2024 Athens Critical Ecology ‘Common Ground’ Exhibition — How Do You Want People to Remember Aspropyrgos?
is a participatory textile installation and documentary developed during the Shared Campus summer school in Greece. The project explores the intersection of ecology, extractivism, and community, focusing on Aspropyrgos—an agricultural and industrial region shaped by rapid development. It began with a simple question, inviting residents to share how they wish their community to be remembered, shifting authorship from external representation to a collective voice.
Discarded plastic threads found in local farmland, used by farmers out of necessity, became the central material—hand-collected, cleaned, and crocheted into a textile tapestry through a slow, embodied process that connects material, labour, and land. Developed in close collaboration with local residents and an international team, conversations and shared experiences became integral to the work itself. Designed as an open structure, the installation invited visitors to write responses and tie them onto the textile, forming a growing archive of memory and intention.
