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I Am Where You Are The Cyprus Pavilion

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Description of the Pavilion

‘I Am Where You Are’ is a platform for communication. By highlighting and questioning sets of binaries, key to cultural perceptions in and about Cyprus, we disengage from convention. A multiplicity of other, ‘freespaces’, is revealed in the pavilion, these are seen as the ‘in-between’ and are set in contrast to binaries, such as the“built_unbuilt, tradition_modernity, Island of Love_place of conflict, migration_locality”, allowing unexpected experiences to be celebrated. Architecture is the mediator and the lens used to investigate these often-unnoticed conditions. The Pavilion show-cases significant contemporary innovative projects and incorporates important historical and vernacular works. We collapse the notions of time/space and presence/non-presence, utilizing digital and interactive means. The physicality of the body of the visitor dissolves, as it is enveloped in and immersed into a moving-scape of simultaneous projections.

‘I Am Where You Are’, because we are constantly moving and shifting, both physically and digitally. We continuously transform, therefore, ‘I encompass some of what you are and you encompass some of what I am’. The Cyprus Pavilion becomes a transmitter and a receiver: visitors are transported through the images found in the pavilion into the Cypriot context, and virtually interact with the people and built environments of Cyprus through an interactive video art piece. Different languages, customs, cultures, etiquette and built forms we experience on a daily basis mix and merge. They bring into focus that which differentiates, connects and binds us together. .

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;We call upon voices of resistance. We challenge the globalization of the built environment. We accentuate the crafting of humanitarian constructed fragments. We augment the simplicities of everyday rituals. We note the synergy of the untouched and the harnessed environment. We record an interwoven scenography of nature and the human conditionâ&#x20AC;?.

Curators, Veronika Antoniou, Yiorgos Hadjichristou, Alessandra Swiny

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Curators, Veronika Antoniou, Yiorgos Hadjichristou, Alessandra Swiny

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The Team The team is made up of a diverse, international group of architects, a practicing video artist and a museologist. The Curators have collaborated on several projects in the past. In 2016 they represented Cyprus as the Curators of the State Pavilion for the Milano Triennale with their project ‘Human Topographies_Emerging Identities’. In 2010 they collaborated on the design of the Architecture Research Centre, which houses the Department of Architecture at University of Nicosia. A. Swiny and Y. Hadjichristou have been working and teaching together at the Department of Architecture, UNic, since 2008. V. Antoniou and Y. Hadjichristou have collaborated in designed projects since 2004. In 2014 V. Antoniou established Urban Gorillas (a non-for-profit organization involved in urban actions through community engagement) where Y. Hadjichristou is also a Board Director.

The Exhibition Spaces The curatorial team initiated the concept of ‘Human Topographies_Emerging Identities’ in 2016 when they curated the Cyprus Pavilion for the Triennale di Milano. Since then, they have continued exploring multiplicities of the built environment in Cyprus. They have sought to use an exploratory lens to reveal the diverse identities and social relationships that exist as in-between conditions, both within and outside of the architectural realm.

‘I Am Where You Are’ further extends their study of the thematic of the ‘in-between’ or the ‘third spaces’ that are found in Cyprus, within planned or unplanned conditions. The curators use an architectural lens to search for the ‘third space’, examining different conditions that we tend to overlook; such as, common, everyday rituals, our relationship to nature and the ways we navigate through social and political situations on a daily basis. The Cyprus Pavilion is divided into 3 main spaces that offer a diverse set of experiences. The First Space Upon entering into the Cyprus Pavilion the visitor is immediately immersed into a dense forest. Hundreds of ephemeral trace panels hold the core ingredients of the exhibition. The diverse works of 17 architects, 25 artists, NGOs, and a rich collection of archival images fill the space as if free-floating in the air. Visitors merge with this hanging, or growing, forest of printed material and become emerged into a possibly unexpected view and deeper understanding of Cyprus. Five central themes, derived from the theoretical backbone of the 2018 Cyprus Pavilion, grow within the forest: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Voices and Spaces of Resistance Local vs. Global [Human]itarian Fragments Human Rituals Nature

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Within the core of the ‘tree trunks’, the visitor will find examples of architectural work by the students of the Department of Architecture at the University of Nicosia. These are the future thinkers, planners and architects of the built environment. The work is selected from four courses taught in the Department. The student work is then surrounded by captured moments of the built environment innovative contemporary architectural fragments and human topographies. The works presented in the pavilion unfold approaches and standpoints architects and artists employ in order to explore the five central themes of the Pavilion. These five thematics are surrounded by ‘blurred zones’ that explore elements of built forms, lines, volumes, light, shadows, reflections and details. This linear and often dense forest of exhibited material is both interactive and playful and invites exploration of diverse spatial conditions. Visitors are encouraged to move under panels and find secret pockets of visual information throughout the Pavilion by following a fluid route through the display and exploring multi-layered snapshots of ‘in-between’ spaces found in Cyprus. The Courtyard The courtyard serves as a mediator between the two exhibition spaces, a form of inbetween space in itself, and also as the socializing space of the Pavilion. When visitors step outside they are immediately surrounded by the soundscape of ‘the Voice’ of Alexia Vasiliou, and they ‘meet’ themselves in a surprise moment through the sculpture of Alexandros Yiorkatzis. The notion, ‘I Am Where You Are’ is pushed further, as visitors are encouraged to interact with one another, laugh, discuss, take photos and possibly find novel ways to relate to Cyprus. The Projection Space The video art installation evolves into a 360-degree projected collage of architecture and art works. This installation acts as a ‘visual composition’ and is presented as a 6-channel projection in the 8 X 8 m room. The projection enables visitors to observe both moving and still images, inside the architectural works which explore human, spatial and social conditions in Cyprus that often go unnoticed due to stereotypical visual representations of the country. The images inside the architectural backdrop appear as a series of interactive choreographies triggered by tracking visitor’s movements in the space through eight different interactive spots found on the floor of the room.

The Partners The synergy of different but essential entities is deemed very important for the production of the future living environment. The three curators joined forces bringing into the project their different backgrounds and personalities. They weave together their experience and involvement in their Architectural Practices, their NGO practice, their research and their Academic work. The Department of Architecture at the University of Nicosia, with its internationally awarded students and faculty members, in alignment with innovative Architectural Practice creates a unique collaboration for the emergence of socially sustainable built environments. The NGO ‘Urban Gorillas’ with a rich set of creative and research activities within the island of Cyprus and its international recognition is also key.

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Triennale di Milano The curatorial team initiated the concept of ‘Human Topographies_Emerging Identities’ in 2016 when they were invited to curate the Cyprus Pavilion for the Triennale di Milano.

Human Topographies_Emerging Identities The exhibition eloquently illustrates how two prevailing struggles, Division and Crisis, can lead to a new and positive ‘Emerging Identity’ for the Island of Cyprus. Architectural works/projects from both the public and private realm have been carefully researched and chosen for the ways in which they activate architectural and social change. These are collaged, projected and blurred, creating an interactive corporeal and sensory experience. This experience evokes a new urban landscape, created from human topographies that echo the voice of an emerging identity. There exists an on-going geographical scar creating a division through the Island of Cyprus and its capital, Nicosia. The currently amputated city center is left almost forgotten, yet nature has reclaimed the division line and it is now teaming with thriving greenery and wildlife. The qualities of the dividing but green zone have contributed significantly in the search for new ‘identities’, expressed in the emergence of new living conditions. The current economic and social crisis relentlessly invaded all spheres of human life. The experience of the city has dramatically altered, characterized by a change in the flow and needs of the people and the uses of spaces. We use Mark Wrigley’s notion, “crises are ultimately productive...they force invention - radical destruction gives way to new forms of production”1, as the impetus for the creation of an ultimately new experience that the visitor will encounter and become a part of when they enter the Cyprus exhibit. The Experience The requirement of the Triennale that the design component be a ‘theatrical representation of an unknown reality’ influenced the spatial proposal of the exhibit. Thus it aims to capture the presence of the visitors and transfer their interactions in an

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enticing corporeal and sensory experience. The exhibit is centered around Architectural shadow puppets which fill the room with multitudes of reflected images. The puppets represent the ‘products’ and ‘ingredients’, be they buildings, infrastructure, or objects, interwoven together with weather and social ritual scenographies. The experience will be enhanced by the use of recordings, projections, various modes of lighting, kinetics, fans, moving mechanisms, mirrors, transparencies, markings, text and tracings. The shadow art effect and the projections will be interwoven with sound-scape calibrations constantly changing in sequence and amplification. Puppets inspired by the traditional ‘karagiozis’ will also be used to present the human in this Division and Crisis thematic. It is through these innovative and alluring techniques that the narrative of the emergent built environment will be communicated. These Architectural shadow puppets will be in the form of key existing contemporary and historical buildings and monuments from the Island of Cyprus. The selected local architectural case studies (from both the Public & Private sector) will be blended with evolving living typologies. These will be used to create a series of emerging metropolitan environments of momentary relationships and create a ‘new’ spontaneous urban landscape. This is what we call ‘Human Topographies of Emerging Identities’. Curators: Yiorgos Hadjichristou – Architect, Professor Department of Architecture, University of Nicosia Alessandra Swiny – Architect, Assistant Professor, Head of Department of Architecture, University of Nicosia Veronica Antoniou – Architect, Director of Urban Gorillas NGO and Maza Collective

1. Wigley M., Space in Crisis, in Jun Jiang, Mark Wigley, Jeffrey Inaba, Urban China Bootlegged for Volume by C-Lab, New York C-Lab, 2009.

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!. Drawing by Stefanos Pantelis, Collage by Anastasis Balabanides, Concept: Curators of the Cyprus Pavilion, Work’s title: ‘Constructed rituals’, Year: 2018, Technique: Ink hand drawing, mixed media collage, model, Size: 30cm x 120cm 2. Collage by Jose Luna, Concept: Curators of the Cyprus Pavilion, Work’s title: ‘The Milk Maid & a White Flamingo’, Year: 2018, Technique: Mixed media collage, Size: 300cm x 2300cm, Name of Photographers: Yiorgos Hadjichristou, NGO Urban Gorillas, Teresa Ditadi, Courtesy: Thompson, John, Through Cyprus with the Camera in the Autumn of 1878, Free of Copyright 3. Author: Stefanos Pantelis, Concept: Curators of the Cyprus Pavilion, Work’s title: ‘Crafted Scenographies’, Year: 2018, Technique: Ink hand drawing, Size: 37cm x 45cm 4. Collage by Evdokia Demetriou, Concept: Curators of the Cyprus Pavilion, Work’s title: ‘Shadows & Stairs”, Year: 2018, Technique: Mixed media collage, Size: 300cm x 2300cm, Name of Photographers: Yiorgos Hadjichristou, NGO Urban Gorillas, Teresa Ditadi, Courtesy: Thompson, John, Through Cyprus with the Camera in the Autumn of 1878, Free of Copyright

Curators

From the left: Alessandra Swiny, Yiorgos Hadjichristou, Veronika Antoniou Photo by Maya Parpa, Courtesy of University of Nicosia

VERONIKA ANTONIOU Veronika is the co-founder and creative director of Urban Gorillas, a Nicosiabased NGO focused on building healthy and creative cities. She’s also a licensed architect, interior designer and urban planner. Her work spans many aspects, and includes the practice of architecture, socially-engaged art and research on sustainable city development. Her academic work was funded by the Japanese Ministry of Education and the Université Libre de Bruxelles. Veronika’s architectural experience includes

projects in Japan, Italy, Switzerland and Cyprus. Since 2013, as the creative director at Urban Gorillas, she has been applying design-oriented techniques and transversal working methods to transform urban spaces into inclusive and interactive environments. Her skills cover project development, management and coordination, fundraising as well as human resource management. Urban Gorillas is now part of numerous, important international networks in its field.

YIORGOS HADJICHRISTOU Yiorgos Hadjichristou is a practicing architect and Professor of the Department of Architecture of the University of Nicosia. Having conducted

his studies in Kiev- ex USSR and Kyoto,Japan he created his own practice in Nicosia in 1992. He is the recipient of a number of national and international

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awards including the Golden Prize of the Union of International Architects for the competition for the most public, friendly and accessible buildings with the project “Athienou Town Hall and Museums. The ‘Kaimakli house’ was selected by the Architects Council of Europe to participate in the events and 2 years touring exhibition for Sustainable architecture. The ‘Architecture Research Center’ was selected by the Italian Union of Architecture and Criticism and the A10 magazine for the ‘In practice- The state of committed architecture in Europe’ series

of events and publication’. His projects were selected and participated in the Mies Van Der Rohe Awards six times. He participated in a wide spectrum of local and international exhibitions and events including the Venice Architecture Biennale, the Biennale of Rome and the Trienale of Bucharest, the Milan Trienale in 2016, the South East Bienale of Thessaloniki, the Brau - Biennial of Architectural and Urban Restoration 2018, the 2017 AICA festival in Mumbai etc.

ALESSANDRA SWINY Alessandra Swiny is an Architect of American and British origin. She received a Bachelor of Arts from Barnard/ Columbia University in 2000 and a Masters of Architecture from Harvard University in 2004, in the United States. She was the Head of the Department of Architecture from 2009 until 2018, and an Associate Professor, at the University of Nicosia, Cyprus, where she has been teaching since 2005 and is a tenured faculty member. Alessandra was an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Barnard/Columbia Colleges Architecture Program for Fall 2011. She was the principal architect with M. Hadjisoteriou at ‘Sub_Supra Studio’ from 2008 until 2013. In June 2008 her winning entry (with M.Hadjisoteriou & A.Dimitrakopoulos) for ‘Europan 9 Competition’ in ClermontFerrand, France went into its second phase of design development. She

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has represented Cyprus in the Venice Architecture Biennale three times. Alessandra is very passionate about the development of an architects’ education. Her design focus shifts from small scale detailing to issues pertaining to the larger urban context and articulates the importance and complexities of issues faced at all scales. In recent years her works concentrates on issues of emergency architecture. She teaches several classes on this topic. She was Unit Leader of ‘In/Out Crisis’ (with Y.Hadjichristou and M.Georgiou) in 20013 for 4th and 5th year Architecture students at the University of Nicosia. She believes that an equilibrium must exist between; functionality and creativity, as well as research, practice, technology, culture and wit; while always striving to have a minimum impact on the ‘environment’ and to design buildings that function as ‘intelligently’ as possible.

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Architecture

AMSA New office building for the Synergasias CO-OP Bank Theokleous residence

Larnaca, Cyprus - 2016

Bio The AMSA Architectural firm (afxentiou | mougiakos | stasinopoulou_architects) was founded in 2005 by architects: Nektarios Afxentiou, Anargyros Mougiakos and Zoi Stasinopoulou, 2002 graduates of the National Technical University of Athens. Since then, the firm has completed proposals on a variety of building types of high technical standard emphasizing on aesthetic and functional values. Having won competitions and awards, and having been published in acclaimed architectural publications, amsa delivers designs of the highest quality for its clients.

