Hands on Famagusta

Hands-on Famagusta project is devoted to visualizing a common urban future for a unified Famagusta, thus paving the way for future collaboration and further cohabitations in a post-conflict Cyprus. The project uses participatory urban design processes to facilitate dialogue about the future of Famagusta. The project contributes to the construction of a common ground between groups in conflict and supports the planning of contemporary urban environments. It is based on the on-going work by the Laboratory of Urbanism, University of Cyprus (LU2CY), Imaginary Famagusta (I.F.), and AA & U For Architecture, Art and Urbanism.

The focus of Hands-on Famagusta is to empower Cypriot civil society regarding urban transformation processes for a unified Famagusta As such, it has produced several major tools to facilitate the ongoing public debate:

(1) a trilingual interactive webplatform that invites users to explore controversial matters for visions about a unified Famagusta

(2) debate platforms that have included a series of workshops, consultation meetings and public presentations since June 2014;

(3) a mobile physical model of the city in its entirety which will assist Famagustians and others to visualize the city as a whole rather than fragmented territories based on ethnic division;

(4) a publication that brings together the project activities with their theoretical and methodological underpinnings;

(5) a survey of Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot Famagustians based on personal interviews conducted on both sides of the divide (by Nektarios Christodoulou_ LU2CY).

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Project Leader: Socrates Stratis (Imaginary Famagusta Group, AA&U, LU2CY)

Project Team: Emre Akbil, Esra Can Akbil, Chrysanthe Constanti nou, Nektarios Christodoulou, Münevver Özgür Özersay (Imagi nary FamagustaGroup)

AA&U (Architecture, Art and Urbanism): Angeliki Koutsodimi tropoulou, Thalia Charalambous, Chrysanthe Constantinou

LU2CY (Laboratory of Urbanism, University of Cyprus): Nicolas Constantinou, Phivia Papashiandi

Webplatform development by LightBlack

Webplatform Graphic Design by AA&U

Webplatform Videos by AA&U

Logo Design by Olof Jondelius and Robin Lee