To consider urban design is to enter into the inner throbbing of the city, its arteries, fluxes, human relations, the roughness of the dark alleys, the warmth of the nooks and crannies, the cosiness of the alleyways. The noises and the smells, the movement of...
To consider urban design is to...
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Recovering craft traditions of a region or locality, reinvigorating their colours, their ways of making and using them is an extraordinary achievement. But making people’s lives socially and economically sustainable is an even greater accomplishment....
Recovering craft traditions of...
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Hal Foster, in his famous book “Design and Crime, and other diatribes”, 2002, recalled Bruce Mau, and the design principles that this designer defended in the late 1980s. It was with Mau that, as a manifesto, the term “Life Style” came about, and its closed...
Hal Foster, in his famous book...
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The Porto Design Biennale ends up filling the void since the closure of the old Lisbon biennale, Experimenta Design.When we remember these two events, we realise that, over the years, some differences have occurred in design, and various needs have arisen since the first biennales...
The Porto Design Biennale ends...
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Supernatural Togetherness is the leitmotif opening the first edition of the Art(e)facts Biennial, which gathers three municipalities of Beira Baixa (Fundão, Guarda and Manteigas) and prepares the Application of Guarda for the European Capital of Culture 2027 (AGECC 2027), within the programme of Architecture and Territory.Grounded...
Supernatural Togetherness is ...
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In the thirties of the last century, Portuguese intellectuals were worried and even alarmed1 about the possible extinction of a Portuguese popular culture. This fear seemed to be associated with the idea that an industrialist philosophy would take over everything. Therefore, a form of Portuguese...
In the thirties of the last ce...
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The first edition of Porto Design Biennale marks an event of great importance in the cultural and artistic scene of Porto. Curated by José Bártolo, this biennial aims to overcome its biennial condition and produce an indelible echo until its next edition.The first moment aims...
The first edition of Porto Des...
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The 2019 edition of the Maia Contemporary Art Biennale invades, questions and deciphers the city based on the Import / Export subject matter. In a city marked by hybrid territories, between the rural and the industrial, and as Maia celebrates the 500th anniversary of the...
The 2019 edition of the Maia C...
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After launching the international Absolut Creative Competition, on November last year, it was received more than 7500 applications at international level – 400 just in Portugal – in a total sum of 350 artists.The Portuguese works were evaluated by the jurors Joana Astolfi, Alexandre Melo...
After launching the internatio...
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