The Shop at DCCC is an artistic project by Studio 12345678910 titled “Shaky Tables,” which functions as a store.

To design the temporary DCCC shop, the collective draws inspiration from the unreflected experience of “grassroots architecture” — the spontaneous stalls frequently seen on the streets of Dnipro. Lacking ready-made architectural forms, people who have not found a place in shopping malls or city markets assemble their own structures from whatever materials are at hand.

In this case, the primary material is disposable crates used for transporting fruits and vegetables. The instability of such trade demands a flexible architectural form: crate-based counters are easy to assemble in the morning and dismantle at the end of the day.

Despite the apparent distance between a street vendor and a cultural worker, a certain similarity emerges. Working in the field of contemporary culture in Ukraine is likewise characterized by instability and precarious employment. Exhibition venues appear and disappear. Cultural workers mostly exist outside of stable institutions, and artworks are created under conditions of chronic underfunding.

In the DCCC Shop, you can find various items dedicated to contemporary art, urbanism, design, culture, and Dnipro specifically — including books, artworks, cassettes, vinyl, and merch from our projects.

The shop currently operates in a test format, open only during events.

Studio 12345678910 is a collective working at the intersection of design and artistic practices, utilizing field research methods. Their research primarily focuses on the residential micro-districts of Dnipro. The collective consists of Yevhenii Obraztsov and Anastasiia Omelych.

Photo by Yevhenii Obraztsov.