COMMUNITY_ENGAGEMENT
This section hosts projects, in which UrbanDig has taken part employing community engagement practices, beyond its main Community Projects
September 21, 2019
On September 20th we were invited by the SynAthina team to a workshop of the "Curing the Limbo" program of the Municipality of Athens. “Curing the Limbo” is a program aiming to implement a dynamic and innovative model for integration that allows refugees to become soci...
July 23, 2019
Our team, along with refugees - students of English in the "Curing of the Limbo" program of the City of Athens, made a sensory mapping walk in Dourgouti Neighborhood of Athens. This historic refugee residential neighborhood has public space vast and quiet enough to hos...
June 17, 2019
On June 19th UrbanDig presented its activities for youth on Athens' Hadrian's aqueduct to 11 youth participants of the "Future is Heritage" network.
After the presenation the members of the network, all young researchers and professionals in cultural heritage...
June 16, 2019
With this question in mind, UrbanDig Project returns to Phanοsthenous Street of Dourgouti, the historical "Armenian market" of the former immigrant neighborhood of Dourgouti - Neos Kosmos in Athens. The group joins forces with three resident and university students, H...
April 4, 2019
What is DeMOS | The game?
DeMOS_The game is a site specific performative game by UrbanDig Project and Odysseas Velentzas that begun its journey in LABOURGAMES.
It intends to function as an alternative educational model to acquire and cultivate the “soft skills” of partic...
March 13, 2019
The cluster of residents, comprised at the 51st primary school of Vathi Square delivers to Ms. Maria Iliopoulou, Vice Mayor for the Child, the new program of activities
What is the program?
Open Schools is a program initiated by the Municipality of Athens, that commence...
December 11, 2018
What are the impressions and needs related to the square, coming from its people? What kind of collective narrative can be created and how can it be expressed in the public domain?
This Saturday, December 15th, we will be in Victoria Square inviting audience and passer...
March 7, 2018
The consultation of the City of Athens for the new face and features that will house the renovated Municipal Market of Kypseli, included UrbanDig techniques through a collaboration with our group in two activities on 9 and 29 May 2015. Through an inter-active process t...
November 3, 2017
During the first semester of 2017, nine members of the theatre group of the Drama Department of the University of Patras inspired by Eva Palmer Sikelianos dug into the roots of the loom heritage in Delphi and Arachova and researched what is left of it today. They arti...