Theokleous residence. Pictures by Anargyros Mougiakos

Kiti, Larnaca, Cyprus

New office building for the Synergasias CO-OP Bank The building lies along the central street, opposite the high school, reinforcing the public character of the street but also creating a continuous linear barrier from the heavy traffic. Access to the building is through the internal plaza connecting it with the existing facilities of the commercial department, the parking area and the newly created small public park. Theokleous residence Through the research of a series of similar sized residences the office has adopted a special typological approach for this type of building, in relationship to the lifestyle of the user and the characteristics of the plot. This approach lies in a clear separation of individual entities by both form and function, while seeking aesthetic integrity by minimizing morphological vocabulary and use of materials. The central element is the staircase with a two-story space opening onto the courtyard. This is an attempt to highlight the evolution of traditional architecture to modern Mediterranean trends resulting to a contemporary architectural production.

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ELEONORA ANTONIADOU The craft of caning museum Livadia, Larnaca, Cyprus November 2016

Bio Eleonora Antoniadou holds a Degree in Architecture (Thessaloniki), an MA in Housing and Urbanism (AA, London), and a Fashion Design Diploma (Frederick University). She is a part-time tutor at Frederick University. Her research and PhD proposal is based on the “Parallel Practices in Fashion and Architecture”. She actively participates in workshops, art exhibitions, conferences and architectural competitions. She is a freelance , prize awarded architect, the co-founder of the urban group “sinthishes” and the founder of the “building fashion” workshops.

Photo by Ismini Hacholiadou

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The Craft of Caning Museum’s intention, a conversion of a kindergarden is to keep the usage and exploitation of cane in the memory of the local craftsmen. The main idea was to eliminate the existing spatiality and create a new inner shell that redefines the ground plan and creates different flows of motion and senses. The building houses three main functions: museum, educational center and shop. They are placed in different parts of the existing building, flowing into each other, tending to abolish their boundaries. The visitor’s experience is further enhanced by the textures and colours of reed.

ARTOPOULOS, IACOVOU, GRIGORIOU Long House Larnaca, Cyprus 2015

Photos by Popi Iacovou and Georgios Artopoulos

Bios Popi Iacovou is an architect and researcher investigating cross-disciplinary models of thinking and practicing architecture. Her research explores the intersections between architecture, performance and film. She received a PhD in Architectural Design from the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, funded by the A.G Leventis Foundation and the FfWG (UK) and an M Phil on â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Architecture and the Moving Imageâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; from the University of Cambridge funded by the Cambridge Commonwealth Trust. She has taught at the University of Cambridge, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, the University of Cyprus and Neapolis University. Her design work and films have been exhibited internationally. Georgios Artopoulos, Assistant

Professor, Cyprus Institute, works on immersive and performative spaces, on virtual environments, modelling and simulation for the study of built heritage and the creative exploration of historical narratives in the context of public open space. He holds a Master of Philosophy and a PhD from the University of Cambridge (UK) with a Doctoral Award from the Arts and Humanities Research Council. Previously he was employed by the Heriot-Watt University (UK), the University of Melbourne, the University of Cambridge and the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Charis Gregoriou is a practicing architect, partner of Economou Architects & Engineers. Since 2002 he has been engaged in the design and implementation of a broad range of

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private and public projects, ranging from private houses, commercial buildings and offices, hotels and schools. He is a graduate of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.

Photo by Popi Iacovou and Georgios Artopoulos

Long House is a single-family house in the outskirts of Larnaca, adjacent to a natural reserve away from the urban fabric and with a river that lies along its east boundary. With regard to the overall planning the building turns its back on to the existing house and opens up its spaces towards the landscape views. The spaces follow the topography, generating multiple transitional areas that meaningfully articulate the main spaces. The composition developed as the articulation of autonomous rooms, each with a specific relationship with the garden, the courtyard, extended views of the landscape and the horizon. The project emphased the relationship between house and landscape, and sought to create a new model of â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;housingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, which interprets domestic uses and actions as daily rituals.

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The way a building relates with the landscape suggests embodied experiences that can awaken critical and poetic readings that potentially reinterpret daily domestic actions, such as relaxing, dining, bathing, playing, swimming, socializing and gardening. In a cinematographic way, framed and staged sceneries develop sequentially and are animated by the movement of the users as well as by the changing seasons.

MARIOS CHRISTODOULIDES, CHRISTOS CHRISTODOULOU - SYMPRAXIS House 1203

Ayios Theodoros, Cyprus - 12.2014

Art School House 1306 Markideio Theater

Up left: House 1203 Down left and right: Art School House 1306

Akaki, Cyprus - 12.2016

Paphos, Cyprus - 12.2017

Bios Marios Christodoulides studied at MIT and the California State University SLO. After graduating he worked in Boston on housing, urban redevelopment, and university campus projects. Presently, and since 2003, he is a director of Simpraxis Architects in Cyprus. He has also taught Architecture studios as an adjunct faculty at the Department of Architecture at the University of Cyprus. His work was exhibited at the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2006 and was an associate curator for the Cyprus Pavilion in 2008. His Architectural work has been awarded first prizes in numerous competitions and he has published in Cyprus and abroad. Christos Christodoulou studied Architecture in Manchester Metropolitan

University. He received the BA(Hons.) in Architecture in 1995 and the B.rch. in 1997. From 1997 until 2000 was working as intern architect in Manchester, UK. He was involved with projects in the UK and abroad. In 2000 he relocated in Cyprus and worked in local architectural practices and as intern architect for the Municipality of Nicosia and the Nicosia Masterplan. Since 2003 he is a director at Simpraxis Architects. He has been a recipient of several awards in International Architectural Competitions and his work has been published in books and magazines.

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House 1203 The residence is located close to the coast in a pristine area and is intended for weekend getaways of a single father and his three adult children. A communal space is created on the ground floor as a ‘public’ yard interacting with a stair that runs along the inside perimeter of the two story communal space. The independent boxes that enclose the bedrooms offer privacy and create covered porches. The bedrooms have views into the central space and also out towards the seashore.

Markideio Theater

Art School House 1306 The program called for an Art School and a Residence for an Art Instructor and her family. The small Art School and House had to function independently with separate access from the street but with easysafe access from one to the other. Responding to the remote and sparsely populated landscape of Akaki village, a high perimeter wall is constructed that encircles all indoor and outdoor

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spaces. Work and living areas are separated by an intermediate outdoor space that can be used at alternated times by the residents and the transient students of the school school.at alternative hours. Markideio Theater Markideio Theater, which began as a renovation, had to be located within the same structural frame of the existing theater. To create a better connection with the existing urban fabric, two ‘arms’ extendt out to the two surrounding streets. The one extension includes the public cafeteria that can accommodate both theater events and also occasional visitors. The other is a promenade, from the existing parking lot west of the building, that leads towards the second entrance into the theater. A public plaza is created between the two with a green plateau on the west side accessible to all visitors. An internal courtyard within the theater helps to maintain a connection with the outdoors and also accommodate events.

MARGARITA DANOU New Athletic Park Of GCO Cyta Footbridge

Coastal area of Limassol, Cyprus

Re-configuration of the Coastal Location Verki Oroklini Coastal Promenade

Oroklini Coastal Promenade

Voroklini, Cyprus

Coastal area of Voroklini , Cyprus

Bio Margarita Danou studied at the Architectural Association School of Architecture (AA) receiving the AA diploma in Architecture in 1990. Upon completion of her studies she set up her own practice in Nicosia, mainly participating and being awarded prizes in many architectural competitions in Cyprus and Europe. Her work is widely published in local and international books and magazines. In 2004 she was jointly awarded the Cyprus State Prize for exceptional Architectural Work for the Voroklini Coastal Promenade, with Sevina Floridou. Her projects of “Voroklini Coastal Promenade”, “The Athletic Park at the GCO”, “The Re-configuration of

Verki into a Pedestrian Walkway and a Water Basin” and “The Cyta Footbridge” were nominated for the European Mies Van Der Rohe Prize. New Athletic Park Of GCO The project of the New Athletic Park of GCO, set at historical site of a neglected stadium along the coastal edge of Limassol, aims to re-qualify the site as an important link between the residential area and the coastal public space, allowing an articulated transition between urban landscape, the park and the sea. This transition blurs the boundaries between natural and artificial environments and offers a new vision of artificial landscape and

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the city. The project aims to define the project area as a fragment of a more extensive urban renewal program. Cyta Footbridge The footbridge of CYTA addresses the question of its urban context by interweaving existing and proposed circulation with its urban landscape. Its overall concept is based on overlapping fields and lines that knit together to form a constantly shifting whole. The footbridge connects an existing athletic park with the coastal area of Limassol, offering a unique variety of experiences.

Cyta Footbridge

With Architect Sevina Floridou: Re-configuration of the Coastal Location Verki into a water basin and a coastal promenade along the coast of Voroklini The Location â&#x20AC;&#x153;Verkiâ&#x20AC;? is an irregularly shaped public property that is comprised of a narrow stream discharging into a wider coastal estuary, previously allowing seasonal torrential flow to drain into the sea. The site adjoins the completed Oroklini

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waterfront promenade while the east bank borders onto raised courtyards of private summer houses. The south end of the estuary faces the coast, but. T the stream itself, entering from the north, has been partially encased in a concrete canal, which extends northwards into a discharge basin located between the villages of Voroklini and Pyla. Oroklini Coastal Promenade The site lies between an existing resort development and the coastal edge, bordering a number of private and state properties that have, over time, encroached on the beach. We set out to create a promenade that would provide leisure activities for the public, and act as a threshold between private development and the public beach. The promenade consists of a series of platforms, canopies and lighting elements unified by a meandering path that loosely follows the coastline, widening and narrowing to create a series of scenic spotspecific places along the way.

YIORGOS HADJICHRISTOU Smalto ARC

Nicosia, Cyprus - 2018

Nicosia, Cyprus - 2010

Ifigeneia Kaizer project Kaimakli house

Cyprus - 2010

Nicosia, Cyprus - 2007

Athienou Town Hall

Cyprus - 2007

Dali House and workshop

Smalto

Cyprus - 1997

Bio Yiorgos Hadjichristou is an architect and Professor of the Department of Architecture, University of Nicosia. He received his MA in Kiev and continued his research in Kyoto. He is recipient of a number of awards including the Golden Prize of the Union of International Architects for the competition for the most public, friendly and accessible buildings. He was selected and participated in the Mies Van Der Rohe Awards six times. He organized and participated in a wide spectrum of

local and international exhibitions and events including the Venice Architecture Biennale. He has been widely published in local and international publications.

Smalto The dentist clinic is located on the main Strovolos avenue along the riverbed of Pediaios. The building is raised up so the city is reconnected with the green elongated park of the river. At the same time the ascending is proposed as a set of steps and platforms that continue

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the theme of the park. The vertical circulation is interwoven with the building and facilitates various social spaces and voids initiating various interior and exterior contacts. The skin of the building can be choreographed by the users accordingly to the weather, functional and other needs.

Smalto Dali House

ARC - Architecture Research Center Department of Architecture. University of Nicosia. Architects: Petros Konstantinou and Yiorgos Hadjichristou Collaborators: Veronika Antoniou and Joao Teigas External Collaborator: Alessandra Swiny The ARC, a conversion of a dilapidated shoe factory in a derelict industrial area in Nicosia triggered the regeneration of the area. The flexible interior space responded to the complexed functional needs of various sizes of studio spaces, meetinglecture-exhibition spaces, workshop, offices, computer labs, cafeteria etc.. The arrangement of the dividing,

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sliding panels can orchestrate a wide spectrum of diverse spatial conditions, while they serve for the acoustic needs and for exhibition surfaces. The envelope of the building is treated with polycarbonate panels in various soft coulour tones which transmit a controlled, pleasant light condition in the interior of the building. House and workshop of a sculptor and an artist in Dali Architect: Yiorgos Hadjichristou The project accommodates a house with a sitting and a dining room, a kitchen, three bedrooms and artistsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; workshop. All the spaces face the north in order to enjoy the magnificent view towards the valley and the mountains of Pendadaktylos, while safeguarding winter south orientation too. The spaces are orchestrated by the slope of the hill and organized around a courtyard covered by the hanging volume of the bedrooms. The workshop has a variation of heights and an indirect natural illumination

which will enhance the creativity and the productivity of the sculptor and the artist. Ifigenia Kaizer House Architects: Yiorgos Hadjichristou and Petros Constantinou The building aims to accommodate the needs of a family with two children and a small private teaching institute of Greek language on the lower level. The surrounding area, full with alienated to the island houses, triggered the idea of a shelter that functions in introversion around a courtyard organization. The spaces are enveloped by a concrete cube raised above the ground with openings carved like a sculpture. They serve as small peripheral courtyards, the main connectors with the ‘outer world’. They can be closed by shading panels and provide the interior spaces by controlled natural light and cross ventilation.

Refurbishment of a listed house in Kaimakli Architect: Yiorgos Hadjichristou Collaborators: Veronika Antoniou and Petros Konstantinou The project is the remaining part of a traditional house, adjacent to the dividing “green line” of Cyprus. It is organized around two courtyards. During the biggest period of the year, all the new spaces change, open and become parts of a unified courtyard depending on the weather, the mood of the inhabitants, the functional needs etc. All the spaces enjoy generous cross air ventilation and protected south orientation while the old vegetation that took over in the past revives in the form of ‘shading panels’, dividing surfaces and natural balustrade.

Kaimakli House

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HARIS HADJIVASILIOU Aretaeio Hospital Nicosia Colocassides Residence Strovolos residence

Nicosia, Cyprus - 2004 Platres, Cyprus - 1990

Nicosia, Cyprus - 1989

Bio Haris Hadjivassiliou is a practising architect from Cyprus, holding degrees from the Pratt Institute and Columbia Univeristy, New York. He has an ongoing collaboration with Professor Emilio Battisti in Milan and has acted as a visiting critic at the Milan Polytechnic for the Bocconi University Competition. He is a permanent member of the Board of Directors of the N. Michaelides Foundation, Nicosia, Cyprus. Two of his projects have been selected for the Mies Van Der Rohe foundation archives.

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Aretaeio Hospital Nicosia The two building axes facilitate circulation, regulate diverse functions, and provide the opportunity if needed to expand the building linearly. The L-shape of this building forms a courtyard, the focal point of most of the interior public spaces, from which light is provided to the first basement. A semi-basement level is connected to the ground floor public areas using ramps, offering the possibility of an architectural promenade. The main void above the ramps, dialectically connects the ground and first floors, and acts as a light well, illuminating the internal spaces being placed along the buildingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s glazed side.

