On Friday 02/12, at 12:00 at hall A, a lecture will be given by Julia Georgi [Nerantzia Tzortzi] PhD, Associate Professor Department of Architecture, Built Environment and Construction Engineering, Politecnico di Milano.
Title: "Natural Based Solutions and Participatory Design"
Lecture by Sotiria Alexiadou entitled "(Re)Construction of Thessaloniki after World War II & Decoding the post-war apartment building, aka ‘polykatoikia’" on 1/12/2022 13:00 at the Amphitheatre.
Synopsis
Currently, the majority of Thessaloniki’s built environment is the result of the reconstruction of the city after World War ΙΙ. The urban and building reconstruction development strategies were common throughout the big cities of Greece. However, Thessaloniki developed under particular circumstances due to the starting point of its’ urban planning and the special conditions and regulations that were applied for the building development of the city. World War II and the Greek Civil War interrupted the city’s planning program that was established after the big fire of 1917. Thessaloniki development entered its post-war period under the pre-war urban planning and building regulation, but the changes in the political-social-economic areas, imposed modifications.
This lecture will focus on the post-war (re)construction of the city and the architectural development of buildings for public use, social housing and especially the private buildings of the "Ordinary Everyday Modernism" of Thessaloniki, mainly during the period 1947 -1974, up to the present day. In addition, the role of post-war legislation in shaping the volume and image of the post-war apartment building, aka ‘polykatoikia’,will be presented.
Bio
Sotiría Alexiádouwas born in Thessaloniki. After studying Architecture at the University of Thessaly (2007), she attended the MSc. in Urban Strategies of the University of Applied Arts [Universität für Angewandte Kunst] in Vienna (2010). A few years ago, she studied at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki following the interdisciplinary MSc. in Protection, Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Monuments (2016). Recently, she successfully defended her PhD Thesis in the Architecture department of the University of Thessaly (2022).
She has participated in teaching teams at the University of Cyprus, the University of Thessaly, and the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. As an architect, she has participated in architectural competitions with distinctions. Her research and architecture projects have been presented at conferences, seminars, and exhibitions. Her work has been published in conference proceedings, collective volumes, journals, catalogs, and websites.
Her research interests concern the mechanisms of urban transformation, the evolution of postwar architecture and its future in terms of protection, restoration, and reuse.
1/12/22 13:00 Amphitheatre
Dr. Margarita ANGELIDOU is a project manager and senior scientific expert at Q-PLAN International, Thessaloniki (Greece). By education, she is an architect, urban planner and expert in Smart City policies, strategies and tools. She holds a PhD in "Strategic Planning for the Development of Smart Cities" (2015), conducted at the Urban and Regional Innovation Research Lab URENIO of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, which is internationally accredited for its pioneering research in the intelligent cities domain. Margarita has been involved as a researcher, principal investigator and project manager in the digital, intelligent and smart cities domain since 2007, counting 16international and national projects. She has been awarded over 10 awards and scholarships for scientific excellence, including two individual post-doctoral research grants from the Greek State in the smart city domain (2015-2018). She has published over 50 articles about smart city policies and strategies in international journals, books and conferences. Next to the previous, for the past two years sha has been serving as an expert evaluator on digital transition and user-centric digital governance at the Horizon2020 and Urban Innovative Actions programmes of the European Commission.
On Friday 25/11, at 11:00 at the Foyer, a lecture will be given by Maria Marlanti, Assistant Professor, School of Architecture, NTUA, entitled: "Methodological Tools for Urban Design_ readings".
key-words: readings, interpretations, transformations, natural landscape, urban landscape, layering.
24/11/22 14:00 room Z & Zoom
Life in the city creates spaces where women can experiment in new roles, challenge the natural order, claim new demands, and change ordinary representations and material constraints. In order to explore these changes, we need specific methodological tools that presuppose an approach of the city as both peopled and gendered and it has as priority the experiences and practices of women, the ways in which they contribute to urban development.
keywords: gender, everyday life, place /space, public/private, local/global, life strategies, everyday practices, Lefebvre
Rouli Lykogianni is Assistant Professor in the department of Urban and Regional Planning of National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) where she teaches urban planning and gendered approaches to urban space. Also, she is member of the NTUA research team “Gender and Space”. She has participated in a number of Erasmus intensive Courses on “Geography and Gender” and in seminars and conferences on Space, Inequality and Difference. Recent research interests, publications and papers in Greece and abroad presented in conferences include: the feminist critique of urban analysis, the gender metaphors in architecture and urban planning, and women’s everyday lives in the (neighbourhoods of) city and their roles in the making of the city, and Gendered Aspects of the Everyday (Willey Encyclopedia of Blackwell). Some of her articles are published in the following journals: Urban Studies, Women and Environments, Geographies (greek) and some others constitute chapters of greek books. Recently she involved on following research projects: a) “Interwoven everyday lives and socio-spatial changes/transformations within cities. Migrant and local women in the neighbourhoods of Athens” (Research project NTUA), b) “Development of methodological tools for the comparative research of neighbourhood in the European cities” (National Technical University of Athens) and c) “Urban Intercultural Spaces and Movements”, one of the 8 Work Packages of the EU project “Gender, Migration and Intercultural Interactions in the Mediterranean and South East Europe: an interdisciplinary perspective” (FP7, Panteion University).
On Wednesday 23-11-2022 at 13:00, there will be a lecture by Plácido Lizancos Mora, Professor of Architectonic Analysis and Dean at Escola Técnica Superior de Arquitectura - Universidade da Coruña entitled "Addressing the right to architecture", as part of the course Architectural Design III-V Z: Digital Tectonics: From design to construction
The lecture will take place at the Exhibition Hall of the Department of Architecture.
You can download the poster here.
On Tuesday 22-11-2022 at 15:30, there will be a lecture by Vicente Adrián López Chao, Professor at Universidade da Coruña entitled "Storytelling to render architecture. A lesson from concept art", as part of the course Computer Aided Design II
The lecture will take place at the Amphitheatre of the Department of Architecture.
You can download the poster here.