Guest Lecture at Grand Tourismo Workshop
Updating the Grand Tour - Memory and Invention of the European Built Environment.
Identifying the Grand Tour as a legacy, project proposes to restore travel (informed mobility) to the core of EU architect’s education. Intergrating life-fed learning frameworks and digital tools UpGranT ventures to bridge the Grand Tour into the future.
Tutors: Alexandra Vougia, Despina Zavraka, Apostolos Kalfopoulos, Dimitris Fragkos, Themis Chatzigiannopoulos
Guests: Babis Alexiadis, Stergios Galikas, Konstantinos Zves, Maria Kriara, Vasiliki-Maria Plavou, Fotis Sagonas
The workshop focuses on research and experimentation on interpretation and presentation of architectural work, in ways to stimulate attention, reflection, and emotion—for every audience. The aim is to create a new perceptual, cognitive, and aesthetic richness that enhances and highlights the significance of architecture.
Using expressive and conceptual tools—both conventionally and unconventionally—from architecture, visual arts, image and sound arts, digital arts, visual communication, and interactive applications, we will create interpretive installations that communicate, with immediacy, the tangible and intangible architectural qualities and the conceptual value of ten selected built architectural projects in the wider Thessaloniki area.
Through the creative use of sketches, diagrams, drawings, models, collages, photographs, videos, posters, stickers, animation, apps, manuals, narratives, and more, we will attempt to interpret the functional, structural, and aesthetic choices of each project, while also conveying the spatial desires expressed in each case—endowing them with their poetic dimension.
In this context, six seminars will be held, focusing on the representational and performative aspects of different media and techniques. The seminars will be conducted by:
Babis Alexiadis, animation designer, illustrator
Stergios Galikas, architect, visual communication designer (post-spectacular office)
Konstantinos Zve, architect, visual artist
Maria Kriara, architect, visual artist, Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture, University of Ioannina
Vassiliki-Maria Plavou, architect, visual communication designer (studio precarity)
Fotis Sagonas, architect, visual artist
Corresponding workshops will be held at the six universities participating in the research program. The outcomes of these workshops will be included in the Research Program Catalogue, the Website, and the Exhibition that will take place in Thessaloniki at the end of the program.
