NOON CITY DEPARTMENT OF STATE
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→ Bureau of Soft Power Diplomacy୧‿︵‿︵
→ / Special Mission O1 Athens, Greece
→ / Special Mission O2 TBC
→ Senior Advisor ☁️ MCG☁️
NOON CITY DEPARTMENT OF STATE
→🏢
→ Bureau of Soft Power Diplomacy୧‿︵‿︵
→ / Special Mission O1 Athens, Greece
→ / Special Mission O2 TBC
→ Senior Advisor ☁️ MCG☁️
In March 2025, Margherita Cloud Glenn, civilian diplomat and Senior Advisor for Soft Diplomacy, embarked on a symbolic assignment to Athens. The mission: to study the affective and material dimensions of soft power in the city┈┈➤ relational presence, diplomatic atmospheres and how objects operate as silent emissaries. ☆
Informed by Austin’s idea that saying = doing, and Mauss’s observation that gifts oblige, Cloud closely observed rituals of decorum, ambient codes of conduct, and the theatre of diplomacy in motion.
Meetings with dignitaries, cultural officials, and artists provided a living tableau, where gestures and encounters carried soft powered resonance.
Cloud is compiling sensory and material notes of the city┈┈➤ its affective fabric: textures, surfaces and tonalities to inform future diplomatic artefacts:
☆ Cloud’s personal diplomatic belongings ...
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Fieldwork Documentation୧‿︵‿︵Part 1
Mission Presence Log ୧‿︵‿︵Athens, Greece (April 2025)
Mandate: To establish a verifiable record of Margherita Cloud Glenn’s physical presence across key civic, cultural, and diplomatic sites during Special Mission 01.
Scope: Photographic evidence + timestamp + locale tag only. No analytic commentary is appended at this stage; interpretive assessment will follow in Part II (Visual Intelligence Brief).
Status: Internal circulation. Release level ୧‿︵‿︵ Restricted (RD‑25‑GR‑1).
MPL‑ATH‑202504‑01 Academy of Athens — exterior, MPL‑ATH‑202504‑02 Ancient Agora — northwest sector, MPL‑ATH‑202504‑03 Gate of Athena Archegetis — Roman Agora, MPL‑ATH‑202504‑04 Psyrri district — interior, traditional souvlaki café, MPL‑ATH‑202504‑05 Exarcheia — multicoloured stucco and graffiti wall, MPL‑ATH‑202504‑06 Exarcheia — storefront with “AS FA DEGREE SHOW” poster, MPL‑ATH‑202504‑07 Milan Metro, MPL‑ATH‑202504‑08 Plaka — residential façade with ochre render and shutters, MPL‑ATH‑202504‑09 Former Rex Theatre lobby — central Athens, MPL‑ATH‑202504‑10 Kolonos district — street crossing, mincing with wig, MPL‑ATH‑202504‑11 Old Parliament Building (National Historical Museum) — frontage, MPL‑ATH‑202504‑12 Kypseli — mirror selfie in arcade corridor, MPL‑ATH‑202504‑13 Academy of Athens — frontal view, MPL‑ATH‑202504‑14 Acropolis summit — Parthenon, south-west corner under storm cloud, MPL‑ATH‑202504‑15 Hotel lobby (pending verification), MPL‑ATH‑202504‑16 War Museum Athens — exterior, MPL‑ATH‑202504‑17 War Museum Athens — Anzac Conference with Navy personnel, MPL‑ATH‑202504‑18 Benaki Museum — interior, MPL‑ATH‑202504‑19 War Museum Athens — Navy hats, MPL‑ATH‑202504‑20 War Museum Athens — exhibits, MPL‑ATH‑202504‑21 War Museum Athens — exhibits