The Department of Architecture, School of Engineering, University of Thessaly participates in the exhibition "Architecture and the City in SE Europe" http://skgarch2012.web.auth.gr/, with the exhibit
INCUBATOR Installation and Actions

DURATION:
18/01/2012-26/02/2012 
PRESENTATION:
19 January 2012, 17:00

MACEDONIAN MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, THESSALONIKI

Ekkolaptirio/ Greek, ek+kolápto, kolápto= to peck, ‘a place for hatching eggs’
Incubator/ Apparatus for hatching eggs by artificial heat
Incubate/ ‘To brood upon, watch jealously’/ ‘to lie in or upon’
Cubicle/ ‘Bedroom’ from cubiculum, ‘to lie down’ from cubare
Cubiclom/ ‘Dormitory sleeping compartment’, sense of ‘any partitioned space’ (library carrel or, later, office work station)
Colaphus/ latin, ‘to punch’, from the greek kolaphos verb kolápto, through the latin word the words ‘coup’ in French, ‘colpo’ in Italian, ‘golpe’ in Spanish, have been generated.

Our incubator is a light and low ceiling formed by the repetitive but continuously varied pattern of a carton basket.
An ‘egg’, a fragile architectural object is placed in each basket.
The overpopulated structure stands, above our heads, as the fertile landscape/cloud of ideas in progress.
The side of the structure we do not see is the hidden side of the incubator, which exemplifies the initial task of standardized incubation: the repetitive production of uniform entities.
Εκκολαπτήριο/Incubator is a symbolic work based on the idea of artificially driven growth that attempts to freely associate the process of incubation with diverse issues related to a) horizontally structured agglomerations or "crowds", such as urban formations in southeast Europe, b) the influence of the global model for touristic development in the perception and design of space and
3) the current wave of commodification of higher education.

Collective Work:
A ‘crowd’ of almost 100 fragile architectural objects exemplifying the function of the incubator or the process of incubation is the outcome of a workshop on architectural design and the performing arts.
All the members of the school, undergraduate and postgraduate students, phd candidates, professors, laboratory and administrative staff have been invited to contribute with their work/interpretation of the incubator they live and work in.