Paramithias & Salaminos in Metaxourgio, Athens
Opening Night: May 17, 2025
20:30 PM — 00:00 PM

PULSE activates the Tower of Paramithias, a forgotten neoclassical building in Metaxourgio. Artist Michela Pelusio transforms the decaying building into a dynamic participant. The building’s cracked walls and shadowed spaces now pulse with light and sound, becoming a canvas for collective experience. Artists and visitors engage in a sensory dialogue, amplifying the space’s hidden stories. Pulse turns the building into a living entity, responsive and resonant.

This act resists oblivion. Pulse reclaims the building as a site of possibility, inviting us to feel its rhythm and envision its future. It asks: How does a place speak? How do we answer?

Michela Pelusio fuses immersive art with spatial activation of the city. It calls us to co- create, collaborate, experience, connect, and reimagine. Pulse features students from Studio 11 of the School of Fine Arts, alongside invited artists.

Join us for a sensory dialogue between past and present, where the home itself becomes a collaborator in an act of cultural reclamation. More than a performance, this is a call to listen, to honor, and to reimagine Communitism space in the vibrant heart of Athens.

Free Entry | Limited Capacity

Pulse artists: Michela Pelusio / Dasychira / Tzini Sakaloglou / Ara XD / Niko Rupllem / Angie Malliara aka Antzjie / Tatiana Choremi / Markos Kampourakis aka Mango / Eleni Karacosta-Ellusion / Alexandra Apsokardou

⚠️ WARNING: FLASHING LIGHTS

PULSE was conceived by Michela Pelusio in the framework of HeriScope Project: Unlocking the city’s imaginary. Heriscope is implemented with the support of Helidoni Foundation in the framework of “Points of Support”, a co-funded programme by 10 public benefit foundations.

Pulse was created in collaboration with the participatory design research experiment, conducted as part of the PhD project ‘Maintaining Open Spaces for Free-Flowing Imagination’ by Natassa Dourida at ETH Zurich, within the framework of Marie Curie project Reworlding.

Powered by Mamouna Climbing Spot

Flower installations kindly offered by Rizom studio

(Ελληνική εκδοχή κειμένου παρακάτω)

After two years away, Communitism is returning to where it all began.

We’re reactivating Metaxourgeio with a weekend of participatory art, collective movement, and reconnection — our first public return in the neighborhood since the closure of our cultural center in 2023. On Saturday 17 May and Sunday 18 May, we take to the streets, re-enter buildings, and gather once again in the neighborhood that shaped us.

Saturday, 17 May presents Heriscope: Unlocking the City’s Imaginary. Featuring three art projects that invite artists and participants to co-create and reimagine Communitism space in the vibrant heart of Athens!

🔸 Urban Groves — A live role-playing game by the LARP Community Cerebral, activates our newly accessible building on Leonidou Street. Through storytelling and collaboration, participants help plant the first seeds of community around this emerging space.

Urban groves game will be ongoing during 15.00–20.00

Location: Leonidou 89, Metaxourgheio

🔸 Echoes of Emptiness: Breathing Life into Abandoned Spaces with Augmented Reality Sculptures — Discover digital sculptures layered onto forgotten city surfaces through a VR tour that creates poetic bridges between past absence and future potential.

By Karl Heinz Jeron

Location: Dimosio Sima, Leonidou & Plantation at 17.30

🔸 Pulse — An immersive, participatory performance inside the Tower of Paramithias. Organised by Michela Pelusion, Pulse transforms the decaying neoclassical building into a dynamic participant. Through flickering light, resonant sound, and durational performances, its cracked walls awaken. Pulse is an emergent, site-responsive act of co-creation, where decay becomes dialogue.

Artists Michela Pelusio, Angel Tromokratisch, Tzini Sakaloglou, Ara XD, Dasychira, Angie Malliara aka Antzjie and students from ASFA Studio 11.

Location: Salaminos 55, sunset to midnight

Sunday 18 May closes with the screening of THE Prototype, our documentary capturing the story of Communitism in Kerameikou 28 a story that happened once in Athens, one that we will never forget. Join us at the Greek Film Archive at 18:00, for a cinematic reflection on what we built together and how we carry it forward.

Documentary Screening: Sunday 18 May, 18:00, Greek Film Archive, Iera Odos 48

After the documentary we will continue with drinks at our new space at Leonidou 89

In a city increasingly shaped by displacement and speculation, this weekend is our collective gesture of reclaiming space — not only as territory, but as shared imagination.

Join us because the imaginary belongs to all of us. Because Metaxourgeio still breathes.

Ελληνικά

We are back!

Το Communitism επιστρέφει στο Μεταξουργείο!
17 & 18 Μαΐου 2025

Μετά από δύο χρόνια απουσίας, το Communitism επιστρέφει εκεί που όλα ξεκίνησαν.

Στο Μεταξουργείο λοιπόν ξανά, με ένα Σαββατοκύριακο συμμετοχικής τέχνης, συλλογικής κίνησης και επανασύνδεσης — η πρώτη μας δημόσια επιστροφή στη γειτονιά από το κλείσιμο του πολιτισμικού μας κέντρου το 2023. Το Σάββατο 17 Μαΐου και την Κυριακή 18 Μαΐου, καταλαμβάνουμε τους δρόμους, ανοίγουμε κτίρια και ξανασυναντιόμαστε στην γειτονιά που μας διαμόρφωσε.

Το Σάββατο, 17 Μαΐου, παρουσιάζεται το Heriscope: Ξεκλειδώνοντας το Φαντασιακό της Πόλης. Τρία καλλιτεχνικά έργα που καλούν καλλιτέχνες και συμμετέχοντες να συνδημιουργήσουν και να ανακατασκευάσουν το χώρο του Communitism στην καρδιά της Αθήνας.

🔸 Urban Groves — Ένα ζωντανό παιχνίδι ρόλων από την κοινότητα LARP Cerebral, που ενεργοποιεί το καινούργιο μας, αρτι παραχωρηθέν κτίριο στην οδό Λεωνίδου. Μέσα από την αφήγηση και τη συνεργασία, οι συμμετέχοντες φυτεύουν τους πρώτους σπόρους της κοινότητας γύρω από αυτόν τον αναδυόμενο χώρο.
Το παιχνίδι Urban Groves θα είναι σε εξέλιξη από τις 15:00 έως τις 20:00
Τοποθεσία: Λεωνίδου 89, Μεταξουργείο

🔸 Echoes of Emptiness: Φέρνοντας Ζωή σε Εγκαταλελειμμένους Χώρους με Γλυπτά Επαυξημένης Πραγματικότητας — Από τον Karl Heinz Jeron.

