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.
Panel #3 EVERYDAY LIFE AND HOUSING
Guest speakers:
Electra Energy Co-operative:
Chris Vrettos
CoHab Athens:
Constantina Theodorou
Coordination: Anthi Kosma
Response: Giorgos Mitroulias
CV
ELECTRA ENERGY COOPERATIVE Energy is a social cooperative enterprisesince 2016. Through civil advocacy, research and consultancy Electra Energy Cooperative works for the transition to a democratic, inclusive, and sustainable energy system with citizens at its coreby supporting new and existing energy communities.
Chris Vrettos is currently conducting a traineeship at the European Parliament. He is working for Electra Energy Cooperative, a social enterprise that promotes the active engagement of citizens in renewable energy production (energy communities) in Greece, the Balkans and abroad. He holds a masters degree from Stockholm Resilience Center on Socio-Ecological Resilience for Sustainable Development. He has worked in multidisciplinary research programs (England, Sweden, Galapagos Islands, Greece, Peruvian Amazon) examining connections between different environmental and social systems. He’s interested in journalism and has co-founded the digital platform The Climate Collective hosting personal stories from around the world on the consequences of climate change.
COHAB ATHENS is an open group, an exchange platform for urban researchers, activists and anyone interested in claiming housing as a right and exploring alternative housing models through self-management and collective ownership in Greece. In collaboration with European networks CoHab Athens has organized workshops for knowledge exchange in Athens and abroad, neighborhood participatory design workshops as well as other initiatives in order to explore the possibilities for the creation of the first project of cooperative housing/collective ownership in Athens.
Constantina Theodorou is an architect and urban researcher. As a PhD candidate of Urbanism NTUA she is exploring emerging assemblages of geology-infrastructure-politics under the spectrum of climate change. Parallel to academic research, she is engaged with performative practices in urban space (walking lectures, video performances, reactivation of empty spaces). She is a founding member of CoHab Athens introducing cooperative housing in Greece and member of Counterpublics exploring artistic practices in extended public space.
Panel #2 REPRESENTATIONS AND INFORMATION
Guest speakers:
The Funambulist Magazine
Léopold Lambert
Forensic Architecture
Stefanos Levidis
Coordination: Fabiano Micocci
Response: Phoebe Giannisi
CV
The Funambulist Magazine is a printed and digital publication published once every two months. Started in September 2015, it operates in parallel of the blog The Funambulist (started in 2010) and its podcast, Archipelago (started in 2013) that has published more than 110 conversations with thinkers/creators of the world for the last three years. As the magazine's subtitle, "Politics of Space and Bodies," suggests, this publication is dedicated to examine the political relationships between the designed/built environment and bodies. In doing so, it attempts to construct bridges between the disciplines of design, those of the humanities and post colonial studies, as well as the world of political activism. In July 2016, its sixth issue was published, concluding the first year of the magazine that successively investigated "Militarized Cities", "Suburban Geographies", "Clothing Politics", "Carceral Environments", "Design & Racism" and "Object Politics".
Léopold Lambert is a Paris-based architect who also lived and worked in Hong Kong, Mumbai, and New York. He is the editor-in-chief of The Funambulist magazine, its blog, and its podcast, Archipelago. He is the author of several books: Weaponized Architecture: The Impossibility of Innocence (dpr-barcelona, 2012); The Funambulist Pamphlets, Vol. 1–11 (punctum books, 2013–15); Topie Impitoyable: The Corporeal Politics of the Cloth, the Wall, and the Street (punctum, 2016); and La politique du bulldozer (The Politics of the Bulldozer, Éditions B2, 2016). He is also the editor of The Funambulist Papers, Vol. 1–2 (punctum, 2013–15). In addition to these media (designing/writing/editing/recording), he also regularly creates cartographic work to address certain spatial political conditions in Palestine and in the French banlieues (suburbs), and occasionally publishes photographic work.
Forensic Architecture is a multidisciplinary research group led by Eyal Weizman based at Goldsmiths, University of London. Forensic Architecture was formed in 2010 as a research project and a new paradigm of architectural practice that uses spatial tools, techniques and technologies in order to investigate cases of state violence and human rights violations at an international scale. FA develops evidence based techniques and is assigned architectural and multimedia research by communities who have been severely affected by state violence. FA also collaborates with juridical bodies and international organizations that are charged with the defense of human rights and environmental justice. FA´s practices are developed as a response to several converging phenomena, such as the urbanisation of warfare, the erosion of trust in evidence in relation to state crimes and human rights violations, the emergence and proliferation of open source media (or 'image flotsam'), the increased use of smartphone footage in documenting human rights violations in urban conflict, and the need for civil society to have its own means of evidence production for application in law, politics and advocacy.
Stefanos Levidis is an architect, researcher and visual practitioner. He is a project coordinator at the research agency Forensic Architecture, where he oversees the agency’s work on borders and migration. His PhD dissertation, submitted at the Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths University, and titled Border Natures. The Environment as Weapon at the Edges of Greece, interrogates the entanglement of border defence strategies with the natural environment at the external borders of the EU, with a focus on the Greek case. He also holds a Bachelor’s and a Master’s in Architecture from the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, as well as a Master’s in Advanced Architecture from the Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia. As a member of Forensic Architecture he was part of the team nominated for the Turner Prize in 2018, and has lectured and exhibited internationally. His own spatial and visual practice has also been presented and published internationally, and his investigative research has been submitted to courts in support of human rights cases. He has been awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS (2021).