“Ypnos”
Coordinator/Organizer: University of West Attica and the non-profit organization CITYLAB (www.citylab.edu.gr).
Co-Organizers: Cultural Foundation of the Municipality of Athens, Association of Athenians, Panteion University, CRISiS Lab - Laboratory of Strategic Planning and Interdisciplinary Criticism Department of Architecture University of Ioannina, Museum of Medicine of Crete, Medical School of the University of Crete, AMKE ONEIRUS.
Supporters: Eurasia Publications, Association of Scientists of Italian Universities (ΣΕΠΙ), Association of Architects – Panhellenic Union of Architects (ΣΑΔΑΣ-ΠΕΑ).
Sponsors: COCO-MAT, MAGNIFLEX, BIO-ONCOLOGY CARE, epicycle.
Four-day Interdisciplinary, Interdisciplinary and Interuniversity Workshop on the formulation of innovative proposals for spatial and temporal management of sleep. Recording-videotaping of city sites by student groups and creation of narratives through audiovisual material.
Investigation of the concept of sleep as a biological need, but also as a constitutive condition of the individual and social daily life of the modern lifestyle. At the starting point of this course we find relationships and bridges that constitute attractive fields of inquiry, such as sleep and well-being, sleep and healing, sleep and wakefulness, sleep and hospitality, sleep and death, sleep and unconsciousness, sleep and dream, sleep and illusion, sleep and rhythm, sleep and environment, sleep and healing, insomnia and wakefulness.
Collaborating institutions :
University of West Attica / CityLab Urban Non-profit Company (www.citylab.edu.gr) / Cultural Foundation of the Municipality of Athens (M.I.D.A. ) / Association of Athenians / Panteion University / Laboratory of Space-Aesthetics- Sustainability of the School of Applied Arts and Culture of the University of West Attica / CRISiS Lab Laboratory of Strategic Planning and Interdisciplinary Criticism of the Department of Architecture and Engineering of the University of Ioannina / Museum of Medical Crete of the Medical School of the University of Crete / AMKE ONEIROUS / EVRASIA Publications / Association of Italian University Scientists (SEPI).
Participation in the teaching team / Lecture entitled "Editing as a of narration" / Creator of audiovisual material (trailer) for the workshop for the exhibition at the venue of the conference “Sleep - Symposium at the Benaki Museum”.
3-6 October 2022, University of West Attica
Workshop program link : https://www.dropbox.com/s/70edp4gpma5fdp8/%CE%95%CE%A1%CE%93%CE%91%CE%A3%CE%A4%CE%97%CE%A1%CE%99%CE%9F_CITYLAB_2022_%CE%A5%CE%A0%CE%9D%CE%9F%CE%A3.pdf?dl=0
Link to the workshop website : https://www.citylab.edu.gr/
Extract from the press release (citylab)
At the heart of the proposal lies the exploration and development of elements related to sustainability, sustainable development, and well-being that reshape the intricate connections between sleep, space, and time within the realms of both arts and sciences.
In a period where daily anxieties cast shadows over the future of our civilization, causing psychological strains on a planet striving to recover from the sweeping impact of pandemics and conflicts, the concept of sleep often becomes associated with passivity, indifference, sedation, and society's apparent incapacity to respond. Yet, a more contemplative perspective, transcending the turbulence provoked by contemporary phenomena, allows us to formulate pivotal questions. These inquiries guide us to perceive sleep in its full scope — a concept simultaneously timely and timeless, paradoxically familiar and unfamiliar.
Is sleep a mechanism for restoring productivity, or does it serve as an essential detachment from the burdens of reality's normalcy? Can the distribution of sleep time and its correlation with labor power reproduction optimize the energy footprint of human actions? How does sleep relate to inertia? Do factors like space, environment, and climate influence sleep patterns? Do timings of sleep (day-night) hold significance? Why are dreams exclusive to the realm of sleep? Do nightmares bear significance? Can sleep possess therapeutic attributes? What are the physiological prerequisites for sleep? How is sleep regulated, and what factors influence its efficacy? Is there a universal standard for ideal sleep? To what extent does the "architecture of sleep" play a role in this duality of meaning? How does sleep impact the dynamic between humans and their surroundings? How does sleep intersect with philosophical contemplation? What ties exist between sleep and religion, sleep and politics, sleep and art? Does sleep occupy a spatial dimension? Does the contemporary urban environment and its architecture accommodate healthy sleep? What objects become entwined with the notion of sleep?
The 9th Panhellenic Symposium - Citylab Workshop 2022 will delve into the concept of sleep as both a biological necessity and a fundamental aspect of individual and societal life within the context of modern lifestyles. This journey begins with the exploration of relationships and bridges that form captivating avenues of exploration — including the intersections of sleep with well-being, senses, healing, awareness, hospitality, mortality, the unconscious, dreams, illusion, rhythm, environment, healing, insomnia, and wakefulness.
