Made in Athens at the Shared Campus Summer School “Extractive Realities and Ecological Resonances”.

The Shared Campus Summer School invites young creatives from around the globe to learn from the changing rural and post-industrial landscapes, and to critically explore issues of extractivism, globalism, and its ecological impacts. Through diverse creative practice this immersive residency also fosters exchanges with local communities, providing profound connections with the land, culture, and environment.

The Shared Campus network is established by 13 leading international arts universities, schools and colleges. Extractive Realities and Ecological Resonances is organised by University of the Arts London and Zurich University of the Arts, with 21 students attending from across the Shared Campus network: Kyoto Seika University, Taipei National University of the Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts, University of the Arts Singapore, Hong Kong Baptist University, and City University of Hong Kong / School of Creative Media.

The programme is curated by Heather Barnett, Andreas Kohli and Joëlle Bitton working in collaboration with Emilia Bouriti, the Syn+ergasia Art Platform, Georgios Papadopoulos and [sic] Space for International Cooperation. With thanks for all the creative encounters and collaborations with Athenian artists, designers and organisations including Loukia Minetou, Leonidas Agyros, BlueCycle, 3Quarters, Diti Kotecha from Théla, Maria Kampouri, Lara Alkisti Papadaki, and Tavros. With gratitude for the generosity of the people of Aspropyrgos as students have experienced the agricultural heritage of Aspropyrgos in collaboration with farmers such as Dimitris Hatzis and Antigone Liosi and tree growers such as Thanasis Serepas, and the cultural heritage through the songs of the spoken Arvanitika language by the singing group “Syn+Ergasia”: Mary Avraam, Eleni Dara, Koula Liosi, Mary Kapsala, Katina Neroutsou, and Kaiti Neroutsou.

Special thanks to all the wonderful other participants in the program:

Karya Anliak, Anoushka Badola, Lia Bellini, Belén Fernández, Nevin Götschmann, Joana Felicia Hirt, Maeve Huthwaite, Yo Ichimaru, Ai Kawamura, Maia Gazzella, Yana Nenkova, Caja Peters, Amalia Popescu, Arash Rafiei Karkavandi, Owen Sin, Hakata Takahashi, Ayano Ueda, Praba Velayudham, Yi-Ju Wang, Mingchi Yan.