As part of the Master's Degree in Reuse of Buildings and Complexes of the Department of Architecture of the University of Thessaly, on Thursday 02/04/2026 at 17:00 [UTC+3] at MS TEAMS, an online lecture with a guest speaker from Label Architecture entitled "From Belgium with love" will take place.
Coordination: Fabiano Micocci, Dept. Arch UTh
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Label architecture is an architectural practice based in Brussels, a city they also call home. Their projects, on various scales, are as much an opportunity to play with existing space, from their common reference points, as not to take themselves too seriously while being serious about their work. An insatiable will to play with the obvious to maximum effect. Associates: Thibaut Rome, Michel Lefèvre, Christophe Pham, Andreas Vanysacker. Collaborators: Henri Winter, Alexis Le Gallo.
Tending Sheep, Goats and Windturbines
Alexandros Bouris
Mezzanine
Thursday 12/3, 10:00
Kafireas in southern Euboea, also known as Kavo Doro, isolated and exposed to wind and waves, occupies its own place on the map. The main activities in the villages of Kavo Doro are goat and sheep herding and the wind energy industry. Goats and wind turbines may not appear to have a direct connection; however, amid the transformations of the contemporary era, such unconventional relationships seem to flourish. Yet they share a common denominator: care—care for both animal and machine. Residents of the wider area are professionally engaged in caring for goats and sheep as well as wind turbines.
Successive arrays of wind turbines, endless electricity cables, abandoned villages, very few inhabitants, and countless goats characterize the landscape. They coexist—or at least attempt to—as the wind industry dramatically affects the area, transforming it into an industrial landscape where each of us becomes an intruder in an environment that has already moved beyond us.
Alexandros Bouris studied architecture at the University of Thessaly and currently works at Antonas Architects in Athens. His research project Caring for Goats, Sheep, and Wind Turbines has been presented at film and photography festivals. His interests focus on questions of rural space and the transformation of the countryside.
Within the framework of the course
PELION CHŌRA: Dissecting and Reweaving a Mountain
By The Observatory of the Countryside
Tutor: Metaxia Markaki
Thursday 12/3/2026 11:00-13:00 - Room Γ and online (MS Teams)
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The lecture will take place as part of the course: COHABITING IN THE GARDEN: ARCHITECTURES OF CARE Instructor: P. Phokaides, Assistant Professor, UTh
Short bio:
Thalia Marou holds a diploma in Forestry (AUTH) and a Msc in Environmental Design of Cities and Buildings (EAP, 2007) and a Ph.D. from the Department of Architecture, University of Thessaly. Her research interests include urban gardening as an everyday practice, natureculture networks, care in more than human worlds. Since 2014, she has been teaching at the Department of Architecture, Uth the courses: Urban Plantings, Urban Agriculture in the Contemporary City, Food Geographies, Naturecultural approaches to Environmental Issues.
Lecture by Ioanna Piniara: “Towards an Ecology of the Private: A Manual for the Trigono Community Land Trust in Kessariani” from her book titled “We Have Never Been Private: The Housing Project in Neoliberal Europe”.
Wednesday 11/3/2026 19:00-21:00 - Room Γ and online (MS Teams)
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The lecture will take place in-person and online as part of the course: COHABITING IN THE GARDEN: ARCHITECTURES OF CARE Instructor: P. Fokaidis, Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture, University of Thessaly
Short bio:
Ioanna Piniara is an architect and researcher holding a PhD in Architecture from the Architectural Association (AA). Her research interests include the study of domesticity as a biopolitical device for the control of bodies and identities, the spatial implications of economy, institutional power and policy in the design of urban housing as well as narratives for the decolonization of housing typologies and urban forms. Ioanna has taught History and Theory Studies and Architecture and Urban Design at the AA, and she has been a post-doctoral fellow of the ‘Architectures of Order’ research cluster at the Goethe University Frankfurt. She is currently teaching design and theory seminars at the Architecture School of the National Technical University in Athens. She is the author of “We Have Never Been Private: The Housing Project in neoliberal Europe” by Actar Publishers, 2025, and “The Housing Question is a Feminist Question: Housing Commons for the ‘New Woman’ of the German Werkbund” by M Books, 2026.
