Digital Material | Hack the Map: Imaginary Worlds

The Panhellenic Student Competition for Digital Works “Hack the Map: Imaginary Worlds” invites teenagers from schools across Greece to share their vision of promoting Greek culture interactively with maps and images from the geographical areas of sixteenth to twentieth-century Greece.

Classroom, the digital educational platform of the Onassis Foundation, offers students open access to digital support materials, aiming to facilitate and inspire them. Educational materials will take the form of asynchronous classes.

Coming into creative contact with travellers’ maps and imaginary illustrations of cities, seas, and broader regions of Greece, teenagers will familiarize themselves with history, geography, literature, and new technologies. They are invited to implement digital works by giving life to important objects of the cultural heritage of Greece.

Addressed to

Gymnasium and Lyceum students across Greece, teachers of all grades, and the general public

Production Team

Kostas Diamantis: 3D Graphics & Game Developer, Software & Media Administrator, Onassis Stegi

Maria Pazarli: PhD in History of Cartography, Cartographic Heritage Archives, General State Archives, Historical Archives of Macedonia

Thomas Maloutas: Emeritus Professor of Social Geography, Department of Geography, Harokopio University

Christophoros Vradis: Topographical Engineer MSc, PhD Candidate at the Department of Geography, Harokopio University

Stavros Nikiforos Spyrellis: Researcher, National Center of Social Research

Grigoris Vardarinos: Film Director

Prodromos Tsiavos: Head of Digital Policy and Development, Onassis Foundation

Demetrios Sampson: Professor, Department of Digital Systems, University of Piraeus

Nicolas Nicolaides: Historian

Christina Dimitra, Artist, Designer

Elias Pantazis: Historian

Christina Dimitra: artist, designer

Vicky Gerontopoulou: Science and Technology Historian, Onassis Library Coordinator

The competition is realized by Onassis Foundation and Onassis Library, in collaboration with the General State Archives, the Cartographic Heritage Archives / Historical Archives of Macedonia, and the Department of Geography of Harokopio University, Athens, with the approval of Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs and under the auspices of General Secretariat for Greeks Abroad and Public Diplomacy, Ministry of Foreign Affairs.