Amfilissos Flow Grid: Socio-cultural
layer:
Cultural and Mythological Heritage Pathways
The
Socio-cultural layer of the Amfilssos flow grid contains
cultural and mythological heritage pathways, interwoven
with the the pathways represented in the physical layer of
the Flow Grid, that have the potential to enrich the
experience of of the area in the minds of all those who
understand, visit and live in it.
These pathways are kept alive though human imagination,
sustained through storytelling and local festivals and
communtiy events.
They bring to life the cultural and mythological heritage
of all the pathways in the physical layer of the Amfillosos
flow grid that can be experienced in the real. The pathways
flow from the Despoti Spring in the Karvounis Mountain-(
shown as M.
Mandale in the
map) through the villages of Koumeika, Skoureika and
Neochori, reaching the sea in the bay of Balos, (shown
as Porto
Imbraso in the
map).
The full
Amfilissos Flow grid reveals the nodes, doubled in both the
physical and socio-cultural layers of the grid, where
experience of real and cultural and mythological phenomena
come together and enhance each other. The heritage pathways
that enable this synergy of experience at the nodes in the
grid, can flourish in the present through story-telling in
multimedia, enabling their historical exploration,
re-creation and enrichment. Promoting this is an aim of
the Amfilissos Society
We would like to collect and present on this website, a
variety of stories, each traversing a pathway within the
cultural and mythological heritage of the Amfilissos area.
This can be a collective enterprise by those people who
know such stories. If you are able to help in this,
please contact us,
with a note about the story line and where we might find
sources and pictures, if you have ideas about this. We
will acknowledge your participation (unless you prefer
to remain anonymous) on this website.
We have
made a start in this story-collecting enterprise with the
intial outlines for five stories:Resisting Pirates
(Pefkos
& Balos – Neohori); Onions (Koumeika-
Balos); Carobs (Koumeika
- Neohori); Olives (Koumeika-Skoureika-Neohori)
and Sustainability (Neohori-Koutsi).
We also plan creative activities, grounded in this
heritage, that traverse pathways in the present and flow
into future developments. Within the physical layer
of
the Amfilissos Area Flow Grid, the nodes that provide
the infrastructure for these activities comprise places
for refreshment and conviviality where local people and
people from afar, old and young, can meet and tell each
other stories; clubs and associations that research and
explore the sources and potential implications of the
stories; places where the stories can be enhanced
through community participation in local festivals,
carnivals and improvisations.
These creative actitvities will include Spritivity Workshops for
people interested in finding new pathways to rich and
diverse development of Amfilissos , grounded in what
they can see and imagine “in the spaces in between” what
is already represented in the physical and
socio-cultural layers of the Amfilissos Area Flow Grid.
Spritivity, as a communication medium, enabled
participants to develop their own sprites, grounded in
representations – pictures, drawings, text descriptions
– both real and imagined.
These sprites can be involved in performances as actors in
collectively authored stories that transform their
groundings through creative developments, enriching the
future for both the inhabitants and the visitors to the
Amfilissos Area
Click here for more information on
Spritivity