Dimitra doesn’t want to move: aging-in-place, localized communities and the adaptive re-use of traditional building typologies in villages in Northern Greece

Dimitra doesn’t want to move the symposium on February 14, 2023

The symposium: Dimitra doesn’t want to move: aging-in-place, localized communities and the adaptive re-use of traditional building typologies in villages in Northern Greece will be on February 14th, 2023, and involves an interdisciplinary group of scholars from Canada, the US, Greece, Sweden, and England, spanning disciplines of architecture, architectural history and theory, ethics, sociology, gender studies, and journalism. The symposium is with a design studio being taught collaboratively between three universities. The State University of New York at Buffalo, USA, Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada, and the University of Ioannina, Greece. Furthermore, The event will be a Zoom webinar and is free and open to the public.

Moreover, The symposium provides a discursive foundation for a studio about Dimitra. Scholars will present on themes such as the sociology of aging, institutional long-term care facilities in a US context, the origin of the polykatoikia and antiparochi, gendered relationships to the polykatoikia interior, caretaking and gender, and architecture in relationship to communities, including a specific look at the self-built housing project Walter’s Way and Segal Close designed by Walter Segal.

Symposium presenters include:

Myrto Dagkouli-Kyriakoglou, Linköping University, Sweden
Panos Dragonas, University of Patras, Greece
Laura Funk, University of Manitoba, Canada
Alice Grahame, journalist, England; author of Walters Way and Segal Close and Walter Segal: Selfbuilt Architect
Willa Granger, Florida Atlantic University, USA
Konstantinos Pantazis, EPFL, Switzerland; Point Supreme Architects, Greece
Ioanna Theocharopoulou, Cornell University, USA; author of Builders, Housewives and the Construction of Modern Athens

Panel discussions will be moderated by Georg Rafailidis (State University of New York, USA; DAVIDSON RAFAILIDIS) and Nikos Patsavos (University of Ioannina, Greece).

To register please email dimitra.symposium@torontomu.ca or use the QR code on the poster.

Moreover, The symposium is possible through a Global Research Innovation Grant from Toronto Metropolitan University.

Download the information related to this event here.