Leda Kyriakou
From the use of architecture in colonial control and identity building to the development of coloniality within the metropolis and shaping the interior enemy in the Paris banlieus.
Thursday December 17th2020, 14:00, Teams
Lecture within the framework of the course South: Space and non hegemonic paradigms of knowledge
Tutor: Iris Lykourioti
Biography
Leda Kyriakou is a graduate of the Department of Architecture, University of Thessaly (2016), and of the postgraduate program ‘Research in Architecture: Architectural Design - Space - Culture’, of the National Technical University of Athens. On the research project of the undergraduate studies she focused on the use of architecture as a means of control and construction of identities, and subsequently the thesis of the postgraduate program was based on the subject ’The echo of colonialism in the metropolis: the construction of the ‘internal enemy’ in the banlieues of Paris’ (supervisor professor Stavros Stavrides). The subjects have been presented to undergraduate students and to the seminar of the Greek Association of Architects, ’Approaching space by the way of Maria Mantzari’ (March 2019). She works at a technical office and at a digitalisation of image and sound files.