Romeo and Juliet in Aigaleo

Exhibitions,

Films,

Talks

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Point Supreme Architects, Circular Playground, sketch, 2015
Point Supreme Architects, Playground, sketch, 2015
AREA Architecture Research Athens, Participatory design workshop, 6th primary school Aigaleo, photo Pinelopi Gerasimou
AREA Architecture Research Athens, Participatory design workshop, 6th primary school Aigaleo, photo Pinelopi Gerasimou
AREA Architecture Research Athens, Participatory design workshop, 6th primary school Aigaleo, photo Pinelopi Gerasimou
AREA, Architecture Research Athens, Participatory design workshop, 6th primary school Aigaleo, photo Pinelopi Gerasimou
AREA Architecture Research Athens, Participatory design workshop, 6th primary school Aigaleo, photo Pinelopi Gerasimou
AREA Architecture Research Athens, Participatory design workshop, 6th primary school Aigaleo, photo Pinelopi Gerasimou
Iris Nikolaou & Rebecca Tsiligaridou, A Midsummer nights dream in the here and now, primary school Aigaleo, photo Pinelopi Gerasimou
Iris Nikolaou & Rebecca Tsiligaridou, A Midsummer nights dream in the here and now, primary school Aigaleo, photo Pinelopi Gerasimou
Iris Nikolaou & Rebecca Tsiligaridou, A Midsummer nights dream in the here and now, primary school Aigaleo, photo Pinelopi Gerasimou
Michalis Moschoutis and Vasilis Tzavaras, Silent Shakespeare Foley workshops, primary school Aigaleo, photo Pinelopi Gerasimou
Michalis Moschoutis and Vasilis Tzavaras, Silent Shakespeare Foley workshops, primary school Aigaleo, photo Pinelopi Gerasimou
Michalis Moschoutis and Vasilis Tzavaras, Silent Shakespeare Foley workshops, primary school Aigaleo, photo Pinelopi Gerasimou
Michalis Moschoutis and Vasilis Tzavaras, Silent Shakespeare Foley workshops, primary school Aigaleo, photo Pinelopi Gerasimou
Anastasia Douka, Propsero's Books, primary school Aigaleo, photo Pinelopi Gerasimou
Anastasia Douka, Propsero's Books, primary school Aigaleo, photo Pinelopi Gerasimou
Anastasia Douka, Propsero's Books, primary school Aigaleo, photo Pinelopi Gerasimou
Dimitri Xanthopoulos, Romeo and Juliet, high school Aigaleo, photo Pinelopi Gerasimou
Dimitri Xanthopoulos, Romeo and Juliet, high school Aigaleo, photo Pinelopi Gerasimou
Dimitri Xanthopoulos, Romeo and Juliet, high school Aigaleo, photo Pinelopi Gerasimou
Dimitri Xanthopoulos, Romeo and Juliet, high school Aigaleo, photo Pinelopi Gerasimou
Dimitri Xanthopoulos, Romeo and Juliet, high school Aigaleo, photo Pinelopi Gerasimou
Yiannis Hadjiaslanis, Photography workshop, high school Aigaleo, photo Pinelopi Gerasimou
Yiannis Hadjiaslanis, Photography workshop, high school Aigaleo, photo Pinelopi Gerasimou
Avrilios Karakostas & Ioanna Tsoucala, Aigaleo City, film-still
Avrilios Karakostas & Ioanna Tsoucala, Aigaleo City, film-still
Avrilios Karakostas & Ioanna Tsoucala, Aigaleo City, film-still
Avrilios Karakostas & Ioanna Tsoucala, Aigaleo City, film-still

Contributors

AREA Architecture Research Athens, Anastasia Douka, Avrilios Karakostas & Ioanna Tsoucala, Yiannis Hadjiaslanis, Point Supreme Architects, Michalis Moschoutis & Vassilis Tzavaras, Iris Nikolaou & Rebecca Tsiligaridou, Dimitris Xanthopoulos, Nikos Vogiatzis

Curated by:

Maria-Thalia Carras & Olga Hatzidaki

Dates:

01.09.2015-01.06.2016

(young) Aigaleo City is the second stage of locus athens’ two-year long community project in Aigaleo (a city located in the Western suburbs of Athens).

In 2014-2015, locus athens investigated the city’s history, the relevance of locality as a reference point for understanding broader urban changes, the shifting identities of community life and the role the visual arts can play in activating a city’s unknown stories. Through a diverse programme working with community members and people from a broad range of disciplines, locus athens triggered a series of situations that activated people and places throughout the city. Aigaleo City shared knowledge and experiences, working towards a cross-germination between neighbourhoods, communities and people.

Having addressed the city’s past, (young) Aigaleo City will continue in the same spirit but by focusing this time on the city’s younger generations. In line with its prequel, locus athens has invited a series of collaborators to work with micro-communities aged from five to eighteen throughout the city, about their city: a theater director, a photographer and two architectural teams will work with children, through processes which will be both challenging and rewarding, asking them to tell their city’s, schools’ and community’s stories.

The theater director Dimitris Xanthopoulos working with teenagers from the 7th High School of Aigaleo will produce a devised version of “Romeo and Juliet”. Shakespeare’s text will be used as a starting point for the students to investigate their home city as a backdrop for love, loss and rivalries, culminating in one final performance, which will use the city of Aigaleo as its stage. The workshop is part of the Shakespeare Lives programme supported by the British Council.

The photographer Yiannis Hadjiaslanis will co-ordinate a series of seminars with children from Aigaleo’s high schools. The students will be asked to document traces of their family’s past, their homes and city, through a series of photographic assignments.

AREA architects will research into collaborative design processes and architectural imaginaries. They will work together with the 6th primary school of Aigaleo where, over a series of meetings, primary school children will investigate the design problems of their school. Through a final workshop in the form of an open-ended game, they will play out alternate possibilities for their school environment. The workshop will be in collaboration with architecture students from the University of Volos and in the final workshop, children from Istanbul and Brussels will take part thanks to the program C.A.T.C.H (Children Architects to Create Homes) which the 6thprimary school is taking part in.

Point Supreme architects will create a playground in Aigaleo where children will be invited to play face to face, transforming the dramaturgie of play into a  process of exploration and discovery. The playground is being supported by the Municipality of Aigaleo.

All the workshops will come to a close with a weekend of events in late spring. On the occasion a short documentary film on Aigaleo, ‘The City’ commissioned by locus athens and directed by Avrilios Karakostas and Ioanna Tsoucala will be aired. The first screening in Aigaleo will be in collaboration with the Athens Open Air Film Festival.

A catalogue with documentation and archives from the two-year project will also be published, designed by Vasso Plavou.

(Young) Aigaleo City is one of NEON’s Community Projects for 2016, part of NEON’s initiative to bring art projects into the city’s neighbourhoods. ΝΕΟΝ Community Projects have been taking place since 2013 and are based on the participation of residents, groups and artists from Athenian neighborhoods. These Projects are a vital field of artistic activity, through which artists, alongside with citizens, highlight the issues that concern these local communities.

 

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