Agora in AfroBanana Festival

Agora is a mobile structure designed by Urban Gorillas that aims to enhance public engagement by providing a platform for diverse voices to express themselves. Ingeniously designed, Agora’s flexible and ,modular structure allows for new spatial configurations to develop allowing for co-creation and creativity during its assembly. The structure remained at the open-air sports ground …

“Hitsudankai – From now/here, Silence” at Afro Banana Festival

Agora, ingeniously designed by Urban Gorillas, is a mobile structure that champions public engagement by offering a unique platform for various voices. During the Afro Banana festival, Agora transcended into an oasis of non-verbal expression and tranquility. This space, devoid of spoken words, invites attendees to a realm of introspection and spiritual rejuvenation. Participants will …

Partner meeting for the ECRN -European Creative Rooftop Network-

The spring 2023 partner meeting of the ECRN consortium was hosted by our partners Chemnitz, the European Capital of Culture 2025! We worked on the art dimension of the project, the festival exchanges, our benchmarking study and the future of ECRN. Team Chemnitz showed us their amazing city with locations such as Wirkbau, Oberdeck Chemnitz …

PEACE LAB: Kited Away

Peace Lab aimed, by defying the separation, at ‘constructing’ peacemaking activities and by creating new imaginaries for Greek-Cypriot and Turkish-Cypriot communities. A series of artistic and creative activities that aimed to connect the two communities took place. One of the Peace Lab’s project activities was the making and flying of kites with groups of people …

Pame Kaimakli Festival 2020: A Delicious Place

Pame Kaimakli* is a neighbourhood festival launched in 2013 by the residents of the Kaimakli district and Urban Gorillas. From a series of ad-hoc informal events that were taking place in the private houses of the neighbours, the Festival has grown into a well-known event, welcoming acclaimed artists; it became a cross-disciplinary place where local …

Map Your City Pulse – ONEK festival ’17

Driven by transforming unused public spaces and with an interest in exploring city planning and how citizens interact with it, we took part in ONEK‘s It’s Up to You(th) festival 2017. This passing September 16th, we put on our thinking hats and took our urban tools to Akropolis park in Nicosia. Converting an area of …

Publication by UG members: “Inflating the public: A Series of Urban Interventions”

  A new publication has been released on public spaces by UG members Veronika Antoniou, René Carraz, and Yiorgos Hadjichristou. Abstract: The Green Urban Lab took the form of public installations that were placed at various locations in four cities in Cyprus. These installations – through which a series of events, activities, workshops and research …

Video: Green Urban Lab 2015

The Green Urban Lab  took the form of public installations that were placed at various locations in four cities in Cyprus. These installations – through which a series of events, activities, workshops and research took place – were the main tools in regenerating a series of urban public spaces. The video presents the ΦουσκόPolis and …

Urban Gorillas @ Kyoto University Japan

University Professor and Urban Gorillas member Yiorgos Hadjichrisou presented the Green Urban Lab research finding at Kyoto University, Japan: — Kyoto University, Global Environmental Studies Department, Master course, 11.11.2015, 16:00-19:00:— Kyoto University, Architecture Department, Architectural and Environmental design, Takeyama Kiyoshi lab, Seminar,  9.11.2015, 16:30-20:00: The discussion was very instructive and managed to combine view points …

Participation at Tenth International Conference on the Arts in Society | London, UK | 22-24 July 2015

Urban Gorillas will be presenting a paper together with Anna Merry from Frederick University at the upcoming Tenth International Conference on the Arts in Society at Imperial College London, 22-24 July 2015. This year the Conference focuses on ‘The Work of Art in the Age of Networked Society’. The paper entitled ‘Art and Play: Promoting social …