The Peace Lab: Kite Making Workshops were hosted at the Pame Kaimakli Festival 2022 and took place at the Cultural Centre ‘Oi Myloi’ from July 5th to July 8th 2022. The workshops were realised in collaboration with the Japanese Art Collective OBI, the kite making artisan Michiyoshi Yamamiya from Niigata* Japan, a city world famous …
Urban Gorillas organised and moderated three focus groups for the U-SOLVE program in collaboration with the programs partners – The Cyprus Institute and the University of Cyprus. The U-SOLVE program is a European Mediterranean basin program focused on supporting innovative entrepreneurship, while addressing sustainable development challenges, and job creation in emerging social and environmental markets. …
Οn June 3rd 2022, members of the Urban Gorillas team run a short co-design workshop with 30 animated, 5th grade students! The scope of the workshop was to explore, along with the students potential elements which could convert their school yard into a more ‘vibrant’, ‘colourful’, ‘freer’, ‘happier’, and ‘greener’ place! As a final result …
Within the framework of the Summer course: Urban Entrepreneurship – Opportunities in times of uncertainty, organised by the Centre for Entrepreneurship – C4E, University of Cyprus and the Urban Gorillas and powered by PwC Cyprus – 1st and 2nd year students of different disciplines from the University of Cyprus came together in order to tackle …
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Urban Playground was a design thinking workshop led by Urban Gorillas for the CreaToyo event of Toyo University. Urban PlayGround has addressed the issue of Social engagement at times of Social distancing through the use of Play. The idea of Play was used to create a framework around the topic of community building at times …
Trattarisma is the third of the video documentaries produced for the A Delicious Place* activity and presented in Pame Kaimakli 2020. It followed the stories revealed through the theatre workshops with retirees from the neighborhood led by Natalia Panayiotou of the Jasmine collective. The Jasmine (Γιασεμίν) group designs its activities in order to give space …
Don’t you think that urban rooftops are totally underused spaces and could be transformed into exciting poles to reimagine the city? We have been thinking about the potential of rooftops for a long time now and finally we are part of a European family for rooftops !!! Last week we were happy to participate and …
Urban Gorillas participated in an intense, yet fantastic creativity week event: CREATOYO 1st edition, organized by GINOS department of グローバル × Global / Toyo University and Mosaic HEC! A three-day design-thinking workshop was delivered by board directors Veronika Antoniouand Yiorgos Hadjichristou for 1st and 2nd year students of Toyo University. The thematic centered on the regeneration the famous Jizo Dori shopping …
Urban Gorillas participated at the DACC and the Triennial Degree Program that offers its students an intensive teaching formula called “A week with …“. These workshops are aimed at learning the architectural project not so much through a design experience, such as the summer workshops, but through an intense dialogue developed over a week between …
Urban gorillas’ five-member youth team has returned after a 10-day residency in St. Etienne, France organized by Crefad Loire and Ici Bientôt. Together with 30 young people across Europe, they have succeeded in transforming the heart of the historic neighborhood of St. Etienne using participatory design processes. They have worked together for the renewal of …
