Notes from Greece
The Journal.
People, places, forms & the everyday.
A closer look at the Greek experience.
A chair, a conversation.
Simple objects bring us together. An invitation to stay a little longer.
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In Sifnos, clay becomes an everyday object
A cup, a cooking pot, a wheel: the island’s ceramic culture continues through the things people use.
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EMST brings us into the present
Inside the former Fix brewery, Athens makes room for the images and questions of its own time.
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Vamvakou, a village in the present tense
On Mount Parnon, returning to village life becomes a question of schools, work and the whole year.
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Syros moves frame by frame
At ANIMASYROS, the island becomes a meeting place for people who bring images into motion.
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A city at walking pace
Thessaloniki’s New Waterfront, seen through the small decisions that make public space inhabitable.
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Before the stage comes the rehearsal
At the Athens Conservatoire, contemporary creation begins with learning, repetition and different arts sharing a space.
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Kypseli meets at the market
A building that invites us to read Athens through the things people make and the places where they meet.
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Greece, letter by letter
From a bread shop sign to a digital typeface: the small forms that shape our reading of a city.
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Design that happened on the street
Papairlines’ Travelogue invites a closer look at the anonymous inventions of everyday life in Greece.
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The next life of a material
Thessaloniki’s Print Your City pilot brought recycling, digital fabrication and public space into one conversation.
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Athens in small editions
Artist books, photobooks and zines offer another way to meet the city, at the pace of a page.
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At Dodona, someone was asking about work
Small lead tablets bring us closer to antiquity through the decisions people had to make.
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