Projects

Traditional Boatbuilding

The Cyclades, an island group in the Aegean sea, are home to a host of maritime crafts and professions which have existed varyingly in Greece throughout ancient and contemporary historical periods. This project traces the imprint of three interlinked traditional practices - wooden boatbuilding, coastal fishing, and seafaring - on the islands of Amorgos, Koufonisia, Paros, Santorini, and Syros. Through the last practising master shipwrights, it documents the tools, timber, and tacit knowledge of a craft passed hand to hand across generations, now balanced precariously between disappearance and renewal.

Extraction in the Cyclades: Digital Traces

From the green marble quarries of Tinos to the iron mines of Serifos and the bentonite mines of Milos, the Cyclades' rich mineral resources have shaped the islands' social, cultural, and physical environments. Although mining has been prevalent in the region since antiquity, mineral extraction intensified and diversified in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Traces of these modern industrial activities are etched into the landscape and collective memory of the island's communities, anchoring stories of labour struggles, technological advancement, and environmental change that this project sets out to map, document, and reinterpret through a digital archive.