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Naxos, Greece |
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08 – 21.07.2019 |
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| George Manis (Ass. Prof. UoI), member of the PALIMPSEST Team, represented the PALIMPSEST Project at the Summer School “Insularity, Education and Sustainable Growth: Theory, Methods and Techniques – INNOVIS 2019” in Naxos, Greece. The Summer School organized by the School of Social Sciences, Department of Geography, University of the Aegean and the Hellenic Geographical Society, took place from 8 to 21 July 2019. The school’s subject was Regional Development and the geography of innovation in Greece’s Island Regions.
Mr Manis presented the principal concepts that have driven the project and those that were re-assessed through the progression of its implementation. PALIMPSEST, is a test-bed for theories and concepts with diverse origins, joined and blended together. It draws concepts and approaches from urban studies, museology, art and art theory, archiving, history cultural and media studies, informatics and digital cultural heritage, performance and staging and it is based in combinations and interactions. Methodologically PALIMPSEST is a hybrid; of different fields, of distinct categories, of diverse typologies. Therefore, although its methodology is constantly being elaborated and reconsidered it is arduous and impractical to present as is habitually done in predefined, hierarchical, controlled projects. The project is also a hybrid of top-down traditional organization and bottom-up, participatory approaches. Therefore, during its implementation and because of the genuine and profound interaction with agents and actors, exterior to the project, the methodology is continuously reviewed and re-adapted. |
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