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Athens, Greece |
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18.02.2019 |
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| Xenofon Bitsikas, our project manager, represented the PALIMPSEST Project alongside Polyxeni Mantzou (Prof. DUTH) at the “Rubrics of Transformation” Symposium in Athens, Greece. The Symposium was organized by the Planetary Collegium (a research group of the University of Plymouth), the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and the Municipality of Athens.
In the presentation of the project there were thoroughly discussed the phases of the project’s implementation. As a starting point, cultural heritage assets regarding the city’s stories and legends will be gathered by transgenerational participation, as elementary school pupils will seek information from elder people, whose knowledge of the past is on the verge of becoming extinct. The next phase is about the creation of a MAP in an APP format, which will pinpoint the previously collected data and will support any further collection by online participation. The elaboration of the collected material will then lead to artistic installations that will be implemented in the city and will be activated by visitors creating a dreamlike atmosphere. PALIMPSEST aims to transform the experience of public space in urban areas into a museistic, story-telling, interactive, thematic condition, which will revive the city and attract high quality tourism. |
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