The School of Materialist Research (SMR) is an education and research inter-university grassroots platform that offers Integrated Credit Programs , Seminars, Special Programs, and Research Initiatives that address the materialisms running through contemporary science, philosophy, art, mathematics, design, architecture, and politics. SMR was founded by the Center for Philosophical Technologies at Arizona State University, The Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities Skopje, the Department for Architecture Theory and Philosophy of Technics at TU Vienna, and the Critical Inquiry Lab at the Design Academy Eindhoven and serves as a global hub for education, research, and experimentation at the intersection of the humanities, social sciences, creative fields, and the STEM sciences.

SMR's PARTNER Institutions :

Monoprosopi EPE School of Materialist Research offers full logistic, organizational services as well as participation in program planning of the interuniversity platform School of Materialist Research or SMR. Its main activity takes place through its partnership with SMR in the form of on-site implementation of the SMR Summer Institute. Even though it primarily focuses on onsite events of SMR, considering the digital economy component is key in its statute, Monoprosopi EPE School of Materialist Research offers also organization of online events (symposia, seminars, panels, conferences etc.), as well as online rentals of the campus and its dormitory for co-organization of academic events outside the umbrella of SMR.

Since 2024 SMR has been executing programs in partnership with SMR-AAS. SMR-AAS is an Estonian micro-company specialized in offering online alternative and informal academic programs, in the form of symposia (seminars, summer/winter school content. etc.), linked or fully integrated in the overall academic, research and popular sciences and arts programs offered by the interuniversity platform School of Materialist Research. Even though this is its primary activity, it can offer other programs promoting Alternative Academic Structures (what AAS stands for) and other formats of online academic content.

As of January 2024, The Culture-Borders-Gender/LAB is a partner institution of SMR. The LAB (establishing act 2415/4-8-2016) is a place and mode of meeting within the academic community (teachers, researchers and students), a unit of an Area Studies Department (Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies) at the University of Macedonia. At the same time, it is a link between junior and experienced researchers who are active in the fields of Social Anthropology, Cultural Studies, Gender and Border Studies. Ultimately, it is an academic collectivity that speaks to the wider society, both within and across, in urban and non-urban contexts, along and across borders and boundaries, perpetually reaching out to «our faraway neighbors». LAB's director is Prof. Fotini Tsibiridu. Website  http://cbg-lab.uom.gr/en/


In the beginning of 2024, Anti/Gones, joined SMR as its third partner institution.  Antigones: Bodies of Resistance in the Contemporary World [Antisomata]
This research explores philosophically, anthropologically and aesthetically what persists and what remains from Antigone’s legacy at the present historical moment, shifting the attention towards “other Antigones”, that is to say, towards its alternative, migratory, decolonial, transportable and transformational performative legacies. A long and variegated line of situational and translocal Antigones implies a heterogeneous and multilayered history which includes the voices and silences of subaltern and oppressed groups presenting, on the theatrical stages and social scenes of the contemporary world. Website: https://antigones.gr/