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Eleftheria Square or Potemkin Corridor?
Eleftheria Square or Potemkin Corridor?
2022
Η αναβίωση της παλιάς πόλης της Λευκωσίας. Για ποιους;
Η αναβίωση της παλιάς πόλης της Λευκωσίας. Για ποιους;
2022
Caring for…? Towards a Territorial Geographic Repair Approach
Caring for…? Towards a Territorial Geographic Repair Approach
2022
Localities Hands-on Famagusta
Localities Hands-on Famagusta
2022
Borders and Boundaries of Control. Academia Letters, Article 153. https://doi.org/10.20935/AL153.
Borders and Boundaries of Control. Academia Letters, Article 153. https://doi.org/10.20935/AL153.
2021
Negotiate as you go along: infrastructures for shared hybrid territories
Negotiate as you go along: infrastructures for shared hybrid territories
2021
“No Park over Pain” Το ημερολόγιο ενός επισκέπτη των Βαρωσίων, ένα φθινοπωρινό ηλιόλουστο Κυριακάτικο απόγευμα, Νοέμβριος 2020
“No Park over Pain” Το ημερολόγιο ενός επισκέπτη των Βαρωσίων, ένα φθινοπωρινό ηλιόλουστο Κυριακάτικο απόγευμα, Νοέμβριος 2020
2021
Diffractive spatial practices for urgent pedagogies
Diffractive spatial practices for urgent pedagogies
2021
A Guide to Stand-up Activism
A Guide to Stand-up Activism
2021
Social Design for Sustainable Cities University of Cyprus
Social Design for Sustainable Cities University of Cyprus
2021
Third Space as Transitional Agent
Third Space as Transitional Agent
2020
Powers of entanglement: a letter to Ray and Charles Eames, in Frolov, V. Project Baltia Journal, Letters from the Quarantine
Powers of entanglement: a letter to Ray and Charles Eames, in Frolov, V. Project Baltia Journal, Letters from the Quarantine
2020
A counter-project about land regeneration and land use in Larnaca, Cyprus; or, an everyday little utopia
A counter-project about land regeneration and land use in Larnaca, Cyprus; or, an everyday little utopia
2020
Contested Fronts Archive: Emancipatory urban practices for constructive conflict transformation
Contested Fronts Archive: Emancipatory urban practices for constructive conflict transformation
2020
Translocality as Urban Design Tool for the Inclusive City: The Case of Europan
Translocality as Urban Design Tool for the Inclusive City: The Case of Europan
2020
Why Alice is not in Wonderland? Countering the Militarized status quo of Cyprus
Why Alice is not in Wonderland? Countering the Militarized status quo of Cyprus
2020
Unseeing in the Cypriot Contested Cities in Architectuul
Unseeing in the Cypriot Contested Cities in Architectuul
2019
Les défis du projet Europan comme dispositif politique et urbain à l'ère de l'anthropoène
Les défis du projet Europan comme dispositif politique et urbain à l'ère de l'anthropoène
2019
Topological Memorial Practices in suspended conditions”, in Topos/Topio,  Melissa editions, Athens
Topological Memorial Practices in suspended conditions”, in Topos/Topio, Melissa editions, Athens
2018
Three approaches to an inclusive city for makers”, in Europan 14 Session Analysis,                     edited by D. Rebois, Europan editions, Paris*, (Eng, Fr), also in Europan 14  German Catalogue, Berlin, (Engl)
Three approaches to an inclusive city for makers”, in Europan 14 Session Analysis, edited by D. Rebois, Europan editions, Paris*, (Eng, Fr), also in Europan 14 German Catalogue, Berlin, (Engl)
2018

Publications

  • Essays
  • Projects
  • Curatorials / Exhibitions
2022
Eleftheria Square or Potemkin Corridor?

An interview by Nate Burg from Fast Company Magazine for the article on Eleftheria Square was published on February 18, 2022, by Thinking Dog Editions, Cyprus. In the article of Nate Burg in Fast Company on February 18, you can find an excerpt from the answers to Nate's questions.

