Media
2022
“Caring for? Architecture as Repair Territorial Practice”, Keynote lecture for the Europan Spain Award Ceremony Workshop, Barcelona VIMEO LINK https://vimeo.com/718345100
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2022
“Alternative Ways for Claiming the City”, Keynote talk at the conference “Activating the public space”, organized by “Phytorio- Visual Artists and Art Theorists Association, Nicosia
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2021
“Stories of becoming public”, Public Space Lab, Parsons New School of Design.
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2021
“Self and the contested Cypriot cities” School of Design Strategies, Master of Urban Ecologies, for Studio 3 and Studio 1.
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2021
“Activism through critical urban practice”, in Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University, for Honors Students Seminar.
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2021
‘Modalities for co-imagining, when in conflict’ in Urgent Pedagogies, IASPIS, Stockholm, seminar on Modalities (on-line).
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2021
“Self and the Contested Cypriot Cities” in Brodersen’s and Selberg’s master design studio, KTH, (on-line).
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2021
“Self and the Contested City of Nicosia” in Haim Yacobi’s Master program “Urban Health: Reflections on Practice”, UCL, (on-line).
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2020
Processes of Negotiation for hybrid territories, Keynote speaker in “Cosmopolitan Habitat”, Hannover (on-line).
2020
“Critical Spatial Practices...or the Right to Transform Conflicts” at Bezalel Academy, Jerusalem, (on-line).
2019
Alice in Meridianland… or the counter-militarization action”, in Urgent Pedagogies, IASPIS & Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm VIMEO LINK https://vimeo.com/423634876
2018
Watch Video“The role of the EUROPAN project in the ere of Anthropocene”, (Le role du projet EUROPAN dans l’ere d’anthropocene), Keynote Speaker, at the conference “Europan Celebrates Its Thirty Years”, (Europan Fete ses trente ans), Cite d’Architecture, Paris
2018
“Pedagogies for architecture as urban practice””, School of Architecture, University of Sheffield
2018
“Transformative Processes for common urban Imaginaries in contested spaces”, Centre for Urban Conflicts Research, School of Architecture, University of Cambridge
2017
“Critical Spatial Practices in Contested Spaces”, Keynote speaker, Technion
2017
“Conflicts in the Studio”, in EAHN, international conference Histories in Conflict, Jerusalem
2017
“Transformative Processes for common urban Imaginaries in contested spaces”, in EAHN international conference Histories in Conflict, Jerusalem
2017
“Urban exchanges in contested cities” in The possibility of an Island, Bezalel Academy, Jerusalem
2017
“Urban exchanges in contested cities” in The possibility of an Island, Bezalel Academy, Jerusalem
2017
“Contested Fronts: Commoning Practices for Conflict Transformation”, in international workshop “Laboratory of Urban Commons”, Athens, Greece
2017
“Connecting Through Common Spaces: Redevelopment of Heraklion old city waterfront (Europan 4), Crete” in workshop, Ayios Nicolaos, Crete, Greece
2016
“Guide to Common Urban Imaginaries in Contested Spaces”, book presentation at AA Bookstore, London, with Peter Bishop and John Palmesino
2016
“Contested Fronts for the Urban Reconstruction of Famagusta: the Cypriot contribution in 15th Venice Biennale of Architecture”, Open University Derynia, and Rotary club Nicosia-Salamis, Nicosia
2016
Watch Video"Negotiate as You Go Along", keynote lecture at the Europan 13 & 14 Intersession Forum, Badajoz Spain VIMEO LINK https://vimeo.com/190430209
2016
"Hands-on Famagusta": collective structures for the city's future, Seminar on Famagusta's Future, Environmentalist Party, Nicosia Cyprus
2015
Watch VideoHands-on Famagusta Web-Interview on Sigmalive
2015
Support Structure in Contested Spaces-The Hands-on Famagusta Project, at Notre Dame University, Beirut
2015
Imagine Famagusta! Encouraging common visions for a post-conflict city”, Key Note Speech with Esra Can Akbil at the international conference BUILD PEACE 2015
2014
"The Cypriot Buffer Zone and Architecture's Agencies" , International Summer Program of the University of Cyprus on Peace and Conflict: the life of the buffer zone at Home For Cooperation, Nicosia
2014
“Vienna-Nicosia: Urban Challenges for a contemporary city”, in a seminar about the future of Nicosia, Cyprus, (with B. Vlay)
2014
“Revisiting Famagusta: Strategies For New Futures”, in “Reviving Famagusta:From Ghost Town to Eco-city?”, London School of Economics, London, UK (with N. Christodoulou, phD candidate)
2014
“About Urban Awareness”, in Socially Engaged Design, SED, Cyprus
2014
"An e-DIY Presentation on the work of AA & U", University of Idaho, USA (web-presentation)
2013
“Famagusta’s possible futures after reunification”, Queen Belfast University, Northern Ireland, UK
2013
“Spatial Practices' Ethical Dilemmas in Contested Spaces”, in a Graduate Course on Art and Social Practices, Parsons New School of Design, NYC, USA
2013
“Urban Strategies and Tactics for Reconciliating Processes in Contested Spaces: Famagusta, Cyprus, Institute for Urban and Regional Development, College of Environmental Design, University of California, Berkeley.
