WHAT STREET PARTY? is an open, Athens-based, guerilla, non-profit, wiki collective. The collective is interested into Guerilla street-parties as an action of public space reclaiming, reunion, expression, creation, communication, experimentation, music vibration, body vitalization. During these parties, a big dancing crowd establishes a route in the city, stops in predefined spots and interacts with the citizens in an effort to regain the city space.
Freecycle
Freecycle group is a web – based group, open to all who want to donate or request objects for free. It works locally at a global level (each city in every country forms a new individual network). Against the perpetual procedure of consuming and disposal, which results in aggregation of several tons of used materials, the group suggests donation and recycling.
Navarinou Park
The Navarinou Park, also known as the parking park is a free self-managed space in Exarcheia – an area which is a centre of social movements and alternative cultural practices since the 1970s. The ground actually belongs to TEE, which first was to host its offices, later it was to become a square as part of an exchange with the Municipality of Athens, and finally it turned out to become an open air parking space since 1990. In 2008 the lease was terminated and the issue of its construction was raised provoking reactions by local groups. On the 7th of March 2009 a multitude of people (including groups and individuals) responded to a digital call for collective action and occupied the space demanding the transformation of the parking into a park. Guerilla gardening started right away. The park has become a self-organised, anti-hierarchical and anti-commercial space with an open assembly. The park is actually a place of gathering, creation, emancipation, gaming and resistance. It aims to become a park beyond profit and property, functioning as a space of play,assembly and communication, creativity, exchange and activism beyond barriers of age, origin, education, social and financial status.
Animals and humans as companions
Animals and humans as companions. Prior to 2004, Athens was a common space for animals and humans.There were many stray animals that lived all around the city without human masters or liberated from relations of bondage. Stray animals and humans often lived in a relationship of companionship, offering to each other communication, food, shelter, affection and protection.
Open Source Software
Α large community of users and developers who work for continuous improvement of Free Libre Open Source Software FLOSS (software that anyone can freely use, copy, distribute and modify according to their needs)sharing knowledge and work. The commonity contributes thus to the production and the expansion of the commons.
Cycling friendly city
In a city that offers priority to the automobile, a group of citizens shares a common goal: to introduce the bicycle in the Athenians.
Participants in action!
A brief video which displays the actual workshop taking place. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpTk8l6k4cY