Neighbourhood Initiatives
by LABattoir project​
[WORKSHOP] [ARTISTIC INTERVENTIONS] [RESEARCH]

Description:

LABattoir has initiated a process of communication and dialogue with people living or working in the area where it is located, aiming to activate the neighbourhood, encourage the sense of community between its residents and renew the area’s identity both for its own users as well as for the rest of the city.


In compliance with its mission and main goals mentioned above, LABattoir organised a series of workshops named Social Research Studio in order to apply collective research and test new models in order to activate the neighbourhood of LABattoir, but also to measure the impact that the project itself has on the community.
As result of these workshops, Research LAB was created, a team of interdisciplinary workshop participants who wanted to research further the area.

The Actions

LABattoir with the support and assistance of Research LAB initiated a dialogue with the residents and the users of the area and organised a series of projects aiming to activate its neighbourhood:

Neighbourhood Assemblies, a series of meetings with members of LABattoir team, Research LAB team and residents and professionals of the area of LABattoir.

Jeanne Van Heswijk

Jeanne Van Heswijk’s lecture, “Imagination a collective exercise of Care”, on her practice of working with communities on revitalising their neighbourhoods.

"Polis" Workshop

Polis workshop, a workshop for the creation of a collective art project aimed at activating the neighbourhood, the result of which took the form of the performative walk, Truly Yours. 

"Truly Yours" Performative Walk

​Truly yours, a series of artworks and performances forming a route in the area of Sfageia, where LABattoir is located.

Neighbourhood Symposiums

Neighbourhood Symposiums, by director Thanasis Kritsakis, during which, people from the area where each Symposium took place, were invited to discuss about their neighbourhood issues and engage in an open dialogue with the audience.

Symposium I

Symposium II

Symposium III

Freevolous City Stage workshop: Now where? From where? How?

Freevolous City Stage workshop: Now where? From where? How?, a research workshop of theatrical and creative representation aiming to explore the various uses of Freevolous City Stage, through art and theatre technique, realised in an abandoned playground in the neighbourhood of LABattoir​
The Neighbourhood of
the Old municipal Slaughterhouse.
​Thessaloniki
2018 - Now

Research LAB:
Kelly Kati (Research Coordinaton), Nikos Demelis, Thomas Diafas, Natassa Karra, Anni Tsevdomaria

Workshop moderator “Now where? From where? How?”: Thomas Velissaris
Workshop moderator “Polis”: Thomas Diafas

Workshop moderators "Poetry meets AR”: Natasa Panagou, Athina Grammatikopoulou
Symposia Director: Thanasis Kritsakis

In collaboration with Eterotita Theatre, Monstrare Art Group
With the support of Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki

Videographer: Giorgos Kogias
Music: Adam Siagas
Photos: Giorgos Kogias & Aggelos Tsompanidis
About LABattoir

​LABattoir is a project developed by ArtBOX and supported by the Municipality of Thessaloniki's Department of Culture.
The program is implemented through a founding grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) and it is based at the recently refurbished building of the old municipal slaughterhouse. 

LABattoir is a socially engaged machine for the production of culture; a laboratory of applied creativity that responds to society’s needs and problems introducing solutions and alternative strategies with the contribution of the artist as catalyst and the citizen as co-producer.

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