Culture and People: This is Athens!

At the beginning of 2018, while studying Cultural Management at Panteion University, one of our graduate courses got us thinking about cities. Under the lead of Professor <a href="https://medium.com/@tsakarestou" rel="noopener">Betty Tsakarestou</a>, who is the project initiator of the <a href="https://medium.com/athens-co-creation-city-branding-project" rel="noopener">Athens Co-Creation City Branding Project</a>, we started discussing ways to make our city more sustainable, smart, open and better for the people that inhabit it. Our team (<a href="https://medium.com/@Karolina_Alma" rel="noopener">Karolina A. Mackiewicz</a>, <a href="https://medium.com/@amantes.sunt.amentes7" rel="noopener">Maximos S. Theo</a>. and <a href="https://medium.com/@gkakalidi" rel="noopener">Ioanna Kakalidi</a>) was challenged to study cities around the globe in order to understand what it is we as cultural managers can do to create a better future for the city we live in. We case-studied the <a href="https://medium.com/athens-co-creation-city-branding-project/youthful-city-index-what-does-it-tell-us-11d41b0fe756" rel="noopener">Global YouthfulCity Index</a>, we evaluated <a href="https://medium.com/athens-co-creation-city-branding-project/a-new-vegas-or-an-ever-changing-polis-a-perspective-of-athens-in-the-new-world-5dd0ccc509c7" rel="noopener">Athens</a> for its strengths and potential and we got in touch with two initiatives in the city and learned about the ways they re-brand and co-create Athens (<a href="https://medium.com/@gkakalidi/impact-hub-athens-as-a-cultural-force-in-the-city-b2c3e9a19902" rel="noopener">Impact Hub</a>, <a href="https://medium.com/@gkakalidi/the-serafio-project-6295a5300da0" rel="noopener">Serafio</a>). <a href="https://medium.com/athens-co-creation-city-branding-project/culture-and-people-this-is-athens-fe5e75087cdb">Read More</a>