Lecture by Niki Sorvani “Map-writing for feminist and queer approaches”
Thursday 26/3/2026 14:00-17:00 - Οnline - https://msteams.link/KSD2
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The lecture will take place online in the framework of the course: Special Topics In Theory of Architecture Ii: Decolonising Architecture (Instructor: P. Phokaides, Ass. Prof. Dept. of Arch, UTh)
Short bio:
Niki Sorvani is an architect from the Department of Architecture at the University of Thessaly, whose academic and research activity lies at the intersection of architecture, feminist geography, and queer spatial studies. She holds a PhD from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), focusing on critical analysis of normativity in modernism through the Paradigm of Ernst Neufert's architectural standards handbook, a MSc in Design-Space-Culture from NTUA and a MA in Gender, Society, and Politics from Panteion University. Her research focuses on the gendered and embodied dimensions of space. Her monograph Inhabiting the Uncanny: Toward a Spatial Exploration of the “Closet” was published in 2025. She has additionally participated at conferences, with publications in peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes, as well as lectures whose central theoretical axis is a feminist and queer approach to space — from the scale of the body and the house to the urban environment.
On Wednesday, 18 March 2026, as part of the Erasmus+ BIP "QueerrRing Ecologies: Performative Approaches within and around Bodies of Water and Waterscapes", a series of lectures will take place at the Museum of the City of Volos. Duration 18:00-21:00.
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Erasmus+ BIP:
DArch, UTh Department of Architecture, University of Thessaly
EBABX École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux
ERG École de Ρecherche Graphique
DCCMI, UThDepartment of Culture + Creative Media and Industries, University of Thessaly
Tending Sheep, Goats and Windturbines
Alexandros Bouris
Mezzanine
Thursday 12/3, 10:00
Kafireas in southern Euboea, also known as Kavo Doro, isolated and exposed to wind and waves, occupies its own place on the map. The main activities in the villages of Kavo Doro are goat and sheep herding and the wind energy industry. Goats and wind turbines may not appear to have a direct connection; however, amid the transformations of the contemporary era, such unconventional relationships seem to flourish. Yet they share a common denominator: care—care for both animal and machine. Residents of the wider area are professionally engaged in caring for goats and sheep as well as wind turbines.
Successive arrays of wind turbines, endless electricity cables, abandoned villages, very few inhabitants, and countless goats characterize the landscape. They coexist—or at least attempt to—as the wind industry dramatically affects the area, transforming it into an industrial landscape where each of us becomes an intruder in an environment that has already moved beyond us.
Alexandros Bouris studied architecture at the University of Thessaly and currently works at Antonas Architects in Athens. His research project Caring for Goats, Sheep, and Wind Turbines has been presented at film and photography festivals. His interests focus on questions of rural space and the transformation of the countryside.
Within the framework of the course
PELION CHŌRA: Dissecting and Reweaving a Mountain
By The Observatory of the Countryside
Tutor: Metaxia Markaki
Thursday 12/3/2026 11:00-13:00 - Room Γ and online (MS Teams)
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The lecture will take place as part of the course: COHABITING IN THE GARDEN: ARCHITECTURES OF CARE Instructor: P. Phokaides, Assistant Professor, UTh
Short bio:
Thalia Marou holds a diploma in Forestry (AUTH) and a Msc in Environmental Design of Cities and Buildings (EAP, 2007) and a Ph.D. from the Department of Architecture, University of Thessaly. Her research interests include urban gardening as an everyday practice, natureculture networks, care in more than human worlds. Since 2014, she has been teaching at the Department of Architecture, Uth the courses: Urban Plantings, Urban Agriculture in the Contemporary City, Food Geographies, Naturecultural approaches to Environmental Issues.
Lecture by Ioanna Piniara: “Towards an Ecology of the Private: A Manual for the Trigono Community Land Trust in Kessariani” from her book titled “We Have Never Been Private: The Housing Project in Neoliberal Europe”.
Wednesday 11/3/2026 19:00-21:00 - Room Γ and online (MS Teams)
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The lecture will take place in-person and online as part of the course: COHABITING IN THE GARDEN: ARCHITECTURES OF CARE Instructor: P. Fokaidis, Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture, University of Thessaly
Short bio:
Ioanna Piniara is an architect and researcher holding a PhD in Architecture from the Architectural Association (AA). Her research interests include the study of domesticity as a biopolitical device for the control of bodies and identities, the spatial implications of economy, institutional power and policy in the design of urban housing as well as narratives for the decolonization of housing typologies and urban forms. Ioanna has taught History and Theory Studies and Architecture and Urban Design at the AA, and she has been a post-doctoral fellow of the ‘Architectures of Order’ research cluster at the Goethe University Frankfurt. She is currently teaching design and theory seminars at the Architecture School of the National Technical University in Athens. She is the author of “We Have Never Been Private: The Housing Project in neoliberal Europe” by Actar Publishers, 2025, and “The Housing Question is a Feminist Question: Housing Commons for the ‘New Woman’ of the German Werkbund” by M Books, 2026.