Haris Hadjivasiliou

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Left up, down: Strovolos residence

Colocassides Residence The steep site is surrounded by a pine forest where minimum construction is permitted. The landscape, orientation and the client’s requests resulted in an elongated counter sunk house (minimum cut and fill) in which all spaces are organized linearly looking south to the uninterrupted vistas. A flat roof was used to fit in with the surrounding vineyard with stone terrace walls. Such flat roofs are indigenous to the nearby villages for drying grapes. Structurally and functionally this house is defined by a series of five cube outlines. The resulting rectangular volume is dissected by a curved retaining wall. Circulation is possible in the resulting space, which is illuminated from above with natural light. The “piano nobile” (first floor) comprises living spaces and master bedroom whereas the ground floor contains the guest area, utilities and garage.

Right: Colocassides Residence, photos by Haris Hadjivasiliou

Strovolos residence The brief asks for a single house with

a simple, uniform space in which a middle-aged couple could live, work and house their art collection. The house spaces comprise two private areas located on the two short sides of the building and separated by their common social areas. The common area, which includes the kitchen, encircles the main courtyard and relates dialectically to its surrounding nature. The centralised courtyard, the focal point of the house, is integrated with the main space. The two utility areas are located between the common central spaces and private quarters. Their suspended ceiling is lower than the vaulted ceiling of the rest of the house to allow for the mechanical and electrical facilities. The main parameters used to generate the house’s form were the elongated site, the land orientation and the surrounding views. The form also abstractly mirrors local traditional building typology, which also determines the layout of the interior spaces.

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YIORGOS KALAVAS AND YIANNAKIS AGISILAOU House in a half plot in Engomi Engomi, Cyprus 2016

Bios Yiorgos Kalavas and Yiannis Agisilaou studied architecture in Thessaloniki and founded the “Architectural Studio Agisilaou & Kalavas” initially in Pafos and later in Nicosia. Their office’s projects have been awarded in architectural competitions. They have represented professional bodies and Societies to scientific and advisory committees and juries of architectural competitions. In 2016 they were awarded with the State Architectural Award. Their articles on architecture and space have been published in the daily press and architectural magazines.

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Yiannis Agisilaou was also involved in playwriting and scenography.

House in a half plot in Engomi Having as a basic limitation the unfavorable orientation of the building site, as south orientation was impossible, ambient daylighting and solar radiation benefits are ensured through the fifth elevation (the top) of the building, by pushing away from the partition wall the basic spaces of the house and by creating high inlets and south openings. In addition to this, the glass floor of the atrium of the first floor allows daylight and direct sunlight to reach the ground floor spaces during winter period, while in the summer period, shading devices in the atrium (aluminum louvers) block direct sunlight and overheating.

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DEMETRIOS LOUCAIDES, MARIA PHILIPPOU Restoration and reutilization of Ibrahim’s Khan

Pafos, Cyprus - 2017

Remodelling of the district Administration’s Office Square and adjacent streets Pafos, Cyprus - 2017

Bio Demetrios Loucaides was born in Pafos, in 1962. He studied architecture at Weimar University, Germany, graduated in 1988 and began working as an architect collaborator at an architectural firm in Pafos. In 2000 he established, with his wife who is also an architect, his own architectural company in Pafos.

Ibrahim’s Khan, Photo by Demetrios Loucaides and Katerina Loukaidou

Restoration and reutilization of Ibrahim’s Khan Ibrahim’s Khan is located in the historic core of the city of Pafos. It constitutes a complex of listed structures that were built in the late 19th century. It was a traditional inn functioning as a venue for exchanging cultural values. The central architectural unit was defined by two storey buildings developed around two stone-paved courtyards. The Inn’s image was significantly altered by the passing of time and the consecutive ad hoc additions. The main objective of this project was the reuse and reutilization of the Khan’s old buildings, to redefine its role in today’s contemporary society and to create a vibrant city hub with the appropriate mix of traditional and

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modern uses. Today the place is fully restored and reutilized as a contemporary cultural space. The new additions engage in a dialogue between the traces of the past and readings of new reversible lightweight structures that move between the existing built boundaries.

Administration’s Office Square, photo by Demetrios Loucaides and Katerina Loukaidou

Remodelling of the district Administration’s Office Square and adjacent streets The above project consists of the remodeling of the square as well as repaving and redefining of the adjacent streets spanning 7300 square meters in size. The fundamental objective of the project was to reclaim a degraded part of the town and to transform it into a landmark through an effective urban

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intervention. In this setting dominated by contemporary architectural expression, a public space has been created, drawing on the site’s unique geomorphological characteristics. The reconfiguration of the square presented a unique opportunity to visually connect this part of the town with the sea while highlighting the buildings of the District Administration Office. Side lighting along the decking platforms of the square, defines its limits and accompanies the pedestrians at night. The square also features a café-restaurant, a circular steel canopy for shading, a water feature and a glass elevator that connects the square with the parking area at the lower level.

ATHINA PAPADOPOULOU Chrysaliniotissa Kindergarten Nicosia, Cyprus January 2004

Bio Athina Papadopoulou is an architect with experience in the field for over 25 years and employed by Nicosia Municipality since August 1999. She has been project architect for numerous conservation, urban redesign-regeneration projects as well as projects for the historic city of Nicosia under the bi-communal (Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot) Nicosia Master Plan project. Since August 2010 she is head of the Nicosia Master Plan (NMP) office, the Greek Cypriot team and since then manages the majority of EU co-funded Nicosia Municipality integrated urban development projects.

Chrysaliniotissa Kindergarten

Chrysaliniotissa Kindergarten The project includes the restoration, extension and reuse of an early 20th

Century Urban Traditional House in Chrysaliniotissa quarter to be used as a kindergarten. A new extension along the east side of the courtyard was designed in order to accommodate the needs of a neighborhood kindergarten. This project aims to provide community facilities to the neighborhood of Chrysaliniotissa, in the framework of the general Rehabilitation Project of the area. Furthermore, the project aims to preserve and re-use a significant example of Nicosiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s architectural heritage. The project was funded by USAID (United States Agency for International Development) and Implemented under the bi-communal Nicosia Master Plan through UNDP / UNOPS / Bi-communal Development Program

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ERACLIS PAPACHRISTOU FORUM Greek private secondary school Dhali, Cyprus 2011

FORUM Greek private secondary school

Bio Born in Nicosia in 1972. Graduated from the Aristotle University, Thessaloniki (1995) and from the Bartlett School of Architecture (U.C.L.), M.Arch, in Architectural Design (1996). A member of ETEK and CAA, serving as vice president for many years. Founded ‘’Eraclis Papachristou Architects” in Nicosia in 1998. The practice handles a formidable portfolio of projects from architectural design to the supervision/coordination of construction work of private and public projects. Awarded 24 awards in Cypriot and European architectural competitions, including 10 First prizes for public and private projects, most of which have been implemented or are under construction. Received the Cyprus State Architecture

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Prize twice. Has been nominated for the Mies van der Rohe Prize five times. Participated in Venice Biennale in 2008. The Cyprus Architects Association honoured Eraclis Papachristou for his contribution in the Cyprus architectural field in 2012.

FORUM Greek private secondary school

FORUM Greek private secondary school The design of a school involves giving shape to a program but also to inform a pattern of spaces which encourage positive social interaction and enable good education practices. The schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s presence is established through the most important element of the architectural synthesis, a linear volume along the busy road which simultaneously acts as a noise and visual shield for the schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s functions. Library, laboratories and the music rooms are situated along the top of the structure. The reception extends its function outdoors, while simultaneously establishing a certain level of privacy for the multipurpose hall. The prism at ground level acts as an extension of the courtyard with total

transparency. The multipurpose hall is capable of operating independently from the rest of the school complex. The wings extend parallel to one another, creating interstitial gardens and providing a visual sequence and a functional logic. The main courtyard completes the pattern of these spaces, as an extension of the lobby and the main outdoor areas. Visual identity of the various elements is achieved in various ways, increasing legibility for the occupants.

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GREGORIS PATSALOSAVVIS GGP-ZK House, Family House Engomi, Nicosia, Cyprus

GGP-ZK House, Family House

Bio G. Patsalosavvis Architecture + Design is located in Nicosia and was established in Cyprus in 1996. Gregoris G. Patsalosavvis graduated from the Architectural Association School of Architecture in 1985. He has worked in London since 1996 in well known architectural offices such as Norman Foster and Partners, Richard Rogers Partnership, Benson & Forsyth Architects and Building Design Partnership. In 1993 he established his own practice and founded the studio “Clepsydra Design Workshops” in London and Cyprus. His portfolio includes individual houses, apartment blocks, offices buildings, public buildings, entertainment and interior designs. He was a nominee to represent the Republic of Cyprus in the European Mies Van Der Rohe award

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in 2000. He also represented Cyprus in 2006 at the 10th Venice Biennale of Architecture. GGP-ZK House, Family House The building is located in the village of Malounta, a community 20 km northwest of Nicosia. The site is the old village centre and the client’s brief required an office space and meeting room for the Community Committee, a multi purposed hall, a youth centre and an open air theatre with a landscaped play area. The architect’s aim was to redefine the borders between the old village centre and to create both a collective space and memories of the past for the inhabitants of the small community. The project was completed in two phases as a response to the limited budget of the community.

MIKE SERROF, SOTOS PAPADOPOULOS C+T house

Nicosia, Cyprus - 2012

Prince. Nice Day Developments

Nicosia, Cyprus - 1996

Bios Mike Seroff studied architecture at the Architectural Association School of Architecture (AA).London, England. After graduation he had worked for Bolles and Wilson, London and Cosmos Architects, Cyprus. Sotos Papadopoulos completed his studies in architecture at the Robert Gordon University (RGIT), Aberdeen, Scotland. After graduation he worked for Cosmos Architects, Cyprus. They founded Seroff and Papadopoulos Architects in 1990, in Nicosia.

C+T house photo by Mike Serrof

C+T house The project is a family house on a large plot. The house was placed at one end of the plot in a U shape facing towards the south and the garden. The house provides its own shade and outdoors courtyard through a simple use of overlapping volumes, pergolas and vertical screens. This allows the house to open to the outside completely, blending both the internal spaces with the shaded external spaces creating various degrees of privacy. Horizontal and vertical circulation is screened allowing light and air to flow through. Prince. Nice Day Developments The project is an apartment building of six floors, with one apartment per floor, and is located in the residential area of Ayios Andreas in Nicosia. The project

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was won in an invited competition for a luxury apartment building offering a novel view of apartment living in Cyprus in 1996. The main concern was to create an environment of privacy and at the same time a feeling of living outside. This was achieved by creating various types of verandas open or completely enclosed with different types of screens which allowed the internal spaces to completely open to the outside while still maintaining privacy from the street. This carried through even in the entrance lobby, which becomes a social space as it is a light filled space where one can connect with the open platforms leading to each flat, while at the same time standing as if in the air with a view through the trees.

by Mike Serrof

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GEORGE THEMISTOKLEOUS Traditional Cypriot Homes of the Future Nicosia, Cyprus - 2018

Bio George Themistokleous is an architect and lecturer in architectural design, history and theory. He has studied architectural design, theory and art history at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. The inter-disciplinary scope of his work operates between media, art and architecture. His practice focuses on the changing relationship between the visual body and space-time through emerging media that probe conventional limits between self and self-image, interior and exterior. His visual and written work has been presented, exhibited and published internationally in various platforms. He is co-editor - with T.Stoppani and G. Ponzo - of the book This Thing Called Theory (Routledge). Photos by George Athanasiou

Traditional Cypriot Homes of the Future This project takes a single storey residential house built in the late 1940s in Nicosia as its starting point. The deserted and deteriorated house hosts a virtual reality corridor. As such, it gives a second life to this abandoned and neglected edifice. The house overtakes the sala -the main living room - via a constructed digitized corridor that is extended towards the room at the far end of the house. The participant who unexpectedly crosses this interval will see themselves through this immersive space from past instances in three-dimensional formats stereoscopic imagery. The house strangely reappears in the background of this immersive space, through the fragmented perceptions

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of the door, venetian blinds, mosaic tiles, white washed walls. The abandoned traditional residence hosts a technological space of the 21st century. This threshold invites speculation upon the juxtaposed building type developed within a particular context around eighty years ago and one that is born from todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s electronic culture. The space between these two types informs a strangely emerging spatial type that is marked by the entwined social virtual and actual environments of today.

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ANDREAS VARDAS Western Coastal Promenade AB House

Paphos, Cyprus - 2012

Yeroskipou, Cyprus - 2016

Bio Vardastudio is located in Paphos and was established by Andreas Vardas in 1997. Andreas Vardas graduated from the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, in 1993 and gained his working experience in London. He is a member of the RIBA, as well as ETEK. The studio’s work includes mainly individual houses, housing developments as well as public buildings and a number of competitions. The studio’s practice has been distinguished in international competitions as well as the Republic of Cyprus President’s award.

Western Coastal Promenade photo by Maria Efthymiou

Western Coastal Promenade A project that establishes a formal coastal promenade, it includes platforms at strategic locations to provide stops and resting points along the walk. The platforms constructed from recycled wood, are supported by columns, so as to give the impression that they ‘float’ above the rocks and water. Stops are also signified by bespoke benches, which provide resting places and shelter from the sun. Their materials and construction echo that of the platforms. The promenade itself is paved with local white limestone. This enhances the local character and reflects materials used in the ancient city. Another hint towards the heritage of the site is the patterns in the concrete strips and in the paving,

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Ab House photo by Maria Efthymiou

AB House The architectâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own residence-project was born of the combination of two materials often found near this location: concrete tube pipe sections and metal sheet. The materials are translated here to the two separate envelopes: a metal structure clad in metal and glass, and the two walls of stacked concrete pipe sections running along the north and south facades. The layout of spaces is linear along the east-west axis. The open plan living area is to the east, providing a dining area, kitchen, and sitting area. Three bedrooms and a study are placed along a corridor-gallery that runs the length of the house.

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Huge glass doors slide open to the deck veranda that runs outside to the south. The veranda is dispersed with garden pockets, containing small trees and fragrant plants. To the North is a water corridor that abuts the house.

