Constantinos Gallis
Cambridge, MA & Athens, GR

Hello, my name is Constantinos, & I am a Greek-Swiss artist, musician & student based in Cambridge, MA & Athens, GR. I am currently a dual degree student at MIT, pursuing a Master in City Planning & a Master of Architecture, & I hold a BA in Urban Studies from Stanford University, where I graduated with departmental honors & distinction. I am curious about the effects of urban change on the natural environment & society, I have explored my interests through academic research, teaching, large scale installations, performances, audio-visual investigations, & practical work experience at firms in Athens. GR, New York, NY & London, GB.

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I am one half of Oo-PS, a collaborative research & design practice working across scales to produce narrative-driven artwork, writing, music & objects as ways of anticipating sets of future socio-environmental challenges & designing theoretical methods to meet them.

Oo-PS

I write, record, produce & occasionally perform music under the alias Shrinking Violet, a project that modulates between ambient, dreampop & indie rock in an effort to create music about memory, distance & uncertainty.

Shrinking Violet


Athenian Urbanisms
Stanford, CA & Athens, GR
Urban Studies Course
After a year of developing a comprehensive syllabus for a course centered around my hometown, I reached out to the Urban Studies program at Stanford, and had the opportunity to formally create & teach Athenian Urbanisms: Examining A Storied City Through Time [URBANST15SI].

Initially thought of as a hypothetical architectural tour of Athens, the course began to develop a structure as I started to think of all the lenses through which to view, interpret, & analyze the city. Each of the eight approaches led to the creation of eight corresponding profiles of Athens. Every week, a different profile was presented, & a new way to mine the city for information was examined. As the quarter progressed & our shared knowledge of Athens grew, classes became more conversational, & I began to rely more on the insight of students to drive each class forward.

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