Tracing the City
Design Disciplines: Architecture, Urban Intervention



“Tracing the city” invites the residents of a street to creatively interact with their immediate urban environment.

It is an open-air installation with a sound and lighting system that projects visual material on the facades of the buildings along the street. In addition to the spatial intervention, a digital network is provided allowing users to interact with the installation, control the visual material that is projected and communicate between themselves as they would in a peer to peer network; meanwhile, the sound and lighting system monitors and reflects the amount of activity in virtual space.

“Tracing the city” encourages people to meet one another and to present their individual initiatives – with absolutely no involvement with the formal, prescribed processes of civic institutions. Their meeting might not be physical but their discussions and whispers can - however temporarily - physically affect and create an alternate environment.

In this way, the project provides space for reflection and experimentation: the urban environment becomes a platform for its residents to trace their own stories; a platform that can be inhabited, changed and evolved according to people’s beliefs, needs and aspirations rather than remaining an infrastructure with predetermined functions.

Key Collaborators:
Spike (sound design), Mimi Kathrein (concept design and graphics), Evaggelia Anagnostaki (graphics and production), Anna Papachristoforou (design and model building), Akis Telemachou (theory), Eva Sartzetaki (concept design), Gregoris Koulouras (digital technology and networks), Gregoris and Areti Kafetzopoulos (technical support), Thanos Pirentis (theory).

Special thanks to: Duncan Wilson (Arup), Areti & Gregoris Kafetzopoulos (technical support), George Anagnostakis.







Contact
Akrivi Anagnostaki (Vicky)
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aanagno@gmail.com