SOLON XENOPOULOS & ELENI HADJINICOLAOU ARCHITECTS New Primary School in Paphos

Agios Theodoros area, Paphos, Cyprus - 2012

The Archives Building of the Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation (CyBC) 2012

Bio The Architectural practice “Solon Xenopoulos - Eleni Hadjinicolaou Architects” was formed in 1993. The practice had been involved in a multiplicity of projects relationg to professional work, the participation in Architectural Competitions, exhibitions, publications, as well as Teaching and Research. Solon Xenopoulos: Architect, Professor Emeritus of the National Technical University of Athens. Visiting Professor at the University of Cyprus and the University of Nicosia. Currently Dean of the School of Architecture, Land and Environmental Sciences, Neapolis University, Pafos. Eleni Hadjinicolaou: Architect, MSc. in Advanced Architectural Studies, UCLondon Assistant architect for many years with the distinguished architect George Candilis Visiting lecturer at the School of Architecture, Land and Environmental Sciences, Neapolis University, Pafos. The Archives Building of the Cyprus Broadcasting

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New Primary School in Paphos Design concept: A polycentric organisation of the school’s spaces, reflecting the contemporary educational and social reality. The compact building disintegrates in conjunction to the decentralised information. The idea is being implemented both through the specific formal plasticity of the built volumes, as well as the form of the spaces and their connectivity, to produce different grades and possibilities of moving interfaces. The Archives Building of the Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation Design concept: a subdued architecture, which materializes as a three zone structure. A public zone emerges over ground and contains all public spaces such as a multipurpose hall, exhibition space and library. A linear patio which provides natural ventilation and lighting, providing the means of connecting the other two elements. A complex of archives, workshops and offices is hidden under an artificial hill.

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NICE DAY

White Walls by Jean Nouvel

Bio Nice Day Developments was founded in Cyprus in 1995 by the DESTE Foundation owner Dakis Ioannou and his son Christos Ioannou. The company single-handedly created a niche market in Cyprus that caters to urban dwellers that demand the highest level of design and quality. Nice Day Developments has completed more than 60 projects including “Prince”, awarded the Cyprus State Architectural Award for Residential Buildings in 1998, “Nice Day Tower”, nominated to represent Cyprus in The European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture, Mies van Der Rohe Award, as well as the beachfront complex “The Elysian Gardens” which was awarded the International CNBC Awards for 2009 as the best Cyprus and European Development. True to its spirit of encouraging projects

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of exceptional architecture, Nice Day has just completed White Walls, a high-rise tower in the centre of Nicosia designed by Jean Nouvel. White Walls has been named Best Tall Building of Europe for 2016 by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH).

Nice Day Developments, is a ‘land development’ company whose focus is ‘on developing residential and commercial buildings’. Established in 1996 by a businessman and art collector Dakis Joannou and his son Christos , the company places emphasis on ‘quality buildings of unique and outstanding architecture’ on aesthetics and the mobility of contemporary lifestyles. In certain cases our designs are selected via a process of architectural competitions.

Left: It’s Nice Right: by Gregoris Patsalosavvis

Architecture is one of those elements which document society’s creativity, which bear witness to successive technological, aesthetic and social changes and to a common experience of habitation. The ways of livng, the ways we perceive our needs and wants of habitation, are no changing on a personal and collective level. In recent years we have witnessed a rebirth of architecture which is restored at the core of cultural interest. More and more people, in more places around the planet, realize that architecture is a major factor in social evolution. Based on this dynamic, Nice Day Developments has striven, since its inception, to systematically encourage Cypriot architects from different “schools” and generations who share an internationalist outlook in their

work, and to multiply the opportunities for the realisation of outstanding architectural projects. It is our belief that an enhanced architecture can enhance our cities which, with a parallel improvement in infrastructure and social services, can become liveable, friendly, attractive and, above all, creative, thus promoting social and cultural development.

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CHARALAMBOS ARTEMIS (In)forming Memories: The Cyprus Buffer Zone Cyprus

Photo from the series “(In)forming Memories: The Cyprus Buffer Zone”

Bio Charalambos Artemis worked as an editorial and advertising photographer in London for about ten years. His portrait work was consequently exhibited at London’s National Portrait Gallery. Artemis currently works on personal projects and a select few commissioned projects. His project, ISLANDLISTENING, a meditation on surveillance and Cypriot landscape, was exhibited at the AG Leventis Gallery in 2016. His latest work is part of International Association of Photography & Theory’s (IAPT) ‘Ar[t]chaeology’, a collaborative project, investigating the relationship between archaeology and contemporary art photography.

(In)forming Memories: The Cyprus Buffer Zone This project depicts a largely inaccessible, underdeveloped, and undocumented part of the Cypriot landscape, the Buffer Zone. A strip of no man’s land allocated in August 1974 following the two-month period of armed conflict, it runs laterally across the island, separating the Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot communities. The idiosyncratic temporality, location, and space captured by my images stand against the narrative relayed by the state-produced imagery that dominates Cyprus’ post-war period. The barbed wire foregrounding most images of the BZ, the romanticised pictures of lost lands, the enemy

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portrayed as a bloodied boot, and photographs of those mourning their loved ones, all serve to illustrate the sanctioned story of a young republic re-ascertaining its compromised sovereignty. A story crucial to the Greek Cypriot collective memory.

Photo from the series “(In)forming Memories: The Cyprus Buffer Zone”

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This series of photographs unfolds a narrative that contradicts collective memory and questions rigid perceptions of inaccessibility. The photographic process took three years of repeated clandestine visits to locations restricted by state authorities in the south (accessibility to the BZ from the militarized north is impossible). Concurrently, this collections’ juxtaposition of a serene landscape with subtle elements indicative of its troubled past coupled with traces of

current human presence, challenges the collective memory’s obsession with unaltered pre-war landscapes that no longer exist. Consequently the project reclaims the BZ as more than just a location barricaded to the present and to the public. The question thus arises, can these photographs offer an alternative narrative, and in doing so, fill voids in formed and forming memories?

MELITA COUTA Family Ties 2012 Cyprus

Left: Polountai Right: Skull

Bio Melita Couta has graduated from Central St. Martins College, London - BA Sculpture and the Slade School of Fine Art, London - MFA Sculpture. She has been working with sculpture, installation art, photography, drawing and collage. Some of her participations include “BEAUFORT 04”, Triennale of Sculpture, Belgium 2012. “The Location of Culture”, Pulchri Studio, The Hague 2011. “CHYPRE 2010: L’ art au Present”, Gallery Espace Commines, Paris 2010. “AGORAFOLLY OUTSIDE – INSIDE”, Place de Grand Sablon, Europalia 2007, Brussels. Couta has been working extensively in theatre as a scenographer. Since 2006, she has been the co founder of

“Paravan”, an independent experimental theatre company.

Family Ties Houses under construction, family photographs, archaeological artifacts are collaged together with samples of emulsion paint charts. These empty vessels of concrete, act as places of expectation where lives, memories, actions are standing by, waiting to occupy the void in between the concrete walls. As the urban environment expands and new constructions grow against a blooming spring background, past and present generations coexist as a collective memory in space.

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POPI IACOVOU & ERICA CHARALAMBOUS Room Under My Skin August 2017 Koilani, Cyprus

Screenshots of the video “Room Under My Skin”

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Bio Popi Iacovou is an architect and researcher investigating cross-disciplinary models of thinking and practicing architecture. Her research explores the intersections between architecture, performance and film. She has taught at the University of Cambridge, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, the University of Cyprus and Neapolis University. Her design work and films have been exhibited internationally. Erica Charalambous, is an Independent Dance & Multidisciplinary Performance Artist and a co-tutelle PhD research student at the Centre for Dance Research (C-DaRE), Coventry University in the UK & Deakin University, Melbourne Australia, with a full Scholarship and studentship. Her research focuses on the study and digitisation of archives of dance in the UK, USA, Germany and Australia. Erica has received, participated and won various grants and fellowships in prestigious art institutions.

Room Under My Skin ‘Room Under my Skin’ is a dance film that explores the threshold of internal and external space, when their boundaries become blurred and the mind slips, gets lost and struggles to be located physically, imaginatively and emotionally in one space: I manufacture a step against gravity, just to move me forwards… her presence superseding mine. I travel and roam in the remedies of some…it comes and it goes evaporating into a revolution of nothing. Chronic Sinus Temporary Minus …Can you hear how I sound from the inside? Is my body still mine when I am ill? Am I still me when my mind is not? The film is shot in Shelley’s Residence, the house and private medical practice of a British doctor, who lived in Paphos during 1947--1953, and who was well known for his curiosity for poisons and antidotes in African rituals of magic.

STEFANOS KOURATZIS Nicosia’s shadows, Memento Mori, Architectural fragments 2016-2018 Nicosia, Cyprus

Photo from the series “Memento Mori”

Bio Stefanos Kouratzis (b. 1975, Athens, Greece) is a photographer living and working in Cyprus since 2001. For the last years has been working for Phileleftheros Group and the European University of Cyprus. Studied at Focus, School of Art Photography (Athens, Greece) and took online courses at MoMA (Museum of Modern Art, New York). His career in Photography starts at the same time with his studies in 1994. For his work he has received international awards from organizations such as PDN (Photo District News), IPA (International Photography Awards), Px3 (Prix de la Photographie), Fujifilm EuroPress Awards etc. His photos are in books and private collections.

“Structural and other elements, through processes that receive and transmit multileveled and multidimensional stimulations through messages, both at an emotional and mental level, are used as means to start a dialogue through a landscape that changes, alters or is denatured while accepting challenges and invitations of architectural fragments with Anthropos, being the protagonist. Thus, by provoking and encouraging new ways of thinking visually, but also of consciousness, perception and understanding, through a constantly changing natural and artificial landscape, it prescribes a continuous search of the relationships that are created between Anthropoi, everyday life and works, with signs

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and practices becoming a place and a point of reference. Answers, becoming questions and have as their basis, a purely anthropocentric character and discuss with space and time and the seemingly long distance of yesterday and tomorrow, revealing or hiding in the light and shadows a whole world, the physical presence or absence.â&#x20AC;?

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ORESTIS LAMBROU Architectural views: Neoptolemos Michaelides, NIC Nicosia, Cyprus

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Bio Orestis Lambrou was born in Nicosia Cyprus. He is a film maker and a photographer whose interest in documenting urban spaces from an anthropocentric point of view. Through his work, both still and durational, he attempts to bring forth what is otherwise missed. He has a BA (hons) in film from the University for the Creative Arts in Surrey England and an MA in Image and Communication from Goldsmiths, University of London. He currently lives and works in London.

Architectural views: Neoptolemos Michaelides A photographic study into the architecture of Cypriot modernist architect Neoptolemos Michaelides and the current (2009) use of his buildings. The photographs are a selection from the book of the same title, published by Tramba Publishing with support from the Ministry of Education and Culture and the Cyprus Architects Association. NIC A series of photographs from the Nicosia International Airport (NIC). The terminal building was built in 1968

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only to be soon after abandoned in 1974 and since enclosed inside the UN buffer zone. Its grounds are today used by the UN peacekeeping forces

in Cyprus (UNFCYP) and its runway— still featuring an abandoned Cyprus Airways jet—is used to give driving lessons to UN personnel.

YIANNIS PAPPAS AND ALEXANDROS MICHAIL Refugio 9th and 10th of November 2017 Selimiye Square, Faneromeni Square, Nicosia, Cyprus

Picture taken during the performance

Bios Yiannis Pappas is a Berlin based artist. Throughout his work runs a deep fascination for the relation between space and the human body in natural and urban environments. His visual language is rich and varied, encompassing multiple forms of expression, such as video work, photography, performative, installative and interventionist practices, all of which bear the signs of Pappas’ anthropological and phenomenological approach toward his subjects. Underscored by a critical interest in space, as sites of physical and symbolic enactment, his artistic work and research explores how different places are sustained collectively and individually throughout history. Alexandros Michail’s work attempts to enter into a creative discourse with

the hidden dynamics of domestic and public power, and investigates the construction of the self in the context of cultural, national and gender identities. It aims to unlock the unfamiliar, unfold the tremendous oddity of the ordinary and strip objects, relationships and space off from their given meanings through a process of progressive abstraction. He is interested in testing the narrative volume of silence, the embodied anxiety of stillness, the inconvenient (sometimes violent) but also comforting impact of passing from “I” to “we”.

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Refugio Refugio (refuge), from the Latin Fugere (to escape, to flee) but also of similar sound with Fugare (to hunt, to chase) is a comment on the dynamics of identity, something we always try to lay hold upon but is in constant flux. The two performers transform the public square in a field of constant negotiation of rival identities through their non-ending attempt to redefine the territory in their favor. A symbolic game of power where each one struggles for themselves defining the inside and the outside, the familiar and the foreign. Presented at Buffer Fringe Festival. Supported by Roberto Cimetta Foundation. Picture taken during the performance

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NICOS PHILIPPOU Easter Bonfires, Off the Map, Coffee-house Embellishments Various Locations in Cyprus Bio Nicos Philippou is a photographer with a strong interest in the Cypriot vernacular, topography and material culture. He cocurated the exhibition Re-envisioning Cyprus and co-edited a book with the same title (2010). He participated in Sense of Place at the BOZAR in Brussels (2012) and in Terra Mediterranea-In Crisis at NiMAC (2012). His Coffee House Embellishments was included in The PhotoBook Exhibition at the Benaki Museum in Athens (2015). He coedited Photography and Cyprus: Time, Place, Identity (2014). NiMAC hosted his solo exhibition Sharqi and published a photobook with the same title (2016). Philippou lecturers at the University of Nicosia.

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Easter Bonfires, Off the Map, Coffeehouse Embellishments Construction of bonfires begins on the morning of Good Saturday every year and follows a rather standard procedure and architectural pattern. For a short while between the commencement of construction and the structures being set alight in the early hours of Easter Sunday these stacked bonfires stand as impressive, ephemeral and makeshift urban monuments. Philippouâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s seven yearlong photographic exploration of this intriguing architectural practice follows and complements a sustained pre-occupation with vernacular material culture and working-class aesthetics. His work on interiors of homes as well as coffee-houses invites viewers to reflect on hierarchies of aesthetics and the processes through which beauty comes to be defined. I am Where You Are - Art

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Coffee-house Embellishments

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EFI SAVVIDES Between Fences, By the Gate Cyprus

Bio Efi Savvides is a visual artist and art educator based in Nicosia, Cyprus. Her work seeks to investigate conditions of exclusion set up by institutions of power, especially in relation to minority groups in Cyprus. Savvides has presented her work at the 21st Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts, the 4th International Cairo Biennale, and the 5th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art as well as in group shows at institutions including House of Cyprus and Benaki Museum, both in Athens; European Economic and Social Committee, Brussels; Paris; Goethe Institute, in Thessaloniki; and NiMAC, Thkio Ppalies, and Phytorio, in Nicosia.

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For several years, Efi Savvides’ work has focused around issues involving migration, knowledge production, cultural diversity, and, integration. Concerned with new meanings of human behaviour and the impact of mass migration in adopted countries where economic falls have been the cause of other forms of crises – social, psychological, environmental, and, health – the artist pays particular attention to the type of social awareness surrounding immigrants in Cyprus today. Aware of the prescribed positions of “native” and “foreign”, these images, captured in an almost ritualistic progression of “spotting” through a camera lens, reflect on, rather than represent, arrangements of social status [...]. From colourful carpets and laundry hanging in the back yards, and portraits of strenuous daily moments, to passersby taking a peep into “other-

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looking” life experiences of economic exclusion, Savvides’ research works at the level of uncovering experiences of borderline survival, at the same time, that they expand demarcations of peripheries in nationally divided countries.

