Photos from the opening of the AMENOI exhibition (December 12, 2024)

A very interesting exhibition that presents the theses by the students of the Department of Environmental Architecture,Royal College of Art London.

Usiging the notion of wind as a starting point, they carried out an extensive research within the wider area of SITIA in collaboration with agencies and residents of the area, which then became the foundation on which the formulated their final projects.

The exhibition will run until December 17th and will be open:

Friday, December 13 – 19:00-21:00

Saturday, December 14 – 12:00-16:00

Sunday, December 15 – 16:00-20:00

Monday, December 16 – 19:00-21:00

Tuesday, December 17 – 19:00-21:00

Title: Anemoi

Oi Anemoi give form and force to the atmospheric frontier of resource extraction. The dynamics that drive them and our need for power are transforming property, livelihoods, and aesthetics in ways that alter relations with terrain, strata, and volume. Since 2022, we have been working with residents in Sitia to draw-out these shifting relations.

ANEMOI proposes alternative ways of thinking and designing architectures and environments as volumetric, evolving climate ecologies—bringing the renewable energy transition and social justice into collective political practice. We are actively engaging in processes of ‘making’—historic and contemporary, in situ and ex situ—as a means of claiming and creating rights to space, resources, and alternative forms of coexistence. As we work, we ask:

What architecture is possible when we design with weather as a means of allocating space and resources justly in a future that demands agility?

Tutors:

Christina Gerou, Head of department

Antonio del Giudice, Studio assistant

Froso Papadimitriou, visiting lecturer

Students:

Suha Alkuhaimi, Sijia Chen, Jiayu Dai, Aya Maria El Khouri, Sophie Heldt, Jinwon Hong, Hongjin Li, Siyu Li, Yingzixuan Wang, Qianran Xu, Leqing Zeng, Zhenyu Zhang, Yujia Zhou, Wenxiu Zhu, Yuxuan Zhu

Partners:

Dimitris Avronidakis, Giorgos Aggelakis, Lefteris Alyssandrakis, Aspasia Anagnostopoulou, ARCHELON, Evangelia Vélou, Giorgos Vrampas, Kostas Giannakopoulos, Antonia Dretaki, Sevasti Zini, Rodanthi Kassotaki & Nikos Marakis, Manos Kolydakis, Maria Kontogiorgaki, Christoforos Kontogiorgakis, Yiannis Kopanakis, Petros Loukas, Giannis Mastorakis, Popi Borboudaki, Emma Paganini, Vangelis Perakis & Geopark of Sitia, Anastasia Perodaskalaki, Sofi Savvidaki and Savvidakis & Co. Ltd, Saitos, Fani Sintichaki, Theonimfi Sfendylaki, Dimitris Tsardinakis, Manolis Tsardinakis, Petros Tsikalakis, Joe Furlong, Giannis Psykarakis, Stavros Psomadakis.