Open Lab Athens is a non-for-profit,
digital civics research and technology development lab.

Solidarity and service innovation

Labour Rights and Cooperativism

Self-organisation and municipalism

Housing and Urbanism

Encounters

Projects and community engagements

Digital Native

Radio Show on new Technologies at TPP Radio
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…
H2020 CO3 project

The project aims at building an analytical framework for studying the potential benefits and risks of new disruptive technologies and their potential…
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…
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…
Metadeftero.gr

As Open Lab we want to explore the motivation for radio usage from social movements and use the radio broadcasting setting as…

News & Actions

Thoughts on technology design and research

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 hara • 17 May 2019
Media
The City in a different perspective, Article in EfSyn

An article from Hara Kouki, member of Open Lab Athens, about municipalism has been published in one of the leading daily greek newspapers “Efimerida to Syntakton”

by hara • 18 April 2019