Flowing through time

When we design for a city, the one we inhabit and experience daily, it is natural to ask: "What might the city be like under different conditions?". The thesis project "Flowing through time" seeks to explore precisely that. By speculating on an alternative Thessaloniki, where the torrents of the Roman era resurface and traverse the contemporary urban fabric from one end to the other. This speculative scenario raises broader questions. How would Thessaloniki evolve if greater emphasis was placed with one of its most vital natural elements, water? How would Thessaloniki’s morphology be reconfigured if waterways once again became structuring elements of urban space? How might its ecological consciousness shift if the central features of its historic port consisted of living structures—towers and aqueducts—that simultaneously fulfilled aesthetic and functional roles in maintaining the integrity of the city’s water horizon? Drawing on the theoretical frameworks of Michel Foucault and Michel Serres, the project constructs a speculative, heterotopic reimagining of Thessaloniki’s water infrastructure, situating water and ecology at the core of the relationship between the city and its inhabitants.