This creative project includes the rewriting of Eric Carle's picture-book "The Very Hungry Catepillar". The original tells the story of a very hungry catepillar and its quest to find food to eat. The catepillar succesfully finds food and, upon growing and forming a coocoon, transforms into a beautiful butterfly. My rewriting of "The Very Hungry Catepillar" takes this story to a completely different level, developing awareness in youth about climate change and the need to take action to save the planet and its inhabitants. In my story, the same catepillar has the same quest of finding food, but however finds none, as the earth has now become overpopulated with waste and trash. Since the catepillar has nothing to eat, he cannot turn into a beautiful butterfly.
A Fairy Tale guide which aims to present clear expectations from the classic fairy tale heroines as narrative “rules.” As well as, reveal how survival and success in a patriarchal society depend mainly on female kindness, obedience, sacrifice and emotional labor.
Metropolis of the Unconscious: A Surrealist View of Athens is a curatorial and research project that explores Athens as a psychological and symbolic landscape through Greek surrealist and modern art. Bringing together painting, collage, film, and archival material, the project examines how myth, memory, architecture, and everyday life intersect in the city’s visual imagination. Structured around three thematic sections: Surreal Topographies, Spaces of Reflection, and Memory and Historical Consciousness, it presents Athens as a fragmented, dreamlike metropolis shaped by desire, identity, and political history.
Photographs of specific spaces and places, which meet the requirements for the implementation of specific photographical techniques concerning symmetry and timing.
Contemporary works or outlets of political satire, are mainly represented by late night TV shows such as “The Colbert Report” rather than a magazine or newspaper. We wanted to bring back to life influential pieces of political satire such as “A Modest Proposal” or “The Animal Farm” and use them as sources of inspiration to critique the state of global politics today. Satire has the functional capacity to illuminate aspects of social reality that are otherwise unnoticed, and this is what we wanted to achieve with this project. Showcase the absurdity that sometimes characterizes the state of global politics.
The work which will be presented is a book specifically designed for children of a young age, which helps them learn while playing. More specifically, the book consists of numerous categories, each of whom includes specific words and images. The kids have to match the right image of each category to the right word, which are in magnet form. Therefore, the kids get to learn in a fun and innovative way, with the help of their caregivers and later by themselves.
My creative project was inspired by our class visit to the Schisto camp. This visit impacted me greatly and was one of the most valuable experiences I gained from the course. Motivated by heart-warming interactions with the children in the camp, I wanted to do something related to children and their environmental education as my creative project. Therefore, I decided to write two picture books for children, ages between four and eight, in which various SDGs are included. At the end of each book, there is a section titled “Let’s Learn”, where certain terms used in the story are explained, aiming to educate the children who would read the books.
"The Night Falls in Sarajevo" offers an immersive journey into Balkan intrigue, blending history with strategy in a Mafia-style game. Players assume roles from the infamous assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, navigating identity, politics, and deception. Through covert alliances and strategic moves, they uncover the truth amidst geopolitical tensions and critically reflect on nationalist narratives and ethical dilemmas. Every move in this game not only echoes historical significance but also challenges players to navigate the complexities of identity and power in an entertaining and immersive manner.
A condensed play on the Greek Civil War, placing emphasis on the identities of Balkan individuals. Centered around the protagonist Nikoletta and her experiences living in a village in the Peloponnese, the play is split up into four acts, jumping from the present, to 1948, then 1978 and ultimately back into present. The time jumps encapsulate perspectives Nikoletta faced during the tribulations of the Greek Civil War, after the war and efficaciously enunciates the need and power of compassion, historical reference and the dangers of polarization in society, regardless of time and setting.
The paper (and presentation to be used in the symposium) aims to delve into the fundamentals of the Langlands program and use the Mirror Symmetry that occurs in Modular Forms as the common factor to suggest a potential application to an extension of String Theory, M-Theory. The objective is to examine whether a so called Grand Unified Theory of Mathematics (connecting Number Theory with Harmonic Analysis) can be useful for the theoretical framework of a respective Unified Theory of Physics that combines General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics.
