Urbanism
Housing and Urbanism
CORPUS – Phygital models of cooperation in the retrofitting of public space
Community reclaiming of the city through the lens of participation and circularity Co.R.Pu.S. aims to conduct research on alternative processes of retrofitting public space at neighbourhood level, grounded on Circular Urban Economies (CUE) through involvement of local stakeholders and citizens. Having as its main challenge the revival of degraded public space in the periphery of the […]
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 the politics of place and designing in ways that wouldn’t conventionally be understood as PD. As such, this PDC place will focus on non-conventional ways of designing together, particularly in relation to solidarity […]
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 scale modular/mobile infrastructure that can be installed in different parts of the city of Athens depending on the needs of each action. It is available to creative groups and organizations that are active in the field […]
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 fab-lab, hubs, incubators, co-creation spaces, social centres created in regenerated urban voids.
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 or holding solidarity classes in local social centres.
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 of inertia.
Oral history group of Social Clinic at Helleniko
OLA members were volunteering in different working groups of a major social clinic in Athens when they were asked to facilitate an internal group, made up from volunteers, that would ‘write’ the clinic’s history.
Perno Abariza and no-middlemen coop of Galatsi
We were approached by the group to contribute to the creation of an online and offline participatory platform for the city, a platform that will extend the group’s current outreach practices by involving citizens in developing proposals for the city.