Posts By: Open Lab Athens
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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.
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.
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 […]
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 […]
Workshop with Katherine Gibson in September 2019
On 17th September 2019, Open Lab Athens and Dr. Hara Kouki, Dr. Sofia Nikolaidou and Dr. Dimitris Pettas (Open Hellenic University, MA in Social Solidarity Economy) organized a workshop, led by Prof Katherine Gibson upon her visit in Athens. This was entitled ‘‘Doing Research in the Current ‘Post- Crisis’ Context: Precarity, Ethics, Post- Capitalist Possibilities’’ its […]