An interview with Eleni Tzirtzilaki

by Ursula Dimitriou

Translated from Greek by Mary Christou

Published in “Design and Political Dissent,Spaces,Visuals,Materialities”, edited by Jilly Traganou, Routledge Research in design studies, 2021.

The Free Occupied Self-Organized Theater Embros[i] is one of several urban commons[ii] that emerged in Athens in the context of the Greek financial and social crisis.[iii]  Since that period, discussions about urban commons have become widespread among city dwellers, as it was increasingly evident that the city’s public spaces and property was treated by the state as asset ready for exploitation and threatened with enclosure. Continue reading