Exhibition "THE MECHANISM OF THE DREAM"
27/6-3/7/2014
Achilion (Iassonos & Koumoundourou Volos.
Visiting hours: 18:30 – 21:30
Opening: Friday 20:30
12th International Documentation and Design Workshop
Ser-re(s)modern 2014, URBAN LANDSCAPE/ Design and Architecture
HELLAS, BULGARIA, SERBIA, EGYPT, TURKEY.
Urban Landscape Studies at the east edge of the city of Serres at the valley of Ag. Anargiroi
The 12th Documentation and Design Workshop will focus upon the environmental design and architecture of urban landscapes. Hosted by the municipality of Serresthe projects will investigate the city’s valley as an urban ecosystem, highlighting cultural and natural characteristics of the location. All groups will be accommodated at the facilities of the Chrysopigi Summer Camp, at the peak of the Menikion Mountain close by the city of Serres. Participants will be students (4th and 5th year of studies and post-graduates) and teaching stuff of the Universities of Cairo Egypt, Sofia Bulgaria, Volos Hellas(U.Th), Istanbul Turkey(I.T.U.) and Belgrade Serbia (University of Bergrade).
Locations of study at the east edge along the valley of Agioi Anargiroi include:
1. The surrounding area of the Mehmet Bey Mosqueincluding the fountain and the bilateral towpath of the stream.
2. The abandoned industry buildingof NASIOUTZIK and the attached bilateral towpath of the stream.
3. The natural sitealong the formation of Agioi Anargiroi valley as long as the embankment of the stream.
4. The embankmentsof the stream as a boundary between two residential areas.
Organization
University of Thessaly | Serres Union of Architects | Municipality of Serres
Professors in charge
Iordanis Stilidis, Architect, Assistand Professor, U.Th stilidis2@gmail.com
Sophia Vyzoviti, Dr. Architect, Assistand Professor, U.Th vyzoviti.sophia@gmail.com
Participation fee is 130 € including full board accomodation and transportation to the site, design and model materials, a bi-lingual publication with the workshop results and a one-day excursion to the area of the lake Kerkini.
The modern viewer is familiar with the cinematic paradigm, in which he or she is fixed in a darkened auditorium. In this case, the projected image acts as a viewing window into the picture space. However, the current audio-visual technologies introduce new viewing modes. This thesis traces the spatial evolution of the projection system (projector, picture, screen surface, projection beam), during the transition from analogue to digital technology, in inter-war experimental film, 1960s expanded cinema, video art and current multimedia installations. The work of the Australian-born new media artist and researcher Jeffrey Shaw is used as a case-study. Shaw emerged from the performance, expanded cinema and installation paradigms of the 1960s, currently being a leading figure in new media art.
Scientific Organization: Renée Koch-Piettre (EPHE, ANHIMA), Odile Journet-Diallo (EPHE, IMAF), Phoebe Giannisi (UTH)
Workshop Organization: Phoebe Giannisi, associate professor, Department of Architecture University of Thessaly
in collaboration with: Vasiliki-Maria Plavou, Chara Stergiou
Suppored by: Labex HASTEC (Laboratoire européen d’histoire et d’anthropologie des savoirs, des techniques et des croyances), UMR ANHIMA : Anthropologie et Histoire des Mondes antiques, IMAF : Institut des Mondes Africains), Department of Architecture, University of Thessaly (Volos, Greece).
Recent years have seen the development work on the "places of memory" in an essentially museum or conservatory perspective. The historians of religions, ethnologists, linguists, on the other hand, take into account the long time, even when the work focus, as seen today, transitions, passages, mutations rather than permanence. They have to deal with the accumulation, strata and inheritance. This aspect is particularly clear when we examine the intimate relation between a territory and a human organization which discovers into territory supernatural entities and deciphers it into its elementary signs before it print it with its own inscriptions and receive from it reading of signs of its own destiny. The surface of the earth, as a palimpsest, keeps track underneath the new writing of territory, of its older versions. A symbolic elaboration of the territory, alive, cumulative and continuous, not without crises and changes of rhythm, seems also crucial in shaping the individual than in structuring the society. The size, irreversibility and potential entropic of the changes that economic and political developments of the last two centuries have brought into the human cultures appear clearly if we manage to uncover the repressed versions of links that societies have into the time and space weaved with the places where they dwell, — these early "texts" (in the etymological sense of the word) that we find filed, deeply buried in the memory, often forgotten, in the trips, the gestures and body as well as in the language and representations.
Lecture Series in Greek language.
Why do "bad guys" in cinema prefer modern architecture?
Tuesday 3/6, 20:30, DeptArch Amphitheatre
26/11-03/10/2014
31/5/2014 Dept. of Architecture, Volos
The exhibition of works created for the needs of the TANGLE POCKETS / a life in Eutopia workshop held in Tuscany-Italy will be inaugurated in the ‘’Enallax’’ exhibition and events hall (opposite to the University’s main library building at Volos), at the city of Volos, Tuesday 27th of May and it will be open for a week. The content of this exhibition is the presentation of the projects of the students of the Department of Architecture of the University of Thessaly. Additionally, a sequence of idiosyncratic photographs commending the Nature, the communal life episodes, the working patterns, the life into the rooms, the short crossings into the nearby geography, the voyages to the sea and the land, the personal archives and the off limit behaviour will be the vital surplus of the event.
Scientific Director: Iordanis Stylidis
Location / Time
Friday 26 April 2013– Thursday 2 May 2013, 27/4-1/5 2013.
Institute for Environmental Education,E.N.A.O.L.I., GROSSETO, Tuscany, Italy.
Organization for the Environment LEGAMBIENTE.
TASK: some SPATIAL QUESTIONS, TANGLE POCKETS.
The last seven years there have been 9 regional, international and multinational documentation and design workshops. These workshops, as the one scheduled to be active in Tuscany-Italy, were based on the experimental verification by empirical means, of the validity of sympiosis in eutopia’s constitutional space and time terms (living and acting together into a communal pocket). The workshops are always triggered by an invitation held to the director and the team by a community or an organization (in this case the Italian Environmental Organization LEGAMBIENTE). The group, already into a new un-explored place and a unique landscape, will dedicate each and every activity (lectures, field reconnaissance, designs, texts, common long discussions) or means to effectively deal with a given spatial question. Thus, every member is becoming the vital unit of a team working process aiming to reach a result, combining the personal ability with the communal or general meditative need, interpreting and correlating with locus, landscape, cultural syntax and stereotypes ...an attempt to gain any and all empirical data of eutopia (...a term been given by Lewis Mamford in his epic book : The history of Utopias)