December 2016 - January 2017
A journey from the north to the central and eastern Ethiopia for about two weeks.
A route from the north to the central and eastern Ethiopia. We will visit places and people, we will attend ceremonies and structures, lake monasteries, carved rock churches, savannas, medieval towns, castles, villages. We will visit homes, courtyards, ceremonies, terraces and markets, material and spiritual palimpsests, testimonials from encounters of religions and structures.
Addis Ababa, Entoto Maryam church, Merkato, Debre Markos, Debre Libanos, Bahir Dar, Blue Nile waterfalls, Tis Abay, Kebrane Gabriel, Kidane Mihiret, Tana Kirkos, Bahir Dar - Gondar, Azmari, Axoum, Simien, Debre Berhan Selassie, Debark, Gondar, Lalibela, Kombolcha , Harrar, Tomb Sheikh Abadir, Dire Dawa.
Responsible for the educational journey is professor Theoklis Kanarelis.
For information and statement of interest please contact: theoklis@uth.gr
16/12/2016, 12:00 at Department's Amphitheatre
Antonis Antoniou, Historian, University of Thessaly
Ioanna Barkouta, Architect, University of Thessaly
Zisis Kotionis, Architect, Professor in the School of Architecture in the University of Thessaly, Head of the Research Centre on History, Theory and Semantic Design
Αt the epicenter of this one-day conference is the “spatialisation” of theoretical discourses of “emergency”, with reference to the city of Volos. Continuities and discontinuities, ruptures and completions in the urban space, traces of the need for housing and habitation will be addressed. In other words, specific aspects of habitation and housing during historical “emergency” circumstances will be examined.
Opening 30/11/2016
Penny Koutrolikou
From “Emerging social movements in cities in South Europe” to “Transformations of urban citizenship in times of crisis” and questions of solidarity and socio-spatial justice.
Tuesday November 29th 2016, 15:00, Room B
Lecture within the framework of the course South: Space and non hegemonic paradigms of knowledge
Tutor: Iris Lykourioti
Biography
Penny Koutrolikou is a Senior lecturer at the School of Architecture, NTUA. She is an architect/planner, with a MA in Sociology (Goldsmiths College, UK) and a PhD in Planning Studies (UCL, UK). Her PhD research focused on ‘Ethnocultural relations in East London’s ‘multiculturalism’. More recently she has been working on processes of stigmatization and racism in inner city Athens, on discourse analysis of politics, media and policies, on questions of hegemony, crisis and governance and on socio-spatial justice.
Tuesday November 15th 2016, 15:00, Room B
Lecture within the framework of the course South: Space and non hegemonic paradigms of knowledge
Tutor: Iris Lykourioti
Leda Kyriakou, graduate student of our department will be joining the conversation by introducing material from her research topic ‘The use of Architecture in the process of colonization as an apparatus of control and identity building’ (2016), which was supervised by Phoebe Giannisi and Yorgos Tzirtzilakis.
Biography
Vassiliki Yiakoumaki is Assistant Professor at the Department of History, Archaeology and Social Anthropology of the University of Thessaly. She has received her PhD in cultural anthropology at the New School for Social Research, New York (2003). She has an MA in Mass Communications from the University of Leicester, UK (1993), and a BA from the University of Ioannina, School of Philosophy, Dept. of Philosophy-Education-Psychology (1989). She has taught at Panteion University, Athens, and Columbia University, New York, and also has teaching experience at Harvard University and New York University. She has conducted research for European-Union research programs, through the Universities of Crete, Macedonia, and the Agricultural University of Athens. Her research interests focus on the anthropology of institutions, and particularly on issues pertaining to ethnic identities and politics of multiculturalism in Europe, and on European cultural policies. In this context, she has developed a particular research interest in the area of food and eating in connection to modern consumption. Currently she is exploring, and teaches on, issues of jewish identity and culture in Greece and the rest of Europe. Her research focuses on religion and the public sphere, and particularly ideas and practices of religiosity among contemporary Greeks.
Nikos Anastasopoulos
Epistemologies of the South: Issues of space production and architecture
Tuesday November 8th 2016, 15:00, Room B
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.
Within the framework of the course Architectural Studio III-V "SUBTRACTION" of the fall semester of 2016-2017, a MODEL MAKING WORKSHOP took place from the 31st of October till the 2nd of November 2016 in the A Room of TAM.