There are more things between heaven and earth (the
realm of birds) than our philosophy can easily explain.
Étienne Souriau
Within the framework of the undergraduate course Introduction to Architecture II of the Department of Architectural Engineering at the University of Thessaly, on Wednesday 04/03/2026 at 18:00 [UTC+3] in room E, a lecture titled «The Neighbird-hood of Alcalá» will be held by doctoral architect professor Francisco Garcia Triviño and doctoral ecologist ornithologist Montes Espin Rosalina.
Coordination: Anthi Kosma, UTH
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This exhibition presents the outcomes of the course Special Topics in Digital Fabrication, Processes and Technologies offered in the 9th semester of the Department of Architecture at the University of Thessaly. The exhibited work consists of nine group projects, each focused on the design and fabrication of a staircase at a 1:10 scale.
A central pedagogical and technical aim of the course was the exclusive use of digitally controlled fabrication machines for the development of the projects. The implementations employed 3D printing, laser cutting, and a robotic arm, in order to investigate the reciprocal relationship between form generation, fabrication logics, and machine constraints.
In addition to the physical outcomes, the exhibition includes video documentation of the fabrication processes. The presentation of this “backstage” material is considered an integral part of both the educational and design methodology. By foregrounding the sequential steps of production—ranging from the preparation of CAD/CAM files and the generation of G‑code to tool calibration and machine operation—the exhibition seeks to introduce a critical shift from architecture’s prevailing emphasis on the “image” toward a deeper understanding of the methods, decisions, and constraints that shape the final artefact. In this context, the disclosure of processes operates as a counterpoint to modes of presentation that frequently conceal essential issues of design and fabrication, redirecting attention from aesthetic impression to methodical, verifiable, and shareable knowledge.
Theoretical Framework — Anti‑Manifesto
Access to Tools = Access to Knowledge
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The non-neutrality of technology.
Fabrication machines co‑shape relations of power, knowledge, and access. Architecture must recognize the implications of these relations and reconfigure them toward social inclusion and equity. -
Design as an emancipatory act.
Direct engagement with fabrication tools—from G‑code and CAM to the milling bit and the printer nozzle—reveals how knowledge emerges through process and enables its transformation into a shared resource. -
Openness as a prerequisite for dissemination.
The availability of files, standards, and workflows (open files, open standards, open workflows) reduces barriers to access, strengthens learning communities, and expands the potential for creative inquiry. -
A bidirectional articulation of design and fabrication.
Digital fabrication machines do not merely execute predefined designs; they co‑constitute them by imposing constraints and offering new possibilities. Design must incorporate the logics of fabrication and convert them into creative agency. -
The staircase as object and symbol.
The staircase is approached as a structural, social, and symbolic element: it connects levels, communities, and bodies of knowledge. Its fabrication—even at a reduced scale—constitutes an act of social engineering, rendering the notion of access tangible, material, and open to negotiation.
Abdul-Halim Jabr
Oscar in the City: what to do with Tripoli's Modernist White Elephant?
26/2/26 17:00 MS Teams
February 24th 2026 14:00 Mezzanine
Department of Architecture
University of Thessaly
Pedion Areos, Volos
The conference is organized by the elective course South: Space and non hegemonic paradigms of knowledge.
Tutor: Iris Lykourioti
Response: Petros Fokaidis, Christos Kritikos, Ioanna Sotiriou
Student work and research has been developed through presentations and discussions during winter semester 2025-2026.
Student organizing/coordinating committee:
- Vagia Ananiadou
- Afroditi Angelopoulou
- Asimina Kalogirou
- Stavroula Lalioti
- Anthi Loupi
- Danae Tasiopoulou
- Kallia Theotoki
Click for the program and poster.
Blog with abstracts of essays written for the course ‘South: Space and non-hegemonic paradeigms of knowledge’