Greece 2022
11 creative studios, 11 aspects of our lives, 10 years later

3, 4 and 5 February 2012
Fri. 18:00–22:00, Sat. & Sun. 12:00–19:00
What kind of country do we want Greece to be in ten years from now? Will the characteristics of the Greek identity be affected by the monetary crisis? How will we perceive Greece in 2022 and how will we be perceived by our friends, allies, observers and competitors abroad? How we can influence the way others see us? Within the narrative context "Greece 2022" the design studios will create their own version of our future. During Design Walk 2012, nothing will be left undisclosed. The designers will confront the present, suggesting a different future, ambitious, intelligent, optimistic, extroverted and humorous. "We need this now, more than ever. The issue is purely existential. We cannot create a different future without having imagined it first".

Narrative Framework: Solon Sasson

  • 3 in a box

    Entrepreneurship
    Using data from global paradigms and from Greek reality, we speculate on our future entrepreneurial behavior. (...)
    Vissis 1 / T.: + 30 210 3316123 / www.3inabox.gr

  • DesignPark

    Religion
    Did god ever imagine religion? Αn interactive photographic installation about me, you, the other, us, all , the One… since then until 2022…? (...)
    Ktena 1 / T.: + 30 210 3317947 / www.designpark.gr

  • Ε.Δ.Ω. (E.D.O.)

    Environment
    Ideally, in 2022 the Kifissos and Ilissos will have swallowed the chaotic city and spruce trees will cast a romantic shade on the red deer of Parnitha. But if the environment concerns only the alternative romantics, how would that redefine the primal force of nature? Is the dominant obsession just a drop in the ocean? Could the natural instinct of human civilization lead us back to the liquid, pre-embryonic stage, swallowing us in the Hollow Earth, and giving birth to us once again as an interplanetary wise (...)
    Profitou Daniil 18 / T.: + 30 210 6124994 / www.e-d-w.gr

  • G

    Tourism
    In contrast to Elytis’s verse "If you deconstruct Greece, in the end you’ll have an olive, a vine and a boat," the tourist imagines memorabilia with attic light, the Parthenon, endless beaches, Dionysian nights and any latest fad he is offered. What promotional item could represent our country’s modern tourism image? What product could possibly encompass the Eternal Then and the Ambigious Now? 2022 finds us with the prophetic words of Melina covering the Glorious City like a sound-logo: "Tourism is the most (...)
    Miaouli 6 / T.: + 30 210 3223636 / www.georgiougavrilakis.com

  • k2Design

    Education
    In fi rst grade, “Lessons in Immortality Eugenics for 6-yearolds.” In second grade, “The Sweet Curse of Eternity –Lessons in Managing Infi nite Time”. In the future there is only infi nite future. Education and lifelong learning must take a stand on the only true asset – “eternal ownership”. The passport of spiritual eternity is necessary so that the heirs can travel freely to all realms of knowledge. Is education is or is it not the ambrosia of the immortals? What else feeds the soul? You’ll fi nd the answ (...)
    Veranzerou 34 / T.: + 30 210 522 3000 / www.k2design.gr

  • π6 (Pi6)

    Social Standards
    Historians disagree. The Antistatists’ official version wants March 25, 2022, a day meant to commemorate the two hundred and first anniversary of the glorious liberation from the Turks, to be linked with the disappearance of all social authorities on the Battleship Averof by the Reformist Provocateurs Group and their "forced seclusion" on an island-plateau.
 In one moment, all the prevailing role models in Greece’s modern history disappear, rumors say to the remote atoll of Lost. In the lab of historical w (...)
    Melanthiou 8 / T.: + 30 210 3216050 / www.pi6.gr

  • Sereal Designers

    Governance
    Ten years later, everything is under way. Today's policies condemn the future. Does imagination play any role in change? In order to imagine the future one must first envision the present. Embarrassment or conceit? Participation or denial? Imagination or fantasy? Labyrinth thoughts in search of tomorrow's light. (...)
    Miaouli 19 / T.: + 30 210 3215102 / www.sereal.net

