Design & Build Workshop | Layers of Permanence
LAYERS OF PERMANENCE. reusing vacant building structures
(RE)USING EXISTING STRUCTURES. design & build workshop | Volos | 20-27 of April, 2024
Lecture by Antonis Hadjikyriakou entitled Reflecting Mediterranean trends and patterns: environment, economy, and people.
Thursday April 18th 2024 14:00 (GMT+2)
Amphitheatre, Department of Architecture, Pedion Areos, Volos
Lecture within the framework of the course Materia and poetics: Diaspora
Tutors: Phoebe Giannisiand Iris Lykourioti
Biography
Antonis Hadjikyriacou is Assistant Professor ofOttoman and Turkish History at Panteion University and Affiliated Scholar at the Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis at Stanford University. He has worked and taught at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Princeton University, SOAS, the Institute for Mediterranean Studies/Foundation for the Research and Technology-Hellas, and the University of Cyprus.His research and teaching adopts a Mediterranean-wide perspective and employs Critical GIS tools and Digital Humanities methods for the purposes of social, economic, and environmental history of Ottoman Cyprus. His monograph Peninsular Island: Cyprus and the Ottoman Mediterranean during the age of revolutions has been recently published in Greek by Psifides Publications.
18/4/2024 19:00
MS Teams link
Michaël Ghyoot is an architect and researcher in the field of reuse, ecology, and architecture. He holds a PhD from the Faculty of Architecture of the Université libre de Bruxelles. He is project manager at Rotor, where he has been involved since 2008 through research, lectures, exhibitions and assistance to building owners and contracting authorities. He supervised the edition of the book 'Déconstruction et réemploi' (EPFL Press, 2018) and steered the Interreg NWE FCRBE project (2018-2023).
LECTURE
Speakers: Konstantinos Avramides and Platon Issaias
Title: Architecture and Care: Lessons from and Thoughts on Kessariani
Date/Time: Wednesday, 17 April 2024 18:30-20:30
MS Teams: https://shorturl.at/sIY35
The lecture will take place online in the framework of the course: COLLECTIVE INHABITATION MODELS: ARCHITECTURES OF CARE. Instructor: P. Phokaides, Ass. Prof. Dept. of Arch, UTh.
Short bios:
Konstantinos Avramidis is a Lecturer in Architecture at the University of Cyprus. He holds a DipArch from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, an MSc in Architecture and Spatial Design from the National Technical University of Athens with distinction, and a PhD in Architecture by Design from the University of Edinburgh. He has taught extensively at various institutions in Greece and the UK, most recently at Drury University and the University of Portsmouth. His designs have been awarded and exhibited internationally while his research has been published in books and journals, including the distinguished City and Design Journal.
Platon Issaias (he/him, Athens 1984) is an architect, researcher, and educator. He is Assistant Professor of Architectural Design at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki-Greece, and Head of Projective Cities MPhil in Architecture and Urban Design programme at the Architectural Association. He is co-founder of Fatura Collaborative, a research and design collective developing projects across a wide range of scales, from intimate objects and performance, to architecture, urban design and planning. He studied architecture in Thessaloniki, Greece (AUTh, 2007) and holds an MSc from Columbia University (GSAPP, 2008). He completed his PhD in the Netherlands (TU Delft/ Berlage Institute, 2014), as a member of The City as a Project Research Collective. His research interests explore urban design and architecture in the relation to the politics of labour, economy, law, and labour struggles. He has written and lectured extensively about Greek urbanisation and the politics of urban development in the Global South.
We will have the pleasure and honor of receiving Giuseppe Gavazza who is giving a lecture entitled "Let’s dense! Densité, Entropie, Composition: How can sounds inhabit a space?" as part of the "Sound Atmospheres (and closed spaces)" course on Monday April 15th, 2024 from 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. in room E.
Based on a phenomenology of musical interpretation that I conceive with an ecological posture, the choice of pieces will be made under the consideration that listening embodies an organic action of a sound/musical body which encompasses the performers (in their broadest sense), space and listeners. And that living can be interpreted as: filling, animating, occupying, living, resonating, dancing…
“Writing about music is like dancing about architecture” (Quote attributed in the last century to many musicians, artists, writers)
In the framework of the Master Program Reuse of Buildings and Complexes at the Department of Architecture of the University of Thessaly, on Thursday 11/4 at 19:00 [UTC+3] on MS TEAMS will take place the online lecture from Neiheiser and Argyros on the theme of City Spolia.
Coordination: Fabiano Micocci, UTH
10/4/2024 20:00 Amphitheatre
Lecture by Eleni Katrini, titled Places of Everyday Life, Togetherness & Care in Transition.
Wednesday, 10 April 2024 18:30-20:30
MS Teams: https://rb.gy/6ujlhd
The lecture will take place online in the framework of the course: COLLECTIVE INHABITATION MODELS: ARCHITECTURES OF CARE. Instructor: P. Phokaides, Ass. Prof. Dept. of Arch, UTh.
Short bio:
Eleni Katrini is a designer and researcher with experience in academia, local government, private and voluntary sector. Her research, practice, and teaching focus on the fields of urban commons, sharing, collective housing, urban ecology, strategic and participatory design. Eleni has worked extensively on participatory projects in Greece, the US and UK. She enjoys exploring everyday social life through participation, research, observation, and visual storytelling. Through her work she aspires to make cities more environmentally regenerative and socially inclusive places to live in.
She is currently a Postdoctoral Marie Curie Research Fellow and Adjunct Faculty at the School of Architecture, at the National Technical University of Athens. In the past, Eleni taught at the Schools of Architecture at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Sheffield. She obtained her Architecture diploma from the National Technical University of Athens, her MS in Sustainable Design and PhD from Carnegie Mellon University. Her PhD thesis had the title: “Creating the Everyday Commons. Spatial Patterns of Sharing Culture”.
(Connect with Eleni: website | Places of Togetherness Website | LinkedIn | instagram)