Ανακαλύψτε ψηφιακά γλυπτά που τοποθετούνται πάνω σε ξεχασμένες επιφάνειες της πόλης μέσω μιας περιοδείας VR που δημιουργεί ποιητικές γέφυρες ανάμεσα στην παρελθούσα απουσία και το μελλοντικό δυναμικό.

Τοποθεσία: Δημόσιο Σήμα, Λεωνίδου & Πλατεία, στις 17:30

🔸 Pulse — από την Michela Pelusio

Μια συμμετοχική, βιωματική παράσταση μέσα στον Πύργο της Παραμυθίας. Tο Pulse μετατρέπει το φθίνον νεοκλασικό κτίριο σε έναν δυναμικό συμμετέχοντα. Μέσα από παλλόμενο φως, ηχητικές αντηχήσεις και παραστάσεις διάρκειας, οι ραγισμένοι τοίχοι ξυπνούν. Το Pulse είναι μια αναδυόμενη, τοποθεσιακά ευαίσθητη πράξη συνδημιουργίας, όπου η αποσύνθεση γίνεται διάλογος.

Καλλιτέχνες: Michela Pelusio, Angel Tromokratisch, Tzini Sakaloglou, Ara XD, Dasychira, Angie Malliara aka Antzjie και φοιτητές από το Studio 11 της ΑΣΚΤ.
Τοποθεσία: Σαλαμίνος 55, από το ηλιοβασίλεμα μέχρι τα μεσάνυχτα

Η Κυριακή 18 Μαΐου κλείνει με την προβολή του Ντοκιμαντέρ “THE Prototype”, που αποτυπώνει την ιστορία του Communitism στην Κεραμεικό 28, μια ιστορία που συνέβη κάποτε στην Αθήνα και δεν θα ξεχάσουμε ποτέ. Σας περιμένουμε στην Ταινιοθήκη για να ζήσουμε ξανά για ό,τι χτίσαμε μαζί και πώς το προχωράμε μπροστά. Μετά την προβολή θα υπάρξει Q&A session.
Προβολή Ντοκιμαντέρ: Κυριακή 18 Μαΐου, 18:00, Ταινιοθήκη της Ελλάδας, Ιερά Οδός 48

Σε μια πόλη που διαμορφώνεται ολοένα και περισσότερο από τη μετανάστευση και την κερδοσκοπία, αυτό το Σαββατοκύριακο είναι η συλλογική μας χειρονομία για την ανακατάληψη του χώρου — όχι μόνο ως έδαφος, αλλά και ως κοινή φαντασία.

Ελάτε μαζί μας γιατί η φαντασία ανήκει σε όλους μας.

Γιατί το Μεταξουργείο εξακολουθεί να αναπνέει.

Pure Breeze refers to a singular Athenian day in July 2021. Around a table adorned with 25 handmade fans, in a neoclassical building charged with memory and meaning, five photographers, fourteen models, and the tingling invitation of fabric came together. Each meeting was spontaneous and reciprocal — above the table, a gesture unfolded that led to intimate, honest, and unfiltered sessions in the quiet corners of Kerameikou 28, then the operational base of Communitism.

DiDa practiced her hand fan craft in the Butterflies & Camels workshop, where, together with Angel Torticollis, she nurtured a community around repurposing fabric. Pure Breeze began as a practical need to document her work: hand fans created not only for function, but as artistic objects — carriers of energy, mood, and selfhood. She invited five photographers and fourteen models — all friends from the world of Communitism — to experience the fans as personal expressions. What unfolded was a playful, artful day of experimentation. The heat of the summer, the kindness of everyone involved, and the quiet safety of the empty building allowed creativity to flow — like a pure breeze.

Tribute to a Fleeting Time

The building at Kerameikou 28 sheltered Communitism and Athens’ experimental scene for six years. As this vibrant community poured care into the space, a sense of belonging grew among its members. Most of those who participated in Pure Breeze had never met before that day. And yet, trust formed easily in an intimate atmosphere where the hand fans became extensions of identity. With only a small piece of fabric between themselves and the world, the models explored who they are when most vulnerable.

The space itself — a beautiful, fading neoclassical building that housed Communitism’s cultural center — played a quiet but vital role. Usually buzzing with activity, it was silent that day in July, offering the privacy needed for everyone to express freely.

Each photographer brought a unique eye, a different rhythm, a distinct way of witnessing. What unites the images is the presence of a community that once breathed life into an abandoned cultural heritage site in Metaxourgeio.

But everything flows, and Communitism had to move on.

Two years later, we are proud to see that our gesture inspired Athenian artists to open new spaces, courageously claiming ground for expression. One such initiative is atelier délos, a space run by photographer Olga Stefatou. Dedicated to photography, it fosters creativity and builds community — offering a third space in Nea Smirni for Athenian photographers and beyond.

This exhibition is a love letter to that fleeting day.
We invite you to wander through these rooms again, to feel the breeze, and to reflect on how much can be expressed with so little.

Atelier délos: Evaggelikis Sholis 5, 17122 Nea Smirni

Opening: 08/05: 6.00 p.m.

The exhibition will be open :

Thursdays & Fridays : 8–9/05 & 15–16/05 6.00 -9.00 p.m.,

Saturdays & Sundays 10–11 & 17–18/05 6.00–10.00 p.m.

On Sunday 11/05 Dida will hold a “Make your own fan” workshop.

Book your place at hello@communitism.space

Closure: Thursday 22/05: 6. p.m.

