I am immensely proud to have led such an amazing project, made possible with the guidance of invited Fulbright Specialist Prof. Dr. Charlie Hailey, who facilitated the workshop. The workshop was organized by the ISBE-Center of EMU Faculty of Architecture, emphasizing experiential learning and a constructivist approach. After 8 intense days, 31 students from EMU…
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Stories for Peace
We shared two ‘peace’ stories with the editor in chief of http://www.coastalseekers.com Amelia and her partner Josh. This inspiring couple created an online platform for travel video/ bloggers to share their stories. There are many ways for peace making; art, architecture, storytelling, permaculture, economy and many more. Our first story came from art in which…
Cyprus: The Trapped Treasures of a Divided Island
»Source: Euronews “Good morning everybody, welcome to this amazing walking and talking tour of the wonderful city of Famagusta,” says archaeologist and art historian guide Anna Marangou. As always, she and her fellow guide Orhan have words in Greek and Turkish to welcome their party. Their bi-communal efforts was one of the examples recognized by the Stelios…
Do we really belong to our places for a lifetime?
Speed of life is fast, -perhaps too fast! We are experiencing it within all aspects. We are moving. And our places are moving with us too. Places are not stable entities any more… Even speed of life is fast and everything is moving, ‘Belongingness’ still stays Abraham Maslow’s list of hierarchy of needs. As Malsow…
Inside the Brutal City
I feel like my body is covered with silver while night is falling into my heart. If you are on the surface and your love is at the bottom; that means you exaggerate yourself, and you are close to losing your love. This time it will be different. You are the only unusual thing in…
City Crashes!
AN AWAKENED CITY! The spot where your body starts and ends is the spot where this city starts and ends…. The shadow was growing… the energy was coming out from the crashes… There were car crashes… airplane crashes… city crashes! The blood and steel were unifying as they had never come together in this way…
Towards a new city
FIRST SKETCHES I was thinking about a new place for the characters of the Crash movie… These people were unsettled, displaced, incompatible people who lives outside of the circle! My first sketch was as follows: Somehow I thought that this new city must be attached to the existing one. However there was only a very…
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