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MEET the FOUNDERS
LatoMeio is a Greek word meaning quarry—a place of extraction, labor, and transformation. The LatoMeio Project was born in Leonidio, in a physical space once used as the workplace of Eleni Danesi’s grandfather. After graduating in architecture, Eleni rediscovered this site and, together with filmmaker Evi Stamou and physical theatre artist Artemis Manakou, initiated the first LatoMeio Project residency titled The Martian Chronicles, inspired by Ray Bradbury’s book—a mosaic of interlinked stories about humans arriving on Mars, carrying Earth’s fears, desires, and contradictions with them, and gradually reshaping (and being reshaped by) an unfamiliar world.
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This choice became a poetic framework for the residency’s intention: to explore how landscapes affect memory and imagination, how place-making is always political and personal, and how identity can remain fluid when the body encounters new terrains, architectures, and collective rituals.
Over the years, the three artists organized three residencies and two festivals, bridging performing arts with neuroscience, ecology, and community practices. Through embodied research, site-specific performances, and collective exploration, they engaged deeply with the raw, layered, and wildly beautiful landscapes and architectures of Leonidio, cultivating spaces for sensory awareness, shared inquiry, and local connection.
This long-term process culminated in the formation of Multiscapes Lab—a research platform in the making.
Multiscapes Lab will host future educational programs and artistic initiatives related to somatic architecture, neuroaffective landscapes, performing arts, and eco-social regeneration, supporting artists and non-artists alike to engage in creative activism and collective meaning-making practices in Leonidio and beyond.
Orange: Eleni Danesi, 2022
Eleni Danesi
Eleni Danesi is an architect, embodied researcher, artist, and educator working at the intersection of architecture, somatic practices, neuroscience, and performing arts. Her work explores how body–mind–space relationships shape perception, identity, learning, and collective life, with a strong focus on affective materiality, movement, and experiential place-making.
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After graduating in architecture, Eleni gradually shifted from conventional architectural practice toward embodied and performative research, developing methodologies that integrate movement, sensory awareness, and imagination as tools for spatial understanding and social reflection. She is the initiator of the LatoMeio Project and founder of Multiscapes Lab, platforms through which she develops artistic residencies, educational programs, and participatory practices focused on somatic architecture, neuroaffective landscapes, and eco-social regeneration.
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Eleni is also actively involved in Panjika, a cooperative based in Leonidio, where she contributes her expertise in embodied practices, spatial research, and collective visioning. Through this collaboration, she engages with local communities and landscapes, exploring alternative models of co-living, cooperation, and place-based economies that connect movement culture, ecology, and social imagination.
Evi Stamou
Evi Stamou is a producer, filmmaker, and digital artist who creates hybrid works exploring the relationship and aesthetic boundaries between traditional cinematic forms and evolving approaches in contemporary art. In 2021, she founded Maketa Media, a company focused on producing and digitally distributing documentary and experimental films — primarily by emerging directors — to support the creation of innovative, personal, political, and non-mainstream cinema.
Within the LatoMeio Project, together with Pietro Radin, have shaped the visual language, documentation, and narrative atmosphere of the residencies and festivals.
The Martian Chronicles I: E. Stamou & P. Radin, 2017
A. Manakou in the film Etudes: by E. Stamou & P. Radin, 2022
Artemis Manakou
Artemis Manakou was born in Athens (1993) and grew up in Neapolis, Laconia, Greece. She studied acting at “Elefthero Schima” of Stelios Pavlides and attended devised theatre seminars with Amalia Bennett. In 2013 she began training in physical theatre at PLEFIS, completing a three-year course in 2015, while also attending seminars in contemporary dance, contact improvisation, release and Limon technique, and acrobatic dance. In 2019 she moved to the Netherlands and continued her dance studies at The Henny Jurriëns Foundation in Amsterdam.
Artemis works across physical theatre, dance, and cinema in Greece and Europe. She is a regular collaborator of DARE DANCE DIGITALIZE – The 3D project with Antonis Bertos and has been collaborating with the LatoMeio Project since 2017.
