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Hey there, I am Leon 🌻 a chef and social designer based in Athens.

My work is like a wild garden – pretty diverse. I make ceramics , build treehouses , write books , design typefaces , posters and other graphics , code websites , produce and organize events , give workshops , and work with tasty, tasty food.

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Copy Copy
Within the arts copying is often considered a taboo - lazy and unoriginal. But what if copying was not something to be ashamed off and rather a playful an genuine act of participation in existing ideas? The project explores this in three approaches: a series of public copy-cup-making workshops, a typeface called 'copetica' created in collaboration with a copymachine and an essay diving deeper into the matter.

Find out more, download the typeface, or buy the book on → copycopy.world
Souptopia
Free Soup is a public intervention and performance of giving away free soup to strangers, no strings attached. It’s an initiative to reclaim ‘free’ as what it once was, a symbol of love, care and kindness. Free Soup takes the shape of a popup protopia - a small and realistic antidote to dystopia. It is a pragmatic approach to creating unforeseen relationships between strangers and spreading kindness through sharing soup. I call it a → souptopia.
A Treehouse
The Social Service Club is a wonderful initiative close to Kopenhagen at the danish coast. They organise intimate events and residences for gathering an learning. This treehouses adds another reason to visit this magical place.
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Children of O
80 years from now most of the northern hemisphere is barely inhabitable...
However, a fictional cult of survivors formed a strong community around Mediamatic in Amsterdam and invited all fellow nomadic survivors for 3 neo-futuristic dinners - celebrations of appreciation in the dystopian future of water scarcity. We extrapolated and explored the effects of climate change on our eating culture and our relationship to water.

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You can find more of my projects on → daskartoffel.de