︎ The Summer Institute
SMR's Summer Institute is located in what used to be ancient Stagira, Aristotle's birthplace, now called Olympiada in the Northeast of Greece.
It is situated at the beautiful coastline of the Aegean Sea, at an only 50-60 minutes drive from Thessaloniki Airport.
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Call for Applications for the Summer School
PHYSIS 2025 at the SMR Campus in Greece
with
Dorion Sagan, John Ó Maoilearca, Thomas
Nail, Katarina Kolozova, Joel White and
Claire Sagan
offering masterclasses and keynotes and
more (panelists yet to announced).
PHYSIS in Stagira/Olympiada, Greece (wider area of Thessaloniki, municipality Aristotelis in Olympiada), 24-30 August 2025 with Dorion Sagan, John Ó Maoilearca, Thomas Nail, Katarina Kolozova, Joel White and Claire Sagan offering masterclasses and keynotes and more ( panelists yet to be announced).

CLICK here for the Call for Applications and Practical Details including Aplication Form
︎ Summer Institute for Advanced Design Practices: Nature/Artifice Reimagined
August 3 to August 10, 2025 in Olympiada/Stagira (Greece)
We are proud to announce our Summer Institute for Advanced
Design Practices collaboration with several universities taking place from
August 3 to August 10, 2025 in Olympiada/Stagira (Greece): Nature/Artifice
Reimagined.
Co-organizers are: Goldsmiths University, Politecnico di Milano,
Sandberg Institute (NL) and, of course, the founding institution of SMR,
Arizona State University-CPT.
Deadline for applications: March 1st, 2025.
The
application form
Please find the brochure containing all the
relevant information.

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Death,
Movement, Change and Transformation: The Domain of Matter with
John Ó
Maoilearca, Thomas Nail and
Joel White,
and Jonathan Fardy as invited lecturer
The application form is available in the link below containing the full program and the relevant practical info. Please, be informed that the selection process is based on a single key criterion: your motivation (”Please indicate what is your interest in the summer school program”), backed up by your academic profile (”short bio”) to be stated in the form itself. The call for applications is open until February 27, 2024. The results of the selection process will be available 15 days after the closing of the Call.

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︎
The Feminine in an Age of Anthropological Transformation
The application form is available in the link below containing the full program and the relevant practical info. Please, be informed that the selection process is based on a single key criterion: your motivation (”Please indicate what is your interest in the summer school program”), backed up by your academic profile (”short bio”) to be stated in the form itself. The call for applications is open until December 31, 2023. The results of the selection process will be available 15 days after the closing of the Call.

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︎ Mytho Planetarities: Critical and Speculative Practices in Design Research
The School of Materialist Research is excited to announce a 2024 summer school on design and creative
research in Olympiada, Greece: Mytho Planetarities: Critical and Speculative Practices in Design Research.
Dates: Aug 3-9, 2024
The
summer school is geared toward graduate students (Master’s and
Doctoral) and early career researchers wanting to expand their creative
and critical
research on questions related to design, mythology, and planetarity.
The school is taught by internationally renowned design and arts faculty
from Goldsmiths University of London (UK), Politecnico di Milano
(Italy), University of New South Wales (Australia),
and Arizona State University (USA).
The program fee covers lodging and tuition. Applications are due May 3. Apply here.
Instructions for submitting
1000 euro to secure your place in the summer school will
be sent upon receipt of application. Payments are due by July 1.
Olympiada is beach town, easily accessible from Thessaloniki (approximately 1 hour), the
second largest city in Greece. Details about transportation and accommodation will be sent out in early summer.
