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CURRICULUM VITAE
2016
Gogou Sara-Vasiliki
date of birth:12/04/1990 place of bith:Ioannina, Greece
contact: sa.gogou@gmail.com 6977154720
Education 2009-2016: University of Patras, School of Architecture 2016: Master Thesis “Appropration Practices of Infra Space: Case study of Patra’s Castle” Prof: Kouros Panos, Petridou Vasiliki 2015: Research Thesis “Urban Enclosures| The community of Ayia Ekaterini” Prof: Pappas Vasilis 2014: Technische Universität Berlin (exchange programm Erasmus)
Employment Experience 2013-2014: Private drawing lessons to canditates for architectural studies, Patras
2013: Summer Intership, visual artist Panos Kouros, Athens
Languages Greek(native language) English (very good) (Certificate of the Proficiency in English University of Michigan) German (good) C1 (Zentrale Mittelstufenprufung)
Computer Skills Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere, After Effects AutoCAD Architecture 3dsmax, Rhino(basic), Sketch Up, V-Ray Microsoft Office
Interests
Contemporary Dance, Photography, Visual Arts, Graphic Design
01| APPROPRIATION PRACTICES OF INFRA SPACE : Case study of Patra’s Castle MASTER THESIS 2016
02| REDEVELOPMENT OF SEASIDE AREA IN THE CITY OF MESSOLONGHI
ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN STUDIO 2013
03| RESIDENTIAL SCENARIOS IN NAXOS ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN STUDIO 2013
04| URBAN ENCLOSURES| The community of Ayia Ekaterini
RESEARCH THESIS 2015
05| Counter-monument for the informal refugee camp in Patras
PUBLIC ART WORK 2015
By means of our intervention, we intend to subvert the cohesion of linear narratives of the public, lived space surrounding the castle and create fields of memory and public sphere’s practices. We engage ourselves, therefore, in an effort to explore the use of spatial tools, in order to create the potential emergence of public moments (not in their temporal sense but as conducive development fields), triggering anew the question of who has the right to transform space, as well as the traces and materiality of common experience and collective memory. In the hidden area between the Castle and Trikaki’s houses –initially illegal constructions which had to be demolished according to 1997’s urban planning-, unfolds a history of transitions from private to public, from that which is bright and supervised to the hidden, from high to low, from the touristic and spectacular image of the Castle to its anti-spectacular subversion which, nonetheless, doesn’t compete its current image.
We are turning the lights down in order to reduce control and facilitate the encounter of different subjects, weather «fringe» or not, making use of the current ambiguities as receptors of our mini-interventions. We, thus, create a backdrop of secret theatricality that engages a passerby’s movement, who has the desire to carve, interact or hide, to these occupational locus. Using this intermediate, vague space right next to the compact wall limit, we attempt to create receptors of another memory kind, the micro-history of conflicts and oppositions to the concrete, enclosed, official memory.
MASTER THESIS 2016_collaboraator:Chrysoula Dimitra_prof: Kouros Panos,Petridou Vasiliki
APPROPRIACION PRACTICES OF INFRA SPACE: case study of Patra’s Castle
Arendt writes, «unlike desires, imagination, or metaphysics, politics does not exist as a human essence but only happens outside of man. Man is apolitical. Politics arises between men, and so quite outside man. There is no real political substance. Politics arises in what lies between men and it is established as a relationship. The political occurs in the decision of how to articulate the relationship, the infra space, the space in between. The space in between is a constituent aspect of the concept of form, found in the contraposition of parts. As there is no way to think the political within man himself, there is also no way to think the space in between in itself. The space in between can only materialize as a space of confrontation between parts. Its existence can only be decided by the parts that form its edges. Aureli Pier Vittorio, 2011, “Τhe possibility of an absolute architecture”, MIT Press , Cambridge Massachusetts, London, England
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«The Public is that «bond of division» which correlates through conflict. Public arises only when a conflict starts expressing itself through arguments and, therefore, is reflected on these arguments, on which contradictory thesis are opposed to one another and interact with this very way. If we look at things closer though, we shall see that public is not the «product» of this conflict but the conflict itself.» Marchart Oliver, «Politics and art practices for the aesthetic of public sphere» mentioned in Staurakakis Yannis, Stafylakis Kostis, 2008, «Politics in art»
A route is created that starts from the city’s boundaries and crosses almost the entire seaside area. Shaping seaside walking and bicycle paths, the area is accessible to residents, walkers, cyclists, researchers ,who are eager to visit the city.
