New European Bauhaus Prizes 2023

Project category

Identify the award category for which this project is being submitted
Prioritising the places and people that need it the most

Email user
glybchenko.liza@gmail.com

Basic information
Project title
Color Up Peace

Full Project Title
Color Up Peace

Please provide a short, catchy description of your project to be used in communication towards the public.
Color Up Peace is a peacebuilding startup that leverages originally designed intersections of artistic innovation and digital-technological innovation as peacebuilding and freedom-building strategies. Color Up Peace has been working to create virtual, visual and embodied spaces of peace and belonging for such groups of people as displaced Ukrainians. And it has been working to equip its participants with artistic-technological peacebuilding tools to empower them as peacebuilders.

What was the geographical scope of your project?
Cross-border/international

Where was your project implemented?
Location 1
Finland

Location 2
Other

Which other country?
Ukraine
Member State(s), Western Balkans and other countries
- Member State(s), Western Balkans and other countries: Bulgaria
- Member State(s), Western Balkans and other countries: Poland
- Member State(s), Western Balkans and other countries: Lithuania
- Member State(s), Western Balkans and other countries: Germany
- Member State(s), Western Balkans and other countries: France
- Member State(s), Western Balkans and other countries: Other
If relevant, insert names of region(s)/municipality(ies) involved
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Does your project address mainly urban or rural issues?
It addresses urban-rural linkages

Does your project refer to a physical transformation of the built environment or other types of transformations (hard or soft investments)?
It refers to other types of transformations (soft investment)

Has your project benefited from EU programmes and/or funds?
No

Has your project won an EU prize with a monetary value awarded?
No

Is your project fully completed
Yes

Please indicate a date (mm/yy)
2022-09-30

On whose behalf are you submitting the application?
As an individual
Please provide the contact details for the project promoter (the individual or representative of the organisation authorised to represent the project).
- First name: Yelyzaveta
  Last name: Glybchenko
  Gender: Female
  Nationality: Ukraine
  Address (country of permanent residence for individuals or address of the organisation)<br/>Street and number: 18 Sarvijaakonkatu A24
  Town: Tampere
  Postal code: 33540
  Country: Finland
  Direct Tel: +358 46 8887982
  E-mail: glybchenko.liza@gmail.com
  Website: https://projects.tuni.fi/visualpeacetech/
Social Media accounts (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, etc.)
- URL: https://www.instagram.com/coloruppeace/
  Social media handle and associated hashtag(s): @coloruppeace
- URL: https://www.facebook.com/coloruppeace
  Social media handle and associated hashtag(s): @coloruppeace, #coloruppeace
- URL: https://www.linkedin.com/company/color-up-peace/
  Social media handle and associated hashtag(s): Color Up Peace
- URL: https://sites.google.com/view/coloruppeace?pli=1
In case my project is selected as a finalist of the NEB Prizes 2023, I agree to share the name (individual and/or organisation’s), email address, website and social media accounts indicated above with other NEB Prizes finalists. I also agree to publish the name (individual and/or organisation’s), website and social media accounts indicated above next to the public description of my project in the channels of the European Commission.
Yes

How did you hear about the New European Bauhaus Prizes?
Social Media

Description of the project
Please provide a summary of your project.
Color Up Peace is a peacebuilding startup that works at the intersection of art-making and technology to leverage artistic innovation as a peacebuilding tool. Color Up Peace was founded by Lisa Glybchenko in 2016 as her response to external aggression against her home country Ukraine. From a student initiative at the American University in Bulgaria, Color Up Peace has grown to have projects/programs in Ukraine, Israel-Palestine, and Kenya, as well as a special support program for Ukrainians who relocated to Finland during russia’s 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The idea behind Color Up Peace is to encourage participants to think about peace and what peace means to them; to create opportunities for sharing visions of peace through artistic and digital means; to foster dialogue through collective art-making; to challenge the abundance of violence-centered visuals in the media and popular culture; and to employ digital visual art-making as a peacebuilding tool. Color Up Peace invites people from all over the world to submit photos of what peace is to them which Lisa turns into coloring pages (by drawing each one by hand digitally) for others to engage with and transform the original vision of peace. This digital-artistic transformation is at the core of such Color Up Peace activities as international trainings, context-specific workshops, virtual exhibitions, coloring books, and a newly developed virtual workshop series to support people affected by war – especially Ukrainians.

