Maybe the last not-block-flat-house in my neighbourhood
Life (dance school) and Death (ΕΝΟΙΚΙΑΖΕΤΑΙ)
A bed everywhere
Time goes by
Hide and Seek
Infinity
Underground spaces
Renovate everything
Color the grey of our lifes
Color your space
Places
Intercult Tales
City Port
Proposal of the times
City Blues
Wonders in the Park
Retro Balconies
Iron gaze
Past gets (a)live
Construct with a(l)ttitude
Stand by me
Desert scene in the city
A city under construction
People and places in transition
City speaks at city link
Up in the air
Legendary history greeting the sky
Blue and dreamy
Meeting Points-Then and Now
I, you, IT, we
Ανάμεσα στο πράσινο και το τσιμέντο, οι χελώνες του Κεραμεικού φέρουν στο καβούκι τους πρόγονους και παρελθόν για να διδαχτούν οι νέες γενεές και να χτίσουνε το μέλλον.
City Mind
shreds of hope and compassion in the city of Athens
Χελώνη η ελληνική,πατρίδα μου,βραδύ γλυπτό,που προσπερνάει τον Άδη
This space features the events and workshops the project team has organized
with other institutions (University Schools, Primary and Secondary Education,
Public Libraries), artist spaces and NGOs.
Winter Semester, 2021 - Undergraduate
Student Urban projects on Thessaloniki, from the course Lit 7-498
American Urban Spaces and Identities, School of English, Aristotle
University of Thessaloniki
“The Voices of the Unheard in the American
Urban Spaces”
In this project, the artworks of certain ethnic and hippie communities in
Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco come at the centre of
attention, such as Duarte’s Gulliver in Wonderland, Zimmerman’s Increíbles Las
Cosas Q’ Se Ven and Maldonado’s The J-Def Peace Project murals, the mural of the
Korean rapper Dumbfoundead and the mural of Ava Gardner, the song “Empire State
of Mind” by Jay-Z featuring Alicia Keys and the song “San Francisco” by McKenzie
Scott. The common trait which unites all these art pieces together is the
vitalising energy of the American ethnic and hippie urban communities. The
Mexican American, Asian American, African American and hippie artists featuring
here protest against the diachronic segregation and exclusion their communities
have suffered from while they highlight their dynamism and meaningful presence
in the current day multi-ethnic and multi-cultural American urban mosaic.
The main goal of this project has been to explore the multifaceted cityscape
of New York City and its margins through a variety of artistic and literary
texts by revealing the antitheses that constitute the New York City urban space.
In particular, the project focuses on the boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn and
the identity of the New Yorkers during a period that starts from the 1930’s and
continues to this day. Every member of the NYC group has explored a specific
geographic area, period and type of text (song, painting, poem, TV series)
aiming to highlight issues of interracial awareness, migration, socioeconomic
inequalities, criminality, urban planning and gentrification. New York City
neighborhoods and boroughs have been used as maps of interaction and discourse
between the genres and texts explored in the website that has been created by
the group members as part of the New York City project.
Project Participants: Dora Psoma, Olga Sinanidi, Theodora Rajkovska,
Eirini Laiaki, Vanesa Husic
Winter Semester, 2017 - Undergraduate
Student Urban projects on Thessaloniki, from the course Lit 7-498
American Urban Spaces and Identities, School of English, Aristotle
University of Thessaloniki
“Filtered Urban
Perspectives”
This is a collaborative creative project
that approaches urban environment from a variety of points of view
through the use of creative writing and drawing with the intention of
revealing a vivid and pluralistic rather than a monolithic view of urban
space. Project participants: Aristeidis Kleiotis, Nina
Kisniaridou,Dimitra Vrousgou
Dimitra Vrousgou, “A city through different lenses”
The painting attempts to bring together multiple perspectives and
sometimes antithetical perceptions of a city,
as seen through the eyes of its individual inhabitants.
Nina Kisniaridou, “Two pairs of sunglasses”
This short story focuses to the everyday experiences of two city
inhabitants but it particularly highlights how
someone’s perspective of city life can affect their psychological
state as well as how different perspectives
can coexist in the same urban environment.