A key point of our intervention is the natural history museum, where will be hosted temporary and permanent exhibitions for the lagoon and the primary production of the area. The museum will include activities for both residents and visitors, such as dock floating tour (route in the water), library / research center, conference center, restaurant ( directly linked to the fish market), shops with local products. Temporary residences (resting places) for cyclists and walkers are placed next to the museum. Following there are watchtowers, which of them are temporary residences for researchers and others are stopping points, open to the public for observation and study.
2013_collaboratorε: Selekou Katerina_Prof: Panetsos G.
The lagoon and the nature reserve of the city of Messolonghi compose important elements for the landscape morphology and the city’s economy. In an attempt to enhance the above elements we design the seafront in order to achieve the connection with the city-centre.
ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN STUDIO
REDEVELOPMENT OF SEASIDE AREA IN THE CITY OF MESSOLONGHI
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temporary residences
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An important element for economic development of Naxos, apart from tourism, is primary production. We attempt to design different scenarios of residences which will be directly linked to workshops with local products. Taking into account the distinct topography, four walls become the path on which different functions are organised inside the terrain. The two central blocks host different types of permanent residences. Beside of them one encounters the workshops. The fourth wall will be a public passage that allows the walker to ascend the castle of Naxos.
On the opposite axis, temporary residences with different typology are placed. In front of them, we design an open public space with cultivations and a flea market at the ent
ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN STUDIO 2013_collaborator: Fakitsa Areti_Prof: Spanomaridis Ath.
RESIDENTIAL SCENARIOS IN NAXOS
permanent residence
section of workshops
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temporary residence
permanent residence
This research is a case study of Ayia Ekaterini, a community in Patra which differs substantially in comparison to the development of the rest of the city.
Our aim is to theoretically identify this differentiation by examining the city and its ongoing process of change in relation to each mode of production, as well as the arising class conflict reflected in the area.
The city is constantly transformed due to changes in production, «citycountryside» relations, class relations and relations of property. At first, we shall analyze these relations by means of the transition from pre-capitalist to capitalist modes of production, from laissez-faire politics to urban biopolitics. According to Lefebvre1, the city represents a productive force· the crucible where the sum of productive forces is being processed and, also, the space where contradictions between production relations and productive forces are being manifested. Urban space is regulated and controlled, goes from one group to another, following its demands, ethics, aesthetics, i.e. its ideology.
1 Lefebvre, Henry, Marxist thought and the city,
RESEARCH THESIS 2015_collaborator:Selekou KAterina_Prof:Pappas V.
URBAN ENCLOSURES|The community of Ayia Ekaterini
This theoretical analysis is followed by an overview of the concept of enclosure on the basis that its signification transcends the one-dimensional material aspect. In an attempt to identify the movement of capital not only in terms of production but also as a relationship, we explore the various aspects in which it is manifested and focus on how it is utilised by the capital as a process in order to occupy new spheres of life by re-regulating production and social relations. We understand the diffusion of these enclosures to the urban space and planning as a means of restricting human and social behaviour according to figures and standards which goes hand in hand with the accumulation process and the drive for profit.1
This theoretical analysis is followed by an overview of the concept of enclosure on the basis that its signification transcends the one-dimensional material aspect. In an attempt to identify the movement of capital not only in terms of production but also as a relationship, we explore the various aspects in which it is manifested and focus on how it is utilised by the capital as a process in order to occupy new spheres of life by re-regulating production and social relations.
In the following chapters, we provide a historical background of the city of Patras and the community of Ayia Ekaterini followed by a description of its contemporary every-day life, based on references and our own field research. Finally, we attempt to connect and correlate our theoretical sources with our findings and to examine this community as an urban enclosure citing relevant examples.
1 Massimo De Angelis, Common, enclosures and crisis
Walking along the perimeter of the plot where the improvised refugee camp of Evrota street was situated, a vast standstill is met. Sound-wise the landscape is characterized by silence. Silence of a powerful subject. The neighborhood which spans over the plot had a direct relation with the camp of Afghans who dwelled there for twelve years and finally got evicted in June 2010. We choose to record everyday sounds of the neighborhood, the ones we are used to and do not hear. Sounds of speeches, electrical appliances, dogs that bark at anyone who approaches, sounds of entering and exiting, garage doors. Then we amplify those sounds excessively and broadcast them through loudspeakers that are positioned at selected points of the neighborhood for a one-week period.
Daily life is disturbed without the source of the disturbance being clear. Sound and pause are the means of this temporary sound installation. Exclusion becomes perceivable from the amplification of sounds that the neighborhood itself produces.
PUBLIC ART WORK 2015 _collaborator: Chrysoula Dimitra_Prof: KOuros P.
COUNTER-MONUMENT FOR THE INFORMAL REFUGEE CAMP IN PATRAS