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.
Lecture by Jacob Moe: SIFF & Archipelago Network: Case Studies
Tuesday November 15th 2022
14:00 (GMT+2)
Mezzanine, Post Graduate Room
Department of Architecture, University of Thessaly
Pedion Areos,Volos
Lecture within the framework of the course South: Space and non hegemonic paradigms of knowledge
Tutor: Iris Lykourioti
Biography
Jacob Moeis the founder and director of the Archipelago Network. He studied Politics at Pomona College in Los Angeles (BA) and Social Documentation at the University of California, Santa Cruz (MFA). In 2013 he co-founded the Syros International Film Festival, which he directs. As a documentarian, he has produced film and radio documentaries in collaboration with local communities in Los Angeles (USA), São Paulo (Brazil) and the Cyclades islands (Greece). He is an advocate of open access to culture and a member of international networks for the preservation and accessibility of archives, including the Whole Life Academy of the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (2019-2022) and the Creative Commons Open Glam Initiative (ongoing).
https://syrosfilmfestival.org/
https://archipelagonetwork.org/
15/11/22 18:30 room Ζ
On Thursday 10th of November the Department of Architecture, University of Thessaly opens a new series of scientific meetings Docta Spes*. The future of space is now with the scientific seminar Practices of radicalization of architectural design tools.
In a moment when the production and management of space has become a major political issue in the greek public sphere, the Department of Architecture of the University of Thessaly takes the initiative to open a public discussion on how present research can help us to imagine and apply other models of organizing the economy, the production of space and artifacts, housing, arts, everyday life and media information.
The seminar will be held at the auditorium of the Department of Architecture at Pedion Areos, Volos. The event will be partially broadcasted online at MS Teams
Opening at 11:15 am
Download the program and the press release.
Connect via MS Teams
Panel #4 ARTS AND ARTIFACTS
Guest speakers:
Saprofyta
Nadja Argyropoulou
Boulouki
Panagiotis Kostoulas
Coordination: Sophia Vyzoviti
Response: Zissis Kotionis
CV
Saprofyta (Saprophytes) is a collective artistic project that, since 2009, focuses on finding, processing and assembling pre-existing material which is in a state of conceptual decay or disparagement. The by-products of this activity are intended to form visual pastiches or/and new narrative frameworks, to multiply misreadings and recombinations by means of speculative fabulation. In this sense Saprofyta always move from and within areas of degrowth, and participate in a continuous organic feed-back processing the cultural production and its materials. Saprofyta has participated in the organization of exhibitions and projects of contemporary art, architecture, cultural communication, audiovisual documentation of art and artefacts, in Greece and abroad. The collective has participated in research projects, created new bibliographic collections and relevant archives as well as works of moving image and publications. Its founding members are, independent curator and art theorist Nadja Argyropoulou, and architect Yorgos Tzirtzilakis. People from various disciplines and of various interests participate in the projects initiated by Saprofyta.
Nadja Argyropoulou is an independent curator and art theorist. She has worked with a large number of public and private cultural and educational Institutions, Universities, art organizations and grass roots initiatives in Greece and abroad. She has written and edited texts for several art publications. She has curated many transdisciplinary events and exhibitions. She researches alternative networks of autonomous eco-activism, forms of queer anarchism, eccentric alliances of art and science. She is a founding member of the artistic/investigative collective Saprofyta, AICA (International Association of Art Critics) and IKT (International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art).
BOULOUKI is an interdisciplinary research collaborative, whose work is focused on the study of traditional building techniques and materials. In Greek Boulouki means “gaggle”, travelling group, a name evoking the tradition of travelling companies of stone masons and craftsmen. Its aim is to trace and document the living carriers of such traditional knowledge; to study and to further disseminate it through workshops and actual building projects which are organized in collaboration with local communities. Based upon these thematic axes, the group’s course of action includes conducting research, organizing workshops, conferences and cultural events; promoting projects in collaboration with local communities and their stakeholders.
Panos Kostoulas is an architect. He has graduated from University of Patras and completed his post-graduate studies in Materials Science and Technology at the NTUA, focusing on historic mortars. Since 2012, he has worked as an architect, both as an employee and collaborator with several architectural firms in India and Greece and also as a part-time lecturer in Ooty McGan’s School of Architecture in Tamil Nadu, India. He has participated and organised workshops related to natural and traditional building techniques in Greece and abroad. Panos is a co-founder of Boulouki.