with Regina Mantanika
The Openeleusis research project is an interdisciplinary collaboration between researchers in anthropology, history and visual arts for community-based research in Eleusina, a city where Greek industrial history is heavily imprinted on people’s memories and everyday life. Eleusina is situated in Western Attika and has undergone various phases of (de)industrialisation since the late 19th century. The Openeleusis team has worked on the industrial culture of Eleusina through participant observation, workshops, individual biographical interviews, focus groups and ethnographic filmmaking. One of the results is an open digital archive, https://openeleusis.eu/?lang=en. It is a digital space, a living library and memory bank of the city, which presents in an inventive way the material resulting from the historical and ethnographic research in order to ‘return it back’ to the community.
The OPENELEUSIS archive includes texts, videos and documents such as photographs, videos, maps, testimonies, interviews, etc. To have an intergenerational approach in the field, our team organised docu-animation workshops for children aged 8-12 in Elefsina. Three different teams (schools) were trained in oral history and stop-motion animation techniques for one week each. Finally, the team organised oral history seminars for the local community, leading to the creation of the Oral History Group of Eleusina (OPIEL), which will have its own space on openeleusis.eu.
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In person, LB 1019 (Sunroom)
COHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.
