Athens Do-It-Together
Year: 2013 | Partners: City of Athens/Mayor’s Office, AT Management | Program: Temporary Urban Interventions, Art Installations, Residencies, Open Air Film Festivals | Team: Haris Biskos (Architect, Urban Designer in Charge), Dimitris Chabesis (Collaborating Curator), Thodoris Svoronos (Collaborating Architect)
Athens Do-It-Together is a proposal for a syntactic of temporary urban interventions which unfolds as a pin-point master plan in the historical center of Athens. The project has been integrated into the City of Athens operational program, «Project Athens», a program of direct interventions in the urban space and the economy of Athens, which utilizes resources from the structural funds of the European Union for development projects in the city.
The main objective of this overarching plan of ephemeral interventions is to re-activate untapped downtown areas and to contribute into a midterm commercial revitalization operating in an environment of economic and social crisis. At the same time, as a productive platform that facilitates collective intelligence to produce innovative ideas, it provides ground for experimentation to new, emerging creative networks and “city makers” who participate in the design procedures and the implementation of the individual interventions. Young artists, creative networks and collectives that have emerged in the city of Athens within the era of financial crisis, NGOs, research groups and communities join in a creative process to change together the image of contemporary Athens.
