Each road inducts its own landscape. It is a landscape composed of procedures and detached places, located alongside and near roads. It is a dialogue between diffused destinations, places and limits. It is also a field of encountering bodies as well as a space of personal narratives. The road metabolizes its own impacts and transforms their effects. Metabolism and transformation are two concepts involved in the formation of the road-scape.
In this Diploma thesis, Iera Odos is presented as the initial point of a walking relation to a landscape that is both unified and fragmented, complete and incomplete, unearthed and hidden. Walking along Iera Odos emerge as a relationship between the mapping body with stone, monuments, cement, soil, water, gaze, scent, spoken narratives - elements that signify a space of co-feeling. Walking passes through cracks, displacements, transitions and thresholds conveying feeling to memory.
Iera Odos is examined through different timelines (past, present, future) and through the study of historical, economical and socio-political tranformations. Walking, documentation and narration are used to explore the connection between road and loss - in those places that the presence of absence reveals it. The design proposal attempts to constitute and preserve an archive of Iera Odos, a space that is additive, changeable and continuously affirmative.
