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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?…
Defaced land: Reading the marks of a social obsession
– Konstantinos Manolidis
Street networks commonly serve some form of human habitation. That’s why the image of a dense pattern of driveways leading to vacant plots in a nat…
Our land
– Maria Vidali
This article focuses on a small community in the village of Kampos, on the Greek island of Tinos in Greece. In studying the history of the island o…
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…
Pocket parks as spaces of “Re-public”: the experience of the Alexandrou Svolou initiative
– Spilios Iliopoulos and Michaela Loukia Litsardaki
It is very common in modern cities to find, within the urban fabric, forgotten/neglected parts,which are pieces of land that have either been abandoned in relation to an earlier…
Playscapes in the city of Larissa: a participatory design approach engaging architects, children and adults
– Eliki-Athanasia Diamantouli and Athina Fousteri
In 1989, the United Nations (UN General Assembly, 1989) established the children’s right to play. As a result, cities and municipalities became responsible to fulfill this need…
Institutional housing policies and habitation practices of the refugees arriving in Volos, Greece, in 1922
– Antonis Antoniou
In September 1922, following the destruction of Smyrna in the same year, a major wave of refugees came to the city of Volos. The crowds were initially…