22/11/11, 15:00
Lecture Hall, Department of Architecture, Pedion Areos, Volos
This presentation considers the definition of soundscape and the problematic concerning the cultural study of sound in the urban space. It will focus on the method of soundwalk and its application in the research of acoustic experience and the representation of sound worlds in the urban environment.
Daphne Tragaki studied Ethnomusicology at Goldsmiths College (University of London) under the supervision of professor John Baily. Her Phd thesis on Rebetiko Worlds. Ethnomusicology and Ethnography in the City has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2006. Research interests: ethnographic representation of music, music culture and the urban space. Since 2004, she teaches at the Department of History, Archaeology and Social Anthropology (IAKA) of the University of Thessaly. Tvolume he last three years her research interests focus on music spectacle policies and she has edited the collective Spectacle and Politics in the Eurovision Song Contest (under publication by Europea: Ethnomusicologies and Modernities, Scarecrow Press).
21/11/11, 20:00, DArch Amphitheatre
Bio
Johan Bettum is professor and programme director of the Städelschule Architecture Class. His practice, ArchiGlobe, engages with experimental approaches to architectural design. Bettum's research interests and PhD focus on advanced architectural design strategies and the potential that fibrous and textile systems present for architecture. He has taught and lectured at a range of schools, including the Architectural Association (AA), UCLA, the Berlage Institute and the EPFL in Lausanne. Bettum studied architecture at the Architectural Association in London after gaining a Bachelor of Arts with a major in biology from Princeton University.
Α Walk in Mavrovouni (Agiokampos), Thessaly.
Bio
Thanasis Totsikas is a visual Artist living and working in Nikaia and Mavrovouni (Agiokampos) in Thessaly. He studied in the Athens School of Fine Arts (1967) and École des Beaux-Arts in Paris (1970). His work has been exhibited in various exhibitions in Greece and abroad.
Greesis #3
Alexandros Kioupkiolis
The authoritarian integration of Neolibaralism
Tuesday, November 1st, 2011
Time: 9.00
Lecture Hall, Department of Architecture, Pedion Areos, Volos
CV
Alexandros Kioupkiolis was born in Athens in 1975. He studied Greek Literature at the University of Athens and Political Theory at the University of Essex and Oxford, where he completed his Phd research. He has taught political theory at Oxford University and the University of Cyprus. Since 2010 he is a Lecturer at the Department of Political Science of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. His book "Freedom after the critique of foundations: Marx, liberalism and agonistic autonomy", is under publication by Palgrave Macmillan publisher.
Greesis #2
Stephanos Rozanis
The crisis examined within the frame of late consumerist capitalism.
Tuesday 25 October 2011
Time: 21.00
Lecture Hall, Department of Architecture, Pedion Areos, Volos
CV
Stephanos Rozanis was born in Karystos in 1942. He is an author and a poet. He is a member of the editorial board of the Journal ‘Simioseis’. He has been working for Université Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris III) and the New Philosophy Society of the University of Edinburgh. His main field of research is Romantic Literary Theory.
GREESIS
Identity as Action
Lecture Series, Department of Architecture University of Thessaly, 2011
Editors: Phoebe Giannisi, Iris Lykourioti, Yorgos Tzirtzilakis
The effects of the economic crisis in Greece introduced a rupture in the stability of everyday life, bringing us under a state of emergency.
Highlighting and examining this new condition, we invite a series of actions undertaken by political scientists, writers, architects and artists under the title GREESIS. (GREECE+CRISIS=GREECE IS).
Praxis(action) is the root of the word πραγματικότητα(pragmatikotita) in greek, meaning reality. Reality is being formed constantly through the actions of people. Identity in this light is a political entity and corresponds to the way someone acts within the sphere of community.
Taking as a point of reference Hannah Arendt’s book Vita Activa, we are interested to address issues regarding geopolitics, biopolitics, the role of agricultural production, philhellenism, the greek cultural dilhemma between the east and the west and immigration, in order to understand better the connection between Greece and the global economic crisis through its impact in space and social structure.
ALTERNATIVE TEMPORARY DWELLING
TEACHING
Elias Zenghelis, Professor, Berlage Institute
Teaching assistants: Fyllio Katsavounidou, Nikos Platsas, Savina Derdelakou, Ioannis Baltogiannis
WHEN / WHERE
Friday 26 August through Sunday 4 September 2011
St. Nicholas – Paou Monastery, Argalasti, Pelion, Greece
THEME
Participants will examine alternative ways of temporary dwelling as well as its relation to the landscape; these could include educational installations which leave no permanent traces.
The concept of integration in the landscape is projected neither with modest humility nor as an abandonment of architecture’s jurisdiction but rather as an emphatic juxtaposition of the intrinsic properties and of the oppositions between the two. That is, of the dialectic that underpins and juxtaposes the constitution, on one hand, of the evolutionary dynamics of nature and, on the other, of the static balance of the human artifact.
WHO
The workshop is open to undergraduate students in the last years of their studies, to graduate students and to young architects (who have graduated in the last five years). Participants, 18 in total, will be selected on CV / portfolio basis.
STAY & COST
Τhe workshop will take place in the Monastery of Paou in Pelion, Greece (www.monipaou.gr), where participants will also be housed. Included in the participation price (300 euros) are: tuition fees, stay, as well as a daily excursion in the area.
HOW TO APPLY
Please send your application (include a 2-page pdf with 150-words cv and sample of portfolio) to pelion.aw@gmail.com (deadline: 31 July, 2011).
Giorgio Agamben, “Che Cos’ è un Dispositivo?”, Nottetempo, Roma, 2006
Giorgio Agamben, “What is an Apparatus?”, translated by David Kishik and Stefan Pedatella, Stanford University Press, California, 2009