2022
Η αναβίωση της παλιάς πόλης της Λευκωσίας. Για ποιους;

The urban regeneration of Nicosia old city. For whom?  Thinking Dog Editions, Nicosia 2022

2022
Caring for…? Towards a Territorial Geographic Repair Approach

Metabolic Cities, Europan 16 analysis article, pp. 162-165

2022
Localities Hands-on Famagusta

Urban Commons Research Collective, (ed) "Urban Commons Handbook", with Akbil, E. Can, E. Constantinou Ch. Ozersay Ozgur M., Scharf L. , Barcelona: dpr-barcelona, pp. 148-163

2021
Borders and Boundaries of Control. Academia Letters, Article 153. https://doi.org/10.20935/AL153.
2021
Negotiate as you go along: infrastructures for shared hybrid territories
in COSMOPOLITAN HABITAT
 
Editors: Jörg Schröder, Maurizio Carta, Federica Scaffidi, Annalisa Cantato
 
http://www.jovis.de/en/books/details/product/cosmopolitanhabitat.html
 
 
2021
“No Park over Pain” Το ημερολόγιο ενός επισκέπτη των Βαρωσίων, ένα φθινοπωρινό ηλιόλουστο Κυριακάτικο απόγευμα, Νοέμβριος 2020

"No Park over Pain" is a positional narrative regarding my reactions during the first visit to the fenced-off Varosha, Famagusta, in early November 2020. Varosha is illegally opened by Turkey in October 2020, ignoring all United Nations resolutions. A translation in English will follow soon.

This is the first publication of the Thinking Dog Editions, Nicosia, Cyprus.

Thinking Dog Editions deal with minor practices in architecture, urbanism, and visual arts that address issues of politics of space and time

2021
Diffractive spatial practices for urgent pedagogies
Socrates Stratis writes about collectively initiated action projects in a divided Cyprus, creating a liminal space between formal institutional education and activism; manoeuvring through and beyond borders on alternative territories and policies by empowering resistance and co-operation.
 
https://urgentpedagogies.iaspis.se/diffractive-spatial-practices-for-urgent-pedagogies/
 
 
2021
A Guide to Stand-up Activism

A guide for ‘stand-up’ activism: Performing a counter-mapped isometric drawing in ‘The Observers Observed: Architectural Uses of Ethnography’ by Jaap Bakema Study Centre. 

2021
Social Design for Sustainable Cities University of Cyprus

in Itkoken, M. Satalecka, E. Piechota, J., Weinmann, R. (eds) "IF Social Design for Sustainable Cities", Warsaw: Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology, 2021 

2020
Third Space as Transitional Agent

Analysis article of the winning projects in Europan 15 Productive Cities under the subtheme Creating Proximities

2020
Powers of entanglement: a letter to Ray and Charles Eames, in Frolov, V. Project Baltia Journal, Letters from the Quarantine
2020
A counter-project about land regeneration and land use in Larnaca, Cyprus; or, an everyday little utopia
2020
Contested Fronts Archive: Emancipatory urban practices for constructive conflict transformation

https://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/intellect/aps/2020/00000009/f0020001/art00013;jsessionid=m9b4qo8726ld.x-ic-live-02

Decolonizing archiving practices is about emancipatory actions rather than databases.

It is about conveying a multitude of actions where conflictual narratives
exist. The process of democratization of societies in conflict could take place by increasing the degree of access, of the constitution and of interpretation of archives that have to do with collective memory and urban knowledge. In spaces of conflict, however, any kind of public archive, and collective memory are under the control of the dominant political powers. They use them to sustain divisive status quos.
‘Contested Fronts: Commoning Practices for Conflict Transformation’ challenges such control. It is the curatorial project of the Cyprus pavilion, curated by the author, for the 15th Venice Biennale of Architecture. It is an open-source archive, part of an agonistic architecture, that assembles international spatial practices, networks and pedagogical programmes. They are complementary to an activist Cypriot project, the ‘Hands-on Famagusta’ project. They all offer methods, inspirations
and imaginaries about constructively transforming conflicts by encouraging the emergence of emancipatory commoning practices to support the commons during a potential reunification of the divided island of Cyprus. In the article I shortly discuss the political dimensions of archive and its use by critical spatial practices. I further on, discuss issues concerning conflict and how its transformation can have constructive or destructive consequences. Additionally, I unpack the three notions constituting the ‘Contested Fronts’ commoning practices, those of countermapping, threshold and controversy. I examine how ‘Contested Fronts’ constitute an open-source archive thanks to its content, to its performativity as well as to its manifestation in the form of exhibition-on-the move.

