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Lecture by Zoy Anastassakis: Architectural symbioses and everyday acts of design in a Brazilian design school
21/11/2023

Tuesday November 21st 2023 14:00 (GMT+2)
Mezzanine, Post Graduate Room
Department of Architecture, University of Thessaly
Pedion Areos,Volos

Lecture within the framework of the courses 
South: Space and non hegemonic paradigms of knowledge
Tutor: Iris Lykourioti

Urban Planning I: Urban Design
Tutors: Fabiano Micocci, Vasso Trova

Biography
Zoy Anastassakis (1974) is a Brazilian designer with Greek nationality, and she holds a Master and PhD degree in Anthropology. She was Director at Escola Superior de Desenho Industrial, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2016–18), where, since 2012, she works as Associate Professor, coordinating the research group “Laboratório de Design e Antropologia.” In 2017, as visiting researcher, she joined the project “Knowing from the Inside: Anthropology, Art, Architecture and Design,” lead by Tim Ingold in the Department of Anthropology, University of Aberdeen, Scotland. She is a collaborating researcher at Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia (CRIA) in Lisbon, Portugal. She published “Triunfos e Impasses: Lina Bo Bardi, Aloisio Magalhães e o design no Brasil” (2014), “Refazendo tudo: confabulações em meio aos cupins na universidade” (2020), and “Everyday acts of design: learning in a time of emergency” (2022, with Marcos Martins).

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