Periplus Workshops 2025
Now two locations in rural Greece to choose from:
Reinventing placemaking in Arcadia
Revealing matter’s potential in Crete
Short-term residencies for designers, artists, architects, creatives & performing artists, working across all cultural fields.
Periplus Workshops offers selected creative and cultural students, graduates, tutors and professionals from all over the world the time and space to delve into a constantly open lab, where thinking through making, direct experiential access to local identity and a deeply humanising relationship with nature may develop into a new approach to immense creativity. Gathering knowledge that may subsequently help local communities better deal with their existing and future multifaceted challenges. Powerfully reengaging them with the wealthy but frequently neglected potential of their local natural and cultural environment.
When: July-August 2025
Where: Arcadia region, Peloponnese, Greece & Chania region, Crete, Greece
Who can apply: Designers, artists & creatives, architects, innovation engineers and material researchers, performing artists, culture curators
Duration of residencies:
In Arcadia: One 10 days period (1-10 July)
In Crete : Two 9 days periods (20 - 28 July or 30 July - 7 August)
Accommodation:
In Arcadia: Shared spacious dormitories, in the hospitable Dimitsana Cultural Center, at the edge of a traditional village, with all bathrooms WC/shower.
In Crete: Shared rooms in tower type farm-house at rural village outskirts, withall bathrooms WC/shower.
Disciplines, work equipment and assistance: Crafts / Design / Arts / Architecture / Material Innovation / Curating / Visual Arts / MediaArts / Social Innovation / Exhibition Design / Eating Experience
Studio / Workspace: Shared indoor & outdoor studios
More info, fees and support at:periplusworkshops.com
Application deadline: 2025-4-30 (for early bird only)
14.11.2024
