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Infrastructures for Voice
Fani Kostourou and John Bingham-Hall
We speak. Whether with our voices, our hands or through technologies, speaking is inseparable from being human. When do our words become political?…
– Cristiano Lippa and Fabiano Micocci"/>
A palimpsest of topographies: A comparative analysis of five urban sections
– Cristiano Lippa and Fabiano Micocci
Urban societies are increasingly complex global entities. According to Henri Lefebvre, such complexification can be roughly defined in spatial term…
– Christina Petkopoulou"/>
Athens Report: a collective archive of life and protest
– Christina Petkopoulou
athensreport.org is an interactive digital platform that maps the urban space through the route of trolley bus No. 11. It collects and archives vid…
– Sofia Mavroudis"/>
The art tourist
– Sofia Mavroudis
One of the largest and most important international exhibitions of contemporary art takes place only once every five years. Documenta, the exhibiti…
– Fabiano Micocci"/>
Chorographia Atheniensis: the reconstruction of the pre-modern geography of Athens
– Fabiano Micocci
Athens has altered its original soil. The unrelenting urban development that changed the city after the Second World War had erased the natural soi…
– Maria Michou"/>
“Mythistorema”: fantas(ma)tic sections
– Maria Michou
Following the demolition of low-rise early 20th century housing in central Athens, the plots illustrated here emerge as transitory cracks in the co…
Urban Fragments: Athens from a distance
– archIV+
Metropolis, Centre, Epicentre, the Absolute Greek City, Greek Provinces and Athens. Violence in the centre, immigrants, abandonment, seizure, t…
Walls Speak
– Evdokia Koraki and Catherine Blin
Walls speak and Catherine, a new resident in the country, took a camera and photographed the “sayings”. Among the thousands of graffiti written…