Dr Maria Theodorou accepted an invitation addressed
by Kostis Papaioannou, chairman of the Hellenic League of Human Rights http://www.hlhr.gr/index.php?PageLang=greek
and https://www.facebook.com/antiphono.kostispapaioannou?fref=ts
to participate at a panel discussion on Conditions of Enclosure in the
city of Athens. The event took place in Athens on May 2nd 2014 and was organized in the context of the Onassis Foundation “Fast Forward Festival (FFF)” http://www.sgt.gr/gr/programme/event/1672
The invitation gave the opportunity to present a very unlikely place that
enclosure indeed happens: the Athens Town Hall building (and especially its
roof terrace) which embodies a type of municipal administration that remains
detached from self –organizing initiatives while funding ‘fake’ bottom up activities;
the latter do not disturb/challenge existing problematic conditions while keeping
at bay the Athens inhabitants involvement with the administration of their
city.
The discussion was used to present for the first time in
Athens, DEMOS by SARCHA. This is a project which invited architects and non-architects
to think through and imaging/design the potential of self-administration of the
city. DEMOS was initiated following invitation by the British Council and presented
at the London Festival of Architecture in 2013 www.demos.sarcha.gr
SARCHA is seeking ways to continue and taking up the DEMOS project
to the next stage. In this context DEMOS will be presented at a Conference in Copenhagen
Denmark in June 13th, 2014.
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