The workshop in nature

We are living at a time where new needs are constantly being created, old habits are missed and alternative methods of decompression are sought. As observers, and as we have reconstructed ourselves experiences and desires, we focused on the meaning of familiarity from a different perspective. Our challenge was to find the way to externalize familiarity in a public space and to direct home outwards, at a time when introversion and isolation have reached their zenith. Thus, there were concerns such as: What does home mean to each person? What are its limits? Could home be expressed in collectivity terms? And could it be restructured into a public, open air area, like a park? Some of the house and yard activities we used to consolidate the final composition idea are food, clothing, entertainment, learning, leisure, cohabitation, workmanship and gardening. Along with the above, our environmental considerations for recycling and green growth were combined. At the same time, through our experiential observation after our visit in the Municipal Cultural Park in Nea Iwnia -known as Elikodromio- we ended up at the place where our ideas were consolidated. This park is one of the largest parks in the Municipality of Volos, but at the same time, it is characterized as one of the most abandoned and useless green area. The purpose of our interference is the regeneration of the park with installations and activities that respect the landscape and they strengthen its identity as a cultural park.