Please indicate the main themes of your project with 5 key words.
futures design

Please indicate the main themes of your project with key words
peacebuilding

Please indicate the main themes of your project with key words
freedom-building

Please indicate the main themes of your project with key words
visual peace technology

Please indicate the main themes of your project with key words
imaginary reconstitution of security

Please give information about the key objectives of your project in terms of sustainability and how these have been met. Please highlight how the project can be exemplary in this context.
Sustainability objectives of Color Up Peace include:
1. Creating peacebuilding tools for sustainability of ontological security for displaced persons;
2. Creating and curating image-transformation processes as processes of designing quality peace futures for post-war peace arrangements. These processes serve as demos of peace arrangements, which, once created digitally or in virtual/augmented reality, can be extrapolated into embodied realities.

The project promotes sustainability within the framework of SDG 16, supporting peace education throughout the world at grassroots levels and at university level in Finland, the U.S.A. and South Korea. Of special focus within SFG 16 is supporting ontological security for people who need it the most – people whose lives have been disrupted by violent conflict, war and displacement. Ontological security as a state of being means continuity (sustainability) of person in material and non-material ways over time and physical/digital space. Color Up Peace creates and implements tools for supporting ontological security of (displaced) Ukrainians by using visual digital transformations of images as demos to design, negotiate and iterate peaceful futures in virtual and augmented reality, as well as in embodied experiences. I am now doing a unique Ph.D. project based on Color Up Peace – “Visual Peacetech: Digital Visual Images as Security-Building Tools”, within which I developed a special method to support sustainability of security through artistic-technological means - imaginary reconstitution of security (see article attached).

Please give information about the key objectives of your project in terms of aesthetics and quality of experience for people (through design, positive emotions and cultural benefits) and how these have been met. Please highlight how the project can be exemplary in this context.
Key objectives and results of Color Up Peace in this area include:
1. Design: transform participant’s peace photographs into outlines of coloring pages, thus making them into open architectures of participation. An architecture of participation here means a malleable arrangement (like a coloring page) that allows the coloring artist to imbue their own experience of peace into an existing outline of someone else’s experience of peace. This becomes a dialogue and a negotiated peace arrangement.
2. Positive emotions: focusing on images of peace, which we never see in the media or popular culture, supports sustaining peace – giving hope by focusing on what already works for peace and who already works for peace. Focusing on what works makes people able to support its growth, which then pushes the negative things/emotions out.
3. Cultural beliefs: Color Up Peace is the first project in the world that has managed to create a democratic body of peace imagery. This is a huge contribution to our culture, which has been previously dominated by images of violence and war.
Color Up Peace has created special art books for Ukraine, Israel-Palestine, Kenya, international peacebuilding project Changing The Story, and several internationally-oriented art books. These are first-in-the-world examples of peace imagery and a new strand of design - PEACE DESIGN.

Please give information about the key objectives of your project in terms of inclusion (ranging from accessibility and affordability for all to inclusive governing systems, design for all principles or new societal models) and how these have been met. Please highlight how the project can be exemplary in this context.
The key objective of Color Up Peace in terms of inclusion has been to invite as many people as possible to be both contributing photographers and coloring artists, and learners, and participants of art-for-peace experiences. Achievements include:
1. All Color Up Peace programs and products are free of charge for participants and partners.
2. Coloring pages can be downloaded from the website.
3. Media Art for Peace virtual workshop series can be accessed around the world for free through the Claned online platform.

