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Architectures of Healing

Architectures of Healing

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Today, many feel fettered by insomnia, untouchability, and restrictions on movement. Looking for a more holistic approach to bodily and mental health, this book explores architectures and elementary forms of care and healing in different time periods: from the powers of sleep, touch, and travel in Asklepieia, the ancient healing temples for divine dream encounters alleviating the pain of the ailing pilgrim; to the attentiveness carried through the healing touch from the establishment of Byzantine hospitals till our times; to a pilgrimage center in modern-day Lesbos on a personal search for healing from the traumas of war and patriarchy; to the liberating and self-preserving powers of sleep as a healing response to past and current systems of oppression.

96 pages, 102 x 162 mm
illustrations color and b/w
available fall 2021
language English
1st print fall 2021
2nd print fall 2022
3rd print spring 2024
contents
Asklepieia:
Architectures of Healing, 400 BC to 200
by David Bergé

The Healing Power of Sleep
by Milica Ivić

The Healing Touch
by Antigone Samellas

My Grandmother’s Desire to Heal:
A Pilgrimage to Lesbos
by Valentina Karga

edited by
Dimitra Kondylatou
Milica Ivić
David Bergé
Publishing for this Time!
– Rebecca Walker, 2023.
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Country — Greece

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About — kyklàda.press is a series of compact books initiated by artist David Bergé; and grounded in the Aegean archipelago, the island group marked by Izmir, Athens, and Crete. A publishing experiment in embodied, critical, and material forms of writing, each kyklàda book emerges from one central theme. Five to six contributors from different practices craft each book together, relaying knowledge derived from lived experiences on islands: archaeologies of moods, expressions of desire and grief, affection and pain, constructed landscapes, human and social geographies, and historical (dis)continuities.

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