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A century separates us from the “rupture of history” and the historical ambiguities that the early heroic modernism introduced in the urban space, and eighty years from the destruction of the European monumental deposit from the bombings of WWII, a defining moment for the introduction of new kinds of monumentality alongside the old ones. Yet, monumentality still emerges as a major spatial, aesthetic, symbolic, architectural and archaeological phenomenon. In a climate of pessimism in present day western cities, which are dealing with an increasingly precarious present, due to economic and other forms of instability, the durability of monumentality as “urban permanence” (the famous Aldo Rossi concept), appears to be among the few remaining symbolic and spatial rocks and as such is needed, maintained, enhanced, landscaped and even invented. The international conference “On Monumentality”, to be held in the Acropolis Museum, Athens, 4-6 of April, 2019, will explore the following relevant dimensions of monumentality and the monumental both in the European urban and peripheral space and also of cities/countries globally: • Old, new and emergent kinds of monumentality • Struggles around monumentality formation: Social, symbolic and political aspects • Aesthetics of monumentality’s protection • The economic and developmental aspects of monumentality • Monumentality in the urban space and the “natural”/regional landscape • Scales of the monumental In the above context proposals of papers were submitted from architects, archaeologists, urban planners, urban and cultural geographers, art theorists and historians, social anthropologists and other relevant theorists.
OPEN CALL FOR PARTICIPATION -SEMINARS ON HYDRA, GREECE Exhibition Histories from the 17th century to the present Athens School of Fine Arts & Hydra 21 1 ST Seminar with ASAD RAZA. Deadline for applications July 1st. For application instructions see attached cfp. Organizers: Irini Marinaki, Konstantinos Stefanis, Eva Fotiadi ASFA scientific advisors: Prof. N. Daskalothanasis, Prof. Zafos Xagoraris The seminar WHAT DO EXHIBITIONS WANTS? is part of the "Exhibition Histories from the 17th century to the present" events, which are organised under the auspices of the Athens School of Fine Arts and in collaboration with the not-for-profit association Hydra 21.
Revelation (Athens: Cultural Olympiad 2001-2004, 2003).
Lina Stergiou, ed., Revelation (Athens: Cultural Olympiad 2001-2004, 2003), English, 520 pages. ISBN 9607980492 , 2003
ATHENS D.O.E.S. competition Ephemeral Structures in the City of Athens, organized by the Hellenic Culture Organization S.A. in the context of the Cultural Olympiad 2001-2004, indicates a current political speculation on the city. For no less than four decades a lack of investment, research and discussion on the built environment had as a cause and at the same time as side effect a long-lasting hostile but also ambivalent feeling towards the built environment with which individuals could not justify and even more be identified with. The negative engagement with the city coexisted with the aspiration to metaphorically wipe out the city with one stroke, namely, with a political desire to radically eliminate from the capital its dysfunctional character that, however, remained suspended up to 2003. The detection of a different research approach to the city through the Cultural Olympiad 2001-2004 uncovers a possible beginning of amends. Ephemeral Structures in the City of Athens competition in 2003 aspires to tackle anew the issue of Athens and create narratives by focusing on reality, recognizing the inherent characteristics of the city and find a norm to construct identities. The notion of ephemerality and parasitism as main axes of Athens-scape interpretation puts on the table the parameter of time and endeavors to conceptualize the always-in-process, mutable and frenzied character of the city. By strengthening this side of reality and even more forcing it to become a new model - decent, uncontaminated, clearly defined - even if this prescribes the opposite - chaos, disfiguration - good and moral character is automatically encapsulated and offers a true love object choice to Athenians, a positive mirror reflection to individual and collective identity. ‘Revelation’ is the third volume in the series of four of Athens D.O.E.S. competition. Unlike the first two that included theoretical and hermeneutical texts, the present tome reveals the actual projects, the response of the participants to the diversity of thematics and given concepts. Four hundred and sixty-one entries by architects of different countries and cultures responded to the Athenian toposcape, articulated small structures for the city of Athens, and proposed scenarios of social performance and interactions through territorial strategies. OUT OF CIRCULATION
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