Open Lab Athens is a non-for-profit organisation; a design initiative of researchers and practitioners who engage in spaces of “social innovation”

Solidarity and service innovation

Labour Rights and Cooperativism

Self-organisation and municipalism

Housing and Urbanism

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Actors of Urban Change

The project is a new synergy between Open Lab Athens, Ludd maker space and SynAthina. Through this project we will  establish a…
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…

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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
meeting @ Goethe
Encounters
Workshop about the legal condition of commons @ Goethe Institute Athens

On February 6th 2020, we co-organized with Goethe Institut an informal workshop on the legal aspect of commons. Within the context of gE.CO project, Open Lab Athens is interested in exploring the potential uses of law on behalf of urban communities in what regards commons initiatives. Among the deliverables of the project, a legal toolkit […]

by Open Lab Athens • 24 February 2020