NEON & New Museum are pleased to announce the RESIDENCY | IdeasCity ATHENS, which will take place at the Athens Conservatoire.
Following an open call for participants in the residency program, IdeasCity Athens received over fourteen hundred applications from fifty-four countries of which forty emerging professionals were selected.
The five-day residency brings together emerging practitioners working at the intersection of community activism, art, design, architecture, and technology in cities around the world, who will develop ideas and strategies to overcome the pressing challenges facing urban centres today. IdeasCity Fellows live and work in the Athens Conservatoire and transform the space into a multifunctional hub of cultural activity.
The intensive residency program taking place from the 19th to the 24th September 2016, will culminate in a free daylong public conference featuring internationally acclaimed speakers form the fields of art, architecture,design, policymaking, and urbanism.
Production by Inkas Film Productions
Filmed by Tokomburu
Edited by George Charisis
©2016