Pavilions 2 & 3 of the Thessaloniki International Fair – HELEXPO premises highlight Greece’s most renowned trade fair’s historical significance and multifaceted function, particularly its ties to Greece’s economic model and broader socio-economic imaginaries and rituals. Moreover, the complex’s ongoing transition currently renders it a focal point for debates and competing visions for the city’s public space, touching on the very future of urban life in Thessaloniki.

The unique Kalochori Lagoon on Thessaloniki’s western outskirts, a landscape shaped by immigrant communities, industrial growth, and the gradual emergence of a wetland as a result of land subsidence, groundwater depletion, and the mixing of river and sea waters. Now part of the Axios Delta National Park, the lagoon is rich in rare biodiversity, hosts more-than-human activity, and participates in contradictory narratives of “symbiotic living” as the city inexorably expands to this side too.