Project by:
PPC_T, Love Difference, GAMB+I, Gudran Foundation, watercollection.net, The Argonauts, Hellug, Larissa Contemporary Art Center
Read an article
about the Farkadona project on a. - the athens contemporary art review,
issue 5 - summer 2006 (PDF
- pages 54 to 56)
News:
PPC_T / Farkadona at the 1st Thessaloniki
Biennale of Contemporary Art with documentation
and research material from the archive of PPC_T/Farkadona in the container
in the harbor, and a series of interdisciplinary workshops at the Old Plump
house.download
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at the Thessaloniki Biennale
A community of Greek-Pontians repatriated from the former Soviet Union
lives in the refugees camp in Farkadona (Larisa – Trikala District,
Greece).
During the past two years PPC_T (a Greek group of architects, teachers,
artists, media experts) started a participatory process of exploring ways
for the rehabilitation and the incorporation of the community at the local
society, economy and cultural life.
In this sense, the Farkadona case, as an experimental model can serve research
the possibilities of working with this method also on the other communities
that live more or less in the same context of marginalisation and “exception”.
PPC_T has then organized the workshop on participatory devices “Emergency
case situations: Farkadona case”, taking place from the 2nd to the
23rd June 2006, with the participation of Love Difference, of Brazilian
media activists working with free software, of the Gudran group from Egypt
and of the Watercollection.net project.
The goal of this activity is to propose new tools for the expression and
for the personal and collective growth of a ghettoized community, attempting
to envision a final model that could contribute to the social incorporation
of the community in the society of Farkadona.
In June 2006 some activities are taking place in the local cultural center
(that's in process of reactivation): a multimedia laboratory based on free
knowledge and free software (with Thiago Novaes and other Brazilian experts
of the GAMB+I group), and two arts and crafts workshops with artists, to
involve the women living in the settlement in artisanal production (jewellery
with Aliaa El Griedy from the Gudran Foundation and clothes design/making
with Walid Maw'ed from Watercollection.net) and commerce, through new ways
of distribution, such as the “fair trade”.
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