Urban Catalyst
Διεθνές εργαστήριο σχεδιασμού για φοιτητές και νέους αρχιτέκτονες.

Οργάνωση – σχεδιασμός εργαστηρίου:
Δήμητρα Φύγκα Maltepe University, Instanbul
Irem Falay Mollaahmetoglu, ITU
σε συνεργασία με το Σύλλογο Αρχιτεκτόνων Θεσσαλονίκης.

Στο εργαστήριο, διάρκειας από 27/8 έως 2/09/2017 θα συμμετέχουν 20 φοιτητές από την Κωνσταντινούπολη και 10 από την Ελλάδα. Για περισσότερες πληροφορίες και δήλωση συμμετοχής επικοινωνήστε στο thessalonikiworkshop@gmail.com

Brief:

Urban Catalyst.

An international workshop on Syggrou Street, Thessaloniki

27.08- 02.09

Structural changes and the economic crisis have radically affected the old commercial center of Thessaloniki in different ways.

The Axe of Syggrou is an example of a process of gradual abandonment: Where once business pulsated, now closed stores and workshops, vacant apartment houses, disused offices, some empty plots and old semi destroyed buildings are forming a silent, almost uncanny streetscape- still physically intact, but without action, noise and life.

We consider the state of vacancy and abandonment as an open ground for possibilities.

This “pending” urban situation, a vacuum, where former uses have ended and the future is still to come, bears in its condition of uncertainty, a huge creative potential.

The workshop will try to discuss and explore tools, tactics / strategies that can “activate” and initiate new urban situations: recycling and appropriation, repurpose, conversions, temporary use of existing structures, transforming / remodeling / rebuilding, minimal or radical spatial interventions …

The workshop program will include evening lectures/presentations by architects and young creative professionals from different fields .

Students from Architecture and Design or recent graduates who wish to participate in the workshop are very welcome. There are no fees for the workshop.

For further information please contact thessalonikiworkshop@gmail.com