Social Solidarity Health Clinics in Greece. Recreating Health and Care - From Crisis to Self-Organization

Please join us in conversation with Themis Pellas and Eleni Ploumidi, from the Social Solidarity Clinic of Iraklio, Greece. 

They will discuss how the Solidarity Clinics emerged, the context of the current crisis, the forms of horizontal self organization under which they function and how through the process of taking back health care a new form of health and care are emerging.

There are over fifty Social Solidarity Health Clinics, most are full service clinics, and all are run entirely by volunteers, from the doctors and nurses to pharmacists and technical support. Each treats anywhere from a few thousand to over 12 thousand people a year. The one in Irakio, along with a dozen others, continue to be organized and run entirely by the community in which they exist - maintaining their autonomy from the state, political organizations, the church and non-governmental organiza-tions. 

Themis Pellas is an urban planner and has worked in Athens, Amsterdam and New York. 

Eleni Ploumidi, an architect/urbanist, has worked in three scales, furniture design, landscape/public space design, and the legal-political-social aspects of land privatiza-tions in Greece. 

Via the Autonomous Research Lab of Crete they are conducting a long-term re-search project—Sociospatial Transformations Under the State of Emergency (2014), Entopia (2015), Mediterranean Urbanism(2016), to document local responses to re-cession and shifts into habitation norms.

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