Critical Observations of Athens – July 2019
Sitting at a town square is something that has been common among people for many years. Parents sitting watching their children play with their bikes and rollers, the young teenagers sitting in groups, and even people sitting for only a few minutes, waiting to meet a friend. These images are very common to people here …
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The moment David and I stepped out of the metro station, I felt like I had just arrived at a village. Sepolia is a calm and quiet area, which made me feel like it is more of a residential one. As we walked, I realized that the shops that are present are very few and …
In their “A Walk on the Wild Side: Urban Ethnography Meets the Flâneur”, Jenks and Neves remind “not forget the expressed intention of producing a description, a comment, the intention of expressing feelings”. Walking into the “Iliou Melathron”, a neoclassic building created by a german architect Ziller, located in the center of Athens in Panepistimiou …
by Marion Polemis One of the rare cases where I remember myself practicing flânerie is when I am on a holiday as a tourist, finding everything new and exciting. This mostly happens when I am in a foreign country, experiencing new tastes, smells but also observing different architectural monuments and art. But what about flânerie in a …
Walking with a purpose normally makes people move and think fast; thus, if a person ever notices anything happening around them, it will only be an event may seem odd or that cannot go unnoticed. A dawdler, on the other hand, will perceive everything present and happening around him or her. The first thing I …
“Not that a man sees something new as the first to do so, but that he sees something old, familiar, seen but overlooked by everyone, as though it were new, is what distinguishes true originality.” Friedrich Nietzsche
Strolling Incognito in Athens: the Art of City Walkabouts International Honors Seminar, ACG, Deree, The American College of Greece Students: Calvin, David Ryan Gkargka, Loukia High, Jacob Matthew Katsoudas, Ioannis Lowery, Tiffany Nakos, Dimitrios Nikolaou, Anastasia Polemis, Marion-Alexandra Skartsilakis, Emmanouil Stavrogiannis, Christos Instructor: Dr. Georgia Giannakopoulou Social theory, urban studies, urban geography, philosophy, history, art …
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