Doxiadis’ Informational Modernism examines one of the most transformational conditions of the last half century—the intertwining of cities, people, and information systems—in two episodes. The first covers the prescient use of computers by DACC—the Doxiadis Associates Computer Center. The Human Community, a 1960s DACC study of Athenian residents, gauged their adaptation to the postwarcity. For Doxiadis, community represented an ideal of social integration. It was also a dynamic measure of neighbourhood boundaries made volatile by postwar upheaval and migration. For recently arrived residents of contemporary Athens, these boundaries have multiplied and expanded to encompass state borders and their control systems. The second episode, the New Human Community, puts DACC in dialogue with current debates on computation and community. It retraces Doxiadis’s survey by conducting interviews with refugees and other new residents of Athens.
Participants
FARZIN LOTFI-JAM AND MARK WASIUTA ITHACA AND NEW YORK, USA
Farzin Lotfi-Jam, Tehran, Iran. Lives and works in Ithaca, USA.
Mark Wasiuta, Quebec City, Canada. Lives and works in New York, USA.
Authorial Collaborators
Onassis Stegi; Constantinos A. Doxiadis Archives and the Constantinos and Emma Doxiadis Foundation; The Greek Council for Refugees; Melissa Network
Team
Venice Presentation: Meera Almazrooei, Carolina Samoili, Irilena Tsami. Athens Presentation:Afroditi Panagiotakou, Prodromos Tsiavos (Executive Direction for the Onassis Stegi exhibition); Grace Alli and Meera Almazrooei (Curatorial Assistants); Jarrett Ley (New Human Community Research Coordinator); studioentropia architects_ (Yota Passia | Panagiotis Roupas, Design and Fabrication Coordination); Manos Vordonarakis (Fabrication Consultant); Grace Alli, Meera Almazrooei, Jarrett Ley, Parker Limón, Austin McInnis (Curatorial Research and Production Team); Lefteris Papagiannakis (New Human Community Athens Team, Coordinator); Christos Lazaridis, Nasruddin Nizami, Angeliki Stamataki (New Human Community Athens Team, Production Team); Vassilis Panagiotakopoulos (Onassis Stegi, Head of Production); Irilena Tsami (Onassis Stegi, Producer); Heracles Papatheodorou (Onassis Stegi, Production Coordination); Dimitra Bouzani (Onassis Stegi, Head of Line Production); Giannis Iasonidis (Onassis Stegi, Line Production); Margarita Tzannetou (Onassis Stegi, Research Assistant); Lefteris Karabilas (Onassis Stegi, Technical Director); Giannis Ntovas (Onassis Stegi, Deputy Technical Director)
Thanks
All documents appear courtesy of the Constantinos A. Doxiadis Archives
Supporters
Athens presentation, commissioned and produced by Onassis Stegi, Athens 2023;
Athens presentation, additional support by The Graham Foundation; Organized in partnership with the Constantinos A. Doxiadis Archives; Cornell University College of Architecture, Art, and Planning; Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Art, and Planning
