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The Social Reintegration

The artwork of St. Spyridon chapel is included in the acts of Archive 0.1., of the Karoussos Archives, consisting in two phases:

- the reinstatement of the monument &

- its reintegration to the contemporary society.

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The work of St. Spyridon chapel reveals an image of a period from the social life of the place, when art contributed strongly in the formation of a living model where overlapping levels, agricultural, ritual, economic, artistic, and domestic, operated in a single framework.

In the effort to reconstruct this integrated environment, in the present era, the older must be assimilated with the new. The newer should be built with the materials of the old, in a hybrid manner, in such a way that any attempt to separate them would be impossible. This bond is considered the successful result of the artwork, since, in any other case, the separation of the old with the new, will lead to the demolition of the bridge that holds the foundations of the culture.

The reinstatement does not intend to preserve the cultural heritage, as an way of preserving an old stock, but as an act capable of embodying the monument in a natural course of change, that is, its reintegration to the contemporary society.

To this end, the Karoussos Archives assesses various proposals to build a strong body around the integrated environment of the chapel.

There is also an open call for financial support for the chapel's reintegration into the modern social context. 

It is important to emphasize that this aid has the character of a ministry. The ministry is exercised on two levels: the material and the spiritual. But neither the material level lacks the spiritual element nor on the spiritual level lacks the material element. According to the existing needs and the possibilities offered, these levels are co-existing.

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