Generic Competences: Ability to make reasoned decisions, Ability to work autonomously, Ability to work in a team, Capacity to generate new ideas (creativity), Ability to design and manage projects, Ability to interact constructively with others regardless of background and culture and respecting diversity, Commitment to conservation of the environment, Ability to be critical and self-critical , Ability to promote free, creative and inductive thinking.
Synthesis, Evaluation
"Inventing Paradise" is a book by Edmund Keely on the legendary 30's literary generation and their brilliant re-invention of Greece as paradise. "Super Paradise" is a hyper-commercialized beach in Mykonos.
Greek scenic landscape is up for grabs. As tourism becomes the single most important export industry in a practically bankrupt country, the pressure for development of tourism infrastructure becomes hotly intense. The ‘Paradise’ element draws on the brilliant invention of a small literary group, the ‘30’s generation’, that is until today at the core of both Greece’s tourist appeal as well as its national self-identification. ‘Super’, the need to ever-augment this image, to shelter even more and more spendthrift tourists, calls attention to the finite nature of the landscape stock that is being currently bartered. The 30’s generation genius invention on the one hand, and the plausible hypothesis that the strained landscape economy is reaching its breaking point on the other, constitute the conceptual background of the design seminar that aims to explore this growth dilemma by means of devising hypothetical ‘super paradise’ projects and manifestos.