Department of Architecture - University of Thessaly

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

Lecture by Fatura Collaborative, Platon Issaias, Elisavet Hasa: Architecture, social movements and collective equipments

28/01/2021

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.

Student Workshop: B-AIR Art Infinity Radio

22/01/2021

The 9^th winter school organized by CRESSON is welcoming 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 “vulnerabilities and sounds, the experience of listening”.

In a world where the immediacy of information as well as the quickness of actions have become the rule, it seems more and more challenging to take the time. The acceleration of lifestyles and ways of thinking has become a prerequisite for success. Nevertheless, in parallel with this fast-moving world, long-term issues are being increasingly neglected, creating social, environmental and spatial « vulnerabilities ». It is precisely at the intersection of these stakes that the question of ambiances and more particularly of sounds can appear as a catch. Listening to the environment, a gesture that may seem simple and insignificant, becomes a powerful tool for considering places and words at scales and temporalities that are difficult to reach with the visual.

Sound is a medium intrinsically related to time, but also very capable of questioning scales that are often « left aside » because they appear to be too obvious, too small or on the other hand too large. Therefore, sound could be considered as a lever for considering, questioning or reframing these issues.

More info: https://ehas.hypotheses.org/4629

Lecture by Nikos Anastasopoulos: "Mutations of western thought and space: the example of Amazonia"

21/01/2021

Nikos Anastasopoulos

Mutations of western thought and space: the example of Amazonia

Thursday January 21 2021, 14:00, Teams

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

Tutor: Iris Lykourioti

Biography
Nicholas Anastasopoulos architect, researcher, lecturer at the National Technical University of Athens. PhD in alternative communities and sustainability (NTUA). As post-doctoral Researcher in Ecuador (IAEN, 2014) he contributed to the FLOK Society project and conducted research on aspects of Buen Vivir and sustainability, and the impact of the commons on urban environments. His work addresses sustainability, expressions of the commons in space, alternative communities, future alternatives, systems, complexity and participation.

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