(Excerpts from Maria Petrides’ texts, titled, Between Fences and By the Gate)

CHARIS SOLOMOU Unseen Views Cyprus

UNSEEN VIEWS by Charis Solomou Architectural Photography

Bio Charis Solomou is a practicing Architect and Lecturer at Frederick University Department of Architecture in the field of Computational Design and Fabrication, Parametric Design focused on Architectural Design Process dealing with innovative design methods and material solutions. He is also an Architectural Photographer and his work attempts to capture and present views that highlight the distinct character and particularities of the urban city and at the same time inspire and activate the reader-viewer toward a detachment from his everyday bland image of his city and force him to tour, to discover and re-experience the city in a different sight.

Unseen Views The work strives for alternative ways of describing the city where concealed, unseen characteristics and particularities of the urban experience, begin to become apparent through the photographic lens. The photographic portfolio focuses on well-known landmark buildings as well as thematic compositions of anonymous architecture. The light and shadows, texture, the geometrical characteristics of space and the morphological elements of buildings are considered in the expression of their unique identity and presence in the built environment of the city.

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RE-APHRODITE Liquid Time 2016 Municipal Garden, Nicosia, Cyprus

Bio Re-Aphrodite is an independent evolving group of practitioners, artists, researchers, activists and different individuals and social organizations based in Cyprus, which focuses on issues of gender, social difference, and other Cypriot political and social paradoxes through research, educational, curatorial, and creative practice. The initiative, created by Evanthia (Evi) Tselika and Chrystalleni Loizidou, first emerged in 2010 and has since been developing into an evolving collective with a wide range of critical academic and creative actions

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Liquid Time is the video documentation of the Re-Aphrodite project Shrines/ Habits, which has been developed through public space interventions that took shape as a series of fluid installations of shrines to Water Goddesses around Cyprus and Brazil. They were ritually set up as a series of itinerant, ever-evolving and sitespecific public installations or meetings that invite the intervention of friends and strangers. These meetings were perceived as non-happenings that begun with a fluid, repetitive, and nomadic gesture: the spreading of a cloth that connects to the translocation of people, faith, mobilization, and ideas, and the sharing of habits during “time off work”. The

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cloth Colcha de milagres cotidianos [Cloth of everyday miracles], which can be seen in the video, has been used by a growing number of people in spontaneous discussions and rituals. This video documentation has been gathered mostly from interventions in the Nicosia Municipal Garden in Nicosia, Cyprus; in symbolic sites of Aphrodite in her perceived birthplacePaphos, Cyprus, with a glimpse of its translocation in sites in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The protagonist of the video is the Nicosia Municipal Garden, a public space accessible twenty-four hours a day that is used by different communities, social groups and individuals for diverse purposes and social practices.

Liquid Time has been edited by Evi Tselika and uses footage captured from 28.12.2015 until 06.08.2016.

YIANNIS ZOURIS Just like Home, The Coop 2013 - 2018 Nicosia, Cyprus Bio Yiannis Zouris was born in Nicosia in 1982. He studied Political Sciences and History, Cultural and Media Studies in Athens, Norwich and Leiden. He currently lives in Cyprus where he works as a photographer and filmmaker. In both his still and motion work, either documentary or fiction, Yiannis’ work explores the human condition in demarcated spatial and socio-temporal environments.

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Just like Home ‘Just like Home’ is a series of photos about a specific street in the southern part of Nicosia, Trikoupi Street. The stimulus for the recording of life on this street was the perception of a common lifeworld, a small universe that is both cause and consequence of the co-existence of the diverse cultures, religions and ways of being that constitute it. Starting from the OXI roundabout and ending abruptly on the green line on a roadblock of white and blue barrels, Trikoupi Street is a spatial strip within a walled city where a strong presence of people from the middle-east, Asia, Africa and Eastern Europe mingle with the local element resulting in the creation of a hybrid habitus. This distinctive lifeworld, a particularity

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in the Greek-part of Nicosia, is at the same time a living articulation of an intrinsic universality of humanity. The Coop A short film by Yiannis Zouris. 2016. 20 minutes. A young man named Polis commutes to a village to finish the building of a small construction. Due to a series of unexpected events Polis will be introduced to new knowledge and perceptions that will eventually help him realize and claim his condition of existence. Just like the film in itself, Polis is moving on equilibrium between reality and fiction and between allegory and literality. Screenshot from the film â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Coopâ&#x20AC;?.

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DIMITRIS CHIMONAS & enacttheatre

Presence in Absence Cyprus - 2005

Date Time Location Koilani, Cyprus - August 2017

Bio Kyriaki Costa studied Byzantine and Applied Arts in Greece and the United Kingdom. She is a member of the Cyprus Visual Artists Association. Her work has been widely exhibited nationally and internationally. Costa is also an activist in Cyprus and she deals with topographies, histories, and place-making, by using art as an anthropological practice. Since 2013, she is the Artistic Coordinator of the Non Profit Organization Phaneromenis 70. Presence in Absence An animated story of text-iles and text-s... An animated story of lines making up my own understanding of “home”. Many interwoven themes & contrasts: Life / Death - Presence / Absence - Nature / Technology ... A bittersweet journey between lines I crossed, stories I imagined, threads I created and contrasts I experienced. My work Presence in Absence aims to be seen as a visual open work, with no apparent beginning or end: Weaving is an open-ended work, experience and being is an open-ended work, History, stories and cultures are open-ended works. All we are is an amalgam of emotions in motion…

Bio enacttheatre was founded in 2014 by Marina Makris and Elena Kallinikou. Their work has toured extensively in several cities and was presented in several festivals in Cyprus and Greece. Their latest production “The Dust is Expected to Retreat by Tomorrow” was selected to represent Cyprus at BJCEM Mediterranea 18 Young Artists Biennale. Dimitris Chimonas’s work appears in the intersection of performance and textbased narration, exploring spectacle and context. He presented works in galleries, museums and theatres in Cyprus, London, Edinburgh, Athens, Tirana, Paris and New York. Date Time Location One body of work consisting of 13 performances, in 13 locations around sunset time. Three performers enter and exit a public space and engage in a non-scripted ritual of rhythmical clapping allowing a series of failures, successes and familiar rhythms to unravel. By deconstructing the folk music and dances of the Eastern Mediterranean and European region, the rhythms and vibrations become an accommodating platform for an essential meeting with the present moment and location.

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NURTANE KARAGIL

ANTHIMOS PAPAPERICLEOUS

Tatbikat

Famagusta, Cyprus - 2018

The Traces Series

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Larnaca , Cyprus - 2017

Elements Series Cyprus

Bio Born in London 1989, lives and works in Famagusta, Cyprus. She holds BA in Fine Arts / Painting from the Hacettepe University, Turkey and MA in Fine Arts from the University of Brighton, England. Her practice is mostly painting and installation which cover cultures and politics with a childlike aesthetics.

Bio Anthimos was born in 1992 in the small city of Larnaca in Cyprus and in an early stage he discovered the passion he had for architecture, that later on choose to have also as a profession with a small twist on photography that he found as a mean for capturing the qualities that derive from architecture.

Tatbikat civil defense organization operation/battle: tatbikat (TR) Committee of Emergency Situations and Civil Defence According to the exercise scenario, electronic warning sirens will be operated simultaneously in the city centers of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus on 10th of October, Wednesday, October 25th, and warning sirens will be operated in Girne city center on Thursday, October 26 at 15:00.

The Traces Series deal with various aspects that define and describe the element of time, with the only difference now being that its measuring unit is no other that the actual human presence and usage in all scales and durations. Elements Series revolves are the idea of seeing space through a different type of perspective. A perspective that is defined and framed by layering a variety of several other elements that have different diversities in matters of form, depth, and transparency.

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PASHIAS

CONSTANTINA PETER

The Burden

me@t

“Memorial Dedicated to the Missing”, Latsia Municipality, Nicosia, Cyprus - 2009

Limassol, Cyprus - 2015 -2016

Bio The practice of visual artist Pashias is grounded in the field of performance art, installation and photography, by establishing the artist’s body as basic material for creation. PASHIAS has participated in solo and group exhibitions, as well as international festivals in the United Kingdom, France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Russia, Norway, Finland, Estonia, Sweden, Bulgaria, Turkey and Brazil.

Bio Constantina Peter studied Theatre Studies in National University of Athens and continued in Utrecht University for her master degree in Contemporary Theatre and Dance. She collaborated with theatre organizations both in Cyprus and abroad. Dimitris Spyrou, known as Acapella Solo Loop, is a musicianperformer who experiments with music, poetry, movement and theater.

The Burden In the video performance “The Burden”, the artist’s body is multiplied and placed underneath a ‘burning’ yet heavily ‘still’ flame - joining a number of female figures at the public monument “Memorial to the missing” found in Nicosia. PASHIAS approaches the act of ‘bearing weight’ as a physical exercise, and a metaphor for the ‘burden’ or ‘honor’ to be carried by an individual attached to an ideological framework. This site-specific act of corporeal support to a sculptural symbol, transforms into a ‘monumental’ protest of solidarity to a social struggle, functioning at the intersectional point of real and imaginary, public landscape and private space, shadow and light.

me@t The project me@t was created by Constantina Peter in the frame of theYard.Residency.15 of Centre of Performing Arts MITOS and was supported by the Cultural Services of Ministry of Education. me@t is a visual comment, which carries the memory and life of four immigrants that live and work in Cyprus. It negotiates subjects as: Place, Displacement, and Memory. According to Martin Heidegger, the human being is part of the place; it’s been defined from it and revolts through it. Having this theory as a reference combined with the artist’s background; how life revolts when a human is being displaced?

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KARIN SCHUITEMA

THEOPISTI STYLIANOULAMBERT

Old Nicosia, Trikoupi Street Site Analysis Nicosia, Cyprus - February 2018

Arte-facts Cyprus - 2017-2018

Bio Karin is a Dutch researcher and visual artist (photography, drawing, painting, collages and filming) who has worked in Greece, Syria, Egypt and Turkey and is now living and working in Cyprus. She has been working on ethnographic and visual projects in Istanbul and on an ethnographic film on migration, focusing on Istanbul and Athens.

Bio Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert is a visual artist, researcher and educator. She is currently associate professor at the Cyprus University of Technology and the coordinator of its “Visual Sociology and Museum Studies Lab”. Her artistic and research interests include museum studies and visual sociology with an emphasis on photography.

A moonlit night in North Nicosia: connections between the tangible and intangible. When it gets dark on winter evenings in North Nicosia, the moonlit streets become silent and empty. Inside buildings, however, social life and work life of different ethnic and cultural groups is happening. This project intends to show Cyprus’ multi-identities, apart from the binary identities that are often ascribed to the island. This project is composed of two videos.

Arte-facts In my search for contemporary visual evidence of the everyday relationship of Cypriots with archaeological artefacts, I decided to photograph the owners of life-sized replicas of “Aphrodite of Soli” next to their statues. While the original statue is exhibited at the Cyprus Museum on a pedestal, these replicas step down from their pedestals and become domestic objects, exposed to the elements and placed alongside plants and other everyday objects. For this project, I’m creating a new archaeological photographic record with an emphasis on alternative narratives: the everyday people behind the replicas of Aphrodite of Soli, and the different meanings and uses of archaeological artefacts.

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MICHALIS CHARALAMBOUS Red transparency Card 2014 Nicosia, Cyprus

A man trying to capture the light of a Cyprus land scape through a red transparent card. The video refers to works by William Turner and many other romantic artists who tried to manage the physical light of landscapes. There

is also a natural obstacle, the wind, which is making the action even more difficult.

The work is created as a short story telling film. The story is based on my parent’s 1960’s memories. My grandmother describes Agia Varvara

Village in Paphos - its buildings and the social life. The project is created by me and my sister Eser Keçeci.

GOKCE + KEÇECI “US”/”BİZ” Cyprus

NAFSIKA HADJICHRISTOU Together January 2017 Nicosia, Cyprus Together is a short documentary exploring the concept of genuine interaction and human connection under the context of the Cyprus Problem. It expresses the fresher perspective of young people who have overcome the boundaries of nationality,

politics, history, and have understood the importance of connecting through their differences.

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SERAP KANAY The Rest of Us March 2018 Karpaz Golden Beach, Bedi’s Salamis, Ayios Sergios, Famagusta Supermarket, Ambeliku - Cyprus

Settings are commonplace: a supermarket, countryside, a seaside. Work and leisure are juxtaposed within these indoor and outdoor environments. The blue waters of the Mediterranean surrounding the island evoke the feeling of a way out and being trapped

at the same time; a metaphor for the situation most Cypriots experience living in Cyprus. Yet, we turn to the great architect, nature itself, to escape from the entrapments of work routines, to reiterate our existence in tradition and cultural rituals; we celebrate ourselves and carry on.

SAVVIDES & AVGOUSTI Memory of Death 2017 Cyprus The care of the burial site has been the duty of the living to the deceased as a deposit of love and loyalty. The daily ritual focuses on objects that decorate the last dwelling; on their

emotionally charged symbolism, and, above all, on the ceremonious care that is transformed into compulsion, obsession and need.

POLYMNIA TSINTI Ayios Sozomenos - Place of barley - Timeless encounters 20.04.2018 Nicosia, Cyprus Footage from Ayios Sozomenos - Place of barley - Timeless encounters event organized by the Creative Center for Fluid Territories CCFT, the NGO Urban Gorillas with the University of Nicosia In the abandoned village of Ayios Sozomenos, silence penetrates oneself,

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yet the event “Ayios Sozomenos Place of barley - Timeless encounters” set up a framework where new traces were to be created. People reflected upon the peculiarity of the space through presentations, discussions and art interventions installed around the village.

Works in the Courtyard of the Pavilion

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ALEXANDROS YIORKADJIS I am Here 2012 Cyprus Bio Alexandros Yiorkadjis was born in Nicosia, Cyprus in 1981. He studied art at the Accademia di Belle Arti Pietro Vannicci in Perugia, Italy, at the École Supérieur des Beaux-Arts de Marseille, France under the Erasmus project, and at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna, Italy, from where he graduated with distinction. He was awarded the first prize in sculpture (Premio Nazionale delle Arti) in 2007 at the Italian Arts Competition. In 2011, his graduation work has been selected and presented in the Venice Art Biennale. His work is in the collections of the Italian Ministry of Culture in Rome, the CYTA Collection, the Central Bank of Cyprus Art Collection and in numerous private collections in Cyprus, Greece, Italy and Romania.

