Ia: From Leonidou str. to paper
Georgina Giassia, Athina Xenouli, Moreno Schweikle
Everybody can identify or talk about flow, but do they really know what flow is? Do they perceive it through their senses? It is more likely that they perceive it through flow’s results. And the results could be this swift between conditions or images. Consequently, flow could be anything; but this is definitely not a definition.
In situ, everything seemed, more than ever before, as part of a flow system; even the mass of the buildings, the scenery of city life. The focus was Leonidou Str. axis, as a cross-section on our city circle, and the procedure included the record of flow systems. The absence of definition created the urge to construct or approach the term of flow through the procedure. Two experiments followed; first the comparison of recorded flow systems in pairs of two (A+B=C), revealing the existence of a common base between them. Second of all, there was a translation of what was hard to be described and invisible to our eyes – all the flows which were captured through our cameras – to paper and to language, through our personal filters. Thus, a single, unified flow was created and composed by many compartments.
IIa: Recycling Stories
Marina Avouri, Varvara Kourti, Deborah Van Putten, Dimitry Suzana
"What is the limit of flow and where does it end?". Flow is the ever-going energy that exists since the very beginning of the world. This energy changes form, speed and scale but it never ends. At some points it gets divided and reunited again. The links that are created work as another critical element of flow. Trying to picture it flow is an eternal circle consisted of millions branches.
Our project was based on a site specific interactive experiment. We spotted an urban space, in the region of Metaxourgeio, that works as a junction for several interconnecting flows. Our focus turned into a single object. The "trash bin" works as a gate of materials and stories. A container of objects that die in it only to get regenerated by different people and needs. Every action around the bin is related to a unique narration. The density of these actions varies during the day. The experiment ended after 10 hours and 58 stories. We reproduced it in a 5 minute performance, asking the spectators to narrate the stories. Their overlapping voices and pauses correspond to the density of the activity around the bin. The power of the flow intensifies and pauses but never stops.
Recycling Stories Performance
IIIa: Flow of City's Shoes
Anna Biza, Iro Karountzou, Rik Maarsen, Cas van Son
A shoe is one of the basic supportive means of human movement. Therefore, shoes give evidence for the background of each person that wears them and in a way explain the factors that triggered this specific human flow. As an everyday object, that constitutes the base of every human flow and taking into consideration the great quantity of shoes/flows that exist in the city, we can talk about a formation of a larger scale and approach of the human and non-human flow in the city. Shoes are our leading game, where do they go and where do they end up. Is there a moment the flow of shoes stop or do they start a new flow after having been lived in.
IVa: The Walls Have Ears
Elina Akiozoglou, Effie Arapakou, Axel Coumans, Lotte de Haan
Flow /fləʊ/ n:The graffiti system, as individual actions responding to previous happenings that aim to evoke reactions in the urban space.
Considering the City Circle as a white canvas, the city is formed of the anonymous graffiti messaging and aesthetic value on the walls. Paying more attention to the writings, the idea of graffiti flow was developed, since any graffiti is considered an action in a way that asks for a reaction. For the performance, this atmosphere of flow was created, turning the audience into the wall and the performers into the sprays, the graffiti. One of them was the narrator of the image of the streets and the rest were about to say/whisper/scream the graffiti writings in the existing street row. In this way, the audience would consider how one graffiti action can provoke, influence a large portion of people to activate themselves.
Georgina Giassia, Athina Xenouli, Moreno Schweikle
Everybody can identify or talk about flow, but do they really know what flow is? Do they perceive it through their senses? It is more likely that they perceive it through flow’s results. And the results could be this swift between conditions or images. Consequently, flow could be anything; but this is definitely not a definition.
In situ, everything seemed, more than ever before, as part of a flow system; even the mass of the buildings, the scenery of city life. The focus was Leonidou Str. axis, as a cross-section on our city circle, and the procedure included the record of flow systems. The absence of definition created the urge to construct or approach the term of flow through the procedure. Two experiments followed; first the comparison of recorded flow systems in pairs of two (A+B=C), revealing the existence of a common base between them. Second of all, there was a translation of what was hard to be described and invisible to our eyes – all the flows which were captured through our cameras – to paper and to language, through our personal filters. Thus, a single, unified flow was created and composed by many compartments.
