"the blur building", Diller & Scofidio, Swiss National Expo2002

"Chair", Giorgos Gyparakis, 2008

"This is not a pipe", René Magritte, 1929

"Between words and objects one can create new relations and specify characteristics of language and objects ignored in everyday life"... "Sometimes the name of an object takes the place of an image. A word can take the place of an object in reality. An image can take the place of  a word in proposition"..."In a painting words are of the same cloth as images. Rather one sees images and words differently in a painting". René Magritte  (ref. "This is not a pipe", Michel Foucault, 1968)

“in girum imus nocte et consumimur igni” (“We go wandering at night and are consumed by fire”), Guy Debord, 1978

How do we inhabit space? Does this question refer to an architect or to the user? What would an artist say about it? I have always wondered whether an architect is the right person to judge space and to “compose some kind of manual” for its use. I believe that space cannot exist without the objects and the subjects that actually activate it. For Heidegger: “Space is not something opposite of people. It is neither an eternal object, nor an internal biome. People do not exist with space out of them”. 

Though I have studied Architecture in the National Technical University of Athens, I have developed an interest in the objective and more “liberal” qualities of space, that lead to designing space that overcomes the rational analysis of an architectural construction programme. Such methods and ideas usually pertain to the mutable space of imagination and dream, to the psychological and emotional identity of the user and in general, to research that does not refer to substantial facts but to perceptual and theoretical qualities. Recently I studied the movement of the Situationist International and the main ideas of the situationists’ rationale  which I found it to be very related to today’s trends of art, architecture and the digital world. Though I have not yet defined my research plan for the MA course, I am certain that the above ideas will influence my work and will help me develop a more artistic way to analyse and “comment” on the established conventional relation between the user and space by establishing a new perspective and a dialectical relation between them, on the verge between art and architecture.