In this episode, the facilitator sets up the space with chairs representing key “actors” of air pollution, pollutants, odour, filters, flammable gases, the polluted environment, and hazy air. The facilitator frames the exercise as an imaginary conference in which these elements are not abstract concepts but active delegates who have gathered with one goal: to “suffocate” the residents of Eleusis. Participants are invited to step into the role of these delegates and speak from their perspective, as if they are experts arriving with years of research, scientific authority, and prepared “papers.” Through this role-play frame, the facilitator encourages participants to articulate how each factor operates, how they relate to one another (e.g., filters versus pollutants, odour as a constant presence, flammable gases as danger, hazy air as a lived condition), and how together they create an oppressive atmosphere, turning technical realities into a vivid, collective narrative grounded in everyday experience.
P1: Do you know what a beautiful sight an explosion is? Everything will be highlighted, the city will shine. We offer residents a fantastic spectacle for a moment of destruction. Television will show it as well. Advertisement for the city! We flammable materials are like greenery. There is no city, nor people.
P2: We say fortunately we have business cycles next to us to transport LNG. Not everyone has it at their doorstep! Marinakis was found next to us and now we have some residents who supposedly care. If we businesspeople who take care of jobs and technological progress did not exist, where would we be?
P3:We have taken measures, scientific advisors, no one is in danger, flammable materials are not uncontrolled. There will be no bang sir, do not terrorize people. Enough with populism! Bad word the BANG - you create impressions and emotional disturbance. If you burn the company comes and saves you - with every explosion they gift us a hospital