Anastasis Floros is an Architect, Msc, and a PhD student in Democritus University of Thrace, Greece. He is also a student in the MArt Programme "Visual Arts and Public Space" of the University of Ioannina. His research interests focus on how digital media modify architecture and is a researcher in the EU funded project, PALIMPSEST.
Urban public spaces are an ideal field for investigation on how digital and physical can coexist ... more Urban public spaces are an ideal field for investigation on how digital and physical can coexist concur, interact, intermingle and co-generate a new hybrid and augmented reality. Digital spheres mixed with the physical, material surroundings, create association, amplification, multiplicity and diversification, alongside with the possibility of constant re-interpretation and meta-production. The city historically has been an open laboratory of meta-production and overlapping layering that sometimes cover and perhaps erase previous layers, or in other cases leave them in a pending state constructing a palimpsest that reveals the vertical time organization of the city in different, successive layers. PALIMPSEST is a program funded by GRIT INTERREG, Priority Axis 2-Integrated Environmental Management that works on the concept of the city's palimpsest and the potential that digital technologies provide to recuperate lost or forgotten layers of the city. PALIMPSEST rethinks concepts such as the Archive and the Museum that are transformed by the post-alphabetic era and redesigns their novel, fluid, participatory and interconnected version. The main aim is to revitalize the city's palimpsest by incorporating forgotten events and stories that took place in the city's urban web. This way , PALIMPSEST will activate an open and editable archive in the form of an app and an open, immaterial museum that embeds art installations and organizes an extra stratification in the city. Content for the PALIMPSEST museum is co-created by the public involved in the collection of narratives from the city's past and artists responsible for the mise en scène of the narratives in the public urban space. This interrelation of experts and public, of traditional emitters and receivers, of authors and audience for the co-creation and the common authorship of the content is an issue of great significance. Architects are re-positioned as mediators that interrelate people, stories, art and the city.
Urban public spaces are an ideal field for investigation on how digital and physical can coexist ... more Urban public spaces are an ideal field for investigation on how digital and physical can coexist concur, interact, intermingle and co-generate a new hybrid and augmented reality. Digital spheres mixed with the physical, material surroundings, create association, amplification, multiplicity and diversification, alongside with the possibility of constant re-interpretation and meta-production. The city historically has been an open laboratory of meta-production and overlapping layering that sometimes cover and perhaps erase previous layers, or in other cases leave them in a pending state constructing a palimpsest that reveals the vertical time organization of the city in different, successive layers. PALIMPSEST is a program funded by GRIT INTERREG, Priority Axis 2-Integrated Environmental Management that works on the concept of the city's palimpsest and the potential that digital technologies provide to recuperate lost or forgotten layers of the city. PALIMPSEST rethinks concepts such as the Archive and the Museum that are transformed by the post-alphabetic era and redesigns their novel, fluid, participatory and interconnected version. The main aim is to revitalize the city's palimpsest by incorporating forgotten events and stories that took place in the city's urban web. This way , PALIMPSEST will activate an open and editable archive in the form of an app and an open, immaterial museum that embeds art installations and organizes an extra stratification in the city. Content for the PALIMPSEST museum is co-created by the public involved in the collection of narratives from the city's past and artists responsible for the mise en scène of the narratives in the public urban space. This interrelation of experts and public, of traditional emitters and receivers, of authors and audience for the co-creation and the common authorship of the content is an issue of great significance. Architects are re-positioned as mediators that interrelate people, stories, art and the city.
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