8 Liza Goncharenko This workshop invites students to collectively embroider a large-scale textile map of Ukraine, tracing the invisible wounds of invasion: ecocide, burned forests, poisoned rivers, and scarred soils. Each participant will work on one fragment of the map, creating a patch that reflects a layer of ecological trauma and potential recovery. At the end of the week, the embroidered fragments will be stitched together into one collective tapestry, a material act of care and belonging. The workshop combines collective craftmaking with theoretical reflection. Each day begins with a short reading circle: texts by Anna Tsing (The Mushroom at the End of the World), Darya Tsymbaliuk (Ecocide in Ukraine), Solomiya Magazine (Environmental Issue), Pascal Gielen (Passivity), and Emanuele Coccia (The Life of Plants), which frame embroidery as both a slow, attentive craft and a form of political resistance. We discuss how practices of repair, repetition, and handwork can embody solidarity with damaged ecologies. Interdisciplinarity is central: architects and urbanists translate territorial scars into stitches; product developers experiment with textures and threads as material systems; artists and heritage students bring cultural and symbolic readings of embroidery as a feminist, collective practice of resilience. The process emphasizes belonging not only as rootedness, but as shared responsibility for fragile ecosystems and futures. By the end, the embroidered map becomes both archive and proposition: a multispecies cartography of Ukraine’s landscapes in recovery. It will be exhibited as a fabric wall-hanging, accompanied by documentation of the readings and reflections. This pedagogical experiment bridges art, design, and ecology, asking: how can acts of collective making reimagine belonging in times of displacement, destruction, and ecological loss?
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