individual meetings on weekdays, with the final show on March 28th.
