Our guest lecturer will be PANAYOTIS ANTONIADIS, who will give a lecture entitled :TALKING BUILDINGS: IMPERSONATION AS A COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND LEARNING TOOL

Since September 2024, the Talking Buildings methodology has been tried out in different community engagement processes in the area of sustainable renovation of cultural heritage buildings, for stimulating public participation and awareness, for facilitating design workshops, for learning processes in secondary education, for campaigning, and more. In this lecture I will share the experience from these efforts and discuss the added value that impersonation brings in standard participatory and community engagement processes, and various methodological guidelines in using the Talking Buildings approach in different settings.

Panayotis Antoniadis

Panayotis Antoniadis (PhD) is co-founder of NetHood, a Zurich-based non-profit association that combines research and action around a wide variety of participatory processes at the neighbourhood level. He has a highly interdisciplinary profile with a PhD on network economics (Athens University of Economic and Business) and senior researcher positions in both the electrical engineering and the architecture departments of ETH Zurich, research visits in top universities like University of Southern California (USC), Princeton, London School of Economics, and Cambridge, and key roles in civil society organizations like the Internet Society Switzerland Chapter, and the L200 space in Zurich.  In the context of the Horizon Europe project SINCERE, he co-developed the  #TalkingBuildings methodology for community engagement around issues of preservation and sustainable renovation of cultural heritage buildings, which is documented at https://talkingbuildings.net