21/11/11, 20:00, DArch Amphitheatre
Bio
Johan Bettum is professor and programme director of the Städelschule Architecture Class. His practice, ArchiGlobe, engages with experimental approaches to architectural design. Bettum's research interests and PhD focus on advanced architectural design strategies and the potential that fibrous and textile systems present for architecture. He has taught and lectured at a range of schools, including the Architectural Association (AA), UCLA, the Berlage Institute and the EPFL in Lausanne. Bettum studied architecture at the Architectural Association in London after gaining a Bachelor of Arts with a major in biology from Princeton University.
Α Walk in Mavrovouni (Agiokampos), Thessaly.
Bio
Thanasis Totsikas is a visual Artist living and working in Nikaia and Mavrovouni (Agiokampos) in Thessaly. He studied in the Athens School of Fine Arts (1967) and École des Beaux-Arts in Paris (1970). His work has been exhibited in various exhibitions in Greece and abroad.
Greesis #3
Alexandros Kioupkiolis
The authoritarian integration of Neolibaralism
Tuesday, November 1st, 2011
Time: 9.00
Lecture Hall, Department of Architecture, Pedion Areos, Volos
CV
Alexandros Kioupkiolis was born in Athens in 1975. He studied Greek Literature at the University of Athens and Political Theory at the University of Essex and Oxford, where he completed his Phd research. He has taught political theory at Oxford University and the University of Cyprus. Since 2010 he is a Lecturer at the Department of Political Science of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. His book "Freedom after the critique of foundations: Marx, liberalism and agonistic autonomy", is under publication by Palgrave Macmillan publisher.
Greesis #2
Stephanos Rozanis
The crisis examined within the frame of late consumerist capitalism.
Tuesday 25 October 2011
Time: 21.00
Lecture Hall, Department of Architecture, Pedion Areos, Volos
CV
Stephanos Rozanis was born in Karystos in 1942. He is an author and a poet. He is a member of the editorial board of the Journal ‘Simioseis’. He has been working for Université Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris III) and the New Philosophy Society of the University of Edinburgh. His main field of research is Romantic Literary Theory.
GREESIS
Identity as Action
Lecture Series, Department of Architecture University of Thessaly, 2011
Editors: Phoebe Giannisi, Iris Lykourioti, Yorgos Tzirtzilakis
The effects of the economic crisis in Greece introduced a rupture in the stability of everyday life, bringing us under a state of emergency.
Highlighting and examining this new condition, we invite a series of actions undertaken by political scientists, writers, architects and artists under the title GREESIS. (GREECE+CRISIS=GREECE IS).
Praxis(action) is the root of the word πραγματικότητα(pragmatikotita) in greek, meaning reality. Reality is being formed constantly through the actions of people. Identity in this light is a political entity and corresponds to the way someone acts within the sphere of community.
Taking as a point of reference Hannah Arendt’s book Vita Activa, we are interested to address issues regarding geopolitics, biopolitics, the role of agricultural production, philhellenism, the greek cultural dilhemma between the east and the west and immigration, in order to understand better the connection between Greece and the global economic crisis through its impact in space and social structure.
ALTERNATIVE TEMPORARY DWELLING
TEACHING
Elias Zenghelis, Professor, Berlage Institute
Teaching assistants: Fyllio Katsavounidou, Nikos Platsas, Savina Derdelakou, Ioannis Baltogiannis
WHEN / WHERE
Friday 26 August through Sunday 4 September 2011
St. Nicholas – Paou Monastery, Argalasti, Pelion, Greece
THEME
Participants will examine alternative ways of temporary dwelling as well as its relation to the landscape; these could include educational installations which leave no permanent traces.
The concept of integration in the landscape is projected neither with modest humility nor as an abandonment of architecture’s jurisdiction but rather as an emphatic juxtaposition of the intrinsic properties and of the oppositions between the two. That is, of the dialectic that underpins and juxtaposes the constitution, on one hand, of the evolutionary dynamics of nature and, on the other, of the static balance of the human artifact.
WHO
The workshop is open to undergraduate students in the last years of their studies, to graduate students and to young architects (who have graduated in the last five years). Participants, 18 in total, will be selected on CV / portfolio basis.
STAY & COST
Τhe workshop will take place in the Monastery of Paou in Pelion, Greece (www.monipaou.gr), where participants will also be housed. Included in the participation price (300 euros) are: tuition fees, stay, as well as a daily excursion in the area.
HOW TO APPLY
Please send your application (include a 2-page pdf with 150-words cv and sample of portfolio) to pelion.aw@gmail.com (deadline: 31 July, 2011).
The 2011 workshop Erasmus IP "Changing Landscapes - Mediterranean Sensitive Areas Design" took place in the University of Thessaly in Volos, from Thursday 2nd to Thursday 16th of June, 2011.
Description
The Changing Landscape/ Mediterranean Sensitive Areas Design Project it is a joint program which brings together European Schools of Architecture and Landscape design allowing to face and to share different attitudes, strategies, politics of intervention focussing on Mediterranean critical areas, where the landscape project (in terms of value and quality) imbeds a cultural dimension and serves as sources of reference.
The project objective is to strengthen the research focussing on the values and sensitiveness applied to the landscape project, in both meaning the aesthetic-cultural and the ecological-environmental. It will be helpful to lead new strategies of intervention for this particular situation. Themes are different: abandoned industrial areas, suburban areas, the public space system for the city, parks and gardens design into marginal ambits, coastal line and infrastructures, all things that need a definition of problems and most of all correct approaches to work out in the “landscape system”. So to build, with this experience, a disciplinary specialization and to enlarge the educational system, and over to share and to favour cultural exchanges between all involved Universities.
Participating universities:
UNIRC - Università mediterranea di Reggio Calabria / Mediterranea Univesity of Reggio Calabria
TUM - Technische Universität München / Technical University of Munich – GERMANY
UPC Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya/Technical University of Catalonia - SPAIN
ETSAB - Escola Tècnica Superior d’Arquitectura de Barcelona
UMA Universidad de Málaga/University of Málaga - SPAIN
Universidade Lusiada de Lisboa/Lisboa Lusiada University – PORTUGAL
UTH - University of Thessaly - GREECE
IUAV - Università IUAV di Venezia/ University IUAV of Venice - ITALY
Politecnico di Milano – ITALY
More information: http://www.changinglandscapes.eu/
Giorgio Agamben, “Che Cos’ è un Dispositivo?”, Nottetempo, Roma, 2006
Giorgio Agamben, “What is an Apparatus?”, translated by David Kishik and Stefan Pedatella, Stanford University Press, California, 2009
