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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
CO3 Workshops in June 2019
Open Lab Athens along with DAEM, Municipality of Athens organized the co-design phase of the CO3 project for Athens. The goal of the this process was to map the main stakeholders and their needs and co-design services that utilize the technologies provided by the CO3 consortium. For this purpose Open Lab Athens and DAEM: Visited […]