Reading Group: Feminist Theories and Practices

Guests: Phoebe Giannisi and Marios Chatziprokopiou

Chimera, Local Tropics, The Place of Scraps: Polyphonic readings for the species, gender, race and sexuality.

Thursday April 1st 2021, Time: 15.00-18.00 Teams

The seminar embarks on the key question by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, "Can the subaltern speak?" (1988) to focus on the practices of ethnography, poetry, and performativity, further raising issues of postcolonial, feminist and queer theories. The participants in the seminar read live selected texts from the books Chimera (Χίμαιρα) and Local Tropics (Τοπικοί Τροπικοί) by Phoebe Giannisi and Marios Hadjiprokopiou, respectively. These readings, and their live, performative versions, are then put in a dialogue with the work of the indigenous, Canadian, poet Jordan Abel, 'The Place of Scraps'. The connecting thread: the shifting of dominant ethnographic discourse on gender, race, and sexuality and how these (re)inscribe in the field of literature - written and/or vocalized. 

The arguments of the three poet(es)s' are inscribed in a genealogy of relations between ethnography and art with a particular emphasis on language (from the work of Michel Leiris to that of Michael Taussig) and discussed in conversation with the critical essays on ethics and politics of performativity and ethnography by David Conquergood.

The online lab/seminar will take plaase via Teams platform. For participation please email us at fpmedialab@uth.gr to receive the link.

11/03/2021 20:00 Teams

4/3/2021 18:00 Teams

04/03/2021 20:00 Teams

Student Conference Documenting

Friday February 26^th 2021 11:00 Teams

The conference is organized in the framework of the elective course South: Space and non hegemonic paradigms of knowledge

Tutor: Iris Lykourioti

Student organizing committee:

• Fountos Yorgos
• Mountogiannakis Ionas
• Pnevmatikou Evangelia

Click for the program and poster.

Blog with abstracts of essays written for the course ‘South: Space and non-hegemonic paradeigms of knowledge

25/02/2021 20:00 Teams (join with code: h1p23mv)

Luce de Lire in residence - Workshop

Digital Enclosure and it's Revolutionary Other

our residency is organised as a long-distance liability-residency.

Wednesday 10 February 2021 / Event time: 19.00

Following 3 successful and thought-provoking sessions, we would like to invite you to the closure of the workshop of the philosopher Luce de Lire and to the farewell of comrade Josephine, with the text CyberSpace and the Darker side of the West.

In this workshop, we first focus on classical original accumulation and its conjoined manifestations in Europe and its colonies. We then look at its most current formation – the enclosure of the internet – and a possible queer enclosure, namely the industrialization of the libidinal economy in a pink totaliterian picture.

To register for the workshop or state your interest in auditing please email us on fpmedialab@gmail.com.

For more information on the work of the Centre and our projects and events you can visit our website http://www.centrefeministmedia.arch.uth.gr

Fatura Collaborative, Platon Issaias, Elisavet Hasa

Architecture, social movements and collective equipments

Thursday January 28 2021, 14:00, Teams

Lecture within the framework of the course South: Space and non hegemonic paradigms of knowledge

Tutor: Iris Lykourioti

Fatura Collaborative- architecture and research collective, was founded in 2009 and is developing projects across a wide range of scales, from intimate objects and performance, to architecture, urban design and planning. We are interested in architecture as social infrastructure, in developing collective equipments, in the design of spaces of care, empathy and welfare. We design and research expanding new problematics about ecology, the domestic, everyday life and the city.

In our lecture, we present elements and projects from our work, with an emphasis on the relation between architecture, social movements and collective equipments. We are interested reflecting to the following questions: How can we respond to changing political, cultural, economic, and urban contexts and how to propose new effective design ideas and models? What is the agency of architecture? How do we develop a pedagogical model that allows for a more effective relation between academic institutions and practice? How can architectural and urban design practice intervene in contexts where vulnerable and often in-transit population are living? How can the categories of permanence, transition, or ‘integration’ be rethought in relation to new models of social and spatial organisations that challenge conventional domestic diagrams?

Biographies

Elisavet Hasa(she/her) studied architecture in Patras, Greece, and currently is a PhD researcher at the School of Architecture at the Royal College of Art in London. Her research focuses on the intersections between social movements and the state apparatus and centres around the ad hoc infrastructures created for welfare provision during periods of crisis. She has practiced architecture in the UK and worked in the housing, healthcare, and education sectors in collaboration with public authorities and established architectural practices (PRP, EPR). Prior to London, Elisavet gained experience as an architect in Athens, Tirana and Madrid. Since 2019, she is a member of Fatura Collaborative.

Platon Issaias(he/him, Athens 1984) is Head of Projective Cities MPhil in Architecture and Urban Design programme at the Architectural Association, where he is also teaching as Diploma Unit Master (Diploma Unit 7, MArch/RIBA Part II). Since 2009, he has been founding member of Fatura Collaborative. He studied architecture in Thessaloniki, Greece (AUTh, 2007) and holds an MSc from Columbia University (GSAPP, 2008).  He completed his PhD in the Netherlands (TU Delft, 2014), as a member of The City as a Project Research Collective. His thesis Beyond the Informal City: Athens and the possibility of an Urban Common, supervised by Pier Vittorio Aureli, investigated the recent history of planning in Athens and the link between conflict, urban management and architectural form. His research interests explore urban design and architecture in the relation to the politics of labour, economy, law and labour struggles. He has written and lectured extensively about Greek urbanisation and the politics of urban development.