Credits
Location of shoot: Kerameikou 28, former Communitism cultural center
Date of Original Shoot: 21 July 2021

Photoshoot Concept: Konstantina Psomadaki

Concept by: Natassa Dourida

Curation: Olga Stefatou, Susana Kalemou, Natassa Dourida

Photographers: Olga Stefatou, Marilena Gkirlemi, Susana Kalemou, Dimitra Papageorgiou, Maria Paraschidou

Models: Panos Balomenos, Paivi Balomenou, Efrosini Tsiritaki, Nadia Ibra Ali, Mouh Hascour, Anne Devillers, Svitlana Paramonova, Natassa Dourida, Angel Torticollis, Dimitra Papageorgiou, Stelios Douridas, Dimitris Gritsas, Vaso Anagnostopoulou, Grigoria Vryttia

Make up artist : Nikoleta Arvanitidou

Special Thanks to Mary Dourida for assisting the production

Pure Breeze: a tribute to a summer day

Το Pure Breeze αναφέρεται σε μια μοναδική αθηναϊκή ημέρα, τον Ιούλιο του 2021. Γύρω από ένα τραπέζι με 25 χειροποίητες βεντάλιες, σε ένα νεοκλασικό κτίριο φορτισμένο με μνήμη και σημασία, συναντήθηκαν πέντε φωτογράφοι, δεκατέσσερα μοντέλα και η λεπτή πρόκληση του υφάσματος. Κάθε συνάντηση ήταν αυθόρμητη και αμοιβαία — πάνω από το τραπέζι γεννήθηκε μια χειρονομία που οδήγησε σε οικείες, ειλικρινείς και αφιλτράριστες συζεύξεις, στις ήσυχες γωνιές της Κεραμεικού 28, τότε έδρα του Communitism.

Η DiDa συνήθιζε να εξασκεί την τέχνη της βεντάλιας στο εργαστήριο Butterflies & Camels, όπου, μαζί με τον Άγγελο Τορτικώλλη, καλλιεργούσαν μια κοινότητα γύρω από την επανάχρηση υφασμάτων. Το Pure Breeze ξεκίνησε από την πρακτική ανάγκη να καταγράψει το έργο της: βεντάλιες φτιαγμένες όχι μόνο για λειτουργικότητα, αλλά ως καλλιτεχνικά αντικείμενα — φορείς ενέργειας, διάθεσης και ταυτότητας. Προσκάλεσε πέντε φωτογράφους και δεκατέσσερα μοντέλα, φίλες και φίλους από τον κόσμο του Communitism, να βιώσουν τις βεντάλιες ως εκφράσεις του εαυτού τους. Αυτό που προέκυψε ήταν μια παιχνιδιάρικη, δημιουργική ημέρα πειραματισμού. Η ζέστη του καλοκαιριού, η αυθεντική καλοσύνη όσων συμμετείχαν και η σιγουριά που παρείχε το άδειο κτίριο, επέτρεψαν στη δημιουργικότητα να ρεύσει — σαν ένα καθαρό αεράκι.

Αφιέρωμα σε μια φευγαλέα στιγμή

Το κτίριο της Κεραμεικού 28 φιλοξένησε το Communitism και την πειραματική σκηνή της Αθήνας για έξι χρόνια. Καθώς αυτή η ζωντανή κοινότητα φρόντιζε τον χώρο, αναπτύχθηκε ένα αίσθημα του ανήκειν μεταξύ των μελών της. Οι περισσότερες από όσες συμμετείχαν στο Pure Breeze δεν είχαν ξανασυναντηθεί πριν από εκείνη την ημέρα. Κι όμως, ήταν εύκολο να εμπιστευτούν η μία την άλλη σε μια τόσο προσωπική εμπειρία, όπου οι βεντάλιες έγιναν προεκτάσεις της ταυτότητάς τους. Με μόνο ένα κομμάτι ύφασμα ανάμεσα στα σώματά τους και τον κόσμο, τα μοντέλα εξερεύνησαν ποια είναι όταν είναι πιο ευάλωτα.

Ο ίδιος ο χώρος — ένα όμορφο, ξεθωριασμένο νεοκλασικό κτίριο που φιλοξενούσε το πολιτιστικό κέντρο του Communitism — είχε τον δικό του ρόλο. Συνήθως γεμάτο ζωή, εκείνη την ημέρα του Ιουλίου ήταν σιωπηλό, προσφέροντας την ιδιωτικότητα που χρειαζόταν για να εκφραστεί η καθεμία ελεύθερα.

Κάθε φωτογράφος έφερε ένα διαφορετικό βλέμμα, έναν δικό της ρυθμό, έναν ξεχωριστό τρόπο παρατήρησης. Αυτό που ενώνει τις εικόνες είναι η παρουσία μιας κοινότητας που κάποτε έδωσε ζωή σε ένα εγκαταλελειμμένο κτίριο πολιτιστικής κληρονομιάς στο Μεταξουργείο.

Όμως τα πάντα ρέουν, και το Communitism χρειάστηκε να προχωρήσει.

Δύο χρόνια μετά, είμαστε περήφανες που βλέπουμε πως αυτή η χειρονομία ενέπνευσε καλλιτέχνιδες της Αθήνας να ανοίξουν νέους χώρους, διεκδικώντας με θάρρος τόπο για την έκφρασή τους. Ένας τέτοιος χώρος είναι το atelier délos, που διαχειρίζεται η φωτογράφος Όλγα Στεφάτου. Ένας χώρος αφιερωμένος στη φωτογραφία, με σκοπό να αναδείξει τη δημιουργικότητα και να χτίσει κοινότητα — μια πρόταση για έναν “τρίτο χώρο” στη Νέα Σμύρνη, για φωτογράφους της Αθήνας και όχι μόνο.

Αυτή η έκθεση είναι ένα ερωτικό γράμμα σε εκείνη τη φευγαλέα ημέρα.
Σας προσκαλούμε να περιπλανηθείτε ξανά σε αυτά τα δωμάτια, να νιώσετε το αεράκι, και να συλλογιστείτε πόσα μπορούν να ειπωθούν με τόσο λίγα.

Η έκθεση είναι μέρος της σειράς Communitim pop-ups, μέσω της οποίας οι χώροι που ανήκουν στο δίκτυο του Communitism παρέχουν χώρο στους καλλιτέχνες του.

📍 Atelier délos: Ευαγγελικής Σχολής 5, 17122 Νέα Σμύρνη
🗓 Εγκαίνια: 08/05, 6:00 μ.μ.
📅 Η έκθεση θα είναι ανοιχτή:
Πέμπτες & Παρασκευές: 8–9/05 & 15–16/05 | 6:00–9:00 μ.μ.
Σάββατα & Κυριακές: 10–11 & 17–18/05 | 6:00–10:00 μ.μ.

🎨 Κυριακή 11/05: Η Dida θα πραγματοποιήσει εργαστήριο “Φτιάξε τη δική σου βεντάλια”
📧 Κράτηση θέσης: hello@communitism.space

🔚 Λήξη: Πέμπτη 22/05, 6:00 μ.μ.

