The project created new coordinates to experience the place through the sensory and emotional experience of others, through several layers of reading the square, resulting from a relational mechanism based on different levels of mediation, concerning the relationship of the interviewed people with the place, including migrants and Greeks; that of the created personages with the initial texts and, indirectly, with the artists coming from the Netherlands; that of the local artists with the "compromised monologue", and finally the relationship between this cultural complexity, the audience and Omonia as a village.The artists used their diversity, their strangeness to the square and to Greek culture, to make the interviews and interventions possible, to build bridges between people and between people and Omonia Square, to give the notions of "diversity" and "the other" their enriching and constructive value again. In fact, several conversations were started by the artists simply answering the question "why Omonia" with the statement "we like Omonia", explaining why they liked it.
During the days of the festival, which lasted for two weeks, the artists, the interviewees, who were also called relatives, friends and neighbours, including some partners from the Netherlands, camped out in the square for a few hours, so that everyone had to bring a chair and something to eat or drink with the others. The owner of a local hostel recommended his guests to attend the camp happening and to visit the new Omonia Square, also looking at the potential of the place, which could lead to a cultural regeneration, increasing the value of the place and consequently his own business, as well as that of the local tourist industry. In fact, as the QR codes and the app continued to be active during the festival, the hostel included the new map in the cultural offer of the district.
Finally, the reuse of language to re-create, albeit temporarily, the relationship between people and the formation of a new collectivity around a polyvocal monologue, whose paradox is precisely what ensures the success of the project.
The Village Omonia is a co-production between Urban Dig Company from Athens and Company New Heroes from Amsterdam；Directed by Bas van Rijnsoever (NL) and Katarina Protonotariou (GR)；Drawings by: Christina Mitselou, Marina Mersiadou, Asimina Kordatzi, Viktor Kostast Lighton, Anna Lioliou；Voice overs: Katarina Protonotariou, Giorgos Sachinis, Eirini Iliopoulou, Klimis Embeoglou, Emmanouela Korki, Eirini Alexiou；Recordings: Aux./ Panos Paraskevaidis, directed by Giorgos Sachinis；App programming: Wouter Goedheer, app build by Moqod