Please explain the way citizens benefiting from or affected by the project and civil society have been involved in the project and what has been the impact of this involvement on the project
Beneficiaries become part of free Color Up Peace workshops and programs, participate in creation of coloring books, and as alumni become partners in new projects. For example, the project “Color Up Ukraine” exploring the impact of russia’s war against Ukraine on Ukrainians around Ukraine and exploring Ukrainians’ visions of peace and freedom, was developed together with a former workshop participant and alumna.
Workshop participants become promoters of Color Up Peace and its programs.
I always give spare toolkits to the participants of my programs, so that the participants could take the toolkits to other people and explain what they learned. Like this too, the participants become peacebuilders.

Please explain how different stakeholders at various levels (local, regional, national, European) were engaged in the design and implementation of the project. Please highlight what the added value of their engagement was.
Grassroots levels: this includes participants of Color Up Peace programs as individuals, so this level is dispersed between the different ones mentioned below. Color Up Peace programming is very participatory, so this level is crucial.

Regional: the 6-month-long workshop series “Art for Ukraine – Art for Peace” for displaced Ukrainians in Tampere, Finland, was supported by the City of Tampere and invited participants from the Tampere area. The funding and the support made the workshop series possible over such a long period of time. Otherwise, I could only do part of it with my own resources.

National: the work of Color Up Peace was featured by the Finnish peace movement’s magazine YDIN, the newspaper of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine also wrote about “Color Up Ukraine”, “Color Up Ukraine” and the 2020 Youth Peace Talks training by Color Up Peace were funded by the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv. The communications and the funding made the programming of Color Up Peace more sustainable.

International: I was a Thinking of Europe Fellow with Understanding Europe in 2022 and developed a workshop manual based on Color Up Peace - “Peace in Europe: digital and virtual reality peacebuilding”. I already did training on it in three countries, and peer educators of Understanding Europe will implement the workshop in at least 11 European countries.

Please explain which disciplines and/ or knowledge fields were reflected in the design and implementation of your project. Please explain how representatives of these different fields interacted with each other, and what the added value of this process was.
1. Graphic design. As an artist and graphic designer, I create the outlines of coloring pages within Color Up Peace.
2. Peacebuilding and peace research/studies. As a peacebuilder and peace researcher, I design artistic experiences within Color Up Peace specifically as peacebuilding experiences, as opposed to graphic design exercises.
3. Computer science and programming: I draw on the concept of “architectures of participation” from open-source coding to operationalize it as a technological-artistic peacebuilding tool within Color Up Peace, especially those parts of Color Up Peace which include VR work and augmented reality image-making.
4. Negotiations: as a trained negotiator/mediator, I also conduct trainings on negotiation and mediation through visual means within Color Up Peace. This approach is based on my original research “A Visual Approach to Peace Mediation: Exploring the Conceptual Potential of Visual Art-Making in Peace Mediation” - the first in the world conceptualization and operationalization of visual arts in peace mediation.

Please give information on the results, outcomes and impacts achieved by your project in relation to the category you apply for. This includes also benefits from the project for direct and indirect beneficiaries
The results and outcomes include:
1. Participants from over 30 countries around the globe.
2. Nine coloring books.
3. Four virtual exhibitions.
4. Trainings in 13 countries.
5. 13 grants won for different projects.
6. Color Up Peace in part of university education in three countries: Finland, U.S.A. and South Korea.
7. Original workshop manuals developed.
8. Color Up Peace is part of two original and first-in-the-world research projects by Yelyzaveta Glybchenko: master’s project “A Visual Approach to Peace Mediation: Exploring the Conceptual Potential of Visual Art-Making in Peace Mediation” and Ph.D. project “Visual Peacetech: Digital Visual Images as Security-Building Tools”.
9. Color Up Peace was part of the Kolibri arts Festival in Helsinki, Finland, in 2022.
10. The Youth Research board of the international arts-based peacebuilding project “Changing The Story” voted for Color Up Peace to be featured as one of the best 5 examples of arts-based peacebuilding around the world.

