OSTRIA*
Student conference
Friday February 10th 2017
Starting at 10:15
Room Z (upper floor)
The conference is organized within the framework of the course South: Space and non hegemonic paradigms of knowledge
Tutor: Iris Lykourioti
The conference aims at a concluding discussion on the subjects investigated during the course’s proceedings under the perspective of the epistemologies of the South.
Student organizing committee
Vaggelis Agatsas
Elissavet Baltoglou
Traianos Bokas
Afroditi Kakou
Yiannis Koukouzelis
Maria Lymperidou
Maria Papadouli
Ellie Petridi
See more:
https://southnotos.wordpress.com/about-2/
https://southnotos.wordpress.com/about/
https://www.facebook.com/South-Space-and-non-hegemonic-paradigms-of-knowledge-1805347886416128/
*south wind
Moira Hille, Christina Linortner
Model House: Mapping Transcultural Modernisms
Tuesday January 10th 2017, 15:00, Room B
(connection via skype)
Lecture within the framework of the course South: Space and non hegemonic paradigms of knowledge
Tutor: Iris Lykourioti
Biography
Moira Hille is an artist, performer and researcher based in Vienna. Her works focus on spatiality of subjectivities and bodies in the intersections of gender, race, and sexuality. She is a PhD student and lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
Christina Linortner is an architect and researcher based in Vienna. Her work is transdisciplinary, across the fields of architecture, urbanism, and theory with a focus on housing culture and migration, transcultural studies, and haunted houses, e.g. in Nigeria, Los Angeles, and China. She is teaching at Graz, Technical University.
Both Moira and Christina have been collaborating on the Research Project "Model House-Mapping Transcultural Modernisms" at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna 2010-2012
Bouki Babalou
Social + architectural movements. The‘70s.
Tuesday December 20th 2016, 15:00, Room B
Lecture within the framework of the course South: Space and non hegemonic paradigms of knowledge
Tutor: Iris Lykourioti
Biography
Bouki Babalou is an architect and engineer. She is Professor at the School of Architecture of N.T.U.Athens.
1946 Born in Thessaloniki.
1970 Qualified in architecture N.T.U.Athens.
1970 – present Practicing architect together with Antonis Noukakis.
1971-2013 Teaches architecture, urban design and landscape at the School of Architecture of N.T.U.Athens.
1972-1986 Member of Atelier 66, architects, urban designers.
1984 Consultant for the Ministry of Culture for the Architectural Exhibitions of Athens Cultural Capital of Europe.
1995 Member of the Architects Department of the National Board of Habitat II.
1999-2001 Tutor at the Postgraduate Course of School of Architecture N.T.U.Athens, on Public Space.
2001 ‘Public Space in Le Corbusier work’. Sabbatical Research Year. Fondation Le Corbusier, Paris.
2004 Elected Professor of Architectural Design at the School of Architecture N.T.U.Athens.
2004-2005 Architectural Design Tutor and first year coordinator at the new founded School of Architecture in Chanea, Crete.
Founded in 1970, the architectural office Antonis Noukakis and Partners with Antonis Noukakis and Bouki Babalou as founding members has been working on projects of private and public interest. They have won 20 architectural competitions and gained 6 awards for realized works. Their work has been published and exhibited in Greece and abroad. They have also presented their work on several congress and meetings in Greece and abroad.
December 2016 - January 2017
A journey from the north to the central and eastern Ethiopia for about two weeks.
A route from the north to the central and eastern Ethiopia. We will visit places and people, we will attend ceremonies and structures, lake monasteries, carved rock churches, savannas, medieval towns, castles, villages. We will visit homes, courtyards, ceremonies, terraces and markets, material and spiritual palimpsests, testimonials from encounters of religions and structures.
Addis Ababa, Entoto Maryam church, Merkato, Debre Markos, Debre Libanos, Bahir Dar, Blue Nile waterfalls, Tis Abay, Kebrane Gabriel, Kidane Mihiret, Tana Kirkos, Bahir Dar - Gondar, Azmari, Axoum, Simien, Debre Berhan Selassie, Debark, Gondar, Lalibela, Kombolcha , Harrar, Tomb Sheikh Abadir, Dire Dawa.
