Care: Economies of Eudaimonia

Residency Programme 1st edition, October 2022

The first edition of the G&A Mamidakis Foundation Research Residency Programme, which took place between 15-22 October, 2022, in Agios Nikolaos, Crete, was a week-long intensive residency promoting creative interaction among cultural practitioners. It brought together nine professionals from the fields of fine art, performance, curating, writing, research, cultural production, and graphic design, who explored recent research around the themes of Care/Eudaimonia, and how we can all work together to redefine care, resulting in a more caring world. The residency was shaped around discussions and workshops organised by invited lecturers, during which the participants debated about critical current issues including the crisis of social care and healthcare in Greece and abroad, the gradual shrinking of the welfare state, the refugee crisis, the pandemic, and the environmental crisis, as well as the secondary traumas of carers, the lack of (their) care, and ‘care washing’.

Residency Fellows © Loukianos Arnaoutakis / G&A Mamidakis Foundation

For my research, see:

Chrysanthopoulos, Ch. (2023). How do we say “care” in Albanian? Oral history and archive practices at the service of the care manifesto. In S. Bahtsetzis & Y. Dimitriou (Eds.), Care: Economies of Eudaimonia (pp. 109-124). - Click HERE for the publication Care: Economies of Eudaimonia.

Fellows: Maita Chatziioanidou, Christos Chrysanthopoulos, Ariana Kalliga, Dina Ntziora, Foivos Oikonomidis, Eleni Riga, Georgia Sagri, Mariana Stefanitsi, Nikolas Vamvouklis

Workshops by: Andreas Chatzidakis, Chara Kouki, Joulia Strauss, Steven Corcoran, Odysseas Sgouros and Alexandros Psychoulis

Read more HERE.