The workshop proposed the creation of scale models using different casting techniques (wax, cellulose, soap, gypsum, cement, chocolate) following the synthetic analysis of each work through removal charts. The aim was to disseminate and develop these techniques by the end of the workshop by publishing the results on a website. This would be achieved through the creation of the website www.subtract2016.wordpress.com to post relevant updates and announcements, to develop the workshop and to promote the marketing techniques learned during the workshop.
The workshop was part of the course, emerged with the need to practice different techniques for creating models and it was addressed to the students of the course.
See the poster and visit the website of the workshop.
Professor:
Evelyn Gavrilou | Assistant Professor, UTH
Organization and realization of the workshop:
Diamantouli Eliki | dipl. architect UTH
Fousteri Athina | dipl. architect UTH
Auxiliary teaching:
Papasarantou Chrissa | Phd Candidate
Diamantouli Eliki | dipl. architect UTH
Fousteri Athina | dipl. architect UTH
Jury:
Kostaki Sevastianna | dipl. architect UTH, Msc architectural design
Papandreou Vagelis | architect UTH, industrial designer, Msc architectural design
Tsakmaki Katerina | architect UTH, engineer of renovation and restoration of buildings
Students:
Camacho Torres Maria, Percin Lucille, Pinto Perez Alfonso, Aggelidakis Markos, Argirou Mariza, Valais Ioanna, Georgiadou Petroula, Golia Katerina, Grapsopoulou Marianthi, Dimitriou Georgia, Euthimiou Marianthi, Zioga Areti, Zografou Eleni, Iliadi Christina, Iliou Olga, Iakovaki Vasiliki, Kalokiri Ariadni, Kantere Lina, Karampina Eleni, Klonara Kristallia, Kokkona Ioanna, Linardi Katerina, Melachropoulos Stathis, Mpartzoka Erato, Michail Stavroula, Mpountioukou Dora, Naoum Ilektra, Nasiopoulou-Skeua Viktoria, Ntavou Antigoni, Palli Despoina, Papadopoulou Vasiliki, Papoutsi Danai, Papoutsopoulos Nikiforos, Petridou Eleni, Routsias Andreas, Stalachtidou Kiriaki, Tassi Olga, Tzoni Danai, Tsiakoumis Giorgos, Tsitsas Giorgos, Christoforou Stella
Maria Pantas
Ethnography and the Architecture of Situations
Tuesday October 25th 2016 15:00
Room B
Lecture within the framework of the course South: Space and non hegemonic paradigms of knowledge
Tutor: Iris Lykourioti
Biography
Maria Pantas is a PhD Candidate, currently funded by Canterbury School of Architecture, University for the Creative Arts (UCA) to undertake her research degree titled ‘Approaches to climate change adaptation through community-driven construction projects in the Global South’. She undertook her primary research in rural Ghana building a primary school cantine as part of a local community driven organization. She is the online editor for The Architects’ Project (TAP), an autonomous initiative involved in the education and practice of architecture operating from Accra & Kumasi in Ghana with a global agenda. She is also a Board Member for the Environmental Foundation for Development (EFD) a non-profit organization in Tanzania, involved in consultation on rural development, housing and sanitation.
In 2011 Maria joined Reset Development, a London-based charity, on a two-year research based project titled the ‘Affordable Low-Carbon and Cyclone resilient Housing in South West Bangladesh.’Her focus was on developing a greater understanding on best approaches to training and education for sustainable, disaster resilient construction in the rural South West of Bangladesh.
Maria became an associate of Women’s Design Service (WDS) in 2010 and got involved in community-led design projects in Islington and Vauxhall as well as a WDS Lottery-funded project aimed at improving public toilet provision. The emphasis of her work was on: ensuring that the built environment needs of women and their families were heard, using participatory planning consultations, in order to influence planning in the borough; integrating the existing urban fabric as well as existing social housing estates into the new development plans; the creation of new play and green spaces and the potential of the spaces between buildings in the south of the borough of Islington.
She undertook her RIBA Part II in Architecture at London South Bank University with the research-based thesis, entitled ‘Seven City Farms in London’, which dealt with sustainability and community based adaptation in London.