The Visibility of Information: Conversations on Doxiadis and the New Human Community

In the exhibition, information and visibility are linked together and to Doxiadis through his computational practice and through his systems approach to planning and design. They are also shown related to contemporary Greece, especially through data generation and extraction processes at its borders.

• With theorists and scholars of computation and cybernetics, the conversation on information will address the historical formulation and social implications of data collection practices from the postwar to now. Referencing migration and border management, the conversation on visibility will discuss detection technologies and the bodies they track and target. And the conversation on Doxiadis will discuss the work of his office in the context of other postwar informational practices that have formed and altered the relation among cities, computers, and people.

15:00 – 15:30 | Welcome

• Prodromos Tsiavos, Head of Digital Development and Innovation, Onassis Foundation
• Farzin Lotfi-Jam, Assistant Professor in Architecture, Cornell University
• Mark Wasiuta, Co-Director of the Critical, Curatorial, and Conceptual Practices in Architecture program at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation (GSAPP), Columbia University

15:30 – 16:15 | Conversation 1: Information

Moderators:

• Farzin Lotfi-Jam, Mark Wasiuta

Speakers:

• Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan, Reader in the History and Theory of Digital Media, King's College London
• Nora O Murchú, Artistic Director of transmediale Festival

16:15 – 16:30 | Break

16:30 – 17:15 | Conversation 2: Visibility

Moderator:

• Lefteris Papagiannakis, Director of the Greek Council for Refugees

Speakers:

• Apostolis Fotiadis, Researcher
• Thomas Maloutas, Professor Emeritus of Social Geography, Harokopio University (Athens), Editor and founder of the Athens Social Atlas
• Christina Varvia, Research Fellow of Forensic Architecture (FA) research agency, Lecturer of Forensic Architecture at the Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths, University of London
  

17:15 – 17:30 | Break

17:30 – 18:45 | Conversation 3: Doxiadis Associates

Moderators:

• Farzin Lotfi-Jam, Mark Wasiuta

Speakers:

• Dimitris Filippidis, Professor Emeritus, School of Architecture, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA)
• Alcestis Rodi, Associate Professor of Urban Design and Planning, Department of Architecture, University of Patras, Onassis Foundation Scholar
• Panayotis Tournikiotis, Architect, Professor at the School of Architecture, National Technical University of Athens
• Mark Wigley, Professor of Architecture and Dean Emeritus of the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation (GSAPP), Columbia University