Periplus Workshop In Greece
Closing Date of Opportunity: April 30, 2024
Name or Organization: Periplus
Contact Email: dskourogiannis@gmail.com
Website: https://www.periplusworkshops.com/
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The 2025 residencies’ program, Periplus* Workshops, offers the unique opportunity for emerging creatives to respond to nature in two small villages of rural Greece. In Arcadia, the mythical land of pastoral utopia, in central Peloponnese or at the agricultural side of the historical Chania Region, in Crete. In a carefully structured period of intensive days, a determined group of participants use limited resources to create individual and collaborative responses, culminating in a local exhibition which is open to the wider local community and encourages an outward-facing conversation about the value of experimental creativity in context.
As well as learning from and working alongside local people, participants in Periplus Workshops foster sustainable development through skillsharing, introducing new approaches to problem solving and storytelling. At the same time, learning about the traditional forms of handicrafts and local material culture, they are looking for new ways of better preserving and innovatively including them. They take active part into giving the selected territories visibility as a living laboratory, open to new thinking capable of playing a key role in changing the social fabric and bring about new ways of doing and being.
Now two locations in rural Greece to choose from:
Reinventing placemaking in Arcadia
Revealing matter’s potential in Crete
Short-term residencies for designers, artists, architects, creatives & performing artists, working across all cultural fields.
Periplus Workshops offers selected creative and cultural students, graduates, tutors and
professionals from all over the world, the time and space to delve into a constantly open lab, where thinking through making, direct experiential access to local identity and a deeply humanising relationship with nature may develop into a new approach to immense creativity.
Gathering knowledge that may subsequently help local communities better deal with their existing and future multifaceted challenges. Powerfully reengaging them with the wealthy but frequently neglected potential of their local natural and cultural environment.
When: July-August 2025
Where: Arcadia region, Peloponnese, Greece & Chania region, Crete, Greece
Who can apply: designers, artists & creatives, architects, innovation engineers & material researchers, performing artists, culture curators
Duration of residencies:
In Arcadia : One 10 days period (1-10 July)
In Crete : Two 9 days periods (20-28 July or 30 July-7 August)
Accommodation:
In Arcadia : Shared spacious dormitories, in the hospitable Dimitsana Cultural Center, at the edge of a traditional village, with all bathrooms WC/shower.
In Crete : Shared rooms in tower type farm-house at rural village outskirts, with all bathrooms WC/shower.
Disciplines, work equipment and assistance:
Crafts / Design / Arts / Architecture / Material Innovation / Curating / Visual Arts / Media Arts / Social Innovation / Exhibition Design / Eating Experience
Studio / Workspace:
Shared indoor & outdoor studios
More info, fees and support at:
https://www.periplusworkshops.com/
Application information at: