UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY
LAKE2017
LakesideAmphibiusKeystoneElements
* Economy : from Greek oikonomia ‘household management,’ based
on oikos ‘house’ + nemein ‘manage.’
* Scope : from Greek skopos ‘target,’
from skeptesthai ‘look out.’
* -scope : from Greek skopein ‘look at.’
* Ethos : from Greek ēthos ‘nature, dis-
position’ (plural) ‘customs.’
* stochasti : from Greek stokhastios,
from stokhazesthai ‘aim at, guess,’ from
stokhos ‘aim.’
* philosophical : from Greek philosophia
‘love of wisdom.’
theECONOMY THAT TRANSFORM THE TOPOGRAPHY
Economy* is a term originate from the Greek language containing a very well
composed and demanding meaning. The word economy consists of two words.
The word ‘’oikos’’– house, temple, city, and the word ‘’nemein’’-the management,
the system of collective driving laws in order to live well together.
Oikos in the ancient greek language means not only the actual house but the overall
and familiar correlation grid of the city, the surrounding cultivated area,
the near topography and landscape peculiarities, the road networks and the chain
of political and commercial relationships with the near by communities.
Seeing under this scope* the community of the Gefiroudi village
(some few km from the enbankment of lake Kerkini) is situated into
a flourishing and thriving topography of well being within its natural limits
including the scale and the living patterns of multiple near by communities.
The area’s natural identity is based on the vast plain of Serres
(one of the five major Hellenic planes) till the far away high mountains of Krousia,
Kerkini (Beles) and Falakro which surrounding it.
The river Strimon flowing south from Bulgaria disemboque in the north side
of the lake enriching through a network of canals the cultivations of wheat,
corn, tobacco, cotton and tomatos. It is an exceptional and ideal geography
allowing multiple cultivations to thrive throughout deep history enabling
the communities to a sustainable and balanced economy idealy related, presently,
with the local economy, of the city of Serres and the major urban center
of the city of Thessaloniki.
At the south end of the lake (the Lithotopos village) the artificial
barrier control the flow of the water of the river Strymon still flowing
as far as the aegean sea (the strymonikos gulf).
theTECHNOLOGY THAT TRANSFORM THE TOPOGRAPHY
The vehicular technology and the reconstruction of
the road network together
with the advance and fast adaptation of computing technologies and the internet
are the crucial factors that sustain and boost the living and economic standards
of life in this area as in many such culture pockets on the planet. Although the area
has a valid network of prime and secondary roads the rebuild of the road connecting
the city of Serres with the city of Thessaloniki (and through it to the Egnatia road
uniting the west harbor of Igumenitsa with the Hellenic-Turkish borders in the east
all the way to Istanbul) is going to increase the flow of visitors to the lake
(preserved by the PAMSAR convention on wetlands of international importance)
and the surrounding minor cities still preserving a mild and ideal way of country
side living, the ethos. The new and fast expansion of the global internet network
is a crucial civilization phenomenon driving young high educated workers and thinkers
to live and work in such areas strengthening the local communities already well
performing in keeping settled most of their inhabitants the length of the year.
theIDEAS andPRACTICES THAT TRANSFORM THE TOPOGRAPHY
1. Following patterns of living well practiced along decades within a rural plateau
of sustainable and simple (or spartan) corellation with a given environmental
identity while exercising a cutting edge working discipline in the fields of the full
growing new tendencies in science, technology, education and arts is the stochastic
possibility we have to respond to providing a fruitful textual and visual reply.
Into this environmental pocket protected by the RAMSAR convention a set of new working
tasks can be applied inviting otherwise unemployed young scientists, researchers
and multimedia artists to inhabit and incorporate with the existing communal expressions
of well being.
Working smoothly the length of the day, exercising simple ordinary acts, activating long dialogues under a cluster of trees by the lakeside or under a shadowy shelter (imaging, narrating and exposing incidents of self behavior, criticizing the urban priorities suppressing self, explaining and proposing political and philosophical possibilities), resting into the dark cool interiors during noon time, exploring the thrifty and modest living manners eating and producing food, offering, visiting and inviting), walking and observing rituals along the diversity of land formations, drawing personal charts for the long and demanding trekking disciplines on the mountains, crossing endless variations of cultures and pockets of houses scattered in between the distances, enjoying the tranquility of the afternoon hours till midnight (explaining and comprehending the identity of the day passed) consist the bedrock of new ethos encouraging the intoduction of this vibrant living and working condition. Finally, understanding the most crucial and essential quality of life in the open, the tiny scale of the habitats and the sparse of native and visiting human beings living and sharing the communal experience of life, confirm and verify the stochastic* and philosophical* practice of well being.