Networks

Athens Social Atlas

Thessaloniki Social Atlas is inspired by and interconnects with Athens Social Atlas. Athens Social Atlas has been pioneering in creating an atlas in the format of an online dynamic platform, building on the expertise of the National Centre for Social Research. Since 2015, it has achieved a large impact on the scientific community and the wider public and has hosted an ever-expanding number of authors and articles.

Atlas Global Network

Thessaloniki Social Atlas forms part of the Atlas Global Network, and shares the following common principles:

• Promoting critical understanding of urban questions through comparative analysis
• Fostering dissemination (democratisation) of evidence based knowledge
• Building on the exchange of interdisciplinary expertise and methods

The Atlas Global Network is a collaboration platform of independent projects to map and analyze social structures, processes and practices in different cities across the globe. These projects come from initiatives that are not similar and do not intend to become similar. Their networking is a way to join forces in the effort of rendering more visible the attempts to identify, map and explore urban social processes and to expand the debate on the social dimensions of cities. By bringing to the fore and making these process more visible, the issues and stakes related to them can reach more easily the social and political agendas.