Welcome to the 1rst International Biennale of Practical Philosophy [‘‘Philosophy in Praxis. The philosophical gesture: political, ethical, educational, artistic engagements’’] of 2018 aspiring to be an original attempt, the establishment of a particular polyphonic philosophical event with intercultural, interdisciplinary character and progressively more open to the organization of experimental artistic acts and the development of philosophical and cultural practices in town.

The Biennale will take place on the island of Rhodes and attempts to be revealed as a pole of attraction for the research about the concept and praxis of Practical Philosophy, the ways in which this one is possible to be connected and interwoven with arts and different scientific fields, with the numerous and various practices and forms through which the philosophical condition is, often irregularly and strangely, transferred, moved, grafted, cultivated, transformed, grafted.

The Biennale is organized by the Laboratory of Research in Practical Philosophy (L.R.P.Ph.) of the University of the Aegean, and in the way of this very Laboratory, is developed as a research project which perceives Practical Philosophy rather as a question and movement than as position and situation. A Laboratory which, as university structure, shares, in the Aegean Archipelago, the peculiarity of the aquatic, insular, peripheral, borderline, liminal environment, while it highlights Practical Philosophy highlights Practical Philosophy systematically, as an object-crossroad par excellence, an example of perpetual constitution, where the philosophical condition is folded back on itself, and is considered as a continuous exercise of meeting with the difference and the praxis as challenge, experiment and an attempt to create a multimodal and unexpected intercultural, philosophical experience.

The International Biennale of Practical Philosophy brings together philosophers, academicians, researchers, artists, professionals, who will have the possibility to present and develop their particular approach, to converse and interact bringing the Practical Philosophy into the foreground, leading it to think again, persistently and with different ways, its limits, forms, acts, persons and spaces.

Thus the Practical Philosophy and its Biennale emerge as a utopian gesture…

Follow their movement!

Prof. Elena Theodoropoulou Directress of the Laboratory of Research on Practical Philosophy, Univ/ty of the Aegean Chair of the Biennale