SABIRFEST is a cultural event on the Mediterranean and the Mediterranean people, which takes place annually in Messina and Catania, and in 2017 also in Reggio Calabria. Through literature, politics, music, theater, it offers an open, social and cultural space for reasoning and participation, collaboration and leisure. Sabirfest intends to discuss our Mediterranean citizenship SABIRFEST…
Digital technology has become an inherent part of contemporary culture: it has entered theatre halls, found new applications in cinema, facilitated the everyday work of journalists and documentary makers, helped build multi-layered museums, and last but by no means least, has made the world of computer games even more immersive.Today’s digital technologies allow not only…
Caravan project was invented to participate as ” the most innovative organisation in new media and storytelling in Greece today” to the digital conference in Syros, organised by the department of Aegean university, Product and systems design and engineer school. ❝Sometimes we are storytellers, other times we are spectators of storytelling. We create and search for…
Identity is never a fixed condition: rather, it is a flow constantly crossing the pathways of everyday life, an unstable state of the subject, a product of interactions and relations. Through the work of young artists and photographers – their images installed in the public space in three cities laying on the European southern border –…
The purpose of the conference is to review the practice and trends with respect to the use of attractive narrative, by means of the word and the image, considered to be the main vectors encouraging potential visitors, on the one hand, to take interest in the industrial heritage in all its forms, and ultimately allowing…
The team of caravan project was invited by Maria Koufoupoulou to the tv show “ People and Stories” to present their awarded films and to talk about their unique travelogue around Greece for six years producing more than 50 films. In 2011, caravan project team started a journey through the country, aiming to bring to…
The whole creative process of the team in Caravan Project is based on a co-creation strategy. ‘Collaborative’ and ‘collective’ imply a shared vision and implementation process, rather than focus on the ability of the most empowered people in the room to implement their own agenda. Our practise focuses on things like process, rather than simply…
A whole chapter regarding the cultural activities of Caravan Project in Greece, written by the professor Maria Daskalaki, was included in the book Untold Stories in Organizations edited by Michal Izak, Linda Hitchin, David Anderson by the prestigious Routledge Publications. In this chapter, we discuss untold stories in relation to space and transformative creativity. We present the…
Crisis, debts and credits are the issues nowadays permanentely related to Greece. In a capitalistic system completely focussed on money, the public discourse tends to forget about the people behind the bank accounts – especially in Greece, where poorness spread widely and suicide rate quadrupled during the past years. A group of young media artists…
At least 70,000 participants, representing more than 4,000 mass-based movements and organisations and an amazing diversity of people from all over the globe, have taken part in the 14th edition of the World Social Forum (WSF), that took place in the Tunisian capital, Tunis.The five-day event served as an annual counterweight to the Davos World…