Συντελεστές

Τοποθεσία φωτογράφισης: Κεραμεικού 28, πρώην πολιτιστικό κέντρο του Communitism
Ημερομηνία φωτογράφισης: 21 Ιουλίου 2021
Σύλληψη φωτογραφικού concept: Κωνσταντίνα Ψωμαδάκη
Ιδέα: Νατάσσα Δουρίδα

Επιμέλεια έκθεσης: Όλγα Στεφάτου, Σουζάνα Καλέμου, Νατάσσα Δουρίδα

Φωτογράφοι: Όλγα Στεφάτου, Μαριλένα Γκιρλέμη, Σουζάνα Κάλεμου, Δήμητρα Παπαγεωργίου, Μαρία Παρασχίδου

Μοντέλα: Πάνος Μπαλωμένος, Πάιβι Μπαλωμένου, Ευφροσύνη Τσιριτάκη, Νάντια Ιμπρα Αλι, Μο Χάσκοουρ, Αν Ντεβιγιέρ, Σβιτλάνα Παραμόνοβα, Νατάσσα Δουρίδα, Άγγελος Τορτικώλλης, Δήμητρα Παπαγεωργίου, Στέλιος Δουρίδας, Δημήτρης Γκρίτσας, Βάσω Αναγνωστοπούλου, Γρηγορία Βρυττιά

Μακιγιάζ: Νικολέτα Αρβανιτίδου

Ευχαριστίες: Στη Μαίρη Δουρίδα για την υποστήριξη της παραγωγής

Homelessness and lack of access to affordable housing, as well as lack of shared spaces that can facilitate social synergies
and support the development of communities and cooperative activities are challenges central to our work. As such, we need to develop long-term cross-border cooperation and partnerships with experienced
organisations and networks that can support the professional development of our staff, improve our ability to sustainably
finance and develop cooperative projects, and can further assist us to share this knowledge and to support active
communities and groups that develop cooperative spaces and co-housing projects.

For this purpose, we developed the project with the title “Empowering communities of Greece II — Knowledge
on sustainable practices of commoning in housing and
use of space” which we call Co-Housing Greece . Supported by Erasmus+, this project supported Communitism to educate its members throughout 2023 on the topic, and through this process develop the strategic plan that will enable us to achieve our goals in the future.

For this cause we partnered with the association Inwole e.V. which has founded the collective housing project Projektthaus Potsdam. Both the association and the Projekthaus hold an experience of more than 20 years in matters of cooperative housing and use of space; through the collaboration we hold since 2019, we are in a continuous exchange of knowledge and practices that enable Communitism to proceed with the planning of the ambitious endeavour.

Through Co-housing Greece, we were able to invite in Athens two experts in the field of Collective ownership, Petar Atanackovic of the Mietheuser Syndikat and Verena Lenna of Community Landtrust Brussels, for a masterclass in collective housing. The workshop took place in April of 2023, at the sociocultural center that Communitism was operating at the time. The process initiated with presentations on the projects and an open discussion with the wider audience interested in the topic. It then proceeded into a week long workshop, which was open to the community of members of the association.

More than 45 persons participated in this process, which we consider very useful for our future steps. Facing the urgency of having to evacuate the building of Kerameikou 28 by June of 2023, the community came together to envision a future that can affect Athens in a positive manner, contrary to the stream of touristification that is transforming it in the current period. The result was a strategic outline for the next two years, elevated knowledge on the topic specified to the Athenian conditions, and an oprtimistic feeling about the challenge that arose.

The project also involved that six members of our association travelled to the Projekthaus to get training on the topic. the participants travelled to Potsdam in three flows: two members engaged in 10 days of job shadowing and four more participated in training courses. The courses took place in December of 2023 and focused on a detailing the strategic outline we had created in April. For six days, our participants engaged in this applied exercise, which produced public texts, the organisational planning and the timeline of the association for the next 2 years.

We consider that our project Empowering Communities of Greece II to be one of the most successful that we have ever held, as it responded to the need of hacking the existing frameworks in Greece in a manner that will allow communities to be more resilient in the future. We believe that it constitutes an ideal example of a “learning by doing” process, which offered multidimensional results to the community.

• ”Empowering communities of Greece II — Knowledge
  on sustainable practices of commoning in housing and use of space” was a project funded by the European Union within the framework of Erasmus+

We were invited to the project by Inwole e.v., a German association active in the field of empowerment towards collective housing practices, with whom Communitism holds a long standing collaboration. Along with us, 6 more organisations from other European countries responded to the invitation, creating a paneuropean consortium eager to explore new methods of collaboration. The notions of transnationalism and cross-disciplinarity inspired us all into engaging with this project, that was aspiring to develop a new community .

Following this idea, we formed a chain of organisations with complimentary practices:

While Project House Potsdam — Inwole offers an experience of 25 years in collective housing solutions , Italia che Cambia offers a media platform connecting all the grassroots projects and initiatives of Italy and ImWandel Berlin offers a platform for sustainability within the grassroots initiatives. Communitism brings in a practice of an experimental model for alternative professionalism and economy in the Athenian context and the Group for Conceptual politics promotes political action , motivating citizens in the fields of self-governance and peace politics in Serbia. Open Cultural Center integrates displaced people in the local society of Barcelona while Ethos, both in Greece and Germany has been devotedly promoting social integration, sustainable development and social entrepreneurship.

The project foresaw mobilities for all the organisations to visit each other, and observe in depth their activities, with the aim of promoting the exchange, ignite inspirations and establish the ground for new collaborations.From June of 2020 until October 2021, the project was active, yet we were prevented by the pandemic from organising the site visits. Instead, we took the opportunity to present to each other our organisations, our values and principles and our practices, through online meetings. In this way, we were all familiar with the organisations before visiting, and this allowed us to focus on important details when on site.

We were able to hold our kick-off meeting in October 2021 in Berlin, visiting ImWandel Berlin, which introduced us to their method of coordinating grassroot movements towards methods of sustainable development. Our next meeting was held in Athens, when the rest of the organisations visited Communitism in the sociocultural centre it was then operating, and followed our spiralling methodology of generating alternative systems by practising community and arts. Then, Italia che Cambia introduced us to their activities and goals in Mantova in May 2022, visiting the cultural centre M84 which on its own offers an important story of change. The Group for Conceptual Politics introduced us to their devoted work on activating citizens in the environment of Novi Sad and Serbia in general, in September of 2022, and in November of 2022, the Open Cultural centre invited us to Barcelona, guiding us through their activities of supporting, educating and promoting the social integration of minor and young refugees. In March 2023, Ethos Thessaloniki introduced us to their field work in establishing a zero waste food chain, that supports people in need, activates citizens with social sensitivities and educates the local community. Lastly, we altogether organised a road trip in June 2023, that started from Potsdam and ended in Copenhagen. Specifically, we visited Projecthaus Potsdam, where Inwole introduced us to their 25 year long practice in collective housing, while we participated in their annual event that presents to the general public the Projecthaus’ work and in Copenhagen we were introduced by Ethos ngo to their methodology of establishing social entrepreneurship models that support sustainable development in various places of the world.

