Presentation by: Anna Chronaki (University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece)  

What else could geometry may mean besides a detailed and systematic encounter with measuring earth (i.e. ????????? = ??????? ???), as the etymology of the word suggests? Could notions of ‘geometry’ become a supportive means for opening up how, today, we think and feel our relation with space and, even, to imagine that this relation does not remain static but entails a variety of meanings and interpretations? This seminar will present and discuss preliminary findings of a recent study where children become ‘young researchers’ in an urban neighborhood and collect data from inhabitants and people who pass by concerning their ideas and feelings about geometry. Children based on specific visual objects ask people about how geometry might connect to their lives and how their work might utilize (or not) geometric notions, tools and methods. Preliminary findings exemplify the possible impact (or echo = ???) of geometry and of 'school geometry' in particular in the ways we talk about design, constructions and space.