We are Georgina Pantazopoulou and Ilaria Palmieri.
Coming from Greece and Italy we met during the Master Programme at the Interior Architecture department at the Royal Academy of Art (KABK, The Hague). At the moment of our encounter we were trying to engage with participatory practices in the spatial realm to contest hostile domestic living conditions. Both of our graduation projects developed specific research tools to engage with a different vision of architecture in working in refugee centers and patriarchal domestic environments. Once we completed our studies we felt the necessity to develop those practices. Discussing and imagining, we realized we met our Common Ground. We now invite others to do the same.
Ilaria Palmieri (IT, 1994) is a researcher and designer based in the Hague (NL). She defines herself as a writer in the shoes of a designer. She graduated from the Royal Academy of Art, the Hague ( Master Interior Architecture). Her graduation project “ To be a host in a hosting country” has been presented at the Dutch Design Week 2022. She has a bachelor degree in Inteior Design from the Politecnico of Milano ( July 2016). Her practice combines social design and research as ways to cross boundaries in hostile living conditions. Her education and working background allowed her to explore different sectors of the discipline. A multidisciplinary approach is indeed the strenght of her work.
She co - founded Common Ground Practice in 2022.
She co - founded Common Ground Practice in 2022.
Georgina Pantazopoulou (GR, 1994) is an interdisciplinary artist and designer based in the Hague (NL). She graduated form the Royal Academy of Art, the Hague (Master Interior Architecture) receiving the Stroom Young Talent Award 2022 for her graduation project “Her Practice: Biases, Glitches and Oppressive Values or a HappyDomesticity”.
She has studied also in the Architecture Department of the University of Patras (MArch, 2018). Her practice, starting from the observations of domestic realms, wants to question and reinvent the levels of familiarity, creativity and imagination using the design and artistic practice as a soft power for more equal and inclusive interactions.
She co - founded Common Ground Practice in 2022.
She co - founded Common Ground Practice in 2022.