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Self-organization and Solidarity

Cooperativism and Infrastructuring

Service innovation and Municipalism

Urbanism and Housing

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Co-designing with Energy communities

Digital Platform Co-design In November 2021, OLA had the opportunity to get involved in the development of a digital platform for the…
The Glass Room _ Misinformation Edition

The “Glass Room Misinformation Edition” exhibition was presented in Greece between 21-27 of November 2022 in the National Library of Greece in…
Kalotrofa | Food Sovereignty and Sustainability Hub

Kalotrofa is a research program about Food sovereignty and the diffusion of Social and Solidarity Economy, coordinated by the Department of Social…
PDC Places Athens | Politics of Participatory Design

Politics of Participatory Design in Greece: how people participate for/through technology  Athens and Greece brings a particularly interesting context in relation to…
Network of laboratories for civic technology co-production

  NLAB4CIT is a European network, coordinated by the University of Turin (UNITO), consisting of three local authorities, three knowledge institutions, and…
SEEDS | Erasmus +

  Supporting E-Learning and Education on the Fringe of the Digital Sphere The corona pandemic has uncovered a number of systemic inequalities…

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Community Infrastructuring with the Volunteer Forest Protection Team – NLAB4CIT

The Volunteer Forest Protection Team (VFPT) of the Municipality of Kesariani has a long history during the last decades on the protection of Hymettus forest. It is a self-organized team of citizens (70-120 persons) who every year offer their free time in order to protect the forest in the summer months with basic support with […]

by Open Lab Athens • 15 July 2023
Methods
Reviving the Memory in the Municipality of Kesariani – NLAB4CIT

On Wednesday 3rd of May, in terms of NLAB4CIT project, OLA in collaboration with the Municipality of Kesariani, conducted a workshop with high school students based on the historical archive of the city. The research approach was based on the following 4 phases: 1. Exploring the historical archive of the Municipality Ιdentification of primary historical […]

by Open Lab Athens • 7 May 2023
Encounters
From vacant to collective. From temporary to permanent

From vacant to collective. From temporary to permanent was a roundtable discussion on temporary uses and the potentials of approaching urban voids as community resources. It took place in the NTUA School of Architecture in Athens on 6th of March with the participation of Maxime Zait, lawyer, researcher for DOMINA project and co-founder of COMMUNA […]

by Open Lab Athens • 2 April 2023