18/12/25 18:00 Amphitheatre
As part of the course Contemporary Architecture in Old Buildings and sets of the Master's Degree in Reuse of Buildings and Sets, on Thursday 11/12/2025 at 16:00 [UTC+3] the online presentation by Sally Stone, Manchester School of Architecture, entitled “The Future of the Already Built” will take place.
Bio
Sally Stone studied furniture design and then interior design in Manchester. She then worked in architectural practice for a decade before entering academia initially at the University of Cardiff. She received her Doctorate from the University of Westminster. Professor Stone leads the MA Architecture and Adaptive Reuse programme at the Manchester School of Architecture, and her research lies within the areas of interiors, building reuse, and pedagogy. Her recent publications include: Notes Towards a Definition of Adaptive Reuse (2023), UnDoing Buildings (2019), ReReadings Volumes 1+2 (2018, 2004), Inside Information (2022), and Emerging Practices in Pedagogy (2021). She is the 2022 Visiting Professor at IUAV Venice, and the 2025 Visiting Professor at Berlin International University
Summary
For such a long established and deeply entrenched subject, adaptive reuse has a remarkably short history. It is a practice that stretches back to almost the first constructed buildings themselves - for structures have perpetually been altered to accommodate the needs of their different occupants, and yet it has continually lacked the recognition of new-build architecture. However, this century has seen a significant interest in the adaptive reuse of existing buildings, and it is at last beginning to be seen as a professionally relevant and creative way of developing the built environment. This talk will discuss the evolution of adaptive reuse into the force that it assumes today.
SKG Makers by Greek Eco Project
Avgi Metaxa
Wednesday 10th of December 2025 | 18:30-20:00 [Online]
Learning with the Sea
Nancy Couling
Thursday 27/11, 14.00
Hall D and online
Our previous work reveals that we know little about the ocean although it lies directly in front of us, surrounds us, we hear its soundscape and observe its surface. Human–Ocean relations are today characterised by different forms of Ocean Blindness –from lack of knowledge or the dominance of complex science to persistent perception of the ocean as an empty surface or the ruthless exploitation of marine resources with disregard for the ecological consequences.
In collaboration with the art triennale Bergen Assembly (2025) we have explored what a reversed perspective from and with the sea–can teach us about these relations, the more-than-human oceanic world and different systems of inherent oceanic intelligence. Learning with the Sea may require unconventional research methods and produce challenging outcomes.
Nancy Couling is an Associate Professor at the Bergen School of Architecture in Norway. She is also a Senior Researcher & Coordinator MAS in Urban & Territorial Design, ETH Zurich, Switzerland. She was a workshop expert on the urbanization of the oceans at the 5th Holcim Forum 2016 dedicated to “Infrastructure Space”. Nancy Couling completed a Marie Curie Post-Doc Fellowship at the TU Delft with the research project OceanUrb- the unseen spaces of extended urbanisation in the North Sea. Her special field of interest is the entanglement of urbanisation processes with liquid spaces and she is part of the research group “Territories of Extended Urbanisation” led by Christian Schmid & Milica Topalovic, Future Cities Laboratory 2, ETH Singapore. She previously taught and practiced in Auckland, NZ, Hong Kong, Melbourne, Venice & Berlin where she co-founded & -directed the practice cet-0/cet-01 until 2010. She co-edited the prize-winning Barents Lessons- Teaching & Research in Architecture (2012) with Harry Gugger, Aurélie Blanchard & Ludovic Balland Typography Cabinet Basel, and The Urbanisation of the Sea (forthcoming 2020) with Carola Hein, and continues to exhibit, publish and lecture internationally. She formed the interdisciplinary partnership cet-0 in Berlin in 2005, (2005-2010 cet-01) focusing on urban design, and also taught in the Department of Urban Design at Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin). She is the author of Barents Lessons: Teaching and Research in Architecture with Harry Gugger and Aurelie Blanchard (Park Books, 2013).
In the framework of the course EKTOS POLIS: Researching the Urban Otherwise - Wanderings across Extended Urbanisation
Observatory of the Countryside
tutor: Metaxia Markaki
For online attendance contact memarkaki@uth.gr
See the poster here.
Elina Letsiou
Embodied Domesticity: Landscapes of Care and Sustenance in Thessaly
Tuesday, 25 November 2025 14:00
Hall E
Department of Architecture, University of Thessaly
Pedion Areos, Volos
Lecture delivered within the course Architectural Design VII: Density.
Tutors: E. Dimitrakopoulou, Z. Kotionis, V. Trova, C. Paniyiris
Abstract:
The presentation introduces a posthumanist framework for understanding architecture as a relational practice embedded within networks of interdependence among humans, non-human actors, materials, and socio-ecological systems. Within these networks, flows of care, resources, and labour shape spatial configurations and transform accommodation practices. The research focuses on the region of Thessaly, approaching the landscape through the agencies of its water bodies.