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Lesia Topolnyk received the prize on December 1st from Gunay Uslu, the state secretary for Media and Culture, at Het Nieuwe Instituut. Lesia won the prize for her spatial proposal 'No innocent landscape'; a spatial design for the Ukrainian mining village of Hrabove, which became world news when passenger flight MH17 was shot down there in 2014. Her proposal shows how spatial design can help make far-reaching events understandable and help repair their consequences.

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Lesia's Healing Site, like that of the other architects, is on display at Het Nieuwe Instituut until 9 April 2023. The accompanying publication is available now.

 

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The Prix de Rome is the oldest prize in the Netherlands for visual artists and architects younger than 35. This year the prize is organized by the Mondriaan Fund in collaboration with Creative Industries Fund and Het Nieuwe Instituut, on behalf of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science.