GROUNDS – WIP Festival 2026

Digital Elevation Model (DEM) Holographic Installation

GROUNDSSeptember 17, 2026182Views 0Likes 0Comments

Manifesto Terricola DEM Holographic Installation Solimán López Description DEM, short for Digital Elevation Model, is an immersive installation of Manifesto Terricola. It gives the project a body you can enter, stand inside and listen to. In an isolated room filled with artificial water-based haze, a three-dimensional laser projection draws the glacier of Svalbard in the…

Fragments of Urban Encounters Larissa: An Archipelago of Social Condensers

GROUNDSSeptember 16, 2026128Views 0Likes 0Comments

Fragments of Urban Encounters Larissa: An Archipelago of Social Condensers Dimitris Papanikolaou Description Fragments of Urban Encounters Larissa: An Archipelago of Social Condensers is an abstract plaster model that functions as a performative research tool developed as part of the artist's diploma thesis. The existing urban model of Larissa serves as a medium to investigate…

2MAKEiT

GROUNDSSeptember 16, 2026116Views 0Likes 0Comments

2MAKEiT FabLab UCY, Department of Architecture, University of Cyprus Description 2MAKEiT focuses on the design and construction of small-scale wooden structures, specifically urban seating, using conventional woodworking techniques, digital fabrication methods and hybrid approaches that combine both. As part of the project, students designed and constructed their own urban seating prototypes, gaining hands-on experience throughout…

Pathways2Resilience (P2R) and CLIMAAX-NIC

GROUNDSSeptember 16, 2026140Views 0Likes 0Comments

Pathways2Resilience (P2R) and CLIMAAX-NIC SuPerWorld of CYENS Description This interactive artwork explores the growing impact of climate change on Cyprus's urban environments through the municipalities of Limassol and Nicosia. Pathways2Resilience (P2R) and CLIMAAX-NIC present scientific climate risk assessments in an engaging visual experience, highlighting three key challenges: the urban heat island effect (UHIE), flooding and…

A Hybrid Museum – Library for Larnaca

GROUNDSSeptember 16, 2026115Views 0Likes 0Comments

A Hybrid Museum-Library for Larnaca Architectural Design VIII/Department of Architecture - UCY Description Larnaca is redefining its cultural role as it prepares to become the 2030 European Capital of Culture. A Hybrid Museum-Library for Larnaca is a public infrastructure that connects memory, knowledge, research and the city's everyday life. The brief moves beyond exhibitions and…

Water Movement Nicosia

GROUNDSSeptember 15, 2026127Views 0Likes 0Comments

Water Movement Nicosia Maurice Cazzolli Description Water Movement Nicosia is a site-specific interactive audiovisual installation that transforms Platia Dimarchias into a temporary urban water landscape. Building on the earlier Water Movement (2024), it invites passersby to engage with projected waves that respond to their movements. With state-of-the-art 3D-sensing hardware and software, every step generates ripples…

Ground Truth

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Ground Truth Miguel Teodoro Description Ground Truth is a moving image work that explores ecological and cultural realities surrounding aridity. Set on the island of Cyprus, where anthropogenic climate change is accelerating desertification, the film investigates the resonances between scientific monitoring and future climate modelling and their infrastructural and material affordances. The term “ground truth”…

Brackish Registers

GROUNDSSeptember 15, 2026115Views 0Likes 0Comments

Brackish Registers  Claudia Lehmann Description In Cyprus, aquifers face depletion and salinisation, with brackish water intrusion signalling over-extraction, climate stress and land use changes. Salt balances heritage decline, threatening water and culture, and its role as a preservative. Copper, derived from aes cyprium and formed from ancient seawater cycling through volcanic rocks, dissolves and deposits…

Narratives from Invisibility and Silence

GROUNDSSeptember 15, 2026112Views 0Likes 0Comments

Narratives from Invisibility and Silence Xin Yang Description How do invisible networks and hidden narratives shape our environments? Narratives from Invisibility and Silence is a diverse investigation: a spatial, multimedia installation combining glass paintings depicting micro-world activities, pigment-based compositions and audiovisual media. Through research into the colours and sediments of water and soil collected from…

The Drift of the Alien

GROUNDSSeptember 15, 2026114Views 0Likes 0Comments

The Drift of the Alien Kyriaki Goni Description How do humans adapt to changing ecologies and species crossing boundaries? The Drift of the Alien examines climate change, species migration and ecological disruption, focusing on the Mediterranean Sea, where lionfish, once native to the Indo-Pacific, have become unstoppable. Unintentionally transported by human-made canals and warming waters,…

Digital Elevation Model (DEM) Holographic Installation

Fragments of Urban Encounters Larissa: An Archipelago of Social Condensers

2MAKEiT

Pathways2Resilience (P2R) and CLIMAAX-NIC

A Hybrid Museum – Library for Larnaca

Water Movement Nicosia

Ground Truth

Brackish Registers

Narratives from Invisibility and Silence

The Drift of the Alien

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