Interactive Installations At Crimea Platform

The first installation, Cultural Treasures of Crimea, was an interactive video wall that opened a window onto the cultural heritage of a peninsula made inaccessible by Russian occupation. Delegates could explore four pillars of Crimea's identity: the Scythian Gold, ancient relics of the peninsula's earliest settlers and the subject of a decade-long international legal case for their return to Ukraine; the ruins of Tauric Chersonesus and the Genoese Fortress, remnants of classical and medieval civilisation being steadily destroyed under occupation; the Khan's Palace in Bakhchysarai, the defining architectural monument of Crimean Tatar culture, damaged under the guise of restoration works; and the living traditions of the Crimean Tatar people: their folk art, language, cuisine, and religious life, all of which continue to face suppression on the occupied peninsula.

The second installation, Letters to Crimea, offered something more intimate: an interactive portal through which summit guests could send personal messages to the peninsula, to its residents, friends, and relatives, to its mountains and sea, to its towns and places of memory. Each message appeared almost instantly on the large LED screen and on a dedicated website, as if delivered in real time across an invisible border. For many delegates, it was the closest thing to contact with an occupied land that diplomacy alone cannot reach.

Together, the two installations translated the summit's political purpose into human terms, making Crimea not just a subject of international declarations, but a place that people could see, touch, and write to.