Aristeidis Kleiotis, “Filtered Vision”
The poem featuring here constitutes an attempt to approach popular
urban terms, such as flânerie and urban pastoral,
both via a positive and a negative point of view. This venture is
achieved by separating the poem into two distinct
columns of text with each part facing the other. Therefore, the poem
creates to the readers a sense of transition as
they move through it while comparing and contrasting the images
appearing in the two opposing columns,
which certainly affects the kind of vision the poem emanates.
"Salonican Squats and
Urban Identity Formation"
The present project is a short
documentary that focuses on the occupied spaces (squats) in the city of
Thessaloniki, Greece, and how they contribute to the enhancement of its
identity. Squats promote an alternative way of looking at and
understanding the city character. Their function as political centers
and carriers of a socio-cultural and political consciousness transform
them into unconventional and open urban-house centers of resistance,
action and community empowerment.
Project participants: Maria Kalaitzi,
Marianthi Kyrou, Ioanna Mantopoulou, Panagiota Papavasileiou
"The City of Thessaloniki
through the Camera Lens"
In this project we explore Thessaloniki
through the camera lens in an attempt to decode and discover the city’s
little secrets. Each one of our photos captures a different angle of the
city in an effort to present Thessaloniki’s multifaceted character. The
aim of this project has been to examine the city space through various
perspectives by focusing on the following categories: noisy and isolated
parts of the city, low and upper parts of the city, inner and outer
spaces.
Project participants: Giorgos
Kotenidis, Apostolis Petsis, Anatoli Petsou
"Unfolding the layers of Thessaloniki through artistic expression"
In the context of this creative project
we created a hard copy journal consisting of different personal
perspectives of the urban space of Thessaloniki through a variety of
artistic media (photography, poetry and painting). The material created
corresponded to the following four sub-categories: Connecting and
Disconnecting, Fears, Dreams and Desires and
Observations. The journal and material contained in it aims at the
creation of a collective physical manifestation of diverse personal
experiences of Thessaloniki with the intention of enabling the readers
to empathize with the experiences, emotions and thoughts shared.
Project participants: Aikaterini
Papanastasi, Maria Schiza, Foteini Tyrovouzi
Feb. 22nd-23rd & Apr. 4th, 2017 – Senior
High Intercultural School of Evosmos Thessaloniki Creative workshops for
Secondary Education Schools – Theme: “Exploring Space through Narrative
and Digital Tools”
"Re-Experiencing the Urban
Environment through Interactive Fiction"
The present activity was part of a two-day
workshop that took place on April 22nd and 23rd, 2017, in the
Intercultular Senior High School of Evosmos, Thessaloniki. The
participants were the students of the classes A’1 and A’2.
The particular activity involved the
creation of a short work of interactive fiction through the use of the
open-source tool Twine (https://twinery.org). Drawing on the students’
own environment and their own urban experiences, the interactive story
that was produced by the students focuses on a fictional character
walking around the city of Thessaloniki and visiting different urban
areas. While doing so, the character encounters various dilemmas and is
required to make specific choices with regard to various social/cultural/environmental
issues. The story offers alternative endings, since it is the readers/players
that decide how the story unfolds by actually selecting themselves the
actions that the main character will take in the face of each dilemma.
Workshop Description "Travelling
and the Self"
Coordinator: Despoina Feleki
Students of the 2nd Form Senior High of
the Multicultural School of Evosmos took part in a workshop ornanized by
Dr. Despoina Feleki in cooperation with "The Multimodal Group" of the
Department of American Studies, School of English Language and
Literature, AUTh. The aim of the workshop was to introduce Senior High
School Students to excerpts of American and Greek Poetry through the use
of a WebQuest, which is an inquiry-based mode of teaching and learning
practicing the students' innate need for research and team work.
Students reflected upon the issues of travelling to one's Ithaka,
immigration, moving home environment, personal experiences and expressed
themselves creatively.
Summer 2016 - Graduate student (MA and PhD)
projects on Fargo, North Dakota, U.S., from the course "Rethinking
Cityscapes" offered for Department of English, North Dakota State
University (NDSU).
