The conference focuses on the recent upsurge of collective initiatives and public interventions in Thessaloniki over the past few years. It looks at how these different initiatives and interventions operate, examining both the ways in which they frame the social sphere and articulate a particular model of communal engagement. The aim is to address a number of questions including: Why the recent proliferation of such initiatives and interventions: in other words, what socio-political and art institutional context has promoted such development? What understanding of “the common” do they enact through their collective formation and their engagement with the public? What strategies (play, detournement, etc.) do they deploy within their field of action and to what end? Are such initiatives effective?
<< In the context of the conference, artist Lena Athanasopoulou was invited to create an image for the poster of the event designed by Designers United.
Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art 19 March 2011
Thessaloniki, Greece
Speakers:
Apostolos Kalfopoulos (architect, curator, Lecturer – Department of Architecture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Dynamo Project Space), Yiorgos Papakostas (Head – Department of Architecture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), Spiros Pengas (Municipality of Thessaloniki – Deputy Mayor for Culture, Education and Tourism), Marios Spiroglou (Director, founder of Sfina), Aris Stilianou (Adjunct Professor of Political Philosophy – Department of Political Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