In each of these visits, organisations was able to invite an average of two of their members. This allowed for several participants to profit from this opportunity to travel and gain insights and new perspectives. Each trip consisted of the solid layer of the actual presentations of the work that was being performed locally, but also the soft layers of insightful conversations between the participants, exchanging on the cultural specificities of each location- an exchange that allowed for ideas and new possible solutions to emerge. Together, we established the first self-organization elements, such as creating our logo and creating moments of collective decision making on the evolution of the project.

Another important element of this project was the almost transcendental influence that human relationships can bring, as the very special people that participated, gradually bonded into a community. The community that has emerged, consists of artists, activists and practitioners who are very devoted to their cause, while some of them belong to marginalised social groups, such as being queer, refugees or on the spectrum of autism. As this very diverse group travelled throughout Europe, they all enriched their knowledge and got empowered to continue their work locally while recognizing within the community some new allies.

The mobility part of the project wrapped up in June of 2023 but the project itself ends officially in October of 2023. Although we have fulfilled our official obligations towards the Erasmus+ office , we still take the time to meet online and plan our next steps. Our community aspires to continue this journey, with more in-depth collaborations, that can take our practices to the next level. As we have established a ground of common understandingby familiarizing ourselves with each other’s’ work, we are now ready to practically build up on this ground, allowing for deeper empowerment to happen in each location.

We hope to be able to inform you soon of our next endeavours, to which we wish to involve even more organisations from more European countries.

Dear friends,

It is very difficult for us to announce that Communitism is leaving the building at 28 Kerameikou Street, at Metaxourgeio, central Athens.

Since March 2017 we met, recognized each other and evolved together at Kerameikou 28. We broke the borders defined by our different languages and identities, and learned how to function as a community. We watched an idea evolve into everyday practice and created our own vocabulary to describe a life based on coexistence. We felt the power that can be created when many people work together. Gradually, we developed our values and an innovative collaborative practice. We kept the building alive with care and attention, and opened it up as a shared cultural asset for the city and its creative people. And how many, after all, these people were: enough to keep the building of Kerameikou 28 busy as a beehive for 6 years!

According to the survey of Monumenta NGO, Athens had 10,600 abandoned historical buildings in 2016, while Metaxourgeio had 163, of which at least ten have now collapsed. It would not be an exaggeration to suggest that the historical buildings of Athens are experiencing a second wave of destruction, after the period of antiparohi in the 60’s, when the were massively demolished to be replaced by new concrete buildings; only this time they’re collapsing due to disuse, giving their place to ruins and vacant plots.

Communitism was from its beginnings (2015) an exploratory proposal envisioned to save the historical physiognomy of the neighbourhood of Metaxourgeio, which attracts so many creative individuals every day. Our concept exalts both : the abundance of abandoned buildings and the abundance of young creative professionals without career prospects. It is based on a basic principle of the theory of monument restorations: conservation is the utmost preservation principle (Petzet, 2004) which explains how buildings collapse from disuse and therefore lack of maintenance. Isn’t it a shame in a city that suffers from constant social crises, that buildings with historical value fall down due to disuse? The idea of Communitism aspired to cure this absurdity by inviting the people of Metaxourgeio to enter into dialogue with the historical buildings of the area.

Communitism will have to leave 28 Kerameikou but our vision stays, sharply and strongly responding to an urgent need: as the city is being transformed by tourism, residents are losing access to vital spaces for cultural and civic expression. As a sociocultural center, Communitism embodies the Athenians’ need for third spaces, spaces that are not predetermined in terms of their use and thus allow a continuous process of re-creation. Spaces that while constantly evolving are always including “the other”, thus allowing constant renegotiations of boundaries and cultural identity, as described by urbanist Edward Soja. The six-year investigation at Kerameikou 28 bore great fruit in terms of the ways in which the third spaces in the city could be developed within these buildings.

May 2023 will be the last month of Communitism at Kerameikou 28. We leave feeling grateful for the opportunity we had to create and experience a parallel Athenian reality. Braced with courage and vision,our community is preparing for a new chapter which foresees the design and implementation of a new sociocultural center, sustaining our ecosystem in the long term while taking care of Metaxourgeio heritage. But before we leave, we want to celebrate this transition by making room for memories, sadness, grief, but also hope and imagination.

During May, we will have many opportunities to meet in the building. You are all welcome and invited to experience togetherness for the last time in Kerameikou 28.

To sow the seeds of a new beginning we call on many of you:

We call on the state to recognize the need for the existence of third spaces in Athens: this is a dialogue that has not yet started. The need to preserve the relatively recent cultural heritage is also an ever-stale dialogue. The state must recognize and support the values produced by the contemporary autonomous culture.

We invite the owners of listed buildings of Athens who do not want to sell and are able to trust the new, to contact us and discuss the prospects we can open together.

We invite artists and creative professionals who are motivated by our purpose to work with us to raise awareness to as many people as possible about the cultural heritage that is being lost from Metaxourgeio — but also throughout Athens — day by day.

We invite anyone who has participated in an event within Kerameikou 28 or has worked on any essay concerning our practice, to share with us photos, stories, texts or any other archive element, in order to have as complete and multi-aspected documentation of our work as possible.

We call for the social & creative spaces we have been in collaboration with in the past years, to open space for the communities hosted in Kerameikou 28 ; a wave of creativity is about to burst in the city!

Lastly, we invite our collaborators, long-time friends, and anyone else inspired by our vision to subscribe in our association, entitled “Union of Citizens for the preservation of newer cultural heritage, with the descriptive title Communitism” and contribute as a member of a global, multi-collective community to an innovative creative exploration through which an urban fabric can reclaim its consistency.

Our networks must remain strong and consistent! Perhaps in this way we can keep some spaces open and accessible to all, where communities can act independently, cooperate and produce for the city its next cultural identity!

“Many little people, in little places, doing little things, can change the world.”

Eduardo Galeano

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Αγαπητ@ φίλ@,

Μας είναι πολύ δύσκολο να σας ανακοινώσουμε πως το Communitism αποχωρεί από το κτήριο της οδού Κεραμεικού 28, στο Μεταξουργείο!