  • Some think Creative Group

    Technology
    Broadband, social networking, urban patterns are changing the flow of the formerly tight-knit rural communities. Artists in border villages are creating twitter communities, organizing Tedx conferences worldwide, internet radio stations with social media sponsors are introduced in technical education high schools of the Greek country side, farmers in Kastoria are studying online. The convergence of urban and rural areas is so vast, that traditional values will never be the same. (...)
    3rd Septemvriou 25 / T.: + 30 210 5240 940 / www.somethink.gr

  • This is Amateur

    Consumerism
    Do you have a red-figured amphora with flute-players in exchange for a second hand gold buckle? The pre-Homerian economy of 860 BC is here.
 DIY online sales, digital marketplaces are the new vintage silk road. In 2022 "The Death of a Post-Capitalist Salesman" is a fact, while thousands of homes have been converted into warehouses full of goods. Commerce has shrunk and basic goods are now grown in greenhouse-blaconies, studio-communes and co-op warehouses. The end of advanced marketing, without retouching, (...)
    Protogenous 6 / T.: + 30 210 3239136 / www.thisisamateur.com

  • This heart is a Pipe Bomb

    Multiculturalism
    A much different down town that no longer exudes the unfamiliar scent of fear, horror and exotic spices, combined with that culturally retarded race game. Who will take over the Greek renaissance of "made in Bangladesh" dreams?
 3 stories through 9 portraits. Then, now and a decade after this text has been written. Glances that ask for a change in the odd/awkward look from the "other" behind the windshield, faces that want to shed the identity of public enemy. With placards in hand, inverted mirrors of the (...)
    Profitou Daniil 18 / T.: + 30 210 6124994 / www.thisheartisapipebomb.blogspot.com

  • domoaggregato

    Media
    Omg!!! Lfmao!!! Wtf!!!! Television personalities speaking in their native language. The eternal post-puberty bombast of the systemic Transmitter. Guy Debord shines with a neon magenta halo through multiple readings of n-infomaniac redundancies. Pleasure simulators are artificial butter for the digital bread. The message magnifies its quantum superpower in the global paranoid accelarator. Or maybe not? The outdated self-indulgence can lead us to new paths of Stoic introspection. The remote control of happine (...)
    Agatharxou 9 / T.: +6947787961 / www.behance.net/domoaggregato

  • Ταινιοθήκη της Ελλάδος

    The Prism GR2011
    An open, constructive dialogue between 11 short films documentaries and 11 graphic design studios, in a contemporary national narrative of the present that also analyzes the potential prospects. From the group “The PrismGR2011” and through the lenses of 14 photojournalists-multimedia storytellers who recorded in a period of 16 weeks, the Greece of 2010–2011. (...)
    Iera Odos 48 / T.: +210 3609695 / www.theprism.tv

  • Meeting Point

    Bar Tranzistor
    Enjoy your morning coffee, lokums, tortillas and mosaics together with surprises, arguments, objections, parallel monologues, ideological battles and formalist excesses. In the evening, cocktails, organic wines and long drinks for those who haven’t left since morning. (...)
    Protogenous 10 / T.: +2103228658 / www.facebook.com/pages/ΤΡΑΝΖΙΣΤΟΡ-CAFE-BISTROTHEQUE/127232487306443

  • about:

    concept : design : inter/national
    In spite of the times, against the banality of the ominous, the future will be the result of orderly planning (design), based on inspiring and workable ideas (concept), bringing the private and public sectors together in creative contact, locally and globally (inter/national). Exhibition of 25 innovative projects made by the students of the Vakalo Master of Arts over a 10 year period (2001-2011). At the cultural venue ABOUT: (...)
    Miaouli 18 / T.: +210 33 14 480 / www.aboutt.gr
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