Metaxia Markaki


Last Name

Markaki

First Name

Metaxia

ORCID

0000-0002-8467-4808

Organisational unit

02861 - ETH Wohnforum - ETH CASE

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  • The Travelling Grocer
    Item type: Journal Article
    Markaki, Metaxia (2023)
    Trans ~ Time
    Following the itinerary of a travelling grosser at the depopulating mountainous regions of Greece and the testimonies of inhabitants that surround it, the contribution will narrate ‘time’ as it unfolds in such peripheral landscapes. In urban peripheries, countrysides, mountains and islands, ‘time’ survives in different manners. Merging antique narrations and present everyday life; dense and fragmented; ‘slow’ and periodical; neither modern, nor fully designed; not urban, but also not rural; measured and perceived with a different metric system, it recounts hybrid temporalities. It narrates a different manner of inhabitation and reveals a different portrait of such peripheral regions. Do we have time to slow-down and listen?
  • Arcadia. Politics of Land and Nature in Greek Peripheral Landscapes
    Item type: Presentation
    Markaki, Metaxia (2022)
    What is the future of mountainous depopulating regions and how idyllic are peripheral mountainous lands? The lecture will explore processes of urbanisation that occur in peripheral landscapes, seemingly intact areas of ‘nature’ and ‘uninhabited land’. In particular, we will revisit the mythicised landscapes of Arcadia in Greece, framing a contemporary, radically depopulating mountainous region. Through oral histories and material collected from fieldwork, we will reveal an unprecedented operation of land-grabbing, enclosure and privatisation that has been currently taking place in Greek peripheral landscapes. In mountains and islands, forests and protected areas processes of primitive accumulation and enclosure of commons currently unfold under the narrative of ‘green development’ and the pretext of climatic emergency.
  • achtung: die Landschaft. Explorations of the Unbuilt at ETH Studio Basel
    Item type: Presentation
    Markaki, Metaxia (2020)
  • Achtung: die Landschaft – Lässt sich die Stadt anders denken?
    Item type: Presentation
    Markaki, Metaxia (2016)
    Das Forschungsprojekt „achtung: die Landschaft“ versteht sich als Aufruf zum Perspektivenwechsel und rückt den unbebauten Raum ins Zentrum des Interesses. Die Stadtforscher ziehen diesen als Ausgangspunkt und Handlungsort alternativer strategischer Planungsansätze heran.
  • Urbanisation of the Unbuilt. Politics of land and nature at the countryside of Greek economic crisis
    Item type: Other Conference Item
    Markaki, Metaxia (2021)
    RC 21 Conference book of abstracts
  • Landscape In-Between. A River and a Backyard
    Item type: Other Publication
    Markaki, Metaxia; Ferrari, Simona (2020)
    NSL Newsletter
    Could we imagine extending the concept of participation beyond the social and civic aspects of a community? Could we go far enough to include non-humans, landscapes, histories, ecologies and the environment in which a community is rooted? What kind of new constellations would this imply and what possibilities would this allow? Landscape In-Between is the winning proposal for Europan15 for the former industrial area of Acetati in Verbania (IT) by Metaxia Markaki & Simona Ferrari. A participatory project with the community and local actors has been inaugurated in October 2020.
  • Achtung: die Landschaft. Lässt sich die Stadt anders denken? Ein erster Versuch
    Item type: Edited Volume
    Herzog, Jacques; de Meuron, Pierre; Euler, Lisa; et al. (2016)
  • Tentacular Writing. A peer-to-peer writing retreat. An ETH-EPFL Summer School. Reader
    Item type: Educational Material
    Markaki, Metaxia; Just, Johanna Franziska; Karatas, Sila (2022)
    "Tentacularity is about life lived along lines — and such a wealth of lines — not at points, not in spheres." (Haraway, 2016). This reader introduced to the notion and experience of "Tentacular Writing" imagined as a journey of writing-with; of creating literary “string figures” (Haraway, 2016, p.41), collective stories and narratives, weaving paths and testing possible worlds and times. In the format of a collective retreat in Tschlin, in the Swiss Alps, in a non-hierarchical learning format, we want to work alongside and discuss our work in progress informally. The remote location and unique setting of the summer school will help us exploring a form of inhabitation that is neither touristic nor individual and allows for reflection and redefinition of what it means to retreat: We want to see retreating not as isolating and detaching but rather as engaging with localities, connecting to a place and situating ourselves.
  • Climate Care, not Green Development. Blurred Notions from Lands in Transition
    Item type: Other Publication
    Markaki, Metaxia (2021)
    NSL Newsletter
    The contribution is triggered by the recent experience of immense forest fires that occurred in August 2021. It draws perspective and material from the ongoing doctoral research «Arcadia. Politics of land and nature at Greek peripheral landscapes.»
  • The "Uninhabited" forest. Urbanisation politics of mountainous regions.
    Item type: Presentation
    Markaki, Metaxia (2022)
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