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The first time I went in a big city and I found myself in a place crowded with a lot of different kinds of people, I thought: “There are so many people here! ”. And then I thought: “I am here”: I realized my presence within the crowd. Suddenly everybody became someone, just like me. And that place became the entire planet. This realization is what drove me to create this sculpture. Faces of people of different ethnicities and Nationalities, with different believe systems and different social, religious and cultural programing and level of understanding of themselves. People of divers age group, gender and sexual orientation. Even people who are no longer alive. And in the middle of this there is a mirror with your reflection. “I am here” is a work about individuality, the collective, but most importantly the reflection of what you bring with your presence. Acrylic resin , 162cm x 178cm x 18cm,

ALEXIA VASSILIOU Bio Alexia Vassiliou (Famagusta, Cyprus) is a renowned, International Singer/ Composer. With a career spanning 30 years, and 45-recorded albums, Alexia changed Greek sales history with her series of multi-Gold and Platinum Albums for: CBS-Columbia NY, Polygram, Universal Music, BMG, and Sony Music, in the genres of Pop, World music, Jazz, Film music, and Improvisation/ Experimental music. A Music pioneer, Alexia has a lasting imprint in the history of Music in Greece and Cyprus. She introduced a new Music generation to the work of composer Mikis Theodorakis (Alexia-Mikis Theodorakis), American Jazz featuring renowned Jazz pianist, Chick Corea , Improvisation Music in her series of Voice improvisations (T), and revived the Music of the Greek Classic Film Era of the 30’s-60’s . She is recognized by The Recording Academy, the GRAMMY Awards, for her work on “Birds Have to Fly”, for best jazz vocal album, and she has composed several Indi-films and documentaries (Lullaby of the Butterfly, Poker Face). Recently, Alexia developed “Re-bE the Music Listening Method – Music Movement”, an Educational and Cultural Music Outreach Program, for schools and the communities. Re-bE aims to build a sustainable Music Culture, by making Music Accessible to All. Re-bE cultivates the new generation of music appreciators and contributing members of the Global Music and Cultural Community.

“Voice in space” by Alexia Vassiliou from her on-going recording project “The Improvisation Series” at the 16th Architecture Biennale in Venice.“I sing my Voice Improvisations in empty spaces, in the in between time and space of silence and of temporary or permanent abandonment/absence by their occupants. I find these spaces sacred. Part of this experience originated in the silence I needed during my childhood, which could only be attained in the absence of the people I loved, and part, due to my experience with War.” Alexia was 10 years old when she became displaced, a refugee from Famagusta, in her own country Cyprus.“ This experience, of not being able to visit my home, has forever altered my relationship with, my perception of, house/home. I send the sound of my voice there. No prohibition and no occupation can stop this. When I first moved to Los Angeles, I recorded my Voice Improvisation for a theatrical play at a Hollywood Theater, in an underground parking in West Hollywood with the most perfect of acoustics. It is now an album”. Improvisation is my way of Connecting. I walk into the unknown with Trust. Everything is my ally, Everything is Music, I feel that I am a part of everything: I belong. From the moment this realization came to be, I was never to walk alone again.

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BANK OF CYPRUS CULTURAL FOUNDATION - COLLECTION OF PHOTOGRAPHS AND POSTCARDS Since its establishment in 1984, the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation has developed a wealth of activities, in keeping with the objectives originally delineated for the Cultural Foundation by the Bank of Cyprus. The Foundationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s main strategic aims are to encourage research and study of Cypriot civilisation in the fields of archaeology, history, art and literature, as well as to preserve and disseminate the cultural and natural heritage of Cyprus.

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1962 - A PHOTOGRAPHIC RECORD OF CYPRUS 1962 - A Photographic Record of Cyprus by Manuel Baud-Bovy and Aristea Tzanou, Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation, Nicosia, 2008.

Up left: Pigeons house, Agios Segios Up right: Coffee shop, Kythrea

Immediately after the establishment of the Republic of Cyprus in 1960, the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs offered to assist the newly founded Republic. In consultation with the Government of Cyprus, they deemed that a study on the development and prospects of tourism in the newly-established state would be of great benefit. Architect

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EugĂ¨ne Beaudouin was designated in charge of the study. Beaudouin then appointed two young architects, his former students, to carry out the project: Swiss architect Manuel Baud-Bovy, head of the research team, and Greek architect Aristea Tzanou. In line with the tradition of colonial photographic imagery, most of the images in the book depict Cyprus as an idyllic, pre-modern locale; however there are a few instances where BaudBovy and Tzanou allow us a rare glimpse into Cypriot modernities.

THROUGH CYPRUS WITH THE CAMERA IN THE AUTUMN OF 1878 Through Cyprus with the Camera in the Autumn of 1878 John Thompson Trigraph Limited, London, 1985. Thompson, a Scottish photographer, had made a reputation and a career out of traveling around the world in the 19th c. By 1878, when Cyprus becomes a protectorate of the British empire, Thompson arrives on the island and produces the kind of ‘documentary realism’, typical of nineteenth-century

European colonial imagery. With only a single exception, the photographs, sixty one of them, suggest to their British middle-class audiences a perpetuating decline of the island under Ottoman rule and, thus, a legitimization of the subsequent British presence thereof. Thompson constructs Cypriot landscapes as pastoral and picturesque, full of architectural remnants of an archaic and medieval past and people as ‘pure types’, deprived of their individuality and names.

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CYPRUS COMMUNITY MEDIA CENTRE (CCMC)

Up: Screenshot of the video “What’s Your Story? Alp and Anna” Down: Screenshot of the video “One Day on Earth

The Cyprus Community Media Centre (CCMC) works to empower civil society organisations and community groups with the tools to communicate their message to a wider audience. Through training and dedicated production support, equipment loan and access to a state-of-the-art production studio, CCMC promotes the benefits of community-based media by giving people the skills to be in control of

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their own messages. Based in the heart of Nicosia’s Buffer Zone, CCMC is accessible to all communities across the whole of Cyprus. It aims to act as a bridge between the mainstream media and civil society, and to facilitate the development of sustainable relationships between the media across the Cyprus divide.

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UNIVERSITY OF NICOSIA (UNIC) UNIC is the largest university in Cyprus, and the largest university in Southern Europe that teaches primarily in English, welcoming 11,000 students from over 70 countries across the globe. It is a comprehensive university with over 100 conventional oncampus and online programmes of study, and particular strengths in medicine, the health sciences, law, accounting, architecture, and international relations. UNICâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s recent focus is characterised by innovation in new technology and transnational programme delivery. UNIC has been instrumental in the internationalisation of higher education in Cyprus and the wider region. It founded and operates the first and largest medical school in Cyprus, in collaboration with St Georgeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, University of London, the second oldest medical school in England. UNIC also offers a series of innovative joint degrees with some of the leading universities in Europe. Moreover, UNIC has been a pioneer in online education in the Mediterranean, supporting both its own degree programmes, as well as those of its joint degree partners throughout Europe. In this regard, UNIC was recently awarded a 5-Star QS rating for Online/Distance Learning, becoming the first university in the European Union to be recognised in this way by the QS Intelligence Unit. UNIC also stands out for a number of global university firsts in its dynamic initiative in cryptocurrency and blockchain technology. More specifically, it was the first university in the world to: (a) offer a course and degree programme in the field; (b) deliver graduates from a programme of this type; (c) publish academic certificates and diplomas on the blockchain; and (d) accept bitcoin for tuition.

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DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE THE ARCHITECTURE RESEARCH CENTER [A.R.C] Degrees offered: Professional Diploma in Architecture (DipArch) - 5 years - 300 ECTS Bachelor of Arts in Architecture (B.A.Arch) - 4 years - 240 ECTS Bachelor of Arts in Interior Design (B.A.Int) - 4 years - 240 ECTS MSc in Computational Design + Digital Fabrication - 1.5 years/3 semesters -120 ECTS History and Accreditation: The Bachelor of Arts in Architecture and the Diploma in Architecture were estab¬lished in 2006 and currently run under the Department of Architecture, University of Nicosia. The program provides students with a comprehensive set of skills, and professional qualifications academically accredited by the (ECPU) (Evaluation Com¬mittee of Private Universities) in July 2008 and approved by ETEK ( Cyprus Scientific and Technical Chamber) and the European Commission (Directive 2005/36/EC). The Bachelor of Arts in Interior was established in 2004. The Master of Arts in Architecture was established in 2014. An MSc in Computational Design + Digital Fabrication will be offered in 2018 Department mission The mission of the Department of Architecture is to create critical thinkers who are intellectually-acute, socially-aware, and technically-skilled architects/designers that find themselves in the center of contemporary architectural/design discourse. The graduates are conceptual thinkers who are equipped both with hands-on approach methods and skills, as well as superior knowledge and understanding of cutting-edge technologies in relation to most current architectural theories and notions. The current program(s) acknowledge the importance of constructing a unique identity by catering for diversity in architectural/interior/post-graduate education, where global discussions merge with local conditions such as culture, climate, local market/industry and social needs. The program(s) support a pedagogy that pro¬motes ecological and sustainable thinking providing the necessary tools of context, comprehension and application of social, environmental and cultural aspects.

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CLASS DESCRIPTION Unit 5

In_Out Crisis Unit 5 – Architectural Design Studio for 4th and 5th Year students taught at the Department of Architecture [ARC], University of Nicosia, Cyprus

“Crises are ultimately productive” provokes Mark Wigley. “They force invention. Radical destruction gives way to new forms of production”. (Wigley M., Space in Crisis, in Jun Jiang, Mark Wigley, Jeffrey Inaba, Urban China Bootlegged for Volume by C-Lab, New York C-Lab, 2009.)

This notion is the foundation for the investigations led in the Unit 5 “in/ out crisis”. The Unit sets the premise and the educational environment to respond to current global “crises”, through an optimistic approach focusing on current emergency situations. The aim is to generate intelligent strategies that produce potential and alternative solutions.

Professors: Alessandra Swiny Yiorgos Hadjichristou Michail Georgiou Natasa Christou

Students’ names of projects shown: Aristos Aristodemou Maria Christofi Constantia Djialli Georgia Hadjimatheou Maria Ioannou Monica Kakou Vasilia Kokotsi Kerry Kyriakou Eleni Anthi Mintsiou Athanasios Ragkousis Alexandra Tarkasi Penelope Vasquez Hadjilyra

Within the above context, students were asked to creatively respond to the thematic of the Unit. They delved deeply into four determining types of crisis, (environmental, political, social, and financial) precisely analysing relevant “terrains” such as those that are flooded, radioactive, desertified, etc. The paths of investigation were explored through the following juxtaposed techniques; analogue versus digital, handmade versus fabricated, and low-tech versus high-tech. These “lenses” initiated a probing into the existing negative crisis and emergency conditions. Newly proposed programmatic elements such as emergent habitation, salvage alteration, and adaptive cultivation technologies allowed students to suggest extraordinary and innovative solutions.

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A.Tarkasi & G.Hadjimatheou P. Vasquez Hadjilyra

M.Kakou & V.Kyriakou

E.Mintsiou K.Kyriakou

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Unit 6

Time Synergies and Adaptive Architecture Unit 6 explores sites and spaces of multiple identities. It focuses on the potential of the re-reading of the “site” through mappings that represent the lived space of the neighbourhood. Using a bottom up approach, the methodology of mapping acts as a process of disassembling, and as a mechanism to re-examine space and place by searching for the invisible and the non-measurable. Time is framed as a critical driver of sites and landscapes.We are interested in mapping conditions of time, identifying marks and traces of lost or transitory elements. 0ur approach to the site is as a product of relations ‘always in the process of being made’. We understand sites and spaces which are exposed to accidents, the environment and change. We introduce the notion of Hybrid as a particular condition that we are looking for. The point at which urban qualities overlap is of interest to us. We identify these instances of intensity as sites of opportunity or hybridity. Searching for Hybrid states assist us in going on to identify similar characteristics of ‘fusion’ through spatial, material and programmatic explorations. Subsequently what is sought after is a new state which allows coexistence between various conditions and identities.

Professors: Maria Hadjisoteriou Yiorgos Hadjichristou Angela Petrou Christos Papastergiou

Students’ names: Unit 6_ 2016-17 Florentzou Thomas Galanou Christina Kartsakas George Kyriakou Maria Omidi Afra Pantelli Stefanos Prokopiou Andreas Sofos Pantelis Xenofontos Christos Unit 6 _ 2015.16 Demetriou Evdokia Georgiou Antri Kotsabasi Katerina Koufopavlou Chrystalla Unit 6 2014.15 Apserou Ourania Balambanides Anastasis Georgiou Theodosis Ioannou Maria

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M.Ioannou

C. Galanou

P. Sofos

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Architectural Design III Cultural Topographies_ Emerging Identities The human body acts as the driver throughout the course. The results are generated out of the sensory and corporeal characteristics of the human body, which attribute towards and respect individuality and consequent habitual and living specificities. Throughout the course analysis is made concerning the relationship between the ‘skin’ (wrapper) and the ‘bone’ (structure) as well as the inhabitable interior spaces. This class also looks into materials – plastics, membranes, fabrics, paper, wood, plaster - even found objects, and discover new techniques to join, connect and mend them through - weaving, folding, and molding/carving. The premise for work generated in this class is developed through exploring the realms of architectural expression in relation to the cultural and human inherent qualities of materiality, structure and space. Students are expected to bear in mind the sequential relationship through which ‘nature’ produces ‘culture’ and ‘culture’ produces ‘nature’ - where the human entity, be it the individual or a group, is placed.

Professors: Alessandra Swiny Yiorgos Hadjichristou

Students’ names of projects shown: Doulianakis Emmanouel Ioannidou Tatiana Lazaridis Chariton Nursan Arpalikli Pissarides Alexandros Sergiou Irene Soliati Agathi

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Emergency Architecture This course concentrates on Emergency Architecture, dealing with the current need of design solutions in a rapidly changing world. With climate change and an ever increasing human population the natural environment is shifting and affecting the livelihood of large number of people across the world. This course concentrates on how various governmental and non-for profit bodies and mechanisms are searching to find the best way to respond to these natural disasters and help those affecting by them to recover. The course looks at the history and background of humanitarian aide and relief organisations. It discusses government policies and legislations. It look at environmental shifts and the affects of global warming. A series of case studies and site analysis help students understand the exact conditions that are facing the countries and the people that are experiencing emergency conditions.

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Project: Armadillo Shelter Condition:Flooding Location: Florida Team: Maria Doxastaki,Manos Dulianakis, Anastasia Iliaki, Chariton Lazaridis, Agathi Soliati Stergos Zambelakis Project: Kabuto Suit Condition: Flooding Location : India Team: Andreas Marcou,Kleitos Kouzari,Demetris Theofanous Project: H2Hoodie House Condition: Flooding,drought Location: Brazil,Africa Team: Nursan Arpalikli,Elena Evangelidou, Nikolas Ioannou, Tatiana Ioannidou, Irene Sergiou

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FACULTY Natasa Christou Natasa Christou is a certified Architect and the director of FabLab Cy. She received her BA and Masterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s degree in Architecture at the University of Westminster, London UK and her Ph.D at the University of Cyprus. She has been previously teaching at the Department of Architecture in the University of Cyprus and University of Nicosia. Her personal direction on Computational Design became the reason to become

certified as an Authorized Rhino Trainer. With more than 5 years of mentoring and entrepreneurial experience, she dedicates her work on training individuals and teams to go from idea to execution, by cultivating the entrepreneurial mindset, creative ability and tech-knowledge. She is the founder of 3 start-ups (among which Tellalis.com, accredited with an EU innovation grant and multiple other awards).