Responsible for the educational journey is professor Theoklis Kanarelis.
For information and statement of interest please contact: theoklis@uth.gr
16/12/2016, 12:00 at Department's Amphitheatre
Antonis Antoniou, Historian, University of Thessaly
Ioanna Barkouta, Architect, University of Thessaly
Zisis Kotionis, Architect, Professor in the School of Architecture in the University of Thessaly, Head of the Research Centre on History, Theory and Semantic Design
Αt the epicenter of this one-day conference is the “spatialisation” of theoretical discourses of “emergency”, with reference to the city of Volos. Continuities and discontinuities, ruptures and completions in the urban space, traces of the need for housing and habitation will be addressed. In other words, specific aspects of habitation and housing during historical “emergency” circumstances will be examined.
Opening 30/11/2016
Penny Koutrolikou
From “Emerging social movements in cities in South Europe” to “Transformations of urban citizenship in times of crisis” and questions of solidarity and socio-spatial justice.
Tuesday November 29th 2016, 15:00, Room B
Lecture within the framework of the course South: Space and non hegemonic paradigms of knowledge
Tutor: Iris Lykourioti
Biography
Penny Koutrolikou is a Senior lecturer at the School of Architecture, NTUA. She is an architect/planner, with a MA in Sociology (Goldsmiths College, UK) and a PhD in Planning Studies (UCL, UK). Her PhD research focused on ‘Ethnocultural relations in East London’s ‘multiculturalism’. More recently she has been working on processes of stigmatization and racism in inner city Athens, on discourse analysis of politics, media and policies, on questions of hegemony, crisis and governance and on socio-spatial justice.
Tuesday November 15th 2016, 15:00, Room B
Lecture within the framework of the course South: Space and non hegemonic paradigms of knowledge
Tutor: Iris Lykourioti
Leda Kyriakou, graduate student of our department will be joining the conversation by introducing material from her research topic ‘The use of Architecture in the process of colonization as an apparatus of control and identity building’ (2016), which was supervised by Phoebe Giannisi and Yorgos Tzirtzilakis.
Biography
Vassiliki Yiakoumaki is Assistant Professor at the Department of History, Archaeology and Social Anthropology of the University of Thessaly. She has received her PhD in cultural anthropology at the New School for Social Research, New York (2003). She has an MA in Mass Communications from the University of Leicester, UK (1993), and a BA from the University of Ioannina, School of Philosophy, Dept. of Philosophy-Education-Psychology (1989). She has taught at Panteion University, Athens, and Columbia University, New York, and also has teaching experience at Harvard University and New York University. She has conducted research for European-Union research programs, through the Universities of Crete, Macedonia, and the Agricultural University of Athens. Her research interests focus on the anthropology of institutions, and particularly on issues pertaining to ethnic identities and politics of multiculturalism in Europe, and on European cultural policies. In this context, she has developed a particular research interest in the area of food and eating in connection to modern consumption. Currently she is exploring, and teaches on, issues of jewish identity and culture in Greece and the rest of Europe. Her research focuses on religion and the public sphere, and particularly ideas and practices of religiosity among contemporary Greeks.
Nikos Anastasopoulos
Epistemologies of the South: Issues of space production and architecture
Tuesday November 8th 2016, 15:00, Room B
Lecture within the framework of the course
South: Space and non hegemonic paradigms of knowledge
Tutor: Iris Lykourioti
Biography
Nicholas Anastasopoulos architect, researcher, lecturer at the National Technical University of Athens. PhD in alternative communities and sustainability (NTUA). As post-doctoral Researcher in Ecuador (IAEN, 2014) he contributed to the FLOK Society project and conducted research on aspects of Buen Vivir and sustainability, and the impact of the commons on urban environments. His work addresses sustainability, expressions of the commons in space, alternative communities, future alternatives, systems, complexity and participation.