Category: Activities
Honouring Spiros Papadopoulos: An Open Call for Artworks The EscapeLab team of the Department of Architecture at the University of Thessaly invites friends, colleagues, collaborators, and students to…
The informal fragmented spaces of memory: Rejecting digital art VISIT
The research project “Use of game engines in the design and implementation of Mount Olympus in a virtual reality environment” consists of a cross-thematic approach that connects Mount…
Three sound installations / performances on the Thessaloniki Concert Hall’s fence eliminate the material boundaries between the inside and the outside. During the European Music Day (June 21st),…
Participation in DOCN 2019, University of Patras, Greece. Visit
Participation in Dialogues in Archaeology 2019, Volos, Greece. Session: Media Archaeology Visit
Smoke and Mirrors is a point and click narrative video game based on Ray Bradbury’s novel, Fahrenheit 451, enriched with elements from George Orwell’s novel, Nineteen Eighty Four….
Participation in DCAC 2019, Digital Culture & AudioVisual Challenges, Corfu https://avarts.ionio.gr/dcac/2019/
A triennial event, organized by the Planning and Regional Development Department of the University of Thessaly, and held in Volos, the Panhellenic Planning and Regional Development Conference addresses…
“Technologically mediated participatory and performative artistic expressions as social educational tools” Summary This paper presents the role of contemporary forms of art, that incorporate new media technologies, in…
And yet it moves 2018: Education, Animation and Augmented Reality The inter-university MArt programme “Information and Communication Technologies in Education” and the Laboratory of Environmental Communication and Audiovisual Representation…
Context: The relationship between architecture, urban environments and the moving image is deep rooted. It is also mutating. Born in the City Symphony films of the early 20th it…
The inter-university MArt programme “Information and Communication Technologies in Education” and the Laboratory of Environmental Communication and Audiovisual Representation (LECAD) of the Department of Architecture, University of Thessaly,…
“H ταυτότητα του ελληνικού τοπίου στα arcade games” Περίληψη Η εικόνα του τόπου σήµερα, στην εποχή της ψηφιακής τεχνολογίας, της προσοµοίωσης και της χωρικής επαυξηµένης πραγµατικότητας, εµφανίζεται διευρυµένη…
“Video Games as a Learning Tool for Constructing Digital Environments ” International Ambiances Network & University of Thessaly, Volos, 2016 Abstract: This paper investigates the role of game engines…
Having Philip K. Dick’s book ‘’Do Androids dream of Electric Sheep?’’ as a reference, and interpreting the core descriptive and narrative elements of his environment, a new…
In recent decades the diffusion of digital media and the creation of new forms of sociability, expression and communication have transformed various aspects of everyday life. In these…
The Lab of environmental communication and audiovisual documentation (LECAD), the Laboratory of Multimodal Design and Research of Hybrid Enviroments (escape lab), Department of Architecture, University of Thessaly and the ART/ European…
Professor Spiros Papadopoulos, Chairman of the Department of Architecture of University of Thessaly is going to open “Translogue events” presenting the lecture “Videogames: Transformative experiences of urban landscapes”. More info
Educating 20,000,000 urbanists. Video games as a multimodal learning tool for urban design.
The Laboratory of Multimodal Design and Research on Hybrid Environments (EscapeLab) and the Laboratory of Environmental Communication and Audiovisual Representation (LECAD), Department of Architecture, University of Thessaly organises…
The Laboratory of Environmental Communication and Audiovisual Representation (LECAD), Department of Architecture, University of Thessaly organises the Digital Media and Cultural Heritage Symposium. The symposium will be held at the Volos City Museum, Volos,…
NARRATIVES + SPATIAL PERRESENTATIONS The main aim of the studio is to explore the spatial characteristics of video games. Video games are a powerful technological tool that nowadays…
ACOUSMATIC CONCERT On 5th December 2014 at Auditorio 400 del MNCARS (Museo National Centro de Arte Reina Sofia) THE BODY. THE MACHINE. THE GAME. The body…
This architectural studio aims at introducing students to a new kind of architectural thought, one that redefines the notion of space within a contemporary, technologically permeated, reality. Students…
"Double Cities – Rereading the real-life Metropolis behind the screen" EURAU 14 COMPOSITE CITIES EUROPEAN SYMPOSIUM ON RESEARCH IN ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN DESIGN November 12-14, 2014 visti: EURAU …
DEL CINE EXPERIMENTAL A LOS VIDEOJUEGOS CONTEMPORÁNEOS El punto de partida de este seminario lo constituye la comprobación de que la imagen de la ciudad, tal como aparece…
SYMPOSIUM Multimedia Database as Narrative Mechanism
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THE CONDITIONS OF HABITANCE The main aim of the studio is to encourage a holistic perception of architectural design and at the same time, express individual answers to…
REPRESENTATIONS AND SPATIAL NARRATIVES The research project entitled “Urban Landscapes in Video Games – Representations and Spatial Narratives” initiated in 2011 in the Department of Architecture, University of…