{"id":197,"date":"2024-08-15T14:14:36","date_gmt":"2024-08-15T14:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:10005\/?page_id=197"},"modified":"2026-05-29T13:35:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T13:35:46","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thebookofheroes.org\/en\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/figure>

About<\/strong><\/h2><\/div>\n\n
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div><\/div>

The Team<\/h3>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div><\/div>

Donor\/instigator<\/strong>
Nikolaos Balagiannis

Implemented by<\/strong>
THE BOOK OF HEROES Non-for-Profit Organisation

Members<\/strong>
Nikolaos Balagiannis, Anna Ganci-Balagiannis

Legal representative<\/strong>
Konstantinos Bokos

Project assignment\/concept<\/strong>
Christos Savvidis

Core design team <\/strong>
Nikolaos Balagiannis, Anna Balagiannis, Christos Savvidis, Myrto Kiourti, Antonis Kanellopoulos<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n

<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div><\/div>

Advisory Board<\/h3>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div><\/div>

Sotirios Bahtsetzis<\/strong> is the Chair of the Department of Culture, Creative Media and Industries at the University of Thessaly, and Associate Professor with an academic specialization in “Theory of Contemporary Art and Curatorial Practices.” He holds a summa cum laude PhD in Art History from the TU Berlin, with a dissertation on the historical analysis of installation art in the twentieth century.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n

Stelios Giamarelos<\/strong> is an architect, historian and theorist with a multi-disciplinary background in architecture engineering, architectural history and theory, and history and philosophy of science and technology, and Associate Professor at The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London (UCL), where he coordinates the doctoral programmes in Architectural Design and Architectural & Urban History & Theory. 
He lives and works in London.<\/p><\/div>

<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div><\/div>

Maria Papadimitriou <\/strong>is a contemporary visual artist. She is a professor of visual arts at the Department of Architecture of the University of Thessaly in Volos Greece. In 2015, she represented Greece at the 56th Venice Biennale with her work “Why Look at Animals? AGRIMIKA.” 
She lives and works between Athens and Volos.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n

Max Spielmann <\/strong>(Prof.) studied medicine and has worked in the audiovisual sector since 1984. He then shifted to the areas of interactive media and exhibitions and in 1998 co-founded the Institute HyperWerk at the Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW. His main areas of research are participatory media, art\/design in transformation, regional development and design.
Lives and works in Switzerland<\/p><\/div>

<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div><\/div>

Peter Tonagh
<\/strong>His portfolio of leadership roles reflects deep expertise in media, technology, and cultural sector development.
Chairman of Nine Entertainment, Australia’s largest cross-platform media company, and Chairman of Quantium Australia’s largest AI and machine learning company. 
Lives and works in Australia<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n

<\/p><\/div>

<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n
— — <\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div><\/div>\n\n

Consultants on the theoretical approach<\/strong>

Sotirios Bahtsetzis
Associate Professor of Contemporary Art Theory and Curatorial Practices, Head of Culture, Creative Media and Industries, University of Thessaly<\/em>

Christos Chrysanthopoulos
Historian, Institute of Historical Research at the National Hellenic Research Foundation<\/em>

Patricia Gerakopoulou
Assistant Professor of Social Psychology, Department of Digital Media and Communication, Ionian University<\/em>

Romanos Gerodimos
Screenwriter, director, producer, writer, Professor of International Politics and Communication, University of Bournemouth, UK<\/em>

Elli Chrysidou
Artist<\/em><\/p><\/div>

<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div><\/div>

Artistic director<\/strong>
Christos Savvidis
 
Artist<\/strong>
Elli Chrysidou
 
General coordination and production management<\/strong>
ArtBOX
 <\/strong>
Community Workshops<\/strong>
ArtBOX \/ Agency for social innovation through art
Elli Chrysidou<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n

— — <\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div><\/div>\n\n

Project engineers<\/u><\/strong>
 <\/strong>
Architect<\/strong>
Myrto Kourti
 
Static engineer<\/strong>
Antonis Kanellopoulos – Cubus Engineering
 
General Contractor \/ Supervisor engineer<\/strong>
Giannis Vellios

Mechanical engineer<\/strong>
Fotis Papagiannopoulos
Panos Kampoukos – GREATERSPACE

Advisors<\/strong>
Pavlos Raptis
Kostantinos Vrailas
Takis Malataras
Nikolaos Lyberatos<\/p><\/div>

<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n
— — <\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div><\/div>\n\n
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div><\/div>

Visual identity and website<\/strong>
Dionysis Livanis, Konstantinos Trichas, Max Ryan
 
Editing of texts <\/strong>(English)
Anna Balagiannis

Image processing<\/strong>
George Papalexandrou

3D renderings<\/strong>
Nikos Nikolopoulos – Creative Lighting

3d modeling\/sculpting<\/strong>
Alex Totief

Photo\/ Video documentation <\/strong>
Dimitris Kleanthis

Website photos<\/strong>
Spyros Kokkalakis, Angelos Pantazis<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n

— — <\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div><\/div>\n\n

We owe them our sincere thanks, since with their encouragement and valuable comments they gave us inspiration and food for thought. We consider them “Friends of the Book of Heroes”:<\/strong>

Amber Charmei<\/strong>
Art and Architectural Historian \/ Writer<\/em>

Giannis Giannoutsos<\/strong>
Architect Engineer (National Technical University of Athens)<\/em>
Visual Artist (Athens School of Fine Arts)<\/em>

Erato Koutsoudaki Yerolymbou<\/strong>
Μuseums Exhibition Designer<\/em>

Eleni Lagiou<\/strong>
Civil engineer<\/em>

Danae Makri<\/strong>
Head of Strategy & Content, The Design Ambassador
<\/em>
Eva Manidaki<\/strong>
Architect – Scenographer<\/em>

Dr. Thomas Oberender<\/strong>
Curator and writer<\/em>

Costis Paniyiris<\/strong>
Architect, Professor – University of Thessaly
<\/em>
Manos Perrakis<\/strong>
Architect<\/em>

Dionisis Sotovikis<\/strong>
Architect<\/em>

Max Spielmann<\/strong>
Professor for Media Theory and Practice – Academy of Art & Design Basel FHNW, Institute Experimental Design and Media Culture – HyperWerk Lab (1999-2023). R&D projects in the field of participatory design, art and media, production\/documentation and archiving (since 2024)<\/em>

Vasilis Stroumpakos<\/strong>
Architect, Assistant Professor – Department of Architecture – University of Patras<\/em>

Panayotis Tournikiotis<\/strong>
Professor Emeritus – National Technical University of Athens<\/em>

Dionysia Triantafyllou<\/strong>
Dipl. Architect Engineer, National Technical University of Athens; MSc in Urban Design, The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London; MSc in Environmental Design of cities and Buildings, Hellenic Open University<\/em>

Giorgos Triantafyllou<\/strong>
Architect<\/em>

George Tsolakis<\/strong>
Architect<\/em>

Kostas Tsiambaos<\/strong>
Associate Professor, School of Architecture NTUA<\/em>

Iskra Geshoska
<\/strong>Iskra Geshoska is a theoretician of art and culture, director of the NGO Kontrapunkt (association for development of critical theory, socio-cultural activism and contemporary cultural practices) in North Macedonia. She advised the President of North Macedonia on cultural affairs from 2019 to May 2024.<\/p><\/div>

<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div>
<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-197","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebookofheroes.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebookofheroes.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebookofheroes.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebookofheroes.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebookofheroes.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thebookofheroes.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebookofheroes.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}