Roundtable discussion: Policies for collaborative workspaces in small and medium-sized cities at the 6th Culture and Creative Industries Conference

On the 6th of December 2024 Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences organises a Roundtable discussion: Policies for collaborative workspaces in small and medium-sized cities (CORAL-ITN Knowledge exchange workshop) in the frame of the 6th Culture and Creative Industries Conference, that takes place on the 6-7th of December 2024 In Archeological Museum of Parta, […]

Alternative futures “in the making”: Insights from three makerspaces in peripheral Greece

Alternative features “in the making”: Insights from three makerspaces in peripheral Greece Danai Liodaki Abstract: The great environmental and social challenges of recent decades have questioned the hegemony of growth-oriented development and its objectives. Those critiques reexamined growth-based policies and strategies, leading to ‘alternative development’ pathways, the most prominent being sustainable development. Nevertheless, critical scholars […]

Is making alternative? Rethinking development in Germany’s makerspaces.

Is making alternative? Rethinking development in Germany’s makerspaces. Danai Liodaki Abstract: This paper explores the ideological backgrounds, normative motivations, and the degrees of alterity among makerspaces in Germany. It does so by connecting the question of alterity to discussions on development, and exploring to what extent and in which ways makerspaces aim to challenge the […]

Theorizing Multiple Geographies: Interrelations of Space and Multiplicity in Geographical Research

Theorizing Multiple Geographies: Interrelations of Space and Multiplicity in Geographical Research Danai Liodaki Abstract: Starting from the observation that the notion of “multiple geographies” has gained considerable traction in geographical research in the past years while its theoretical foundations have often remained abstract, in this paper we contribute toward elaboration of multiple geographies as a research […]

CORAL-ITN Podcasts Series

Episode 1. Labour, precariousness and gender imbalances in collaborative workspaces in rural Greece and Austria.