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 pursuing a Master in City Planning & a Master of Architecture at MIT, & I hold a BA in Urban Studies from Stanford University, where I graduated with departmental honors & distinction, & was awarded the Firestone Medal for Excellence in Research.

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. I have exhibited my work in Athens GR, Cambridge MA, Stanford CA & San Francisco CA.

I have honed my skills in planning & design at firms in London, GB, New York, NY & Athens, GR, working as an Architectural Assistant at Foster + Partners, an Urban Design Intern at WXY, a Neighborhood Strategies Intern at the NYCEDC, & as an Architectural Intern at Potiropoulos + Partners.

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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 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 moves between ambient, dreampop & indie rock in an effort to create music about spaces, distance & uncertainty. Performing solo & alongside bandmates, I have opened for artists such as The Hellp, French Cassettes, & Illuminati Hotties. 

Shrinking Violet

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Elastic Futures
Athens, GR & Stanford, CA
Urban Design Thesis
A multimedia honors thesis examining whether modernist Athens can be reprogrammed for climate resilience & demographic decline, focused on the densely populated municipality of Peristeri. The project produced a restructural toolkit for short-term interventions & a destructural framework for long-term change, synthesizing critical regionalism with metabolist methods, & received the Firestone Medal For Excellence in Research, & Outstanding Urban Studies Thesis Award.

Many thanks to Dehan Glanz, Anastasia-Erasmia Peponi, Thomas Beischer, John Barton & Michael Kahan.

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