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

Self-organization and Solidarity

Cooperativism and Infrastructuring

Service innovation and Municipalism

Urbanism and Housing

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Co-designing with Energy communities

Digital Platform Co-design In November 2021, OLA had the opportunity to get involved in the development of a digital platform for the…
The Glass Room _ Misinformation Edition

The “Glass Room Misinformation Edition” exhibition was presented in Greece between 21-27 of November 2022 in the National Library of Greece in…
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…

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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.

by Open Lab Athens • 24 March 2020
Encounters
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 […]

by Open Lab Athens • 25 February 2020
meeting @ Goethe
Encounters
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 […]

by Open Lab Athens • 24 February 2020