IIa: Recycling Stories
Marina Avouri, Varvara Kourti, Deborah Van Putten, Dimitry Suzana
"What is the limit of flow and where does it end?". Flow is the ever-going energy that exists since the very beginning of the world. This energy changes form, speed and scale but it never ends. At some points it gets divided and reunited again. The links that are created work as another critical element of flow. Trying to picture it flow is an eternal circle consisted of millions branches.
Our project was based on a site specific interactive experiment. We spotted an urban space, in the region of Metaxourgeio, that works as a junction for several interconnecting flows. Our focus turned into a single object. The "trash bin" works as a gate of materials and stories. A container of objects that die in it only to get regenerated by different people and needs. Every action around the bin is related to a unique narration. The density of these actions varies during the day. The experiment ended after 10 hours and 58 stories. We reproduced it in a 5 minute performance, asking the spectators to narrate the stories. Their overlapping voices and pauses correspond to the density of the activity around the bin. The power of the flow intensifies and pauses but never stops.
Recycling Stories Performance
IIIa: Flow of City's Shoes
Anna Biza, Iro Karountzou, Rik Maarsen, Cas van Son
A shoe is one of the basic supportive means of human movement. Therefore, shoes give evidence for the background of each person that wears them and in a way explain the factors that triggered this specific human flow. As an everyday object, that constitutes the base of every human flow and taking into consideration the great quantity of shoes/flows that exist in the city, we can talk about a formation of a larger scale and approach of the human and non-human flow in the city. Shoes are our leading game, where do they go and where do they end up. Is there a moment the flow of shoes stop or do they start a new flow after having been lived in.
IVa: The Walls Have Ears
Elina Akiozoglou, Effie Arapakou, Axel Coumans, Lotte de Haan
Flow /fləʊ/ n:The graffiti system, as individual actions responding to previous happenings that aim to evoke reactions in the urban space.
Considering the City Circle as a white canvas, the city is formed of the anonymous graffiti messaging and aesthetic value on the walls. Paying more attention to the writings, the idea of graffiti flow was developed, since any graffiti is considered an action in a way that asks for a reaction. For the performance, this atmosphere of flow was created, turning the audience into the wall and the performers into the sprays, the graffiti. One of them was the narrator of the image of the streets and the rest were about to say/whisper/scream the graffiti writings in the existing street row. In this way, the audience would consider how one graffiti action can provoke, influence a large portion of people to activate themselves.
Ib:It's Hard to Draw a Circle
Georgios Tsoukalas, Sonia Tsakni, Vera Chaniak, Floor Skrabanja
Flow, an everywhere present sense of actions and reactions, movement or stillness. Everything is a part of the Flow. Everyone can experience it. Everyone can feel the deference between the experience of the Flow from one place to the other. Can we identify, segregate and study each fragment of the Flow? In an area with great cultural diversity such as Metaxourgio we felt that cultural flow could be the main element forming the Flow. Picking up a road, like Sapfous, where five cultures are interfering is a great specimen in order to find out that even that fragment of the Flow consist of smaller segments. So in order to find out the consistency of each fragment of the Flow someone has to observe, interfere and become part of it.
IIb
Thomas Gkikas, Eleni Nikolaou, Maud van der Linden, Martijn Straatman
flow flō, noun; circular or linear, only conceived to humans when perceived by them itself or the result of it, an action-reaction bound, usually, non-touchable.
"We are the scenery of our own existence
Leaving behind what is not presented to us
A Tiny disturbance in the flow can make a change for a thousand
A small smile, a small intervention, a small notice.
Not by being present but as a present from the past."
IIIb: Attica SoundAtlas
Mariadina Papadea, Stevi Meletsi, Amenda Kelders, Virgile Tanguy
FLOW - what is it? Εnergy, movement (planned or unplanned), continuity, domino effect, things interacting, process that indicates something is alive.What does the flow of city sounds say about the flow of people?
Πλάνης [planis]: one that wanders, one that never stays in a fixed place.
