[1] Two-year long inter-national activities included conferences,[2] academic workshops,[3] exhibitions,[4] collective experiments [5] and public actions[6] that took place in Athens in 2011 and 2012.
[8] With its call for "Architecture, Design & Art Act Now!," AAO: Ethics/Aesthetics had a profound impact on architects, youth and citizens, enhancing collective awareness through design,[9] described by Haido Skandila of Sunday Agelioforos as "avant-garde meeting humanity and requesting social change",[10] or by Marios Kehagias of Athens Voice as "social architecture arriving in Athens",[11] or by writer and literary critic Ilias Maglinis in Kathimerini as “let's leave theory behind and let's start acting,” reinforcing its call for interdisciplinary collective actions.
AAO project series also included the social ecology installation environment Ecosmosis [15] developed with Benayoun at the Hellenic Cosmos, an interactive aesthetic and socio-spatial paradigm.
Forwarding its catalogue AAO: Ethics/Aesthetics (Athens: Benaki Museum and Papasotiriou, 2011), the minister of culture and tourism Pavlos Geroulanos notes that it "places architecture and design at the core of public debate",[17] while the general secretary of regional planning and urban development, of the Ministry of the Environment and Energy (Greece), Maria Kaltsa, writes that it "reflects valid contemporary concerns... we are facing a period of great recession, which expresses itself as economic but is indeed a 'value system' crisis on all levels".
[18] For the Dean of the National Technical University of Athens, School of Architecture, Spyros Raftopoulos, it "is a well-timed effort to enhance sensitivity and concern, expressed though a range of activities...it has succeeded in creating a platform of dialogue...and, finally, to raise awareness among the general public...for the evolution of our urban environment",[19] and for the rector of the Athens School of Fine Arts, George Harvalias, "AAO project is pursuing its goals with the highest degree of competence and organization...an active creative 'plant' of sensitization, research and processing of proposals...indicating that any solutions cannot be unconnected to the unseen directions and dynamics of socio-political developments".