Winter Semester, 2015 - Undergraduate
Student Urban projects on Thessaloniki, from the course Lit 7-498
American Urban Spaces and Identities, School of English, Aristotle
University of Thessaloniki
May 5th, 2015 - 2nd Primary School Trilofos
Creative Workshops for Primary and Secondary Education Schools
Winter Semester, 2014 - Undergraduate
Student Urban Poetry Project, Group B from the course Lit 5-125 Workshop
in Critical Writing: Poetry, School of English, Aristotle University of
Thessaloniki
May 8th, 2014 - 2nd Primary School, N. Moudania
Creative Workshops for Primary and Secondary Education Schools
Follow-up board game
SUBWAY RUSH HOUR (1924)
This project constitutes a response to
Langston Hughes' poem "Subway Rush Hour" (1924). After discussing with
the students the images and emotions this particular poem triggers, they
were asked to respond to the poem by focusing on two or three words
found in the text that summarize their emotions. Using drawing, the
students were asked to find ways to incorporate the words they've
selected from the poem into their pictures. Simultaneously, they were
alerted to particular characteristics of the medium they were using,
such as the space and the double surface of the page, the interleaf, the
cover and binding, becoming thus familiar with the special features of
book technology. The final project was stitched together and became an
actual book, "THE
BOOK OF OUR CITY".
SUBWAY RUSH HOUR (1924)
by Langston Hughes
Mingled
breath and smell
so close
mingled
black and white
so near
no room for fear.
March 31st, 2014 - Delasalle
Creative Workshops for Primary and Secondary Education Schools
January 20th, 2014 - 4th and 8th Junior High School, Kozani
Creative Workshops for Primary and Secondary Education Schools
December 17th, 2013 - Corfu Public Library
Creative Workshops for Primary and Secondary Education Schools
November 4th, 2013 - Aristoteleio College
Creative Workshops for Primary and Secondary Education Schools
Follow-up Haiku activities
Sepember 6th-26th, 2013 - Action Field Kodra
Art Festival Participation
May 30th, 2013 - Special School in
Papageorgiou Hospital - Pediatric Ward, Thessaloniki
Creative Workshops for Primary and Secondary Education Schools
April 21st, 2013 - Urban Walk in Thessaloniki Urban Tales and Cross-cultural Dialogues
April 17th, 2013 - 3rd Experimental Primary School in Evosmos, Thessaloniki
Creative Workshops for Primary and Secondary Education Schools
April 10th, 2013 - Senior High Intercultural School of Evosmos, Thessaloniki Creative Workshops for Primary and Secondary Education Schools
April 10th, 2013 - 90th Primary School of East Thessaloniki
Creative Workshops for Primary and Secondary Education Schools
March 29th, 2013 - School of Architecture, Department of Architectural Design and Architectural Technology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Architectural Creative Workshops and Presentations
March 27th, 2013 - Senior High Intercultural School of Evosmos, Thessaloniki
Creative Workshops for Primary and Secondary Education Schools
Beautiful landscape near the sea, people staring at it.
Foggy mornings, traffic jams, such a noise that distracts us.
Music, taste, flavours and a sunset that arouses our sensations!
Jan. 29th, 2013 - High School of Neos Skopos, Serres; TEE in Pefka & Ecclesiastical School, Thessaloniki
Sotos Art Studio Exhibition Space - Creative Workshops for Primary and
Secondary Education Schools
Jan. 28th, 2013 - Primary School in Panorama, 1st Experimental High School and Jewish School, Thessaloniki
Sotos Art Studio Exhibition Space - Creative Workshops for Primary and
Secondary Education Schools
Jan. 23rd, 2013 - 6th Primary School in Efkarpia &
Arsakeio Primary
School, Thessaloniki
Sotos Art Studio Exhibition Space - Creative Workshops for Primary and
Secondary Education Schools
Jan. 22nd, 2013 - 3rd Primary School in Pefka & 1st High School,
Thessaloniki
Sotos Art Studio Exhibition Space - Creative Workshops for Primary and
Secondary Education Schools
Jan. 16th, 2013 - Department of Architecture, University of
Thessaly,Volos
Architectural Creative Workshops and Presentations
Jan. 15th, 2013 - Veria Public Library-American Corners
Creative Workshops for Primary and Secondary Education Schools
Jan. 11th, 2013 - Architectural Workshops under the guidance of Nikos Dikas and associates (Niki Bondi, Katerina Papadimitriou, Maita Chatziioannidou, Vaggelis Arvanitis)
Architectural Creative Workshops and Presentations
Dec. 18th, 2012 - Creative Urban Walk in Thessaloniki
Urban Tales and Cross-cultural dialogues