Από το Μάρτιο του 2017 βρεθήκαμε, αναγνωριστήκαμε και εξελιχθήκαμε μαζί στην Κεραμεικού 28. Ρίξαμε τα σύνορα που ορίζουν οι διαφορετικές μας γλώσσες και ταυτότητες, και μάθαμε πως να λειτουργούμε ως κοινότητα. Παρακολουθήσαμε μία ιδέα να εξελίσσεται σε καθημερινή πρακτική και δημιουργήσαμε ένα δικό μας λεξιλόγιο για να περιγράψει μια ζωή που βασίζεται στη συλλογική συνύπαρξη. Νιώσαμε τη δύναμη που μπορεί να δημιουργηθεί όταν πολλοί άνθρωποι δουλεύουν μαζί. Σταδιακά, αναπτύξαμε τις αξίες μας και μία καινοτόμα πρακτική συνεργασίας. Διατηρήσαμε το κτήριο ζωντανό με επιμέλεια και προσοχή, και το ανοίξαμε ως ένα κοινό πολιτισμικό αγαθό για την πόλη και τους δημιουργικούς της ανθρώπους. Και πόσοι είναι, τελικά, αυτοί οι άνθρωποι: Αρκετοί να μετατρέψουν τη Κεραμεικού 28 σε μία ασταμάτητη κυψέλη για 6 χρόνια!

Η Αθήνα είχε το 2016 10.600 εγκαταλειμμένα διατηρητέα, σύμφωνα με έρευνα της ΑΜΚΕ Monumenta, ενώ το Μεταξουργείο είχε 163, από τα οποία δέκα τουλάχιστον έχουν πια καταρρεύσει. Δεν θα ήταν υπερβολή η πρόταση πως τα διατηρητέα κτήρια των Αθηνών ζουν ένα δεύτερο κύμα αφανισμού, μετά την περίοδο της αντιπαροχής, όταν κατεδαφίστηκαν μαζικά για να δώσουν τη θέση τους σε νέα κτήρια από σκυρόδεμα. Μόνο που αυτή τη φορά καταρρέουν από αχρησία, δίνοντας τη θέση τους σε ερείπια και κενά οικόπεδα.

Το Communitism ήταν από την αρχή του μια διερευνητική πρόταση που οραματιζόταν να σωθεί η ιστορική φυσιογνωμία της περιοχής, που έλκει καθημερινά τόσο ιδιαίτερα δημιουργικά άτομα. Η ιδέα μας συνδυάζει τη δυναμική των δύο αυτών στοιχείων: την πληθώρα εγκαταλειμμένων κτηρίων και νέων δημιουργικών επαγγελματιών χωρίς επαγγελματικές προοπτικές. Βασίζεται σε μία βασική αρχή της θεωρίας των αποκαταστάσεων μνημείων: η συντήρηση είναι η ανώτατη αρχή της διατήρησης ( Petzet, 2004) που εξηγεί πως τα κτήρια καταρρέουν από την αχρησία και άρα την έλλειψη συντήρησης. Δεν είναι κρίμα σε μία πόλη που υποφέρει από συνεχείς κοινωνικές κρίσεις, να καταρρέουν κτήρια με ιστορική αξία λόγω αχρησίας; Αυτό τον παραλογισμό θέλησε να θεραπεύσει η ιδέα του Communitism, προσκαλώντας τα άτομα του Μεταξουργείο σε ένα διάλογο με τα ιστορικά κτήρια της περιοχής.

Το Communitism θα πρέπει να αφήσει την Κεραμεικού 28, αλλά το όραμά μας παραμένει, καθώς απαντά δυναμικά και με ακρίβεια σε μία επείγουσα ανάγκη των ανθρώπων της πόλης: καθώς η πόλη μεταμορφώνεται από τον τουρισμό, οι κάτοικοι χάνουν την πρόσβαση σε χώρους ζωτικής σημασίας για την καλλιτεχνική και κοινωνική έκφραση. Το Communitism ως κοινωνικό & πολιτισμικό κέντρο, ενσαρκώνει την ανάγκη των Αθηναίων για τρίτους χώρους: χώρους που δεν είναι προκαθορισμένοι ως προς τη χρήση τους και έτσι επιτρέπουν μια διαρκή διαδικασία αναδιαμόρφωσης. Χώρων που καθώς εξελίσσονται, μπορούν πάντα να συμπεριλάβουν “το άλλο”, επιτρέποντας έτσι διαρκείς επαναδιαπραγματεύσεις ορίων και πολιτισμικής ταυτότητας, όπως περιγράφει ο urbanist Edward Soja ( Thirdspaces, 1996). Η εξαετής διερεύνηση στην Κεραμεικού 28 απέδωσε εξαιρετικούς καρπούς ως προς τους τρόπους που θα μπορούσαν να εξελιχθούν οι τρίτοι χώροι στην πόλη μέσα σε αυτά τα κτήρια.

Ο Μήνας Μάιος του 2023 θα είναι ο τελευταίος μήνας που το Communitism θα βρίσκεται στην Κεραμεικού 28. Φεύγουμε νιώθωντας ευγνωμοσύνη, για την ευκαιρία που είχαμε να δημιουργήσουμε και να ζήσουμε αυτή την εμπειρία παράλληλης Αθηναϊκής πραγματικότητας. Οπλισμένη με θάρρος και όραμα, η κοινότητά μας ετοιμάζει ένα νέο κεφάλαιο που προβλέπει το σχεδιασμό και υλοποίηση ενός νέου κοινωνικού & πολιτισμικού κέντρου, που θα συντηρεί το οικοσύστημά μας μακροχρόνια, ταυτόχρονα φροντίζοντας την ιστορική κληρονομιά του Μεταξουργείου. Αλλά πριν φύγουμε, θέλουμε να γιορτάσουμε αυτή τη μετάβαση δημιουργώντας χώρο για αναμνήσεις, θλίψη, αλλά και ελπίδα και οραματισμό.

Κατά τη διάρκεια του Μαίου θα έχουμε πολλές ευκαιρίες να συναντηθούμε στο κτήριο. Σας προσκαλούμε να ζήσουμε μαζί το κτήριο της Κεραμεικού 28, για τελευταία φορά σε αυτή την εκδοχή του.

