The main focal point of the extended artistic project at Ariston Hotel is the place where the project takes place. Hotel Ariston is a building of the 1950s, based in a central point in Vardaris Square (5, Dioikitiriou Str.), very close to the railway station. It was, up until five years ago, running as a hotel and probably will do so again in the near future. In today's intermediate phase, after its operation and before its renovation, almost 80 creators coming from different artistic fields (visual arts, music, performance, dance, scenography, design, architecture) are called to animate, to inhabit again this phantasmic building. The project includes the use of the ground floor, six floors and their rooms, the terrace of the hotel, its external facets, and a mid-floor for workshops. The hotel will host the artists not as possible clients, but as real occupants: it's them who are going to propose collectively a model of creative (co) habitation (Symbiosis?) in an abandoned space and in an urban area that's almost marginal and underdeveloped. The result cannot be controlled, nor directed, but only in part sketched or mapped through the invitation of the particular artists (or artistic groups). If one thinks that some of them -maybe most of them- are being selected because of their ability to overturn and subvert any plan, then the final result cannot but be expected and experienced. Please, have a look at the program and make your bookings. You can be constantly updated from the Biennale's site www.symbiosis2011.gr and www.officeculture.eu. There is no telephone number, no reception, but we are sure that you will find the way,