Thursday May 24, 2018, 19:00, Amphitheatre, Department of Architecture, University of Thessaly, Pedion Areos
Closing the summer semester Miranda Terzopoulou will give a lecture on popular fire walking rituals. The lecture is organized by the courses The Great Number and Nostalgia, Space and Culture (with Contemporary Cultural History of the Dept. of History, Archaeology and Social Anthropology).
Tutors: Phoebe Giannisi, Ioanna Laliotou, Iris Lykourioti, Lois Papadopoulos
Biography
Miranda Terzopoulou is an ethnologist. She has worked as a researcher at the Hellenic Folklore Research Centre at the Academy of Athens. Her research focuses on popular rituals related to music and song making both studied as media of collective expression and communicative codification in the social context of several ethnic, linguistic and religious minorities. She has been working on ritualistic practices related to cycle of life, the cycle of the year such as the Christmas Twelvetide, the disguises related to the winter solstice, the carnival festivities, the Easter cycle, the fire walking rituals also known as ‘Anastenaria´ in Greece, the summer solstice rituals related to the worship of fire, wedding and funeral customs, rites of passage etc.
Craftspeople’s Network: Taking Matters into Your Own Hands
A collaborative project by the Design for the Living World class, HFBK the University of Fine Arts Hamburg and the Hybrid Ecologies Studio, Department of Architecture, School of Engineering, University of Thessaly, and the craftspeople of Volos.
Supported by DAAD with funds from the federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), the HFBK University of Fine Arts Hamburg, and Giorgio de Chirico Art Center of the Cultural Directorate of the Municipality of Volos.
Special thanks the craftspeople of Volos who kindly shared their practice and knowledge with us, as well as to Chrysa Drantaki Director of Giorgio de Chirico Art Center of the Cultural Directorate of the Municipality of Volos, and Nicoletta Tzani, curator of Giorgio de Chirico Art Center.
Participants:
Design for the Living World class, HFBK the University of Fine Arts Hamburg:
Marjetica Potrč, artist and architect, professor of Social Design.
Guest researchers Laura Bernhardt (curator and cultural producer), Maria Christou (architect), and Valentina Karga (artist and architect).
Students: AngieChen, LisaEggert, LeaKirstein,RobertKöpke, LauraLevin, AnneMeerpohl, JuliPaetzold, LeonieSchulz, ManaStahl, KastaniaWaldmüller, JuliaWyciskandYanYan.
Hybrid Ecologies Studio, Department of Architecture, University of Thessaly:
Dr. Sophia Vyzoviti, Architect – Associate Professor.
Students: Nicolas Hadjipourganis, Olga Iliou, Nancy Karagianni, Spyros Karaiordanidis, Evangelia Kiosse, Krystallia Klonara, Ilektra Naoum, Sinodi Ntampegliotou-Karaiskou, Νikiforos Sorofikin Papoutsopoulos.
Exhibition:May 14-24, 2018, at the Giorgio de Chirico Art Center, 2nd floor
Monday-Friday 15.00-21.00
Saturday-Sunday closed
Free entrance
23/5/2018 20:00 Postgraduate Courses' Room
Tuesday 22/5/2018 11:00 Amphitheatre
24-05-2018, 18:00, room Z
17-05-2018 at 18:00, room Ζ
And yet it moves 2018: Education, Animation and Augmented Reality
The inter-university MArt programme “Information and Communication Technologies in Education” and the Laboratory of Environmental Communication and Audiovisual Documentation (LECAD) of the Department of Architecture, University of Thessaly, organise the "AND YET IT MOVES: Education, Animation and Augmented Reality" symposium.
The theme of the symposium focuses on the Educational Animation in order to illuminate its contemporary approaches.
The meeting will be held at the Department of Architecture, University of Thessaly, Volos on Friday, 18th of May 2018.
Lecture by Karen Van Dyke, 15/5/2018 11:00 Amphitheatre.
10/5/2018 18:00 room Z
Aegli Dimoglou, November 2nd str: Memories and trails in space
Thursday May 10, 2018, 15:00
Post Graduate course room
Lecture within the framework of the course The Great Number and Nostalgia
Tutors: Iris Lykourioti, Lois Papadopoulos
Biography
Dr. Aegli Dimoglou was born in Volos, Greece in 1965. She has studied archaeology, history and archive management and has a doctorate degree from the Department of History of the Ionian University. She has worked for the Local Historical Archive of Thessaly. Since 1992 she is the director of the Municipal Centre for Historical Research and Documentation of Volos. She has published widely on the social and economical history of Volos, on industrial archaeology and on archive management.
At present she is the director of the Department of Archives, Museums and Libraries of Volos Municipality.