Για να απολαύσουμε τους καρπούς μιας καινούριας αρχής, σας καλούμε:

Καλούμε την πολιτεία να αναγνωρίσει πως σε αυτό το έργο οφείλει να είναι παρούσα: Η ανάγκη ύπαρξης τρίτων χώρων στην Αθήνα είναι ένας διάλογος που δεν έχει ξεκινήσει ακόμα στην πόλη. Η ανάγκη διατήρησης της νεότερης πολιτισμικής κληρονομιάς είναι επίσης ένας διάλογος παγωμένος. Η πολιτεία οφείλει να αναγνωρίσει και να υποστηρίξει τις αξίες που παράγει ο σύγχρονος αυτόνομος πολιτισμός.

Καλούμε τους ιδιοκτήτες διατηρητέων κτηρίων που δεν θέλουν να πουλήσουν και είναι σε θέση να εμπιστευθούν το καινούριο, να επικοινωνήσουν μαζί μας και να συζητήσουμε για τις προοπτικές που μπορούμε να ανοίξουμε μαζί.

Καλούμε καλλιτέχνες και δημιουργικούς επαγγελματίες που ο σκοπός μας τους κινητοποιεί, να συνεργαστούν μαζί μας για να ευαισθητοποιήσουμε όσο περισσότερους ανθρώπους γίνεται για την πολιτισμική κληρονομιά που χάνεται από το Μεταξουργείο — αλλά και σε όλη την Αθήνα- μέρα με τη μέρα.

Καλούμε οποιονδήποτε έχει συμμετάσχει σε διοργάνωση εντός της Κεραμεικού 28 ή έχει εκπονήσει κάποια εργασία για την πρακτική μας, να μοιραστεί μαζί μας φωτογραφίες, ιστορίες, κείμενα ή οποιοδήποτε άλλο στοιχείο αρχείου, για να έχουμε όσο πιο πλήρη και πολυσυλλεκτική καταγραφή της δουλειάς μας γίνεται.

Kαλούμε όλους τους χώρους που έχουμε συνεργαστεί τα τελευταία χρόνια, να ανοίξουν χώρο για τις κοινότητες που στεγάζονταν στην Κεραμεικού 28 : Ένα κύμα δημιουργικότητας πρόκειται να ξεχυθεί στην πόλη!

Τέλος, καλούμε τους συνεργάτες μας, τους μακροχρόνιους φίλους μας, αλλά και όποιον άλλο εμπνέεται από το όραμά μας, να εγγραφεί στο σωματείο μας με τίτλο “Ένωση πολιτών για τη Διατήρηση της Νεότερης πολιτισμικής Κληρονομιάς με το Διακριτικό τίτλο Κομμιούνιτισμ (Communitism) και να συνεισφέρει ως μέλος μιας παγκόσμιας, πολυσυλλεκτικής κοινότητας σε μία καινοτόμα δημιουργική διερεύνηση, μέσω της οποίας ένας αστικός ιστός μπορεί να ανακτήσει τη συνοχή του.

Το δίκτυό μας θα πρέπει να είναι δυνατό και συνεκτικό! Ίσως έτσι να διατηρήσουμε κάποιους χώρους ανοιχτούς και προσβάσιμους σε όλους, όπου θα μπορούν οι κοινότητες να αυτενεργούν, να συνεργάζονται και να παράγουν για την πόλη την επόμενη πολιτισμική της ταυτότητα!

“Many little people, in little places, doing little things, can change the world.”

Eduardo Galeano

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Homelessness and lack of access to affordable housing, as well as lack of shared spaces that can facilitate social
synergies and support the development of communities and cooperative activities are the main challenges that we try to
address through our work. Our associations are developing cooperative spaces and co-housing projects and provide
support to community initiatives that seek co-housing solutions and maintain spaces collectively. As such, we need to
develop long-term cross-border cooperation and partnerships with experienced organisations and networks that can
support the professional development of our staff, improve our ability to sustainably finance and develop cooperative
projects, and can further assist us to share this knowledge and to support active communities and groups that develop
cooperative spaces and co-housing projects.
Within this, we have defined two key areas that we would like to develop. The first relates to our internal capacity to
utilise proven methods and tools of financial and administrative development from different social and cooperative
housing models that exist in Europe, and to further adopt this knowledge to our local context and needs. The second
area concerns our ability to disseminate this knowledge and to provide meaningful assistance and support to existing and
upcoming community groups that wish to establish and maintain cooperative spaces/housing. In addition, it is important
to expand the social and intercultural competences of our staff and to add new perspectives and skills that can help them
develop new ways of problem solving for our challenges.
In relation to our internal capacity we would like to expand our knowledge of the different models and approaches of
cohabitation and to improve our ability to plan the financial and administrative development of such approaches,
including planning of financial and social activities that foster the long-term sustainability of these models. That is why we
would like to enable our staff to participate in educational activities and job shadowing learning methods, that improve
key competencies through the creative combination of theory and practice.
Furthermore, we would like to improve our ability to adopt, utilise and share this knowledge by developing educational
and training activities that promote neighbourhood cooperation and the evolution of cooperative spaces and co-housing
solutions within the greater community. Therefore, we like to improve the didactic competences of our staff and equip
them with new concepts and innovative teaching methods and tools. This will improve our ability to share this knowledge
with the community and to provide meaningful assistance and support to existing and upcoming community groups.
We plan to expand the social and intercultural competences of our staff, to help them develop new perspectives, ideas
and approaches, and to enable them to better reflect on their own work as well as the work of the communities we
support. We are very interested in reaching diverse community groups through educational activities and to generate
new educational opportunities and projects. We want to see innovative approaches and synergies developing within the
community, and this is why we directly support community members to expand their perspectives and to learn from
experienced communities that develop projects in other European countries, by involving them in the educational
activities despite possible linguistic barriers they might face.
Through this project, which is a continuation of our cooperation but also a step forward for our partnership, we want to
pursue long-term cooperation and sharing of knowledge that will lead to the development of sustainable approaches and
solutions to common problems such as homelessness and lack of affordable housing, that exist in Greece but also
across Europe. The gradual expansion of our knowledge and operational capacity combined with the acquisition of
didactic, social and intercultural competences will improve our ability to support both the evolution of cooperative spaces
and co-housing initiatives, but also to facilitate the growth of our knowledge network and of partnerships and practices for
sustainable development.

