19/01/2022 14:00 Teams
19/01/2022 14:30
3 137 artist run space: Ιf you don’t have a job, create a job for yourself*
Online Lecture, Tuesday January 18th 2022, 14:00 (GMT+2), MSTeams [link]
Lecture within the framework of the course South: Space and non hegemonic paradigms of knowledge, Tutor: Iris Lykourioti
Biography
3 137 is an artist-run space based in Athens, founded by the artists Chrysanthi Koumianaki, Kosmas Nikolaou and Paky Vlassopoulou, in February 2012. The artists’ initiative aims to create a meeting point for exchange and discussion. Its projects place emphasis on collaboration, institutional critique and hospitality. 3 137 has presented exhibitions, one-off projects like performances, talks and workshops, as well as community and research based projects in collaboration with art professionals, scientists and friends. 3 137’s expanding program is a collective and collaborative practice of its founding members and aims to experiment and propose hybrid forms of being together.
Since its establishment, it has collaborated with more than 200 artists, curators, collectives and institutions. Over recent years, the program has focused on long lasting community, research and discursive projects. Temporary community radio projects have been realised in Athens (2014, 2020) and in Dubai (2019). A parallel activity of 3 137 is the establishment of an immaterial institution called GABRIELA and a self publishing project. GABRIELA deals with issues of sustainability, labor and institutionalisation questioning the role of artists' initiatives. Polar Bear, an ad hoc publishing house, commissions new artists’ books and present exhibitions once in a while.
* The lecture is based on the translation of the title into Greek
Online Lecture
Tuesday January 11th 2022
15:00 (GMT+2)
MSTeams [link]
Lecture within the framework of the course South: Space and non hegemonic paradigms of knowledge
Tutor: Iris Lykourioti
Abstract
In this presentation, Chester Arcilla explains the political-economy of the Philippine socialized housing program and its implications on subaltern resistances. The socialized housing program provides the relocation required legally for evictions of informal settlements. Compelling slum dwellers to purchase unlivable and unaffordable housing in remote peri-urban sites, the program privatizes profits, socializes risks and costs, and curtails democratic participation. Urban subalterns respond with diverse resistances ranging from quiet encroachment to an Occupy movement. Here, quiet encroachment for in-city home-remaking after evictions requires the break-up of families, negotiations with slum gatekeepers and community support. Many slum communities have also countered with people's planning for on-site upgrading or near-site resettlement, achieving some success with allied NGOs and state champions' support. However, the people's plans are constrained by housing subsidies, which often exclude the poorer slum dwellers. In 2017, the Kalipunan ng Damayang Mahihirap - a coalition of urban poor groups, enacted one of the largest empty socialized housing takeovers in the Global South. This occupation may signal a shift from defensive anti-eviction protests and barricades to an offensive strategy for urban resource redistribution in the Philippines but has provoked state containment strategies from an increasingly fascist regime.
Biography
Chester Antonino C. Arcilla, PhD is an associate professor of economics and urban studies at the University of the Philippines-Manila. His work centers on helping the poor struggle for their right to the city and marking histories of and struggles against home-unmaking accompanying neoliberal urbanization and financialization in the South. His recent publications include: Heterogeneous subaltern collectivities and neoliberal entanglements: Resisting neoliberal frontiers, pragmatic socialities and the right to the city for all struggle; Ensuring the affordability of socialized housing: Towards livable and sustainable homes for the poor; Producing empty socialized housing: Privatizing gains, socializing costs and dispossessing the Filipino poor; and Personal politics and ethics in engaged ethnography in urban subalternity.
The 10th winter school organized by CRESSON is welcoming (again) this year the « B-AIR Art Infinity Radio » project supported by the Creative Europe Culture Program (EACEA).
As since 2013, the CRESSON winter schooltakes the form of a week of research and practices in order to discuss and explore the laboratory’s methods and concepts in their capacities to give some answers to a specific topic in link with the sound environment, its study and its transformations.
This year the theme is “Sound spaces in waiting”.The 2022 edition proposes to the participants to think more precisely about the cultural and spatial dimensions of the perception of ambiences by working on « sound spaces in waiting »: architects, urban planners, artists, designers, but also inhabitants, we conceive and occupy the public spaces of our cities and the landscaped space is often the place of various sound practices: words, musical listening, sports practices, walking, stay, meetings, etc. How can we design public space and its furniture to be less vulnerable? How can a public bench become a waiting sound space, ready to be activated by an individual (a hearing impaired person, a group, a child, etc.)? How can these urban objects be designed and constructed to provide multiple, sensitive and multicultural listening experiences? What kind of « sound spaces in waiting » can be designed and built to give or bring attention to the vulnerabilities and pluralities of uses and spaces?
The CRESSON WinterSchool will take place in parallel at the Ecole Nationale d’Architecture de Grenoble, and and at the Department of Architecture of the Polytechnic school of the University of Thessaly in Volos (Greece).
It will take place from Monday 17 January 2022 to 21 January 2021. The mornings will be dedicated to theoretical presentations (in English) and the afternoons (in French and Greek depending on the site) will be dedicated to the design and construction of a series of body-scale prototypes to think and experiment with these sound spaces in waiting.
Working languages: English / French / Greek
Registration form hereMore info: https://ehas.hypotheses.org/4921
17/12/21 18:00 Teams
15/12/2021 11:00-13:30
14/12/2021 12:00-13:00
Wednesday, 8th December 2021, 20:30.
EDIT is a group of women working collectively to challenge the enduring biases and hierarchies embedded in the built environment. EDIT’s research looks at architecture and its power to influence and maintain established gender and family roles. In 2019, EDIT was invited by the Oslo Architecture Triennale to present «Gross Domestic Product» —a prototype of a hoover that must be operated by three people simultaneously. Most recently, EDIT designed the exhibition on the work of Matrix Design Cooperative titled «How We Live Now» for the Barbican Centre in London. http://www.editcollective.uk
See the poster.
Coordinated by
Katerina Chatzikonstantinou, University of Thessaly
Alexandra Vougia, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Responses by
Sasa Lada, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Elpida Karaba, Ioanna Zouli, Valia Papastamou, Marianna Stefanitsi,members of the Centre of New Media and Feminist Public Practices
The Online Discussion is under the auspices of the Center for New Media and Feminist Practices in Public Space of the Department of Architecture, University of Thessaly and the Gender Equality Committee of the University of Thessaly.
On Tuesday 7-12-2021 at 18:00, there will be a lecture by Antonis Moras, founder of the aether:arch office entitled "Almost Objects. In/Exteriorities", as part of the course Architectural Composition III-V: G: Biomimetic Architecture (Instructor: Ioanna Symeonidou)
The lecture will take place live at the exhibition space of the Department of Architecture