Direct beneficiaries – participants of trainings/workshops of Color Up Peace always receive originally developed tools for continued peacebuilding outside of the framework of Color Up Peace’s programming.
Color Up Peace also develops educational materials freely available for download and learning online, which makes the list of indirect beneficiaries huge and uncountable.

Please provide documents showing the results, outcomes and impacts of your project
Both
PDF
Web link
Please highlight the innovative character of the project, when compared to mainstream actions in the field of the project
Color Up Peace is the first in the world peacebuilding startup that focuses on the STRATEGIC use of INTERSECTIONS of technological digital innovation and artistic design innovation as peacebuilding strategies. Instead of solely going in circles around questions of empathy through art, Color Up Peace EMPOWERS its participants to act on shared understanding and to operationalize DIFFERENCE in understanding as peacebuilding tools. This is a unique mix of design, tech savvy and negotiation/mediation concepts and practices. Color Up Peace takes the development of peace arrangements from their ideation stage to initial design, iteration based on value-infused negotiation, and digital/visual/embodied implementation, whereby mental health (drawing on art therapy) is an integral part of every step of the process.

Please describe the methodology or approach used in your project.
1. Image transformation nexus: Color Up Peace is based on the original image transformation process which starts when people send photographs of what peace is to them to the project. Lisa Glybchenko turns every photo into an outline of a coloring page by drawing each outline by hand in the digital format using a graphic tablet and a stylus. Then coloring artists engage with the outlines in printed forma and digitally.
2. Imaginary reconstitution of security: this methodology, developed practically and in research by Lisa Glybchenko, operationalizes the above nexus specifically to support ontological security of Color Up Peace’s participants. Ontological security is considered to be a pillar of sustaining peace based on supporting what/who already work for peace to push out what/who do not work for peace.
3. Peace design: the process of designing of visual/virtual/augmented demos within Color Up Peace is holistically pierced by the peacebuilding tenets and intents, changing all the design approaches employed in the process. This also includes depriving visual material of imperial legacies and toxic violent visual elements based on what that means in each context where Color Up peace works.
4. Visual peace technology: this methodology is the first-in-the-world methodology developed by Lisa Glybchenko in her Ph.D. “Visual Peacetech: Digital Visual Images as Security-Building Tools”. It designs dynamic intersections between technological digital and visual artistic innovation practices to render these intersections as peacebuilding strategies and uphold their continuity.

Please describe which elements of your project could be replicated or transferred to other places, groups of beneficiaries and context. This may involve for example aspects of the methodology, technology, processes, products, learnings etc.
Color Up Peace so far developed context-specific and nuanced peacebuilding programs for such contexts as Ukraine, Israel-Palestine and Kenya. The structure, model and methodology can be replicated anywhere. What has been changing and what will need to continue changing depending on the contexts is the content of the original peace visions, which become the start of digital-visual artistic-technological transformations performed within Color Up Peace as ways to design and negotiate peace futures.

Please explain what kind of global challenges the project addresses by providing local solutions
Supporting peace, as well as freedom and security as part of peace, is a global challenge. Color Up Peace was started by Lisa Glybchenko because of her own experience of military aggression against her home country Ukraine: when Lisa’s home region Crime was illegally occupied. It was an arguably local experience, which put concepts and freedom and peace in danger around the globe, and wee see the results of this danger now. From that, Color Up Peace, has engaged more than 50 contexts/countries in different ways – making a personal story of peacebuilding world-wide relatable and world-wide useful/educational. Because the content of visual material Color Up Peace takes as the start of visual artistic and digital technological transformation is always context-specific, the locally-originating methodology is globally applicable.
Please attach at least 6 high resolution images (or other types of visual representations, if images are not possible) to your application.
If you would like to upload additional documentation, please upload or write below
- GlybchenkoYelyzaveta - Visual Arts-Based Approach to Peace Mediation.pdf
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