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


Elastic Futures
Athens, GR & Stanford, CA
Urban Design Thesis My Senior Honors Thesis at Stanford, entitled Elastic Futures: Re-imagining the City’s Relationship with Nature in West Athens, was advised by Dehan Glanz & Anastasia Erasmia Peponi, & greatly influenced by Tom Beischer, Michael Kahan and John Barton. It received a Firestone Medal for Excellence in Undergraduate Research, & the Outstanding Urban Studies Thesis Award.

By delving into the contemporary history of urban development in Athens, examining the impacts of two distinct architectural movements, & analyzing firsthand data gathered in West Athens over a summer, I investigated whether a substantial relationship with nature is congruent with Athenian modernism. My research culminates in a series of design proposals, organized into a restructural toolkit for short-term architectural interventions & a destructural framework for long-term urban change.

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