Located
in the heart of Athens, Ittaki is a small street in Monastiraki area,
one of the most characteristic quarters with narrow and winding
lanes and small buildings that date back to Byzantine and Ottoman
period. This street hosts only few small shops, very few residents
and an amazing lighting installation.
Beforelight,
a Greek based creative Studio that experiment with the use of light,
in collaboration with Imagine the city, a cluster for city branding
and urban renovation, has invited and mobilized the residents to
donate their old luminaires, fixtures and lamp shades in order to
transform the abandoned street of old central Athens into a homely
space, with the site-specific installation "Synoikia", that
means neighborhood.
An
empty shop was temporarily transformed into an open workspace for
people to gather, observe and participate in the development of the
project. A process of repairing, testing and waterproofing the lamps
engaged volunteers that, in collaboration with greek creative studio
beforelight, prepared more then 150 lamps to create a colorful
ceiling over the street, in an effort to encourage the public
collective experience with artificial light.
This
effort was supported by the City of Athens and sponsored by Coca
Cola.
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credits © Beforelight – Imagine the City
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