Fleet Market

Georgios Tsoukalas

Six days a week Foucault’s theory of heterotopias gets materialized in the municipality of Athens, in the form of 44 street markets. Like a 17th century dutch commercial fleet, those markets move through the roads of the city, bringing goods that the city can not produce itself. Occupying a street each time merchants transform a grey area passage of our built environment into a vivid “garden of wonders” where people come together to buy fresh products for the ongoing week as well as to socialize. Focused on history, morphology, frequency and topography, the present research is trying to decipher that weekly phenomenon.