Dnipro River Integrated Vision
← ProjectsDnipro River Integrated Vision is a project of connections. Connections between people and the Dnipro River. Between water and land. Between nature and cities. Between our history and future.
This project is a joint work of Ro3kvit, Urban Coalition for Ukraine, and Greenpeace, exploring the Dnipro River as a living system in times of fragility and transformation. The research investigates the river’s potential and power, its vulnerabilities during wartime, its pollution, and its delicate balance between human intervention and natural flow.
The Dnipro is Ukraine’s largest river — It supplies water to two-third of the country’s population, connects cities and ecosystems, powers industries and communities, while at the same time being weaponised in war and threatened by devastation.
In the exhibition, a large canvas with the map of the Dnipro shows the river’s length, making its scale visible and tangible. Opposite the canvas, a bench invites visitors to pause and spend time with the Integrated Vision of the Dnipro River. This 500-page book, created in wartime, gathers research and stories that reveal the river’s many layers — from ecological processes to cultural memory, from wartime destruction to possibilities of recovery.
The work reflects how landscapes and societies are constantly reshaped, fragile yet resilient, vulnerable yet generative. While rooted in the Ukrainian context, the project also opens a broader conversation: how do we understand and care for rivers worldwide as life-giving infrastructures, deeply entangled with human histories, technologies, and conflicts?
We want to show the unused potential of the Dnipro River and relate this potential to the Ukrainian daily reality. To show the Dnipro River as a source of Life. And how this life has been under large threat. We want to show the beauty and the man made mistakes. Soon after the full-scale invasion began, Greenpeace launched a series of initiatives for a new kind of reconstruction in Ukraine. Turning a small, damaged hospital into a green prototype for the process led to the ambition to scale up and develop a concept for greening an entire city, region or even something specific like a river basin.
At the beginning of 2023, Ro3kvit was considering a study of the importance and impact of the Dnipro River, in all its complexity and all its potential. The explosion at the Kakhovka Dam and the tragedy that happened because of this, was an extra trigger to really do it. In Summer 2023, Greenpeace and Ro3kvit teamed up to develop a vision for the Dnipro River. To show the unused potential. To create dialogue and share knowledge. To give alternatives. To inspire.
A joint project by:
Ro3kvit Urban Coalition for Ukraine
Greenpeace Central and Eastern Europe
July 2024
The full report is available for download at the project website: