​This page contains useful resources on key concepts that Common Lab is based on, grouped by subject.
These are selections from previous projects by the organisers, on the experience of which Common Lab is built, and open source libraries. 

ART FOR SOCIAL CHANGE

Dr. Sotirios Bahtsetzis - "Art for Social Change"
​Dr. Stephanie Bertrand - "Use and Artifice in Socially Engaged Art"
Dr. Stephanie Bertrand - "Arte Útil and Useful Curating"
Nato Thompson - "Reflections on Socially Engaged Art
​at Creative Time"
Pablo Helguera - "Social Practice Vs. Social Work"
Florian Malzacher - "What role can art play in this?
​On useful art & direct engagement."

POSTINDUSTRIAL DESIGN

Dr. Sotirios Bahtsetzis - "Postindustrial Design"
"POSTINDUSTRIAL DESIGN: OUR STANDPOINT"
PUBLICATION, INSTITUTE HYPERWERK FOR POSTINDUSTRIAL DESIGN
spielmann_bahtsetzis_postindustrial_design.pdf
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RESEARCH
"THEORY OF CHANGE THINKING IN PRACTICE"
​PUBLICATION, HIVOS
hivos_toc_guidelines_final_nov_2015.pdf
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Rainer Rosegger - "Social Reporting Standards"

COMMUNITY

Jeanne Van Heeswjik - "Freehouse: Radicalising the Local & the Birth of a Neighbourhood Cooperative"
Niels Boeing - "Fabrication, Art and Productive Spaces"
Felix Stalder - "Community, Urban Transformation,
​Digital Culture"

TOOLS

The mobile studio and mobile stage were developed during projects Artecitya and LABattoir with a post-industrial design approach. Their aim is to train, empower and activate young creatives and communities through the production of content and encouragement of dialogue in public spaces.

INSPIRATION

How To You Do!
100 Constructive Provocations
Final publication for the project Artecitya - Envisioning the City of Tomorrow by Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki ​(2014-2018)
Designed by: Dimitris Koliadimas (semiotikdesign.com), and Anja Lutz (anjalutz.com) 
​as the result of a participatory workshop.
Editor: Lydia Chatziiakovou (ArtBOX)

SOURCES

  • Empowerment Lecture Series of the Cultural Entrepreneurial Hub (CEH) by Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki in collaboration with ArtBOX and Project LABattoir (2020).  Camera and editing by George Kogias. 
  • Work as Invention. Art for Social Change, international conference in the framework of Artecitya - Envisioning the City of Tomorrow by Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki in collaboration with ArtBOX, with the support of the Creative Europe Programme of the EU (31 March - 01 April 2017). ​

contact

Tel.: +30.2310.22.46.26
Email: info@artbox.gr
Το Common Lab (CoL) έχει σαν αποστολή τη δημιουργία ενός Εγχειριδίου Κοινωνικής Καινοτομίας μέσω της Τέχνης, με στόχο να βοηθήσει κοινότητες που αντιμετωπίζουν κάποιου είδους κρίση. To Common Lab βασίζεται στην εμπειρία που αποκτήθηκε ​μέσω του προγράμματος LABattoir, που όπως ήταν προγραμματισμένο ολοκληρώθηκε ​στα τέλη του 2019.
Common Lab’s (CoL) mission is to create a Manual for Social Innovation through Art, aiming to empower communities to overcome crises.​ Common Lab is based on the experience gained through Project LABattoir, which concluded according to plan at the end of 2019.