The interactive monitors where passengers and visitors of the Athens International Airport can vote “for” or “against” the return of the Parthenon Marbles are installed at the arrivals and departure halls, and operating as of Wednesday. “Are you in favour of the return of the Parthenon Marbles or not?” is the question they are called to answer through in intriguing application, which also gives the opportunity to visitors to easily “re-assemble” the West Pediment of the Parthenon by restoring the sixth Caryatid to its original place, thus interactively expressing their opinion on the debate.
So far, 125 persons have voted in favour and four have voted “no”.
Christos Kalloniatis (Professor of the Department of Cultural Technology and Communication at the University of the Aegean), Iris Kritikou (Archaeologist-Historian of Art), Konstantinos Maniatopoulos (Director of the Stratis Eleftheriadis-Tériade Museum – Library, Visual Artist-Historian of Art), Irine Vasilopoulou