25.09.2025 — Athens Digital Arts Festival

The second Local Debate took place on 25 September 2025 (18:00–20:17) at the Kypseli Municipal Market in Athens, as part of the all-day event “A Sea in the City”, which also included an exhibition of Medusa Valley, screenings, interactive installations, a VR experience, workshops for children and adults and a live music show. Around 100 people attended (75 signed the attendance sheet).

Titled “Biodiversity in the Sea: A Dialogue on Digital Art, Climate Change and Natural Heritage”, the panel was moderated by journalist Despoina Papageorgiou (Popaganda) and brought together scientists, policy experts, artists and cultural operators: Konstantinos Tsoukalas (WWF Greece), Christina Economou (Aenaos Thalassa / Thalassa Foundation), Prof. Drosos Koutsoubas (University of the Aegean), Soultana Zervoudaki (HCMR), artists Robertina Šebjanič, Yiannis Kranidiotis and Lampros Pigounis, and Konstantinos Trakosas (Creative Europe Desk Greece). After the presentation of Medusa Valley by Elli-Anna Peristeraki, the speakers addressed the loss of marine biodiversity, ocean warming, overfishing, plastic and underwater noise pollution, the jellyfish as a symbol of climatic imbalance, art as a “translator” of scientific data, the protection of marine parks, and environmental education and citizen science.