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Pame Kaimakli 2025
OIKEIOTOPIA
Our Goal
Creativity Meets Local Identity
Transforming Kaimakli into a Human-Centered Neighbourhood
Pame Kaimakli (“Lets Go to Kaimakli”) is an annual community event that aims to explore ideas of publicness, co-creation and community engagement through creative interventions, and placemaking actions with the collaboration of residents and artists. Kaimakli is a traditional neighbourhood on the eastern side of Nicosia, located along the buffer zone that divides the island into two, following the 1974 war. The neighbourhoods’ location increased its isolation over time, yet it protected it from the rapid development taking place in the early 1980’s. During the last two decades, empty houses and low rents have attracted new inhabitants and has given rise to a mixed social structure composed of migrants, young artists, new and old residents. The larger Kaimakli area is currently home to 7,000 people, about 1,500 of whom live in the centre of the historic quarter. The goal of the Pame Kaimakli festival is to transform the Kaimakli neighbourhood into a creative centre through artistic and social processes, while preserving its strong local identity.
Celebrating Community, Arts and Public Space Pame Kaimakli explores ideas of democracy, publicness, co-creation, community engagement and transformation of urban spaces.
Open Kitchens is a continuation of a series of events presented in previous Pame Kaimakli editions (open doors, open windows, open houses, open courtyards). The event took place as an OPEN CALL addressing Kaimakli residents, artists, social practitioners, activists, academics and anyone interested in participating in the development of activities in the upcoming Pame Kamakli festival in 2020. OPEN KITCHENS is a co-creation tool in the form of a cooking and dining launched by Urban Gorillas. It aims to enhance the participatory aspect of the upcoming Pame Kaimakli 2020 festival by building a dialogue amongst diverse groups of people in a relaxed and inclusive manner. OPEN KITCHENS was a unique dining experience where residents of Kaimakli of diverse ethnic backgrounds with passion for cooking are hosted in the homes of local residents’ and staged dinners from around the world: Italy, Somalia, Japan, Syria, Italy, China, and the Carribean !#buildingcommunities#celebratingdiversity “Open Kitchens” is a co-creation tool in the form of cooking and dining launched by Urban Gorillas. It aims to enhance the participatory aspect of the upcoming “Pame Kaimakli” 2020 festival by building a dialogue amongst diverse groups of people in a relaxed and inclusive manner. At the same time, it celebrates the cultural layers of the neighborhood of Kaimakli through the launch an open invitation for sharing stories, visions and tasty food.
Kaimakli is a neighborhood that lies on the east end of Nicosia against the Buffer Zone. Although only a few kilometers away from the city centre, its edge condition meant that for years it remained an isolated neighborhood. Until recently, the number of residents was gradually decreasing with mainly elderly and migrants choosing to live there. Due to the financial disparity and lack of interest in investing in the area, the traditionally built fabric survived modernisation and is now almost intact.
The traditional core of the neighborhood, resembling a village, features well-preserved
stone courtyard houses that form a continuous vernacular fabric, with narrow streets, and a traditional church square. In the last decade, Kaimakli has been “re-discovered” by locals who want to live in the neighborhood, gradually renovating a number of houses, shops and studios, bringing a new culturally diverse layer to the area. The neighborhood became also the home of the studio of Urban Gorillas.
Despite the neighborhood dense and quaint built fabric, there are very few opportunities for social interaction. In 2013, an organised group of residents joined forces to organise “open” events in order to bring residents together and open up their beautiful neighborhood to visitors. A series of open events were organised, leading to the annual “Pame Kaimakli” — Let’s go Kaimakli — festivals. During “Open Windows”, “Open Houses”, and “Open courtyards,” where otherwise inaccessible private spaces, homes and workplaces, opened up to the wider public creating a new public realm.
Activities/Projects:
38 projects presented in all the neighborhood
5 workshops
3 upcycling projects
23 Houses hosted an artist and opened their doors to the pubic
9 (Private Studios / Shops/bussiness) opened to public
2 empty shops activated
2 private churches in peoples houses opened
6 Live performances
1 Documentary presenting stories of the neighborhood
11 projects in public spaces
Public Engaged:
Neighbours:93 actively engaged
Active engagement of older people: 16
Total number of Artists: 58
International Artists participation: 15
Kaimakli Artists Engagement: 22
Nationalities: 16
ESTIMATED NUMBER OF VISITORS: 1000
Activities/Projects:
● 38 projects presented in all the neighborhood
● 5 workshops
● 3 upcycling projects
● 23 Houses hosted an artist and opened their doors to the pubic
● 9 (Private Studios / Shops/business) opened to public
● 2 empty shops activated
● 2 private churches in peoples houses opened
● 6 Live performances
● 1 Documentary presenting stories of the neighborhood
● 11 projects in public spaces
Public Engaged:
● Neighbors: 93 actively engaged
● Active engagement of older people: 16
● Total number of Artists: 58
● International Artists participation: 15
● Kaimakli Artists Engagement: 22
● Nationalities: 16