In the Cyclades, and particularly in Tinos, connecting with a community means entering a territory shaped equally by endurance and erosion. Any meaningful engagement must begin not with intervention, but with listening — to the land, to its materials, and to the people layered with memories embedded in craft, religion, migration, and labor.That is what toichos project represents – relationships the toichos project starts with its people. Marble carvers, dry-stone builders, local organisations, researchers, architects, designers, archaeologists, weavers, and young collaborators exchange knowledge across generations, reconnecting the island’s living traditions with contemporary thinking.

Mentors / Team / Contributors

Community

We are so enormously proud have been blessed to be trusted and have the support of the island’s community in many aspects.

• The Ambassada Association that was kind enough to provide us with tools for the dry-stone wall building.

• The Environmental Team of the Vocational High School of Tinos that was kind enough to come and build with us a 10 meter a wall close to the renowned “Our Lady of Tinos” church.

• The Archdiocese of Naxos, Andros, Tinos & Mykonos was kind enough to allow us to use the communal spaces of the Sacred Heart Sunctuary as workshop.

• The Higher School of Fine Arts & Marble Craftsmanship Panormos Tinos flocked around us and provided marble pieces, exprerience, technical solutions and ofcourse a team of students from the school were a vital part all the aspects of our project.

• The Association of Women that encouraged us and trusted so as to give their sensitive textiles as a loan to us. Wonderful 70 year old crafts that worked in tandem with the creations of our participants.