Ecofollia proposes an alternative management of “commons” on small to medium-sized plots within the urban fabric. It focuses on rewilding and designing specific architectural facilities to support a Grove and the community that is developed in and around it. This approach is an experimental and collaborative eco-management of commons that aims to develop a new eco-pedagogy. Over the years the trees come to occupy with their roots the abandoned, formerly artificial landscape. In this environment, once man-made and now reclaimed by locals and nature, a network of natural ecologies and architecture has been formed. These extraordinary structures, along with the natural, human, and non-human elements, compose a dynamic and ongoing process that redefines human's relationship with nature. The project was developed within the context of the School of Architecture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
