Spolka – the collective forms sustainable cities for all and involves the public in innovative urban development. They are a team of experts in the field of architecture and sociology. In 2022 and 2023, as a collective, they were working intensively in the context of humanitarian aid. After the start of the war in Ukraine, they have actively cooperated with humanitarian organizations People in Need Slovakia and Mareena. They established 40 children’s leisure areas in the Transcarpathian part of Ukraine in schools, kindergartens and bomb shelters. They worked with crisis design and active cooperation which they transformed into large interventions in the form of three Low-threshold centres in Slovakia.
Another project Never Never School is a unique space for dialogical learning, utopian speculation and research about cities. It is a prototype and concept of education for the 21st century. Never Never School uses design as a tool for investigation, imagination and as a means of dialogue about possible futures. It transcends the traditional boundaries of education based on the hierarchies of teacher – student, expert – layperson. And another of their many projects ŠAK is a model of cooperation between school and community. It is a set of ideas, activities, and thoughts with the focus to improve the school environment and the communal life of the neighbourhood through an active engagement of parents, children and citizens.