The kindoff.collective – 153 golden days of experimenting and creating in the heart of Exarcheia – a bubbling pot of political activism, nightlife, and contrasts. In an abandoned mystical house together we created 10 exhibitions, many workshops, and creative meetings. We learned from each other and from the new cultural context.

Within the framework of our educational experiment (@Design academy of Eindhoven), I freely followed my intuition and embraced what the streets had to offer every day.

The old Exarcheia is under constant renovation. The Airbnb trend is taking over, renovations should be done fast and cheap and no one has time to repair the grandmother’s wooden chairs. Every morning piles of wooden furniture, window frames, and doors grow next to the trash beans. Those are usually left behind even by the paliatzis – “junk dealers” who are driving around the city while yelling from their wonder vesicles inviting people to bring their old appliances and unwanted stuff from home.

Driven by my huge love for wood and triggered by the stories of those abandoned objects, I felt the urge to adopt them all. As a natural outcome, The street wood workshop was born – a place where everyone from the neighborhood can work with the collected materials and tranform them into something new.