EVENTS AT THE GREEK PAVILION: CO-HOUSING PRACTICES - INVENTING PROTOTYPES FOR ATHENS (4-DAY WORKSHOP)

DESCRIPTION

The 4-day workshop on co-housing practices brings together urban practitioners and members of co-housing projects from Zurich, Leipzig and Athensto share their expertise, collaborate and examine the prospect of a realistic implementation of co-ownership models in Athens.

Our aim is to address the issues currently at stake in Athens such as the transforming housing needs, the degradation of urban fabric, the social protection of the new middle-low class and their right to the city; to explore ways of urban resistance to massive speculative real-estate development in the center of the city through paradigms already tested abroad. We aspire that this procedure of knowledge-sharing and common work will establish long-term collaborations and networks.

The meeting is organized in morning sessions where participants discuss and reflect on existing co-housing projects, their socio-political framework, their implementation process and the challenges faced through time, and in afternoon workshops that focus on specific case studies in Athens. Every morning session will be framed around a specific thematic area from which we will try to abstract concrete ideas and knowledge to be used for the possible future cases of co-housing in Athens which will be worked in detail in the afternoon workshops.

An overall presentation, followed by an assembly-discussion, will take place on Sunday 30 October, during which we will sketch a realistic scenario of instituting protocols for common ownership and co-living practices in Athens and a few concrete future steps.

In the frame of the workshop there will be exhibited the ongoing archive “Artistic Practices:  Housing as social agreement” aiming to unfold a cartography of approaches by artists to the notion of the house, investigate and challenge the ways in which housing is not only imagined, but also effectuated by artists and further point out ways in which forms of cultural production could be reclaimed as tools to design, defend and reinvent social space.

P A R T I C I P A T I N G

FEATURED CO-HOUSING PROJECTS

Kraftwerk1 – http://kraftwerk1.ch/
Kalkbreite – http://kalkbreite.net/
Mehr-als-Wohnen – http://mehralswohnen.ch/
Dreieck – https://www.dasdreieck.ch/
NeNa1 – http://nena1.ch
WOGENO – http://wogeno-zuerich.ch/
Miethaeuser Syndikat – https://www.syndikat.org/en/

WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS

Panayotis Antoniadis, interdisciplinary researcher,  NetHood, Zurich
Ileana Apostol, architect and urbanist, NetHood ,Zurich
Tobias Bernet, anthropologist and historian, co-founder Central LS housing cooperative, Leipzig / Berlin
Thomas Dimov, architect, Coliving Lab, Zurich
Sofia Dona , architect & artist, project AKINITO, Athens
Elisavet Hasa, architect, Co-Hab Athens
Tonia Katerini, architect,  STOP AUCTIONS network, Athens
Philipp Klaus, economic and social geographer, INURA Zurich Institute, Zurich
Jens Martignoni, researcher, NetHood, Zurich
Stelios Minotakis, architect, Co-Hab Athens
Rayelle Niemann, artist , Wogeno resident, Zurich
Vassiliki – Vicky Panagiotopoulou, architect MA, Less is More, Athens
Thomas Raoseta, architect, NeNa1 and 5im5i, Zurich
Dimitra Siatitsa, architect- researcher, INURA Athens
Constantina Theodorou, architect-researcher, Co-Hab  Athens
Andreas Wirz, architect, partner Archipel GmbH , co-founder KraftWerk1 ,Board Wohnbaugenossenschaften Zürich, Board WOKO

Ongoing archive
ARTISTIC PRACTICES: HOUSING AS A SOCIAL AGREEMENT

Curated by
Giorgos Papadatos & Sofia Dona

Featured works by
Rebecca Agnes / Jonas Dahlberg / Giorgos Gyparakis / Tea Mäkipää / Artemis Potamianou / Kostis Velonis / Erwin Wurm / Angela Ferreira / Eugenio Tibaldi / Yiannis Theodoropoulos / Mona Vatamanu Florin Tudor / Giorgos Papadatos / Dorit Margreiter / Errands / Taysir Batniji / Kimsooja /  Michael Rakowitz / Nicos Charalambidis /  Róza El-Hassan / Tudor Bratu / Teddy Cruz / Raumlabor / Ahmet Öğüt / Sofia Dona / Marjetica Potrč  / Zafos Xagoraris / Rick Lowe Project Row Houses /

P R O G R A M

WEDNESDAY 26 OCTOBER | Day 1

11.00-13.00 Co-ownership and vision
Discussion on existing initiatives focusing on: 
Needs and motivation/ individual incentives and preferences/ collective decisions/ addressed needs
Context/  the socio-political framework of each urban context/ existing mentalities on co-housing
Vision/ ”big ideas”  and storytelling

Seed talks
Andreas Wirz Cooperative Housing in Switzerland. Recent examples. 

Tobias Bernet Vacancy vs. shortage: Founding new housing cooperatives under different conditions
Constantina Theodorou   Cheap & Empty- The particularity of Athenian “housing crisis”
Thomas Dimov CoLivingLab: a living lab for experiencing and learning about cohousing and coworking practices

15.00-18.00 Workshop: Case studies for Athens

Presentation of possible future case studies:

Panayotis Antoniadis  A NeNa1-like project in Athens?

Sofia Dona  AΚΙΝΙΤΟ project
Co-Hab Athens project  & detailed taxonomy of characteristic case studies, building types, and ownership models / presentation of the research-area 

Selection of case studies to work in groups the next days