Ukrainian entrepreneurs are transforming a Soviet-era manufacturing plant into a growing urban space for education, business and art with the help of an $8.5 million injection from local investors
The disused factory in the city of Ivano-Frankivsk once produced gas meters and other appliances, but is now a growing urban space with a green micro farm, a contemporary art gallery, offices and a children's education club.
"We are creating an innovation centre which will include four main fields – education, art, new economy and urbanism. Why these fields? Because they drive development of any area, any society," project co-founder and CEO Yuriy Fylyuk, 38, told Reuters. In its 2020 Corruption Perception Index, Transparency International ranked Ukraine 117th out of 180 countries globally, giving it 33 out of a maximum of 100 points where zero indicates that "corruption effectively replaces the government".
"The atmosphere is different here. A place shapes a person's thoughts. And this particular place has had an impact on our thoughts and our ideas," the department's head Igor Popadyuk said. "Everything feels different here."
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