2020
Translocality as Urban Design Tool for the Inclusive City: The Case of Europan

https://journals.openedition.org/ardeth/1768

In this article, I unpack the notion of translocality as an urban design tool that interrelates architecture, infrastructure and territory in Europe. The notion of translocality entails a strategic design tool to form specific relations between mobility and place towards the goal of a European inclusive city. Translocality involves mobility as an agent for co-producing locality as well as territories as hosts for place-making mobilities. I argue that Europan, a 30-year-old biennial urban design competition network for ideas and their implementation, has discreetly set the foundations for collectively addressing the inclusive city, offering many kinds of translocality. The article is based on the examination of diaries and notes of the author’s reflective practice thanks to his involvement in the Europan network. In addition, it examines the documents produced by the reflective practice of Europan. The findings help us formulate a strategic framework for collaborative European networks of urban design that can instigate common urban imaginaries for the inclusive city.

2020
Why Alice is not in Wonderland? Countering the Militarized status quo of Cyprus

Abstract

Why Alice is not in Wonderland? Countering the militarized status quo of Cyprus is a narrative, part of the author’s diary. It is a reflection on a critical spatial practice, a performative event, titled “Alice in Meridianland… or the counter-militarization action”, part of the Buffer Fringe Performance Festival, Nicosia, Cyprus, 2019. The critical spatial practice comments on Cyprus’ actual militarization status by offering alternative urban imaginaries for the urban commons of an island without armies. It has taken place along a loop of streets and public spaces both in the north and the south parts of divided Nicosia. “Alice in Meridianland” is a camouflage tactic to conceal its anti-militaristic nature while crossing the guarded checkpoints into the city’s north part. Two tricycles, pulling 3-meter long banners, have followed the loop in opposite directions, three times. They met at designated areas and formed instant spaces of playful interaction. The narrative unpacks the entanglements between the performative event and the city’s users of the streets and public spaces. It unfolds how the event has generated new associations between the public spaces and the feelings of the participants and of the author. How it readjusted their mental maps and urban imaginaries. The narrative is a reflective tool for critical spatial practices in producing situated knowledge.

2019
Unseeing in the Cypriot Contested Cities in Architectuul

This FOMA in Architectuul is dedicated to the modernist architecture in Cyprus. Socrates Stratis is in search of the unseeing architecture and the cities following the novel The City and the City by China Mieville.

2019
Les défis du projet Europan comme dispositif politique et urbain à l'ère de l'anthropoène
2018
Topological Memorial Practices in suspended conditions”, in Topos/Topio, Melissa editions, Athens

The article is in Greek. It is part of a collective volume about Place / Landscape to celebrate Demetris Philippides work. The actual article is about our critical competition contribution (2nd prize) about the Mari Memorial in Cyprus. More precisely, we use architecture as spatial agency to show alternative ways of collective remembering of manmade disasters, away from dominant ones produced by religious and nationalistic practices.  

2018
Three approaches to an inclusive city for makers”, in Europan 14 Session Analysis, edited by D. Rebois, Europan editions, Paris*, (Eng, Fr), also in Europan 14 German Catalogue, Berlin, (Engl)
2018
Challenges for the Grand Parisian Metropolitanization. Planning Theory & Practice
2018
About a Guide to Common Urban Imaginaries in Contested Spaces

Proceedings of Forming Together Famagusta's Vision, Conference organized by the Reconstruction and Resettlement Council, Nicosia, 2017

2017
Reclaiming Political Urbanism in Peace Building Processes Case Study: The Hands-on Famagusta project, Cyprus Socrates Stratis and Emre Akbil

This article is about reclaiming a political form of urbanism before the potential Cyprus reunification by enhancing, through the Hands-on Famagusta project, “agonistic” collective practices across the Cypriot divide.

