What secrets is the city hiding?

When you live in a city, you may not have time to observe it; its buildings, streets, parks, squares, the way people move in and out of them and whether they enjoy living in it.

So we’ve planned a few strolls through the center of Athens—in Syntagma, Monastiraki and Psyrri—for you and your parents. As we walk along, we will be recording all the things that make an impression on us, by keeping notes, taking pictures, making sketches or even sound recordings, so that we can study them later and exchange views.

What did we or didn’t we like? What would we change if we were rebuilding the city from scratch? Who lives in these neighbourhoods and what needs do they have? We will discuss these questions, and many more, during a workshop—these are the very questions that architecture poses all the time. In the end, we will all build some architectural models, just like architects do, to show our own architectural proposals.