Design production research - Crete

Ideas to consider, concept doesn't have to be about type:

celebration

issue

new audience

history

Crete

History:

mythology- Birthplace of zeus

legend of icarus

birthplace of 1st European civilisation/Minoan

minotaur lived in Crete -in a labyrinth under palace of Knossos

1st civilisation of Greece - Minoan

the palace of Knossos is Europe's oldest city and the centre of the Minoans

the place is a cultural cross roads, with Asia and the Middle East having continually collided with Europe and Africa over the past five millennia, with cretans stuck in the middle. 

Economic crisis in Greece (2008):

info from an article in 2017 : 

owes 320 billion euros

unemployment is at 23 per cent, with 44 per cent of those aged 15-24 out of work

in 2015 15 per cent were living in poverty, compared to 2 per cent in 2009

in summer 2015 they had their third bailout in five years

Young people had moved from the rural areas in Greece, to larger cities in search for jobs, reducing Greece's rural population by 2.5%

In 2015 it was found that fifty two per cent of greek households rely on pensions to pay their monthly expenses, yet greek only has 2.7 million pensioners, which is only 25 per cent of the population

'the money that the government gives us is just taken back in taxes. There is not anything left to survive on, for food, for essentials'

'all the children want to leave, because here they feel strangled, this is one of my main fears , what will happen to the villages and the land in 15 years? you see only buildings, not people'

one of the economies only bright spot is tourism, with fear that migrants would harm this

tourists brought in 14.2 billion in 2015, accounting for one fifth of the economy 

'the government has put all economic pressure on the farmers, on the villages, choose to squeeze those who cannot respond'

'Greece was the start of everything, maths, geography, philosophy, now we have nothing'

many greeks have been forced to look for work elsewhere, in the last five years, Greece's population has declined, falling about 400,000

a 2013 study found that more than 120,000 professionals, including doctors and scientists had left - in 2017 stated that 500,000 professionals have left Greece since the start of the crisis in 2010

Cultivation of the olive tree is very important- with considered being the best virgin olive oil 

main source of wealth is agriculture/tourism

celebrations- orthodox christianity - easter 

mountainous island, which form a continuous chain from one end of the island to the other.

big numbers of sheeps and goats are raised in greece

its said that the water in Crete is that clear that you can see underwater views of up to 40 metres