On November 18t & 19th 2022, we took part at the Urban Awareness Exhibition which was organised by the Afternoon Project Nicosia. The event was held at the Spilies Exhibition Centre, Acropolis park in Nicosia. During the event we exhibited our project ‘Letters to the city’, an interactive installation which aims to collect citizens’ visions …
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The ‘Urban Glenti’ installation took place at the Buffer Fringe Performing Arts Festival of 2019 in the Buffer Zone of Nicosia next to the Home of Cooperation. Urban Gorillas invited the wider public to rethink issues and activities related to the Buffer Zone. They looked into this liminal zone not merely as a negative repercussion …
Within the context of Maxxi museum’s The Independent project, Urban Gorillas and co. are presenting Urban Spectacle, a series of public interventions exploring basic human activities in urban spaces, starting out from the relationship that is established between observer, player and spatial context and attempting to spark a new dialogue between them. The project is designed to encourage …
Samy Barkat and Dimitri Vey suggest an overview (non-technical) of some ingredients and key motifs of the dynamic systems theory, chaos and complexity. In the beginning, the unpredictable behavior of the deterministic systems was called chaos and later, it captured our imagination and formed the way we see the world. The two scientists present an introduction to …
“Before anything else was chaos: a space that contained everything which would have composed the universe. Consequently, chaos is the start of all things. Chaos is then the main creator.” Hesiod, Theogonie 28 November – 06 December 2015 | Apothikes 79, Ayiou Lazarou 81-83, Larnaca The Exhibition “Order and Disorder in Chaos” will offer a …
Piccole Utopie / Small Utopias : Italian Architecture of the Third Millennium – Between History, Research and Innovation In the framework of the Italian Presidency of the EU, the Embassy of Italy in Cyprus, and the European Commission, in collaboration with the Urban Gorillas NGO, and with the support of Tenaris Dalmine, present the exhibition …
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On 9 September 2014 Urban Gorillas and the Department of Architecture of the University of Nicosia, in collaboration with the Embassy of Italy in Cyprus, hosted a lecture entitled “Unpacking Urban Fields@Cyprus” by Daniele Mancini. This lecture was held within the framework of the Green Urban Lab, which is supported by the EEA Grants / Norway Grants. Daniele Mancini, architect, …
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