Michail Georgiou is a practicing architect/founding member of HUB design platform and Seamlexity and an assistant professor (programme co-coordinator) at the Department of Architecture [ARC] of the University of Nicosia in the field of Computational Design and Digital Fabrication. He holds a MSc in Adaptive Architecture and Computation from the Barlett, UCL and a MArch from NTUA where he is currently pursuing his PhD. His current research focuses in applying computational tools in assisting and enriching design and

construction processes. Before moving on to realize his own professional collaborations and projects Michail has worked with Foster + Partners in London, as a design architect and design analyst, member of the Specialistâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Modeling Group. He is a registered Architect in ARB/UK and ETEK/Cyprus while his work has received numerous local and international distinctions including the state architecture award and a recent nomination for the European Union Mies Van Der Rohe prize.

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Yiorgos Hadjichristou Yiorgos Hadjichristou is an architect and Professor of the Department of Architecture, University of Nicosia.. He received his MA in Kiev and continued his research in Kyoto. He is recipient of a number of awards including the Golden Prize of the Union of International Architects for the competition for the most public, friendly and accessible buildings. He was selected and

participated in the Mies Van Der Rohe Awards six times. He organized and participated in a wide spectrum of local and international exhibitions and events including the Venice Architecture Biennale. He has been widely published in local and international publications.

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Maria Hadjisoteriou Maria Hadjisoteriou is an Associate Professor of the Department of Architecture, University of Nicosia. She received her Dip-Arch from N.T.U.A., Greece, and her Master in Engineering from Mie University in Japan where she was a Monbusho scholar. Maria’s main focus is “research by design”; therefore parallel to her academic involvement, she

has been a practicing architect since 1995. Maria has received a number of awards in local and international architectural competitions. Her current research interests include: Mapping as a design methodology, issues of perception with a focus on intangible qualities in architecture and social sustainability in an urban context.

Christos Papastergiou Christos Papastergiou holds a Diploma and MArch in Architecture (2002) and a postgraduate degree (MSc) in Architecture Design Theory (2004) from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), School of Architecture. As scholarship recipient from the Hellenic Republic (IKY), he is currently a candidate in the PhD Architectural Design at

the Bartlett School of Architecture. He is co-founder of the practice ‘draftworks*architects’. In collaboration with Christiana Ioannou, he has received awards in architectural competitions and his work has been widely exhibited and published.

Angela Kyriacou Petrou is an Assistant Professor of the Department of Architecture, University of Nicosia, Cyprus. She received her Post Graduate Diploma at London, South Bank University. Angela has worked on an extensive range of projects in London and In Cyprus including; Competitions, Independent practice, Project Management and

interdisciplinary design collaborations. Angela has taught design studios at Kingston and Southbank universities in London and the University of Cyprus. Her research interests include: Mappings of Events & Narrative History, Colonial Maps and Rural Land-use in Cyprus, Non-linear spatial practice of the Ottoman Period in Rural Cyprus.

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Alessandra Swiny Alessandra Swiny is an architect of American and British origin. She received her degrees from Barnard/Columbia University and Harvard University. She is an Associate Professor and tenure faculty and was Head of the Department

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of Architecture, University of Nicosia, Cyprus from 2009 until 2018. She has exhibited work in international exhibitions including the Venice Biennale. In recent years her works concentrates on issues of emergency architecture.

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URBAN GORILLAS (UG)is an NGO established in Cyprus in 2013 and has since then been active in city-making through urban regeneration, community engagement, and the implementation of socio-cultural and artistic projects in public spaces. At a time when approximately half of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s population are city dwellers, having a positive impact on our public spaces and making city life more

sustainable has become evermore important for maintaining creative and healthy cities. Urban Gorillas are a multi-disciplinary team of creative urbanites united by their common vision and enthusiasm for constantly improving life in the city. UG investigates solutions for a sustainable urban future; through research oriented design and creation of new social processes. Using diverse tools, they are interested in enabling interactive public enviroments enhancing the dynamics of public interactions. The team shares expertise in architecture, urban design & planning, landscape design,, economics, communications and campaigns, research and cultural project management, as well as a love for innovation and the drive for bringing about positive change. UG carries an extensive collaboration with artists, academics, NGOs, youth groups, and cultural institutions, amongst others.

Veronika Antoniou Veronika Antoniou is the co-founder and creative director of Urban Gorillas, a Nicosia-based NGO. She is also a licensed architect, landscape designer and urban planner. Her work spans many aspects and includes the practice of architecture, socially-engaged art and research on sustainable cities. Her academic work was funded by the Japanese ministry of Education and the UniversitĂŠ Libre de Bruxelles. Professional experience includes architectural projects in Japan, Switzerland and Cyprus. Her work has been exhibited in international exhibitions like the Venice Biennale and the Maxxi Museum. Since 2014 she has been actively involved in the operation and promotion of Urban Gorillas.

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COLLABORATING ARTISTS Marco Canevacci Marco is the Architect and Director of Plastique Fantastique, an architecture studio that samples the performative possibilities of urban environments. Based in Berlin, Germany, Plastique Fantastique was born in 1999 and has been influenced by the unique circumstances that made the city a laboratory for temporary spaces. Plastique Fantastique creates light and fluid pneumatic structures that

Plastique Fantastique Plastique Fantastique is a platform for temporary architecture which samples the performative possibilities of urban environments. Established in Berlin in 1999, Plastique Fantastique has been influenced by the unique circumstances that made the city a laboratory for temporary spaces and has specialised in creating pneumatic installations as alternative, adaptable, low energy spaces for temporary and ephemeral activities. The transparent, lightweight and mobile shell structures relate to the notion of activating, creating and sharing public

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can lie on the street, skirt a wall, infiltrate under a bridge, squeeze in a yard, float on a lake, invade an apartment and generate an urban premiere.

space and involving citizens in creative processes. They are in many ways the simplest of structures â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a skin that separates but also connects. The result is a site specific installation that breathes new life into the city and makes the invisible visible. Plastique Fantastique team is a group of creative subjects that plays with the potentiality of urban context. Plastique Fantastique builds project-oriented teams worldwide, depending on the specific request.

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Mathieu Devavry Mathieu Devavry was born in Reims France in 1981. He has started painting as a child influenced by the alchemy of the landscape of Verzy. He has been experimenting since with different artistic expressions from trompe dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;oeil, painting, abstraction, graffiti, while also including other forms of performing arts especially

poetry, theatre and dance. At present he bases his art on spontaneity and inwardness that are often expressed through an organic evolution between abstraction and surrealism. He is interested more and more in collaborative work that evolves from participatory processes amongst other artists and the wider community.

Athina Frenaritou Athina Frenaritou holds a Bachelor Degree in Fine Arts and a Master Degree in Design. Over the years, she has participated in several group exhibitions in Cyprus and abroad. She is interested in

creating art installations in public areas, and her projects involve an element of interactivity and the direct involvement of the public.

Natalie Konyalian Natalie Konyalian is a filmmaker and avid photographer based in Nicosia. She has worked on several short and feature length films in Cyprus, New York and Dublin. She also has vast experience working in community media, both as a filmmaker and as a trainer in video and radio production workshops for a

number of civil society organisations. Natalie continues to work with local and international artists of different expertise and backgrounds, and both her photography and video work have been exhibited across Cyprus as well as the Maxxi Museum in Rome.

Stavri Papadopoulou Stavri Papadopoulou specializing in production design for events film and theatre. She is currently completing her masters in Theatre Design at Bristol

Old Vic Theatre School. Previous qualifications: MA Interior Design and BA Architecture.

Antonis Pouliasis (b. 1987) is practising filmmaking and photography. He is focusing on research, study of materials and sources in order to develop ideas for visual documentation.

His aim is to feature work in the documentary field. Meanwhile on freelance basis, he is working on shortterm assignments as a video editor.

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Twenty Three Twenty Three is a visual artist from Cyprus who has been active from 2013, expressing a keen interest in urban culture. His artworks, mostly stencilwork, are found in Madrid, La Coruña, Mexico City, Oaxaca, Brighton, Rome,

and Cyprus. A central characteristic of his work is posing questions in relation to identity, intended as a constant negotiation of its relationship with history and tradition.

Teresa Tourvas is an architect, an amateur photographer and a keen traveler. She has completed my studies in the USA, with research in new technologies in the design process. Her studio “The Space between” focuses on design methodologies in examining social,

urban, and cultural problems. Her personal research is centered on citizen participation and engagement in Urban Development. She is a Board Director and collaborator of Urban Gorillas since 2016.

Elias Zaarour was born and raised in Beirut, Lebanon. He studied Visual Arts at the Lebanese University of fine arts and graphic design at the Technical Institute. Figures are his dominant subject, he feels like understanding his surrounding with drawing and painting, reflecting the

dualism between the time and space, reality and illusion. A visual search of form, light and colours and the examination of contemporary daily language is expressively present in his images.

Shca comes from Lyon and she became professional living model in 2008 for painters, illustrators and photographers as well as art schools (Emile Cohl, BeauxArts, ENSATT ...). She fuses her passion

for graphic and plastic arts with the living arts and hence she founded the Anamorphes structure in 2012 where she develops projects in both the artistic and logistical fields

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URBAN GORILLAS PROJECTS Uban Green Kitchen Bus May, 2014 Public spaces in Nicosia, Limassol, Cyprus Re-construct. Re-vive. Re-use. Regreen. Urban Gorillas in collaboration with AKTI and the support from the Fullbright Foundation, up-cycle an old and notin-use bus and re-introduce it within a new set of uses to the public. On the inside, the bus depicts a ‘Green Kitchen’ furnished with vegetables and herbs, food and cooking utensils. On the outside, local wood-print artist Evegenia Vasiloudi turns the bus into an art object with stencil techniques. The ‘Green Kitchen’ supports Tiganokinisi, a program that converts used cooking oil into fuel. The program’s aim is to encourage the public to participate

actively in the process of converting waste cooking oil into biodiesel for a more sustainable and green living in the community. In promotion of a more mobile and eco-friendly lifestyle, the “Urban Green Kitchen Bus” raises the issue of public transport and suggests sustainable living practices, recycling materials, and homemade vegetable gardens. As Cypriot life extends out to the streets, this public installation offers the audience an alternative use of public spaces and creative forms of social interactions whilst promoting local artists on street level. Participating Artist: Evgenia Vasiloude

Green Urban Lab 2014-2015 Various locations in Cyprus GUL; an experimental project funded under the thematic of participatory democracy by the EEA/Norway grants that run in 2014-2015. The GUL aimed to regenerate urban public spaces in Cyprus, an essential parameter of the

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built environment that is lacking from the urban scene of the county. Activating urban fragments that were underused by converting them into lively spaces that encourage social interactions. Allowing for participatory processes

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through low budget, temporary interventions and bottom-up initiatives was the working methodology adopted. Through research and the direct interventions in the city castles, GUL reclaims a public identity from the existing monuments addressing and involving the ever-changing local community.

Completed in the aftermaths of the unprecedented crisis rendered with the ‘scars of the Division’ in the island’s cities. (Part of the Green URban Lab was the Fouskopolis festival)

In the hands of the youth the future lays. In the Youth Festival 2015, Urban Gorillas placed in an open, green space, stimulated a multi-purpose function. It became a platform for public discussions, a children’s playground and a graffiti wall endowed to local. The multi-dimensionality of its functions was manifested spatially, as it distributed

different activities simultaneously on each of its sides. The image of the structure at the gardens varied depending on the viewing perspective. One end of the tube was transformed into an innovative platform to host a series of public talks as part of the Pecha Kucha project.

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Anthropometrie June 2015 Pame Kaimakli Festival Painting and dancing blend together in re-viving the old neighborhood of Kaimakli in Nicosia during the ‘Let’s go Kaimakli’ festival. In an inflatable structure in the narrow streets of the traditional quarter of Kaimakli these two art forms take its audience on a visual journey. The festival, running for the second year, gave a chance to its visitors, residents and participants to sense alternative, more public ways of living and experiencing the neighborhood. The most radical intervention of the urban space was the injection of this elongated inflatable structure. This reformation of the setting

not only inverted the concept of public space but also offered new perspectives of restructuring a neighborhood’s public element. The ‘anthropometry’ live painting performance redefined the usage and significance of the injected inflation. The dance and painting improvisation by artist Mathieu Devavry and dancer Charlotte Kirschner was a witty interactive play with movements of the human body that prevailed in the space and place.

Pame Kaimakli is an annual festival organised in Nicosia, Cyprus since 2013., in the old traditional neighborhood in Kaimakli, which is positioned along the buffer zone.

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Throughout the festival, neighbours and invited artists, academics and diverse social groups present social and artistic activities in the traditional core of Kaimakli activating the neighborhood and promoting social cohesion.

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The main goals of the festival is and to strengthen the sense of neighborhood among residents and their attempts to engage in artistic activities.

Faneromeni ‘16 Nicosia 2016 Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation, Cyprus

Urban Gorillas presented an interactive and thematic series of spatial interventions at the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation through the Summer of 2016 to set the scene for the Foundation’s Faneromeni16 programme of events. In an attempt to transform a private courtyard into an open public space Urban Gorillas proposed a series of actions to allow for social interactions to emerge in this setting.

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The interventions in and around the BoCCF courtyard took artworks from the Foundations’ own collections and offered them in new and interactive formats to the wider public. Through this project, art was brought out of the gallery/museum environment and onto the street level for the enjoyment of a wide and diverse public. Participating Artists: Mathieu Devavry and Eli Zaarour

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FouskoPolis 2016 Nicosia : Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation, Limassol Castle, Larnaca Castle, Paphos castle, Bedestan - Cyprus

The organised FouskoPolis events were directly determined to question the perception of the public spaces, while raising awareness of their importance as a common ground for social innovation processes to emerge. FouskoPolis provided a space for appropriation by citizens, groups and organisations that were involved in this island-wide program of events and activities. FouskoPolis proposed the injection of large scale inflatables into the historical sites. An open call was launched were the wider community presented their ideas for participation which provided opportunities for freedom of expression from artists, youth and migrants, both as viewers and participants. FouskoPolis brought together a series

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of socio-cultural topics and as a result attracted people to historic sites they had never visited before. The program of events reinforced the notion of participation as the driving force for the development of democracy and participatory democracy. The diverse range of actions attracted people of different backgrounds, interests, and socio-demographic profiles to come together and connect with each other inside and around the inflatable structures. Forty-six different activities were presented in total. All the activities were offered to the public free of charge. In collaboration with Plastique Fantastique.