2013
“Confronting fragmentation in contested spaces: the case of Famagusta, Cyprus”, in ‘Tackling Urban Fragmentation’, organized by the Centre de Recherche sur les Politiques et Sociétés dans le Monde anglophone (MAPS), Paris Sorbonne, Université Paris-
2013
“Designerly translocalities: between urban stories and fairy tales” in “Quartet on Urbanism” (Quartet No 1 on urban mobilities) organized by the Department of Architecture, School of Fine Arts, Vienna Austria and Europan Austria
2012
“Connecting through shared spaces”, in the Forum of Europan Results Vienna, Austria
2011
“Liminalities or Encouraging publicness in contested areas”, in a visual arts bi-communal workshop, Nicosia, Cyprus
2011
“Cyprus Weak Metropolis”, in Erasmus IP Summer School, Agros, Cyprus
2011
“The stand-by condition”, Graduate Seminar on Urban Infrastructures, School of Architecture, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria
2010
“Searching innovative practices of urban design through the Europan Context: process friendly architectures”, Urban Forum Interventions in former-state residential complexes, Polis University, Tirana, Albania
2010
“Architectures of Encouraging Publicness”, Urban Renewal, 1st International Conference of the Department of Urban Planning and Design and the Foundation for Urban Architecture, Budapest, Hungary
2010
“Negotiating as creative form of engagement in urban design”, Department of Architecture, Volos, University of Thessalia, Greece
2009
“The notion of Liminality”, Liminal Zones 02, University of East London, UK
2009
“The public role of topographical formations in urban peripheries in Cyprus”, Seminar on Architecture, Urban Development and Heritage Preservation in Modern and Contemporary Cyprus, STARC, Nicosia, Cyprus
2009
“Entre global et local: la notion de projet comme moyen de construction de connaissances’ (Between global and local : the notion of project as vehicle for constructing knowledge), Lecture Series for postgraduate students of Ecole Nationale Superieur
2009
“New possibilities for the future of Nicosia centre”, High Rise buildings in Nicosia seminar, Nicosia, Cyprus
2008
“2+3 projects”, Institut of Technology of Graz, Austria
2008
“Europan 4, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, Europan 9, Forum of Results, Santiago del Compostela, Spain
2008
“Making things Public”, School of Architecture, University of Cottbus, Germany
2007
“Intercosmics”, Architecture Lecture Series, University of Cyprus, Nicosia
2007
“The regard of the others”, designing a house extension, Nicosia, Cyprus
2006
“Transgressing limits between parallel worlds, Nicosia, Cyprus”, Going Public seminar by Claudia Zanfi, Modena, Italy
2006
“Generating the new – Agii Anargiri, Larnaca, Cyprus”, closing event of the results of Europan Norway – Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus
2006
“The CALL # 192” project and the “P.P.S Synergy Convoy project”, conference about borders in Gorizia, University of Gorizia, Italy
2004
“Projects of architecture and urban design of Socrates Stratis”, Patra Department of Architecture, Greece
2001
“A reflective practitioner”, National Research Foundation, seminar on Europan, Athens, Greece