2017
Faire les chiens couchants? Contribution sur les différentes manières de mettre en oeuvre un projet lauréat d’Europan

In French. You can find the English version which is also uploaded on this page entitled

"Play the Sleeping Dog? Ways for implementing a winning Europan project"

2017
"Play the Sleeping Dog? Ways for implementing a winning Europan project", in Urbanisme Journal, No 60, Paris

The original article is published in French

2016
Stratis (editor), "Guide to Common Urban Imaginaries in Contested Spaces: the Hands-on Famagusta project", jovis, Berlin

https://www.jovis.de/en/books/product/guide-to-common-urban-imaginaries-in-contested-spaces.html

 

2016
“Negotiate as You Go Along: Infrastructures for Shared Hybrid Territories", Europan 13 Results, Europan Europe, Paris
2016
"Story One The Action Dove Graffiti or Upscaling Hands-on Initiatives" in Stratis "Guide to Common Urban Imaginaries in Contested Spaces", jovis Berlin, pp. 70-75

 

 

2016
"Story Two: Visual Matrices for Unveiling Enclaves" in Stratis (ed), "Guide to Common Urban Imaginaries in Contested Spaces", jovis, Berlin pp. 76-94
2016
Stratis, Akbil, Constantinou: " Story Three: Counter Mapped Isometric Drawing" in Stratis (ed), "Guide to Common Urban Imaginaries in Contested Spaces", jovis, Berlin, pp. 116-131 with Akbil and Constantinou

 

 

2016
Stratis, Constantinou: "Story Four: Overwhelming Presence of a City Model", in Stratis (ed.) "Guide to Common Urban Imaginaries in Contested Spaces", jovis, Berlin, pp. 132-146

 

 

2016
"Story Seven: Atlas of Designerly Visual Knowledge" in Stratis (ed) "Guide to Common Urban Imaginaries in Contested Spaces", jovis, Berlin, pp. 234-254
2016
"Supplement to City's Commons" in Stratis (ed) "Guide to Common Urban Imaginaries in Contested Spaces", jovis, Berlin, pp 255-263

https://www.jovis.de/en/books/product/guide-to-common-urban-imaginaries-in-contested-spaces.html

 

2016
"Workshop Biennale 2016: The Cypriot Pavilion", Bauwelt 20.2016

See information about the interview of Socrates Stratis by Kaye Geipel in German at

http://www.bauwelt.de/themen/Wir-bewegen-uns-mit-der-Ausstellung-mitten-im-Konflikt-des-geteilten-Zypern-2579742.html

2016
"Connecting Through Shared Spaces" in DAMDI "Architectural Presentations"
2016
Introduction -Architecture As Urban Practice In Contested Spaces", in "Guide to Common Urban Imaginaries in Contested Spaces", jovis Berlin pp. 13-45
2014
"Architecture-As-Urbanism For Uncertain Conditions" in Europan 12 Results: Adaptable City, Europan edtions, Paris
2013
"Learning From Failures - Architectures Of Emergency In Contested Spaces(Pyla,Cyprus",Footprint Journal
2013
"Encouraging Co-existences through poly-rhythmic urban environments:The Urban-A-Where project","The UAW BOOK:About Urban Awareness",S.Stratis,DAMDI
2012
"From Fragment to Eco-island: archipelago à la carte"(with Ioannou,Papastergiou),EAR Journal,No 33
2012
"Welcome Back In My Back Yard: an urban porosity interrogation","Ideas Changing,Europan Implementations,Europan Europe
2012
"Pyla Master Plan",(with M.Ozgur)SEE Publication Archis
2011
"Issues of diplomacy in re-assembling around"commons of concern"" ,"Uncovered",P.Paraskevaidou,B.senova
2011
"Architectures of Encouraging Publicness",BME Urbanisztika ,Urban Renewall,Vol.1
2010
"Nicosia Master Plan",100th yeat edition "Learning from Europe",Bawelt
2010
"Making Complicities: Expanding the project’s territory"with Bernd Vlay ,"Europan 10 results:Inventing Urbanity",Europan editions
2010
"Visualizing Relations In Architecture: A Pedagogical Approach", "Design:Principles & Practices, an International Journal" ,Vol 3
2009
"The notion of game as part urban design practices","Design:Principles&Practices,an International Journal" ,Vol 4
2009
Glocal/Translocal Interview in "What Future for the Europan Competition
2008
"Process Paths Alterations: Europan 8 Larnaca Cyprus","Public Spheres",Europan
2008
"Public-private relations viewed throught the role of topography:the production of the built environment in Cyprus","Looking at European architecture:a critical view",Sylvie Lemaire,Cristophe Pourtois,Caroline Vermeulen,CIVA
2007
"Public-private relations viewed through the role of the topography",Architectonika Themata Annual Review 4/2007,Socratis stratis Guest editor
2007
"The role of the empty: projects on open spaces","Methodes of Rehabitation",RehabMed

