Following the actions of Open Up Uth, the workshop "Domestic Assemblage II" will be held 6-15/4/2022 at the Department of Architectural Engineering. "Domestic Assemblage II" is a workshop for the design and manufacture of everyday objects and furniture, organized by the European cultural program Open Up and the University of Thessaly. The aim is to create low-cost home forms and constructions by restructuring different elements. Following a methodology of collecting and assembling fragments from the material world around them, participants are invited to transform them and reuse them for new daily life performances.

• Pieridis Foundation (Nicosia, Cyprus)
• Publics (Helsinki, Finland)
• Ivers Université de Picardie Jules Verne (Amiens, France)
• University of Thessaly (Volos, Greece)
• New Hand Lab (Covilhã, Portugal)
• Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain)
• Valand Academy of the University of Gothenburg (Sweden)

31/3/22 19:00 Teams

Lecture by Leonidas Empirikos*: An outline of the demographic and linguistic history of the area of nowadays Hellenic Republic during the last four centuries

Wednesday March 30^th 2022, 19:00 (GMT+2)

Foyer, Department of Architecture
University of Thessaly
Pedion Areos
Volos

Lecture within the framework of the courses:

• Introduction to Architecture II
• Materia and poetics: Diaspora

Tutors: Phoebe Giannisi, Iris Lykourioti, Giorgos Mitroulias

Biography
Leonidas Empirikos is a historian. He was born in Athens in 1957. His research focuses on minorities in Greece. He is an associate of Musical Folklore Archives of the Centre for Asia Minor Studies. Since 1980 he is in charge of the publication of the work and heritage of Andreas Empirikos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kmQwgkBaag

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFHJs8K6a4g

* in collaboration with Yiannis-Elissaios Paparrigopoulos

Online Lecture

Christy Constantakopoulou
Insularity between connectivity and isolation: A historical perspective of the Aegean Sea during Classical and Hellenistic times (5^th-2^nd century BC)

Tuesday March 17^th 2022 14:00 (GMT+2)

MSTeams link

Lecture within the framework of the course Materia and poetics: Diaspora

Tutors: Phoebe Giannisi and Iris Lykourioti

Biography

Christy Constantakopoulou is Professor of Classics and Ancient History at the Department of History, Classics and Archaeology at Birkbeck University of London and Associate Researcher at the Section of Greek and Roman Antiquity, Institute of Historical Research, National Hellenic Research Foundation. She is the writer of numerous scientific articles and books amongst which are, The Dance of the Islands: Insularity, Networks, the Athenian Empire and the Aegean World (2007, Oxford University Press), Aegean Interactions. Delos and its Networks in the third century (2017, Oxford University Press). She is co-editor of the forthcoming multivolume work The Oxford History of the Classical World (Oxford University Press).

http://www.eie.gr/nhrf/institutes/igra/cvs/cv-Constantakopoulou-en.pdf

https://www.bbk.ac.uk/our-staff/profile/8003671/christy-constantakopoulou

On Wednesday 16/03/2022 19:00, architect Irgen Salianji (Architects for Urbanity) will give a lecture on the Architecture of contemporary public libraries.

Teams link

15/3/22 12:00