"A guide to Future Athens" Exhibition Opening

A Guide to Future Athens

Exhibition
Palazzo Canavée

Exhibition opening 02/12/2025 13:30

Athens is one of the oldest cities in the world with a documented history that spans more than 3,400 years. At the same time it is a central arena of the intellectual history of a democratic Europe. Traces of its democratic self-image can be found both in written sources and in the city scape. However, climate change poses a fundamental challenge to Athens’ physical and intellectual heritage to varying degrees and on different scales. Extreme heat, wildfires, floods, overtourism, and privatization are just some of the biggest challenges facing the city’s infrastructure and buildings today.

The research seminar "Athens - Rethinking Urban Futures through the Lens of Climate Change" addresses these challenges by creating "A Guide to Future Athens" which combines scientific methods of ethnographic fieldwork with scenario building. Students of the seminar were asked to create future scenarios for 2030, 2050, and 2100 that incorporate their empirical observations made in Athens. Their work was guided by the three thematic strands of thermal environment, energy transition, and urban ecology.

The exhibition brings together all student papers in a printed edition of "A Guide to Future Athens" and presents their findings on nine thematic posters. During the exhibition opening, students will present share their research to the invited guests Prof. Renate Walter and Dr. Mosè Cometta.
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MSc1-2 Athens - Rethinking Urban Futures
Prof. Sascha Roesler
Lydia Xynogala, Julian Raffetseder