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

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…
Synpraxis.tech: A Digital Commons coalition

We participate in Synpraxis, a digital commons coalition in Greece bringing together teams from different backgrounds to work together on promoting digital…

News & Actions

Thoughts on technology design and research

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
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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
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Open Lab Athens at Radio Show “Solidarity in the Air”

Open Lab Athens was invited for a series of radio broadcasts in the radio show “Solidarity in the Air” of the Elliniko Solidarity Clinic broadcasted by the Greek National Broadcasting Network (ERT).

by Open Lab Athens • 22 March 2019