Athens Derelict Plug-In proposes an investigation and a set of designs taking place in Athens. Projected at the many layers of the city, the design process is addressed to a palimpsest of different phases of the urban landscape. After many decades of decline of the downtown, an idiosyncratic functional void in the midst of the built city center is created.

The studio investigates a contemporary version of a cabin with an “extended bed” and a field understood as a different public realm. These two architectural conditions even if still unnamed, show already existing tensions of the social sphere produced while different relations occur between users and the network.

The studio explores the core of nowadays’ social sphere proposed as an idiosyncratic withdrawal. Withdrawal is meant to be an antisocial attitude but increasingly it is only through withdrawal that we can grasp the spirit of this phase of “urbanism”. The core of the “urban” becomes withdrawal. We may claim that the specific withdrawal we deal with is a deep stay in the sphere of infrastructure

The lecture series of the Institute of Design and Architecture - in the FS21 provides students with an overview of the various positions of the teachers within the IEA (Institute Design in Architecture).