di Cristina Vignone
Lo spazio vuoto è luogo di libertà.
Ad Atene dal 7 al 14 settembre 2025 con Italia che cambia, testata giornalistica, associazione di promozione sociale e cooperativa impresa sociale e Communitism un’organizzazione greca attiva nel recupero di edifici storici e nel loro riutilizzo per il bene della comunità.
Grazie a Italia che cambia ho partecipato al progetto Erasmus+ insieme a 24 persone provenienti da tutta Italia; abbiamo esplorato il territorio e conosciuto progetti innovativi concreti di rigenerazione urbana e di strumenti di governance. Una settimana ad Atene ospiti di Communitism l’associazione attiva dal 2015 che recupera edifici storici inutilizzati di Atene per farli rivivere attraverso la condivisione creativa. Attraverso la pratica della comunità e dell’arte, emergono alternative alle strutture esistenti.
Italia che Cambia. L’informazione ecologica dal 2004. Il manifesto.Crediamo che il giornalismo non sia solo un racconto del presente, ma un atto di responsabilità verso il futuro. Rifiutiamo il sensazionalismo, la paura come strumento di narrazione e l’immobilismo del “tanto non cambia nulla”. Al contrario, scegliamo di raccontare la realtà in modo complesso e le storie di chi si attiva, di chi costruisce soluzioni, di chi trasforma l’Italia un progetto alla volta.
Communitism reclaims unutilised heritage buildings of Athens to be revived through creative commoning. By practising community and art, alternatives to existing structures emerge. Communitism is an open community of creative professionals exploring practices of commoning at Kerameikou 28 in Metaxourgeio. Communitism is a building – the sociocultural centre of Katerinis 10 – as well as an association, which directs its activity. The sociocultural centre functions as an open lab, with communities and users of the building developing symbiotic relationships with one another, as they test and develop new practices on an ongoing basis. We are a learning organisation. The association engineers models for the revival of cultural heritage based on our tested practices, establishes local and international synergies, and creates educational and artistic projects that promote our vision.
Some people we met
Maria Peteinaki is an architect, a graduate of the National Technical University of Athens and has been active since 2004. In 2006 she co-founded the architecture office oddworks, in 2012 ATAthens, a collective group focused on creating new narratives for Athens and empowering local communities. Since 2016 she has co-founded the architecture group ECUAL. She was a also a production assistant at the Sound Development City project in 2015 and at the Athens Biennale in 2018. Since 2021, Mikilio, a social cooperative focused on the principles of regeneration, degrowth and permaculture, has been organized. She participates in this cooperative with the project RECUAL, an initiative for the recycling and upcycling of renovation materials and the introduction of ecological building techniques and materials into the urban environment. She has devoted a large part of her time and energy to the commons and the city, organizing urban cultural events, actions, participatory design workshops, neighborhoods and researching environmental policies towards social ecology and degrowth. She is now focusing this political energy into Circle, a queer ecofeminist party in the making. She is studying a postgraduate program on environmental design of buildings and city at the Hellenic open university. ecualaboratory@gmail.com.
Danai Maragoudaki. Danai started working as a journalist in 2015. She has worked for several Greek media like inside story, VICE, and capital.gr. She is also a member of the investigative team The Manifold and the production team Paola Team Documentaries. Her reporting focuses on transparency and economics, technology, gender and LGBTQ+ rights. She has studied political science and translation. https://wearesolomon.com/
Stavros Malichudis. Stavros is a reporter and editor. He has worked for the Agence France-Presse and inside story, and has participated in cross-border investigations with Lighthouse Reports and Investigate Europe. He’s member of Reporters United. His reports have been published in European media. He was shortlisted for the European Press Prize ‘21 and won the IJ4EU Impact Award ‘22. In 2019 he was selected as a fellow for BIRN’s Balkan Fellowship for Journalistic Excellence (BFJE). He has been trained in data journalism at Columbia University in New York on a fellowship. https://wearesolomon.com/
Karl Heinz Jeron (email: hello@jeron.org) was born in Memmingen, Germany in 1962. He lives and works in Berlin Germany. His art deals with every day culture, media perception and information processing. Jeron’s works span from the singing and dancing robot Sim Gishel, to augmented reality objects based on paper sculptures . Recent exhibitions, events and collaborations include Athens Digital Arts Festival, ZKM Karlsruhe, Ars Electronica Linz, Documenta X, ICA London, Walker Art Museum Minneapolis, Berlinischen Galerie Berlin and the Museum of Modern Art San Francisco. https://jeron.org/echoes/doku.php?id=start
Eva kateva architect attivist in Athens. https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVJK-bgqQ=/
Elderdiery Mohamed Fadul is a performance artist that lived in the area of Metaxourgeio, he is musician and painter.
Natasha Lekkou Architetto – scenografo, KÆNA. Architect and Communicator | Head of Communications at Zuloark Collective | Teaching Assistant at MACA Master in Architectural Communication ETSAM
e con Daniela, Paolo, Alisa, Antea, Benedetta, Elisa, Antonio, Carolina, Gesualdo, Laura, Luca, Lucio, Marco, Naomi, Sofia, Verdiana, …Case Franche, Extopia, Trame di Quartiere, Lo stato dei luoghi, Liberi sogni, Solo cose belle, Appenninol’hub, Ass. come il colibrì, MeWe abitare collaborativo srl, A’prile festival, EconGood, Ran-rete per l’agricoltura naturale, Ass. cittadini sostenibili, Rossonove.