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.

 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

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. 

On Wednesday, January 20, 2021, at 19:00, during the lesson, ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN III-V Η: Resilient Atmospheres for Public Spaces, Constantinos Marcou, architect, writer, and urban designer, will discuss his work attending to representations of the atmosphere of lived space during the design process.

11/1/2021-15/1/2021

Workshop titled "Bridging Realities", by invited lecturer architect Dr. Renate Weissenböck, Lecturer at the Department of Architecture at Graz University of Technology, Austria, as part of the course ARCHITECTURAL COMPOSITION III-V: Z: The habitable bridge

Host professor UTH: Ioanna Symeonidou

The seminar will be assisted by Alexandros Efstathiadis, PhD candidate UTH

The seminar is based on material developed by the students during the course ARCHITECTURAL COMPOSITION III-V: Z: The habitable bridge. Therefore, students who either attend the specific course during the current semester or have completed the course in a previous academic year are eligible to participate. Students will use the 3D model of the bridge they have submitted for the course requirements, the basic design tools that will be used are Grasshopper3D and Fologram. The seminar will take place online.

Information: symeonidou@uth.gr

See the poster.

Luce de Lire in residence - Workshop

Digital Enclosure and it's Revolutionary Other

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

Thursday 14 January 2021 / Event time: 19.00

Following 2 successful and though-provoking seminars in 2020, we would like to invite you to the 3^rd session of the workshop ‘Digital Enclosure and its Revolutionary Other’. In this meeting, we will discuss original accumulation of cyberspace through 2 texts by McKenzie Wark.

During the European 14th through 16th century, the great enclosure consisted in the literal fencing in or off of previously commonly used land so as to ensure that it could only ever be used privately from then on. This led to the impoverishment of millions and drove people to move to the cities, where they would sell their labour power. A similar process has been happening in cyber space for about two decades now: platforms are trying to keep you on their vicinity so as to mine your data and force you into subscriptions

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

14/1/2021 17.00 Teams

Monday 11/01/21, 19:00 (GMT+2, Athens)

8/1/2021 18:00 MS Teams

7-1-2021, 14.00, Teams