In the summer of 2025, Transition to 8 turned three European cities, Eleusis, Rennes, and Ljubljana, into living laboratories of shared emotion, memory, and imagination. Through a series of sociodrama and bodystorming workshops, participants explored how air pollution shapes the way people breathe, feel, and belong.

From the shores of the Saronic Gulf to the gardens of Rennes and the creative stre…

How can art become a catalyst for social change? How do we move from awareness to action?

At Transition to 8, we explore these questions through participatory methods that place creativity, embodiment, and empathy at the heart of collective transformation. One of the core methodologies we employ is sociodrama, a powerful tool that enables individuals and communities to understand and reshape their…

Going back to the early 1920s, we find a young imaginative researcher, Jacob Moreno, who placed in the centre of his theory humans as an organic and necessary part of society, in which they participate adapting to various social roles. Moreno studied medicine, mathematics and philosophy. As a student, he rejected Freud's theory - which “moved” individuals away from the “non-human” society of the 1…

The scientific team of the Laboratory of Qualitative Research in Psychology and Psychosocial Well-Being of the National Kapodistrian University of Athens is in charge of researching and highlighting the topics that impact the residents of Eleusis on a psychosocial level. Their role is also to conduct the sociodrama sessions and collect and analyse the data. 

Psychologists started by mapping the so…