Butterflies & Camels is a community run workshop located on the artists’ studio apartment of Communitism. In this space, artists and practitioners active in creative reuse of discarded clothes and fabrics can meet and share knowledge exchange practices. The workshop was founded in 2019, when a 3-months workshop of collaborative practices in clothing refashioning, ended in the runway project called “Butterflies & Camels: NOT A FASHION SHOW”. Butterflies & Camels was also the thematic of Communtism’s annual event in 2019 , when the whole community that was then operating the sociocultural center Communitism spiraled for a week , presenting the building’s program, and the NOT-A-FASHION-SHOW was a part of it.

The title was offering an insight on how communities work: They consist of both Butterfly-like creatures that are light and buoyant, flying from flower to flower pollinating with information, and of sweet Camel-like creatures that endure and make sure the caravan of a community keeps going. Yet, one knows that a singe role in life can be somewhat dull or tiring, and in fact, a successful community is one that nurtures the blending of these two natures into a new kind of dual-natured, resilient, magical creatures, that we ended up calling Camelbutts; they can endure, but they can fly as well. The physical space of the workshop, was established during that event and has been active ever since.

After the Covid-related two year long hiatus, the three artists running the workshop decided organize the project “Camelbutts Reloaded 2022” as a way of reactivating; with the support of “i-portunus houses” mobility program, they were able to invite three artists from their network, active in refashioning clothes : Sophia Wameling, a refashion designer located in Berlin came in March, Christos Kyriakides a multi-spectred artist from Nicosia came in April and Max Allen, a grand re-designer of London came in May. Each one of them were invited in Athens for 10 days to hold three workshops , sharing their practices with the workshop participants. In the weeks in between , the Camelbutts workshop artists Angel Torticollis, Grigoria Vryttia and Dida Dourida held 3 workshops sharing their own practices, and they invited in local artist Ioanna Bouzika to hold one as well.

The curriculum involved workshops on patron & intervention design technique (Sophia Wameling) , fabric painting technique( Ioanna Bouzika) , artistic jewellery creation (Grigoria Vryttia) , embroidery ( Angel Torticollis), creative accessory making( Christos Kyriakides) , hand-fan making ( Dida Dourida), and fashion & costume creation ( Max Allen) . The workshops were followed by 36 unique participants, 15 of which attended recurring workshops . Throughout the workshops they created a series items, 18 of which managed to reach a finished state .

To help them showcase these unique items, the Camelbutts invited their associated communtity of vintage re-sellers Athene Vintage ( a.k.a Athina Albanοudi , Eleni Voultsidou and Maria Paraschidou) to help us style the runway. The 3 girls brought in their vibrant community to model and the artists’ studio common space became a playground for creative, edgy, contemporary fashionistas. In the meantime, the team of Keramo Lab took care of the scenography for the runway, while a vintage resellers & crafting bazaar was taking place on Communitism’s roof terrace.

The NOT-A-FASHION-SHOW with title Camelbutts Reloaded 2022 was opened by the dance collective “Some of us” , who rehearsed throughout winter for their project entitled “ This is not a profile” in Communitism’s incubator , a.k.a. Plenum . Then, the talented dJ Grace guided the show. It was a unique experience, showing us how community arts are able to take forms we haven’t imagined yet, as the 10 models showed the 20 refashioned outfits around the roof terrace in front of an audience of 250 persons. On the aftermath, we celebrated our event fulfilling with a small party on Grace’s vibes, in the communal spaces, the apartment of the Association of Communitism ( a.k.a. Association of citizens for the preservation of newer cultural heritage with the descriptive title Communitism).

As we are now resetting the workshop in an upgraded spatial design, we are counting the project’s blessings: The invited resident artists became good friends, with which we are looking forward to find new ways of continuing our exchange in the future. The Butterflies and Camels workshop has one new member- more of a camel ready to embrace the butterfly nature. We have strengthened bonds with the Athene Vintage community, already proceeding in new experiments. Our network has been given more creative ways of expression and as a result, our audience has been enriched . In total we believe that this project, being a follow up project to the 2019 pilot project, took a different turn, up-scaling in professionalism yet still creating adequate space for radical self expression and creativity for our community to grow.

As this concept was ignited when considering the funding opportunity of i-portunus houses, we are honoured that associations MitOst, Kultura Nova and the European Cultural Foundation trusted and supported us in this process. We hope all of the supported projects enjoyed the same experience as we did , one we would be happy to have again!

Emerging Communities is an Erasmus+ funded project , bringing together eight organizations from six different countries , active in different fields, yet complimentary in knowledge and with relevant mentalities.

We believe that the period we are living in calls for extraordinary solutions, and by engaging in this program we want to form a proto-network cultivating transnational exchange within the European context; a process that will inspire and provide ideas for solutions in the challenges each organization faces and help build skills and capacities we wouldn’t think of developing on our own- individually but also together. Eventually, profiting by the plethora of the genius loci involved, each of the constituent organizations will become stronger within their local realities and the communities involved will be motivated to act within this emerging network.

Let by the German Association Project House Potsdam — Inwole , the project features a mobility and exchange program between the leader, Italia che Cambia , ImWandel Berlin (Berlin, Germany), Ethos (Thessaloniki, Greece) , Ethos (Denmark) , Open Cultural Center (OCC), (Barcelona, Spain) , Group for Conceptual Politics — GCP (Novi Sad, Serbia) and Communitism (Athens, Greece)

Having started in October 2021 until December 2023 , representatives of the eight organizations will be visiting each other in their respective locations in 6 countries, in order to experience each other’s environment and the nature of their work, with the expectation to track the common aspects of our practices.

While Project House Potsdam — Inwole offers an experience of 22 years in collective housing solutions , Italia che Cambia offers a media platform connecting all the grassroots projects and intiatives of Italy and ImWandel Berlin offers a platform for sustainability within the grassroots initiatives. Communitism brings in a practice of an experimental model for alternative professionalism and economy in the Athenian context and the Group for Conceptual politics promotes political action , motivating citizens in the fields of self-governance and peace politics in Serbia. Open Cultural Center integrates displaced people in the local society of Barcelona while Ethos, both in Greece and Germany has been devotedly promoting social integration, sustainable development and social entrepreneurship .

Although approved since June of 2020, Covid-19 regulations did not allow for our project to develop as planned. The eight non profit organizations had to engage for a year in online exchanges, yet we were finally able to meet in person in October 2021 in Berlin. The second visit happened in Athens in April 2022 and the consortium is now preparing to meet in Mantova, hosted by Italia Che Cambia.

We are looking forward to continue with our exchanges in the rest of the locations and discover the endless possibilities this project has to offer to our association !More than anything, we aspire to watch some new , strong and creative communities emerge !