April 2022

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Workshop leaders:
Bo Tang, Robert Barnes, Shamoon Patwari

London Met staff and research students travelled to Athens over the Easter break for a week-long international professional development residency.
Led by ARCSR, in partnership with Sirius Training and local host civil society organisation, Inter Alia, and funded by the Erasmus Plus programme, participants engaged in narratives of Community, (place-based) Architecture, Participation and Migration (CAMP).

Working closely with Greek and refugee participants, the programme brought together a broad and diverse range of disciplines, interests and experience. The participants worked in small groups made up of a
variety of backgrounds both academic and practical, with the aim of promoting different methodological approaches to research and exploration.

Focusing on the neighbourhood of Exarcheia, the project aimed to give the participants an understanding of issues that affect non-EU migrants,
refugees and asylum seekers when arriving in European cities. The residency offered a forum for exchange, sharing, learning and experimentation, involving collaborative placed-based field research
and hands-on workshops.

This culminated in a public event called Translations, where expressions and ideas were presented back to neighbourhood residents as an exhibition of produced artefacts including drawings, models and film.