Lecture by Monica Bertolino οn Thursday 28/2/2018 20:00, at Dept. Arch Ampitheatre.
Lecture by Margarita Trlin and Ruben Edgardo Cabrera on Thursday 28/2/2018 20:00, at Dept. Arch Ampitheatre.
Objects: A visual narrative
Series of studies on the collections of the Benaki Museum
Since its foundation, The Benaki Museum Shop has acted as a platform for promoting new designers, who research the Museum’s collections, get inspired and subsequently propose and design new objects establishing thus a dialogue between the exhibits and
contemporary life. As part of this dialogue and aiming to support new ideas, the BNM is launching “Object: A visual Narrative” a new series of small exhibitions of upcoming designers.
An Object in Transition
Projects from the University of Thessaly Students
13 postgraduate students from the Department of Architecture of the University of Thessaly answer a series of questions on the way objects age and the reasons which make them collectible, unique or ordinary. Initially selecting an object from the Museum’s collections, they create a narrative about its use in the past, its place in the present and its imaginary use in the future.
“Mediation Exercises: Interior Spaces” is a series of sound and space installations by students of the Post-Industrial Design, Postgraduate Program, realized in collaboration with visual artist, Nikos Arvanitis, which explore sound and oral narration as a design medium.
Through observatory analysis and narrative synthesis they aim to expand the experience of inhabiting an interior into sound and spatial installation.
Four different sound narratives share a common spatial installation typology and take place one after another.
Department of Architecture - Exhibition Space, Duration: 22/1 to 18/2
The series of lectures under the title “Worlds and Culture” (Spring Semester of 2017-8) have been produced by the Research Center on History, Theory and Semantic Design of the Department of Architecture. It has been organized in the context of a joined course by the Department of Architecture On Space and Poetics(Professor Phoebe Giannisi) and the Department of History, Archaeology and Social Anthropology of University of Thessaly On Contemporary Cultural History(Professor Ioanna Laliotou).
Speakers: Leonidas Embeiricos (13/2/2018), Rika Benveniste (20/3/2018), Mantha Zarmakoupi (17/4/2018), Marios Chatziprokopiou (24/4/2018), Elena Tzelepi ((8/5/2018), Karen Van Dyck (15/5/2018), Neni Panourgia (22/5/2018), Miranda Terzopoulou (24/5/2018).
Student Meeting on essay and poetic reading A cool breeze/ hazy meandering/ came to us*
Monday January 29th, 12:00, Room Z.
The meeting is a co-organized event by the elective courses:
South: Space and non hegemonic paradigms of knowledge
Space and Poetic
Tutors: Phoebe Giannisi, Iris Lykourioti
Student organizing committee:
Georgouli Haïdo
Lazou Maria
Moraïti Natasa
Stogia Myrto
Click for the program and poster.
Blog with abstracts of the essays for the course ‘South: Space and non-hegemonic paradeigms of knowledge’.
*variation on a haikou by Issa
Sophia Psarra, Variations on Venice
Tuesday December 19th 2017, 20:30, Amphitheatre
Biography
Sophia Psarra is Reader at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. She was previously Associate Professor at the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan, US and Cardiff University, UK. Her design and research activities include creative installations, design projects and publications, (Architecture and Narrative –The Formation of Space and Cultural Meaning, Routledge 2009, The Venice Variations - Tracing the Architectural Imagination, UCLPress 2018). She has collaborated with cultural institutions on space design, exhibition narratives and visitors’ experience (The Museum of Modern Art, MoMA, New York, The Natural History Museum, London). As a practicing architect, Psarra has won first prizes in international architectural competitions as part of Crisis Architectural Design. The work of the team has been exhibited in Venice Biennale 1991, the George Pompidou Centre, NAI Rotterdam, London, Berlin, Milan and Athens.
Opening 13/12/2017