Built or employed to support national or wider "truths", official monuments end up doing much more than that: As agents that affect people's perception of identity, memory and Imaginary [feelings, experiences and lives], they are at the same time subjects to a number of narratives that may change overtime and to a number of acts that take place around and in relation to them.

The workshop focuses on two monuments' symbolism through time, Parthenon in Athens and the National Monument in Edinburgh, their relation to memory, their role in building national myths and the ways residents and visitors experience them today. It also seeks to investigate or establish new connections between them; connections that wish to challenge established perspectives.

We invite the participants to a discussion about the impact of both "Parthenons", as well as their past and current uses; to bring on the table official and unofficial narratives, literature, references in the media, art, personal archives [home videos, photography, notebooks], thoughts and memories.

Monuments are no longer considered empty vessels filled just with dominant narratives. The workshop aims to critically approach monuments' impact on residents and visitors, to investigate representations of contemporary and classical Greece in contemporary culture and finally, to reload the monuments with new meanings through art.