Monday 5/5/2014, 21:00, Department's Amphitheatre

Marjetica Potrč is an artist and architect who has been a professor at the University of Fine Arts/HFBK in Hamburg, Germany, since 2011. Students of her course Design for the Living World develop participatory design projects during long-term residencies in various locations around Europe (such as Belgrade, Tromsø, Norway, and rural Austria) and elsewhere (Soweto, South Africa).

She has been a visiting professor at a number of other institutions as well, including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2005) and the IUAV Faculty of Arts and Design in Venice (2008, 2010).

Potrč’s artworks (architectural case studies and drawing installations) have been exhibited extensively throughout Europe and the Americas, including at the Venice Biennial (1993, 2003, 2009) and the São Paulo Biennial (1996, 2006), and are shown regularly at the Galerie Nordenhake in Berlin and Stockholm. Her many community-based on-site projects include Dry Toilet (Caracas, 2003) and The Cook, the Farmer, His Wife and Their Neighbour (Stedelijk Goes West, Amsterdam, 2009). She has received numerous prestigious awards, including the Vera List Center for Arts and Politics Fellowship at The New School in New York (2007).
 

'The Soweto Project'
The Soweto Project is practice of class Design for the Living World, which is course in particupatory design at HFBK University of Fine Arts in Hamburg. www.designforthelivingworld.com

In collaboration with the  Urban Desin Master Program, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, prof. Zeen Druckman, prof. Danid Guggenheim.

Invited professor:  prof. Johannes Kalvelage, Hochschule Anhalt, Dessau

Volos, 28/4-2/5/2014

Tuesday 27/5/2014, 21:00, Department's Amphitheatre

Dimitris Dimitriadis is a playwright, poet and translator, born in Thessaloniki, 1944. His first play, The Price of the Resistance in the Black Market, was directed by Patrice Chéreau in 1968. Several of his works have been staged by Anne Dimitriadis, Stefanos Lazaridis, Yannis Houvardas and Yannis Kokkos. In 1978, he published his first novel, I’m Dying Like a Country. He has translated works by Genet, Bataille, Gobrowicz, Blanchot, Nerval, Balzac, Koltes, Moliere, Euripides, Aeschylus, Shakespeare, Courteline, T. Williams and others.

Tuesday 8/4/2014 15.00 p.m., room Z, Department of Architecture, University of Thessaly.

Zisis Sarikas was born in Thessaloniki in 1953. He studied Modern Greek Literature and Philosophy in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. A well known translator of the work of the philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche. He has publish his first book in1987 (the Myths of Technology ). Since then he has write and publish the books : ‘’Psichoula’’ (1998), ‘’Makria apo ton Kosmo’’ (2008), ‘’Anthropines Skies’’ (2012).  

OIKONET:  Erasmus Lifelong Learning Programme

Contemporary living patterns in mass housing in Europe ISCTE- University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal

14 - 19 July 2014

The objective of this international workshop will be to develop a cross-disciplinary dialogue aimed at finding answers to the meanings, ways and forms of contemporary living patterns in mass housing in Europe.

Please check the poster and the full workshop programme.

For more information contact Vassilis Bourdakis

Exhibition: Genealogical Update of Valaoritou
Yoshiharu Tsukamoto

Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana- Unidad Azcapotzalco, D.F. México, División de Ciencias y Artes para el Diseño

04/04/2014 – 13/04/2014

See the poster.

For further information and applications please contact assoc. professor Mr. Spiros Papadopoulos.