Spatial Design
and Artefact Research Unit

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Main thematic areas
Politics and Poetics of Space, Memory, Identity, Space, Place and Artefact, Interactive Design
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Overview

The Spatial Design and Artefact Research Unit is a newly formed research team, the members of which selectively have an important and extensive research experience in the research below:

  • Politics and Poetics of Space: Exploring Cultural Heritage in a contemporary urban context and the cultural, sociopolitical and economic implications and consequences of such experiments.
  • Memory, Identity, Space, Place and Artefact: Communicating the space and the object and experimenting with scenographic and museographic approaches in redefining a sense of place.
  • Interactive Design: Interpretation of the urban space in a contemporary perspective through immersive and reactive experiences. Exploring the interaction of artistic interventions in public spaces and their impact on social and political constructions. The operation of space and its artefacts as a means of encounter and communication.
PositionNameDepartmentResearch Domain
Lead researcher Dr Anna Merry Economou Arts & Communication Interactive Design
Unit Member Mr Constantinos Kounnis Arts & Communication Memory, Identity, Space, Place and Artefact
Unit Member Ms Pavlina Platonos Arts & Communication Co-Design, Space, Place
Unit Member Ms Kally Sozou  Arts & Communication Visual Communication
Start YearProject TitleLead Partner/ AssigneeFunding fromProject Website
2023 Futures Designed - Exploring Green Futures: Integrating the New European Bauhaus into Art and Design Education Frederick University Erasmus+ / European Union https://futures-designed.frederick.ac.cy/index.php/en/
2023 GREAT: Games Realising Effective & Affective Transformation DIPF | Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education Horizon / European Union
UKRI
https://www.greatproject.gg/
2021 Re-Placed - Re-mapping Public Space: Investigating Social and Spatial Interactions in Cyprus Post Covid-19 Frederick University Frederick University http://re-placed.frederick.ac.cy//index.php/en/