15/5/25 15:00 Postgraduate hall.
Lecture by architect and visual artist Peggy Zalis entitled "The 'alania' and their eccentric architectural configurations: Women architects in the autonomous feminist movement of the post-dictatorship period in Greece" on Monday 12/5/2025 in hall A1 of the Department of Planning and Regional Development.
Lecture by Panagiotis Lianos entitled "Graffiti appearances: from the personal to the commons and from the urban to the digital " on Monday 12/5/2025 at 11:30 in the Amphitheater of the Department of Planning and Regional Development.
Panayotis Lianos is an artist, architect and tattooist based in Athens. He is a graduate of the School of Architecture of the National Technical University of Athens, has a Master of Fine Arts from the Athens School of Fine Arts and currently is a PhD candidate in Architecture at NTUA. His artistic research focuses on the methods of collective artistic production that can, potentially, create cracks within institutional frameworks. The mediums he employs span from installations to digital interdisciplinary fetishes, composing a vocabulary that fluctuates between bits and gestures, blood and data. His work has been presented in various institutions and art spaces such as: Urbanism\Architecture Bi-City Biennale (UABB), Hong Kong & Shenzhen; Saigon, Athens; State of Concept, Athens; Eight, Athens; Neo Cosmos, Athens; P.E.T. Projects, Athens; Ammophila, Elafonisos and Michalis Cacoyannis Foundation, among others. Panayotis is a member of the Laboratory for the Urban Commons, the fluid artistic collaborations method brackets[], and has been a member of the Ofrah Fergal Kasei practice. Via the aforementioned symbioses a series of co-authored works, interventions and publications have been produced; some exist in self-managed and public spaces while others are included in public and private collections. He has been awarded by ARTWORKS in 2022 and his PhD research is supported by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (HFRI) under the 5th Call for HFRI PhD Fellowships.
As part of the course RESIDENTIAL PRACTICES: The Monster of Karla, on Monday, May 12th at 14:30, we are delighted to host a guest lecture by Alexandra Arènes, titled "Terra Forma. Composing speculative mappings". The lecture will take place online via Teams.
In her talk, Alexandra Arènes will revisit the issues raised in the book Terra Forma and present the seven speculative mapping models it proposes, with a focus on the first three: soil, life points, and living landscapes. These models have inspired deeper ethno-cartographic inquiries, and the lecture will demonstrate how to shift from conventional cartographic references to alternative mappings rooted in the specific challenges of each landscape. Through examples drawn from fieldwork, she will show how the composition of these maps becomes possible by engaging directly with the agencies that inhabit the Earth.
Bio:
Alexandra Arènes is a graduate architect (2009) and holds a PhD in Architecture from the University of Manchester (2022). Her research and practice focus on understanding and representing landscapes in the context of climate change. She works with S.O.C (Société d'Objets Cartographiques) and Shaā, a studio for architecture and urbanism. Shaā designed an installation for the exhibition Critical Zones: Observatories for Earthly Politics at the ZKM museum in Karlsruhe, curated by Bruno Latour. Arènes is co-author of Terra Forma, a book of speculative maps published by MIT (2022). Her new book, Gaïagraphie. Carnet d’exploration de la zone critique (B42, 2025), explores fieldwork in the Earth’s critical zone and presents a collaboration with Earth scientists at the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP). More of her work can be found at gaiagraphie.com and s-o-c.fr.
As part of the course ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN IV-VII: Designing Emergency: Relocation of settlements after the disaster in the Thessaly Plain, on Tuesday 6/5 at 18:30 a lecture entitled "Earthquake and reconstruction. The case of the urban relocation of Gibellina” will be held by Angela Badami, University of Palermo (Italy), in the attic.
Earthquake and reconstruction. The case of the urban relocation of Gibellina
Lecture topics:
- Gibellina before the earthquake: the restitution of the image of a disappeared city
- The 1968 earthquake in the Belice Valley, Sicily
- Bottom-up popular activism and top-down State reconstruction
- Urban planning technique vs idea of the city
- The project for the new city and the urban planning variants
- Towards a new idea of the city: architecture and contemporary works of art
- The Great Cretto: epilogue of the city destroyed by the earthquake
MS Teams link.
Angela Alessandra Badami, architect and PhD in Urban and Regional Planning, is Full Professor of Urban Design at the Department of Architecture of the University of Palermo. She is in charge of the Urban Planning Laboratory 2 at the Master's Degree Course in Architecture and of the Laboratory of Analysis, Communication and Design of Urban Space at the Degree Course in Design. She conducts theoretical and applied research on urban regeneration, social innovation and the enhancement of tangible and intangible cultural heritage. She has conducted applied research for public bodies, including: the research on Local Cultural Systems, commissioned by the Regional Department of Urban Planning of the Sicilian Region for the drafting of the Regional Urban Territorial Plan of Sicily; the researchRisk Map at local scale – The waterfront from criticality to feeder of urban quality, commissioned by the Regional Centre for Restoration of the Sicilian Region. She is the designer and scientific manager of the European project Creative LAB–Alcamo, PO FESR Sicily 2007/2013. She directed the drafting of the Guidelines for the Colour Plan of the Egadi Islands, on behalf of the Municipality of Favignana.
On Tuesday 6-5-2025 at 17:00, there will be a lecture followed by a two-day workshop by Smaro Katsangelou, architect, specialized in artificial intelligence and PhD Candidate at Florida Atlantic University titled "Polykatoikia 2.0: Designing for the Greek City using AI", as part of the course Architecture Design Studio II taught by associate professor Ioanna Symeonidou
The lecture will take place at Lecture Hall Z
You can download the poster here.
As part of the course RESIDENTIAL PRACTICES: The Monster of Karla, a lecture titled “Art and Planetary Care: Issues of Materiality and Sustainability in the Era of Climate Crisis” will be held on Monday, May 5th at 15:00, delivered by Daphne Dragona via Teams.
Daphne Dragona is an independent curator, theorist and writer based in Berlin and Athens. In her current work, she addresses the challenges of degrowth for art and culture, and studies the ambiguous role of technology in times of climate crisis. Dragona is teaching Theory of Curatorial Practices, Exhibition Design and History of Digital Art at the Department of Audiovisual Arts of the Ionian University. She is affiliated to Onassis Stegi as curatorial advisor, and has served as a jury member for the Akademie Schloss Solitude fellowships (Stuttgart), for the ARTWORKS, Fellowship for Greek Young Artists and Curators of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (Athens) and for numerous festivals and conferences. She worked as a curator for EMAF- European Media Art Festival (Onsabrück) from 2021 until 2023, and, earlier, for transmediale festival (Berlin) from 2015 until 2019. From 2001 until 2007 she was the general coordinator of medi@terra festival, organised by Fournos (Athens). She holds a PhD from the Faculty of Communication & Media Studies of the University of Athens, an MA in Museum Studies from UCL, and a BA in Archaeology and History of Art from the University of Athens.
Note: The lecture will be delivered in Greek.
On Tuesday, April 29, 2025 at 1:00 PM in the postgraduate hall (ground floor) and within the framework of the Erasmus+ BIP Cross-Mythologies and Anthropocene, a lecture by Professor Zisis Kotionis entitled “Every Bone in You _ Every Stone is You” will take place.
On Tuesday 29-4-2025 at 14:00, there will be a lecture by Alexandros Christodoulou, civil engineer, computational designer and PhD Candidate at UTH titled "Reshaping the Digital Toolkit of Architecture", as part of the courses Computer Aided Design I and Architecture Design Studio II
The lecture will take place at the Amphitheatre of the Department of Architecture
You can download the poster here.