Open Lab Athens is a non-for-profit,
digital civics research and technology development lab.

Solidarity and service innovation

Labour Rights and Cooperativism

Self-organisation and municipalism

Housing and Urbanism

Encounters

Projects and community engagements

H2020 gE.CO Living Lab

gE.CO Living Lab aims at creating a platform for bringing together and supporting formal groups or informal communities of citizens who manage…
H2020 CO3 project

The project aims at building an analytical framework for studying the potential benefits and risks of new disruptive technologies and their potential…
Solidarity School

Groups of teachers in collaboration with local grassroots collectives kicked off solidarity school-tutoring, demanding the use of local schools for this function…
Curing the limbo

The “Curing the Limbo” project capitalises on Athens’ vibrant civil society to help refugees and the local unemployed to overcome the stage…
Metadeftero.gr

As Open Lab we want to explore the motivation for radio usage from social movements and use the radio broadcasting setting as…
Synpraxis.tech: A Digital Commons coalition

We participate in Synpraxis, a digital commons coalition in Greece bringing together teams from different backgrounds to work together on promoting digital…

News & Actions

Thoughts on technology design and research

Systems
UX Research to Improve IRIS SMS

Professor Maria Rousou and researcher dr.Katerina El Raheb from the Informatics department of the University of Athens have undertaken in cooperation with Open Lab Athens UX research to improve Iris SMS system trough interviews, focus groups and workshops.

by Open Lab Athens • 28 May 2020
Media
Online Lessons from Solidarity Schools

With the support of Open Lab Athens, Mesopotamia Solidarity School is able to provide online lesson during the Covid19 crises.

by Open Lab Athens • 24 March 2020
Encounters
Usability Workshop for gE.CO tools

The workshop aimed at checking the usability of the gE.CO digital tools suite before going to production and it took place at Open Lab Athens, on January 2020. The workshop started with a short, general presentation of the project and a more detailed one for the proposed digital tools. This introductory presentation lasted overall for […]

by Open Lab Athens • 25 February 2020