Η γειτονιά και το παιχνίδι: Αναφορά στην ανάδραση μεταξύ αστικού παιδότοπου και αποβιομηχανοποιημένου αστικού τοπίου: Από την παρένθεση στην παραίνεση, μελέτη περίπτωσης στην Μέση Αγυιά της Πάτρας

Abstract

The parents’ seminar organized in our neighbourhood school in Patras gave the incentive to our team to research into the potential symbiotic interaction between the inactive industrial landscape and the iconography of the open communal spaces used by children for playing, the playgrounds of our district, Agyia. A serious factor to take into consideration is the disabled industrial building complex, old Mamos Brewery.
The condition of public space deteriorates as the city’s spending continuously diminishes. How do playgrounds in Agyia around Mamos look like? How does Mamos relate to Agyia? Some of the inhabitants do not know that the area used to host one of the famous Greek breweries, even though they move around it and the warehouses still in use daily.
The research on the potential interaction of the former industrial condition and the open public spaces and playgrounds aspires to activate the interest of all of us, the citizens, in the story of our town, so that we all, residents and users of playgrounds, can use space to educate ourselves to a communal thinking as well as to our local history. This project works to disentangle the riddles of space and narrate the story of the city.