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Sweet Give and Take Relationships Off the Studio Urban Dinner Baffle Zone

The Urban Spectacle public intervention series, explore human interactions within public spaces and examine the relationships between the observer, the performer and the spatial setting in an attempt to create new negotiations amongst them. Through various actions, the city is explored both as a spectator and a performer in settings where

the boundaries between public and private, physical and symbolical, start to dissolve and intervene with one another. The aim is to challenge the citizens from stereotyped ways of seeing and interacting not only with one another but also with their urban public spaces.

Sweet Give and Take Relationships, February 2016 Larnaca, Pialie Pashia, Cyprus A black box placed in a public environment with marshmallow sticks waiting to be taken and a stack of notes ready to be written.In a busy 21st century pace of life, the average worker has minimal valuable interaction with their surroundings and would usually be apprehensive on consuming something that is freely offered to them. Urban Gorillas collaborate with artist Athena Frenaritou to examine citizensâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; interactions with their urban city space and their willingness to partake in the exchange displayed. The candy was offered freely to by-passers with only a note to be left, if they wished to. The

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project proposed an experimental study of how people share by giving and taking and tested individuals interaction with the . As people may be skeptical about taking food that is free and question its credibility, it was a pleasant surprise when many stopped to take, leave a message and talk with the artist. The majority of the participants were foreigners, proposing reflections of how local Cypriot society interact and perceive their environmental exchanges. Artist: Athena Frenaritou, Video: Markos Kassinos

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Off the Studio November 2016 Public Space in Nicosia | E.KA.TE, Cyprus In a world where one can no longer distinguish fiction from reality, this installation performance looks into in the in-between state of these two notions. Artistic group Arthropod collective, craft a crush between abstraction and figuration. The group of artists engage artistically with each other, eliminating personal egos through testing multiple

cooperative procedures and techniques and produce duo and group paintings and drawings. Artists: Arthropod Collective â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Elias Zaaour, Roula Abdo, Mathieu Devavry, Jerome Dupre la Tour, Christina Christophi, Vasilis Vasiliou Digital Artist: Matthieu Tercieux, Video & Camera: Nafsika Hadjichristou & Alex

Consuming, preparing and sharing food are primary human activities. Urban Gorillas study urban public spaces and dissimulate the relationship between the performer, the observer and the spatial setting, explore alternative food interactions. A theatrical stage of the act of dining where food becomes an art form and the act of eating an engagement,

and participatory experience. The team investigates how food can create connections with people that overcome social, cultural and ethnic divisions. It proposes a re-examination of the ways we connect and share within the society as a whole. It suggests a more active engagement within public urban spaces.

Urban Dinner December 2016 Larnaca pier, Cyprus

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Baffle Zone January 2017 Nicosia-Across the Buffer Zone, Cyprus Nicosia: the last divided capital of Europe, a vibrant platform for local and international discussion and an urban case study with a visual attentiveness. Urban Gorillas in collaboration with local street artist, Twenty Three, brought to life a project displayed across the buffer zone in Nicosia. ‘Baffle Zone’ aims to encourage the public to personally engage in its current socio-political situation. Artist Twenty Three, paints a visual riddle, split in two, along the two sides of the green line, heartening the viewers to be interactive within the buffer zone, cross the checkpoints and map their city. Under crucial socio-urban connotations and in reflection of recent re-unification talks of the island, ‘Baffle Zone’ proposes an interaction across the divide where the spectator merges the two parts of the mural to introduce an amalgamated web. This project aims not only to mirror the

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current situation of Cyprus, but also to understand and recognize through experience the physical and symbolical implications of the border. The idea is to explore the existing threshold interactively, therefore, it is a call to reconsider the status of our boundaries, both internalised and externalised. In order to obtain the full mural, it will be necessary to connect the two walls in the two sides by creating a path. Once the image is complete, the visitors will be confronted with a visual maze. Artist: Street Artist Twenty Three Video: Natalie Konyalian

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‘Ayios Sozomenos – place of barley’ _ ‘Timeless Encounters’ March 2018 Ayios Sozomenos, Cyprus The CCFT - Creative Center of Fluid Territories in collaboration with the NGO ‘Urban Gorillas’ and the Architecture Department of the University of Nicosia organized the event ‘Ayios Sozomenos – place of barley’ _ ‘Timeless Encounters’. A series of creative interventions, presentations and exhibitions within the abandoned Turkish Cypriot village and the surrounding area.

national. Related events also took place within communities in the neighboring village of Potamia, and even houses in the adjacent landscape. In collaboration with Fluid Terittories and the University of Nicosia

Through the different forms of presentation, CCFT proposed to explore aspects of the nature of Ayios Sozomenos as a place that is redolent of complex histories: both personal and

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DESPO PASIA Assistant curator Despo Pasia is a museologist and museum educator. She has studied Education, Anthropology, Psychology and Museum Studies in Cyprus, the USA and the UK. She designs and implements educational programs for historic, archaeological and art museums and has taken part as research and education associate in Council of Europe and Marie-Curie funded research projects on History, Archaeology and Cultural Heritage. She is education officer at the

State Gallery of Contemporary Cypriot Art and teaches Art in public primary schools. She co-creates exhibitions and museum interventions and is currently PhD candidate at UCL- Institute of Education, University of London. Her doctoral research focuses on the experience of young people’s encounters with museum photographic archives. Her research interests include hybrid exhibitions, photography, photographic archives and museum education.

MATTHIEU TERCIEUX Video Artist Matthieu Tercieux is a digital artist who graduated from the Beaux Arts University in Mulhouse. For the last 10 years he has produced numerous projects that explore spatial transversality though digital and interactive scenographies. He often merges diverse disciplines in his digital installations like dance, film, theatre and music. Using XXX techniques, he is interested in the creation of social interactions where the visitor becomes the protagonist

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creating his/her own compositions while conversing/interacting with others . His main project is the interactive installation of Vous êtes ici ... ailleurs | You are here somewhere else that was created for the Fête des Lumières of Lyon in 2011. He has participated in numerous festivals, amongst them the Exodos festival(Sl), La Fête des Lumières at Lyon, and the La Nuit Blanche de Paris and Brussels.

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ANASTASIOS BALABANIDES Anastasios Balabanides was born in Avranlo – Georgia in 1987 but grew up in Cyprus. Grauated in 2015 from the University of Nicosia with Professional Diploma in Architecture, where he met and started working with Yiorgos

Hadjichristou Architect, and the same time he has been involved in various research projects and competitions.

Lucia Calliari master graduated in Interior Design at Politecnico di Milano in 2017 with the thesis “Temporary Rural Solutions”, a project about the organization of the emergency phases before and after a natural calamity, in particular in a rural context. Inspired by the positive impact that design and architecture can have on

communities, she is deeply interested in and curious about sustainable design and architecture of social impact, thinking about design in relation with contemporary society. She is currently working at Urban Gorillas in Cyprus.

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EVDOKIA DEMETRIOU Evdokia Demetriou graduated from the University of Nicosia in 2016 with a Professional Diploma in Architecture. After her graduation she moved to Athens for a year and worked as an intern at an architectural office. During her stay

she started her own project about the homeless people since her main interest is humane architecture. She is currently working at Yiorgos Hadjichristou Architects in Cyprus.

Teresa Ditadi is a Master student in Local Development at the University of Padua. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Communication at the same University. She had been president of the cultural Arci club ASU – Associazione Studenti Universitari in Padua for two years and she has been involved for many years in student activism and cultural events

organization, such as the Je T’Aime Festival in Padua, as project coordinator. Her interests and studies range from arts, photography, illustration to radical geography, social engagement, Urban Theory and bottom-up urban regeneration.

Marine Haim has a degree in performing arts and communication and broadcasting techniques in IMAGE specialisation. She did her study in the renown school Institut des Arts de Diffusion (IAD) in Belgium. She’s mostly working as a freelance camera operator/

photographer but she has all the skills required to create an image or a light for cinema movies, advertisings, television shows and musical clips.

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ELENA KAPAKIOTOU Elena Kapakiotou is a graduate student, with a Bachelor degree of Architecture from the faculty of engineering of the University of Cyprus. During her studies she took part in an architectural competition in Cyprus with Athos Dikaios and Associates Architects. Now

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she is doing her architectural practice at Yiorgos Hadjichristou Architects. At the moment she is participating in the development of the Cyprus Pavilion for Biennale of Venice 2018.

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JOSE JULIĂ N LUNA GARCĂ?A Jose Luna is an architecture student at the UPCT (Spain) on the last year of his studies. During the year 2016/2017 he was doing an Erasmus study at University of Patras (Greece). Currently he is working as an

intern for six months at the NGO Urban Gorillas (Cyprus). He is looking forward to do a master in crossing competences regarding architecture such as communication or emergency architecture.

STEFANOS PANTELLI Stefanos Panteli is passionate about architecture and especially loves restoring old buildings and he is a graffiti artist. Stefanos is very talented young person who developed his (dis)-ability (deaf and half blind) of not being able to communicate with words into beautiful drawings and paintings from a very young age. Stefanos is restless as he does not

conform only to what he knows as he is always seeking to learn and explore something new and exciting. His interests are skateboarding, photography, making architecture models and restoring old bicycles such as BMX and Red Star. He is holding a Bachelor (BSC) in Architecture and a Professional Diploma in Architecture and he is currently working as a trainee Architect.

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CYPRUS PAVILION TEAM: Curators: Veronika Antoniou_Architect, Urbanist, Co-Founder and Managing Director of the NGO Urban Gorillas Yiorgos Hadjichristou _Architect, Professor University of Nicosia, Board Director of the NGO Urban Gorillas Alessandra Swiny_Architect, Head of the Department of Architecture, University of Nicosia

Assistant Curator: Despo Pasia - Museologist and Museum educator Collaborator: Matthieu Tercieux - Digital artist Communications Manager: Teresa Ditadi Digital Composition Design Assistant: Jose Luna Exhibition Design Assistants: Anastasios Balabanides, Elli Balabanidou, Lucia Calliari, Evdokia Demetriou, Elena Kapakiotou, Jose Luna, Stefanos Panteli Graphic Design Assistants: Jose Luna, Lucia Calliari Proofreading: Despo Pasia, Dr.Stuart Swiny Publication Design Assistant: Lucia Calliari Technical Design Assistant: Anastasios Balabanides Video Art Assistant - Image Technician: Marine Haim Website Design: University of Nicosia_Marketing Website Support: Joanna Demetriou Handrawings: Stefanos Pantellis

Commissioner: Republic of Cyprus, Ministry of Education and Culture Assistant to the Commissioner: Angela Skordi Organizer: Cyprus Architects Association Main Partner and Main Sponsor: University of Nicosia Partner: Urban Gorillas Collaborator: Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation Sponsors: Cyprus Tourist Organisation, Nice Days, Patroclos Group of Companies, Tsentas, Idrima Universitas Supporters: Muskita, Laser Plastics, Jacovides, Hadjiantonas Winery Additional Collaborators: CCMC Bi-Communal Media Studio, MOI Worldwide Company

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The Jury for the organisation and the selection of the Curatorial Team for the Venice Architecture Bienale 2018: Petros Dymiotis - Representative of the Ministry of Education and Cutural Socratis Stratis- Curator of the Cyprus Pavilion of the Venice Bienale 2016 Chrysanthos Pissarides- Representative of the Cyprus Architects Association Paolo Alessandro Corbidge â&#x2C6;&#x2122; Representative of the Cyprus Architects Association Michalis Georgiou - Representative of the University of Nicosia Gregoris Kalnis- Representative of the Frederick University Evanthia Dova- Representative of the Neapolis University

Exhibition Design Support: George Kartsakas, Afra Omidi

University of Nicosia Student Assistants: Nursan Arpalikli Maria Doxastaki Elena Evangelidou Nikolas Ioannou Irene Sergiou Agathi Soliati

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT The realization of the concept ‘I Am Where You Are’ for the Cyprus Pavilion of the 16th Architecture Biennale of Venice 2018 was the result of the creative synergy of diverse groups and individuals developed over the course of many years. The curatorial team would like to express their thanks to the organizers, the Cyprus Architects Association, the Administrator Stalo Constantinou and President Christos Christodoulou; to the Cultural Services of the Ministry of Education and Culture, the Commissioner Petros Dymiotis, and the Assistant to Commissioner, Angela Skordi, who was also the Coordinator in Venice, for their contribution and their assistance. We would like to acknowledge the fruitful and evolving collaboration between the two main entities that supported the project - the University of Nicosia with the Department of Architecture, and the NGO, Urban Gorillas. It is because of their support that this project was able to be realized. We would like to thank all the people involved in this partnership (too many to mention here), the members of the NGO and faculty, students, and administrative staff (Nasia Leonidou, Andreas Kitsios, Voula Makridies, John Mavris, Media Zone, Computer Center), and the Rector Philippos, Pouyioutas, of the University of Nicosia. With special thanks to the CEO of the University of Nicosia, Antonis Polemitis, who supported us throughout. We would also like to highlight the significance of our collaboration with the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation Collection, which has generously given us access to their photography and postcards collections. Thanks also go to our other collaborators, CCMC Bi-Communal Media Studio and MOI Worldwide Company. A huge thankyou to the additional Sponsorship by Cyprus Tourist Organisation, Nice Days, Tsentas, Idrima Universitas and Patroclos Group of Companies and the Support by Muskita, Laser Plastics and Jacovides and Hadjiantonas Winery, who made many aspects of the project possible. With special thanks to Alexia Vassiliou and Alexandros Yiorkadjis for sharing with us their creative works in the Pavilion. Finally, the curators would like to state that the success of the project is only because of the amazing ‘I Am Where You Are’ team which includes: Assistant Curator: Despo Pasia - museologist and museum educator; Collaborator: Matthieu Tercieux - digital artist; Team Members: Elli Balabanidou, Anastasios Balabanides, Lucia Calliari, Evdokia Demetriou, Teresa Ditadi, Marine Haim, Elena Kapakiotou, Jose Luna, and Stefanos Pantelli. We apologize in advance to anyone whom we may have omitted to mention and thank them deeply. They will be included in the second edition of this publication. Last but not least, the curators would like to extend their heartfelt thanks to their families and friends (you know who you are!) for their unconditional support during this almost impossible but highly creative and life-changing adventure!

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Disclaimer: Although the editors and publisher have made every effort to ensure that the information in this book was correct to be published for the inauguration of the Venice Biennale of Architecture on the 24th May 2018, the editor and publisher do not assume and hereby disclaim any liability to any party for any disruption caused by errors or omissions, whether such errors or omissions result from negligence, accident, or any other cause. Any omissions and disruptions will be revised in the Second Edition of this publication.

The short bio and the project description was provided, in the majority of cases, by the architects and artists.

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