Author: Dafni Riga
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Rear Window
View fullsize “You’ve got to get me out of here. Six weeks sitting in a two-room apartment with nothing to do but look out the window at the neighbours” — Rear Window, dir. Alfred Hitchcock, 1954 The lockdown of the past two months obliged many of us to limit our activities within the walls of…
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Reflections on Landscape
Excerpt from Despotiko: A Refuge for Boats, Chapter 5: Contemporary Islandscapes, pp. 173-179 | Master Thesis | Politecnico di Milano 2019 An important phase of this research has been the visits to the site and the attempts to become familiar with it. When entering a site such as Despotiko, so pure and uncontaminated by…
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Mare Nostrum
View fullsize The refugee and migrant crisis is an issue hitting the news’ headlines almost daily in Greece, and at least weekly in Europe. So much has been said and written, things constantly change since the start of this ‘crisis’ and yet the essence remains the same. A few days ago, the Greek government announced…
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