Walking through the city circle in silence, one may find himself noticing sounds otherwise ignored. The planis (wanderer) perceives the city, its people, its streets, its flow of life through these sounds or the lack of them. A complete map of the city can be made by using these sounds and their changing density. Throughout the day, the flow of the planis interacts with the flows of the city’s sounds, either moving parallel or clashing to them. The sounds become a guide for the wanderer, giving different information for each time of the day or each place. At the end of his walk, the sounds of the city are imprinted on the wanderer’s mind, gradually taking shape, to finally become a hearing depiction of the circle’s flow at day and at night.The circle’s flow becomes music.
IVb: Mapping through sense(s)
Xenofon Kekkos, Constantina Sofianidi, Maxine Grant, Isabelle Mauduit
Flow is everywhere and everything! Is an action/reaction with lots of intersections. This is explained when we see a specific flow ends and at the same time gives life to another, something endless like the symbol of infinity. In our attempt to understand and define flow we frame flow in specific time & place, otherwise we can say nothing about it. Our place is a City Circle in Metaxourgeion. With radius 0.5 km and center the Pinacotheque we try to understand and interact with hidden layers of flow in this area. Our team, 4b, is consisted by two students from EDA & 2 students from UPatras.
Our method to experience the flow is the opposite of being aware of flow. So we decided to control some of our senses, vision and hearing. With this way we aim to map the atmosphere of the urban environment inside our City Circle.
Georgios Tsoukalas, Sonia Tsakni, Vera Chaniak, Floor Skrabanja
Flow, an everywhere present sense of actions and reactions, movement or stillness. Everything is a part of the Flow. Everyone can experience it. Everyone can feel the deference between the experience of the Flow from one place to the other. Can we identify, segregate and study each fragment of the Flow? In an area with great cultural diversity such as Metaxourgio we felt that cultural flow could be the main element forming the Flow. Picking up a road, like Sapfous, where five cultures are interfering is a great specimen in order to find out that even that fragment of the Flow consist of smaller segments. So in order to find out the consistency of each fragment of the Flow someone has to observe, interfere and become part of it.
IIb
Thomas Gkikas, Eleni Nikolaou, Maud van der Linden, Martijn Straatman
flow flō, noun; circular or linear, only conceived to humans when perceived by them itself or the result of it, an action-reaction bound, usually, non-touchable.
"We are the scenery of our own existence
Leaving behind what is not presented to us
A Tiny disturbance in the flow can make a change for a thousand
A small smile, a small intervention, a small notice.
Not by being present but as a present from the past."
IIIb: Attica SoundAtlas
Mariadina Papadea, Stevi Meletsi, Amenda Kelders, Virgile Tanguy
FLOW - what is it? Εnergy, movement (planned or unplanned), continuity, domino effect, things interacting, process that indicates something is alive.What does the flow of city sounds say about the flow of people?
Πλάνης [planis]: one that wanders, one that never stays in a fixed place.
Walking through the city circle in silence, one may find himself noticing sounds otherwise ignored. The planis (wanderer) perceives the city, its people, its streets, its flow of life through these sounds or the lack of them. A complete map of the city can be made by using these sounds and their changing density. Throughout the day, the flow of the planis interacts with the flows of the city’s sounds, either moving parallel or clashing to them. The sounds become a guide for the wanderer, giving different information for each time of the day or each place. At the end of his walk, the sounds of the city are imprinted on the wanderer’s mind, gradually taking shape, to finally become a hearing depiction of the circle’s flow at day and at night.The circle’s flow becomes music.
IVb: Mapping through sense(s)
Xenofon Kekkos, Constantina Sofianidi, Maxine Grant, Isabelle Mauduit
Flow is everywhere and everything! Is an action/reaction with lots of intersections. This is explained when we see a specific flow ends and at the same time gives life to another, something endless like the symbol of infinity. In our attempt to understand and define flow we frame flow in specific time & place, otherwise we can say nothing about it. Our place is a City Circle in Metaxourgeion. With radius 0.5 km and center the Pinacotheque we try to understand and interact with hidden layers of flow in this area. Our team, 4b, is consisted by two students from EDA & 2 students from UPatras.
Our method to experience the flow is the opposite of being aware of flow. So we decided to control some of our senses, vision and hearing. With this way we aim to map the atmosphere of the urban environment inside our City Circle.