Open Lab Athens is a non-for-profit, cross-disciplinary research collective and technology development lab.

Solidarity and service innovation

Labour Rights and Cooperativism

Self-organisation and municipalism

Housing and Urbanism

Encounters

Projects and community engagements

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…
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

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Thoughts on technology design and research

Encounters
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 […]

by Open Lab Athens • 4 December 2019
Encounters
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 […]

by Open Lab Athens • 10 July 2019
Media
The city of democratic participation, Article in EfSyn

An article from Hara Kouki, member of Open Lab Athens, about democratic decision making in municipalities has been published in one of the leading daily greek newspapers “Efimerida to Syntakton”, itself a cooperative initiative.

by Open Lab Athens • 17 May 2019