"Reprogramming urban voids through a project based logic action in architecture:a self reflective comparative analysis of a project in Athienou,Cyprus and a project in Heraclion,Crete"

2007
"Architecture in Cyprus seen through the relations between public and private domains" ,Architectonika Themata Annual Review 4/2007,Socratis stratis Guest editor
2006
"Urbanising with Infrastructures-crossing networks/creating new polarities in relation to the networks",Catalogue of Europan Results of Europan 8
2006
"Cyprus: The "CALL # 192" Project","UROPEAN URBANITY,Europan 7 and 8 Austria and Slovenia ",Bernd Vlay, Paul Rajakovics,Marco Studen
2006
"Generating the new – Agii Anargiri, Larnaca, Cyprus",article,Catalogue of Results of Europan 8,Norway
2005
"The Cyprus case","The (un)common place -art,public space and urban aesthetics in Europe",Bartolomeo Pietromarchi
2005
"The Leaps of Faith 2005 Art project: a potential virus for friction in the everyday life" , Article in Radikal Newspaper

The Call # 192 Project, Leaps of Faith International Arts Exhibition, Article in Radikal Newspaper, 2005, English Version

 

2004
"Transgressing limits between parallel worlds,Nicosia,Cyprus",PUBLIC,Going Public '04 ,Silvana Editoriale
2004
"Commonness in parallel worlds:The anatomy of coffee trips in spaces of borders","Paradigmata",Greek catalogue for the 9th International Architectural Exhibition ,Venice Biennalle
2001
"A project based action in an urban-architectural scale","The new condtiions of the urban project"(Les nouveles conditions du project urbain),directed by Alain Charre,editions Mardaga
2020
Architectural Competition for the main public square of Limassol (Plateia Herown)

2nd prize with no first

Socrates Stratis – AA&U for Architecture, Art and Urbanism, Christos Pasadakis – KIS architecture


2015
"Maria Sygletiki Residence" in "Housing" by DAMDI
2015
T11&T13 Residences and Artist's Studio in "Housing" by DAMDI
2015
Winery and Residence in "Housing" by DAMDI
2014
Scenario For the Space Between, Europan 12 Germany, Adaptable City, 2014 (About Europan 4 Implementation project)
2013
"The Magic Carpet","The U-A-W BOOK:About Urban Awareness",S.Stratis,DAMDI

Part of the "Urban-A-Where?" project

With AA&U For Architecture, Art and Urbanism

2013
"Go Natural At Your Own Risk","The U-A-W BOOK:About Urban Awareness",S.Stratis,DAMDI
2013
"The EU 05/06 HyperWalker Game","The U-A-W BOOK:About Urban Awareness",S.Stratis,DAMDI
2013
"The EU 05 Game","The U-A-W BOOK:About Urban Awareness",S.Stratis,DAMDI
2013
"Ideas for transforming a former farm complex into an activities’ incubator, Cyprus","Architect' s Notebook",DAMDI
2012
Second phase of Heraklion Waterfront Redevelopment
2012
110 Seconds Sociability, Competition for the redesign of old GSP area, "Panel Layout", Damdi, Seoul
2012
Incubating Germanina, "Panel Layout", Damdi, Seoul
2012
Redevelopment of Liopetri River Area Competition (third prize) , Panel Layout, Damdi Seoul

