The third event in the “Groundbreaking” series with Stathis Kalyvas approaches innovation in a different way, linking it to three distinct fields: business, science and culture and the arts. It aims to answer key questions related to innovation: How exactly does the new emerge from the old? How does one go through life in an innovative, original and creative, i.e. radical, way? What exactly does this mean? Each discussion focuses on two everyday yet creative people who are active in one of the three fields.
In this, the third meeting, physicist Stefanos Trachanas meets archaeologist Angeliki Kottaridi. Anchored in science, the two interlocutors have opened up to broader fields, innovating unexpectedly, successfully and institutionally. Stefanos Trachanas has been teaching, among other things, quantum physics and differential equations at the University of Crete since 1983, while he is primarily known for his contribution to the founding of the University Press of Crete, the first and largest university press in the country. Angeliki Kottaridi worked as an assistant to Manolis Andronikos in the excavation of Vergina and is known for her role in the unification, protection and promotion of the archaeological site of ancient Aigai in present-day Imathia. She is equally well known for the creation of the Polycentric Museum of Aigai, an innovative museum that was recently inaugurated.
The young musician Doxi participates in the discussion, “commenting” on it with his compositions that seek to approach the narrative through music.
