Alexis Zafiropoulos

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Alexis Zafiropoulos

Fellow’s Profile

Alexis Zafiropoulos

Community stoneworkers: creative dry stone construction for all

Fellowship

Themes

Focus

Influencing social outcomes through landscaping techniques and planning policy

Countries

Fellowship year

2020

Supported by

Locality

Scotland

Biography

I work, play, experiment and innovate in craft and artistic stonemasonry, sharing and celebrating it in north-east Scotland and beyond. My specialism is in dry stone walling and I am a professional member of the Dry Stone Walling Association of Great Britain, holding Level 2 Craftsman certification.

By learning from others, tuning into my own intuition and developing the ability to listen to the stones, I have overcome health problems, developed a sustainable livelihood and helped support human and non-human communities through this natural building practice. My forthcoming Churchill Fellowship travel to Japan to research my Fellow's Report (Community Stoneworkers: Creative Dry Stone Construction for All), will examine how the wellbeing of people and the planet can benefit greatly by co-operatively building and learning together outdoors, reviving and developing skills which work in harmony with people and places by revealing our innate creative nature.

Using skill-sharing workshops, artistic interventions, collaborations with other environmental workers, social practitioners and landowners or users, we hope to mobilise to help build a better future for all.

Activity

Photograph of Alexis Zafiropoulos
editorial

May 2021 Fellow's update: Alexis Zafiropoulos

Stonemason Alexis Zafiropoulos (CF 2020) was interviewed by artist David F. Wilson (CF 2016) this month about his Fellowship plans to explore how craft landscaping techniques can improve communities. Alexis will use his findings to influence local planning policy in the UK.

By Alexis Zafiropoulos, 2021

Disclaimer

All Reports are copyright © the author. The moral right of the author has been asserted. The views and opinions expressed by any Fellow are those of the Fellow and not of the Churchill Fellowship or its partners, which have no responsibility or liability for any part of them.

Activity

Photograph of Alexis Zafiropoulos
editorial

May 2021 Fellow's update: Alexis Zafiropoulos

Stonemason Alexis Zafiropoulos (CF 2020) was interviewed by artist David F. Wilson (CF 2016) this month about his Fellowship plans to explore how craft landscaping techniques can improve communities. Alexis will use his findings to influence local planning policy in the UK.

By Alexis Zafiropoulos, 2021

Disclaimer

All Reports are copyright © the author. The moral right of the author has been asserted. The views and opinions expressed by any Fellow are those of the Fellow and not of the Churchill Fellowship or its partners, which have no responsibility or liability for any part of them.

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