collaboration with Draftworks

2011
"Remodeling a building of modern architecture, Athienou, Cyprus", "Remodeling",DAMDI
2010
"Eleftheria Square”, Nicosia Cyprus"with Christos Hatzichristos," Advanced Public Design/Landscape ",Vol.2,DAMDI
2010
"Europe Park",with Maria Loizidou,"Advanced Public Design/Landscape Architecture",Vol.1,DAMDI
2010
“Incognito”, Larnaca Environmental Centre, Cyprus"with A.Petrou, "Advanced Public Design/Landscape Architecture/Urban Planning",Vol.1,DAMDI
2010
"Killing Free Time@Cyprus","Advanced Public Design/Landscape Architecture/Urban Planning",Vol.1,DAMDI
2009
"Redevelopment of the waterfront of the old city of Heraklion Crete","Advanced Public Design/Landscape Architecture/Urban Planning",Vol.1,DAMDI
2009
"T11 & T13 Residences and artist’s studio, Nicosia", "Advanced interior design", DAMDI
2009
"Redevelopment of the waterfront of the old city of Heraklion Crete","DOMES"Architectural Journal ,N.84
2009
Redevelopment of the old city waterfront, Crete, Greece, Europan 4
2008
"T11&T13 Residences and artist’s studio, Nicosia ,Cyprus","DOMES" Architectrural Jounal,N.65
2007
"Local-Translocal -project for the redevelopment of the old port of Limassol"Europan Generation: The Reinterpreted City
2007
"EUROPAN 4,1st prize architectural project ,Heraclion,Crete","Europan Generation ,The reinterpreted city",La cite de L' architecture et du Patrimoine
2007
"Managing Complexity -redevelopment of the historical centre of Agia Phyla,Limassol,Cyprus","Europan Generation ,The reinterpreted city",La cite de L' architecture et du Patrimoine
2007
"Between public and private-creation of Europe park ,Nicosia","Europan Generation ,The reinterpreted city",La cite de L' architecture et du Patrimoine
2007
"Reprogramming public space -Redevelopment of Eleftheria Square,Nicosia""Europan Generation ,The reinterpreted city",La cite de L' architecture et du Patrimoine
2006
"A residence in Anthoupolis,Nicosia","Themata Chorou+Technon-Design+Art in Greece" annual review,37/2006
2006
"A kiosk in a park in Athienou","Themata Chorou+Technon-Design+Art in Greece" annual review,37/2006
2006
"Coop square in Athienou","Themata Chorou+Technon-Design+Art in Greece" annual review,37/2006",
2006
"A kiosk in a park in Lakatamia","Themata Chorou+Technon-Design+Art in Greece" annual review,37/2006
2006
"Redevelopment of the old port ,Limassol","Themata Chorou+Technon-Design+Art in Greece" annual review,37/2006", 2006
2006
"The "Public Private Synergy Convoy "project ", "DOMES"Architectural Journal, N.51
2005
"Redevelopment of the waterfront of the old city of Heraclion, Crete ,Greece", "Implementations Europan 1 to 6", Europan
2005
"Making Public Space","DOMES"Architectural Journal N.40
1997
Scenario for the Space in between
2022
EXHIBITION - Around Nicosia in 80 Minutes
2019
EXHIBITION - ALICE IN MERIDIANLAND...OR THE COUNTERMILITARIZATION PROJECT
2017
CURATING EXHIBITION WORKSHOP We Need to Talk About Our Coasts!
2016
CURATING - VENICE BIENNALE OF ARCHITECTURE 2016 Contested Fronts: Commoning practices for conflict transformation
2016
EXHIBITION - THE HANDS-ON FAMAGUSTA PROJECT IN CYPRUS PAVILION, VENICE BIENNALE OF ARCHITECTURE 2016 Contested Fronts
2013
EXHIBITION _ The Magic Carpet Project in the "UAW" project, Nicosia
2012
CURATING _ Design Oriented Urbanities_Schools of Architecture Biennalle Thessalloniki
2012
CURATING _ The "Uban -A- Where" Project, Nicosia
2010
EXHIBITION _ Europan 4 Implemented project, Heraklion, Crete in Biennalle Venice 2010_ Cypriot Pavilion, "Walking movie"
2008
EXHIBITION _ The “Killing Free Time@ Cyprus" Project, in Venice Biennale of Architecture, Cypriot Pavilion, "In Cyprus Relax"
2008
CURATING _ Liminal Zones, Nicosia
2006
EXHIBITION _ The “Public Private Synergy Convoy” Project, Venice Biennale of Architecture, Cypriot Pavilion, "Porous Borders"
2005
EXHIBITION _ The « Call # 192 » Project in "Leaps of Faith" international exhibition, Nicosia
2004
EXHIBITION _ Borders In Contested Spaces, Biennalle Venice 2004_ Greek Pavilion, "Paradigmata"