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

Box for Expression | The Public Toilet of Thoughts

The “Box for Expression” project is an installation that supports storytelling and sharing experiences in puplic space of the city. It is a small…
Digital Native

Radio Show on new Technologies at TPP Radio
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…

News & Actions

Thoughts on technology design and research

Encounters
Online Learning and Solidarity: A demanding brain-teaser

An article from Vasilis Vlachokyriakos and Christos Yovanopoulos, about the challenges posed to Solidarity Schools because of pandemic and how they responded to the condition of combining distance learning and solidarity, has been published in the daily greek newspaper “Efimerida ton Syntakton”. The article presents the difficulties and the problematics which education faced during lockdowns, […]

by Open Lab Athens • 10 November 2021
Systems
Developing a board game about empty buildings, community infrastructures and the dialogue between stakeholders

In the context of the European H2020 project CO3 the research team of Open Lab Athens develops a board role-playing game about empty buildings, community infrastructure and the dialogue between different stakeholders in a city. Our basic goal through this procedure is to support a pilot deployment of an application and service which provides citizens […]

by Open Lab Athens • 1 June 2021
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