His research draws on approaches in modern Greek studies, anthropology, and history in order to examine the political and historical dimensions of immateriality. In particular, Dimitris takes unrealized government initiatives and especially failed architectural projects as vantage points to consider state operation and the making of public history. He has recently completed an ethnography of an unbuilt mosque in the suburbs of Athens and is currently collaborating with architects and artists on research that explores the story of the Nation's Vow, a cathedral that the military regime of 1967 never managed to build in the capital city.