Atelier Nomade
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author(s): Pure Print Archeology
connected to: i2ADS - Research Institute in Art, Design and Society
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Atelier Nomade is a research seminar around the practical use of lithography outside of the printmaking workshop.
The improvised city: contributions of informal dwelling towards an expanded paradigm of the metropolis. The case of Porto, Portugal
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author(s): Ana Miriam Rebelo
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Acknowledging the importance of dominant global discourses and aesthetics in the validation of a hegemonic urban development model that reinforces urban inequality, this paper addresses the need for narratives and representations that challenge current paradigms. Taking the city of Porto as a case study, we hypothesize that within this context, the acknowledgment and valuation of informal dwelling may provide relevant contributions to the construction of such alternative discourses. Delving into the aesthetics and the implicit politics of informal dwelling, we examine its contributions towards aesthetic and social diversity, and the opportunities it presents for participation in the construction of Western urban landscapes. Contrasting the emanant visual character of informal dwelling with hegemonic representations and re-branding narratives in the city of Porto, the paper brings light to a ubiquitous, yet disregarded reality that may bring crucial inputs to a purposeful debate on diversity, equity, and democracy in urban environments.
Aknowledgement
This article is part of the research project “Visual and semantic identities of the city of Porto: an ascertainment of the contributions of informal dwelling”, funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) and the European Social Fund (ESF), under the grant PD/BD/150641/2020
Capitalist visuality: branding, architecture, and its visual reproduction. A case study in the city of Porto.
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author(s): Ana Miriam Rebelo
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This chapter examines the promotional image of the city of Porto, cre-ated and disseminated in the last decades, as a means through which core capi-talist values, objectives and operative logic are disseminated and naturalized in public space. Mirzoeff’s conceptualization of visuality, as the aesthetic means through which dominant systems seek to present their legitimacy as self-evident, informs our examination of branding, architecture, and its visual reproduction, as discursive practices employed in the deployment of what we will designate as a capitalist visuality.
Local tradition and cosmopolitan modernity are identified as the two main con-cepts in the promotional strategy designed to enhance the city’s appeal, which representation relies to a large extent on architectural aesthetics, namely vernac-ular heritage, and international architectural icons. The chapter analyzes the re-currence of these concepts in branding, promotional imagery, and architectural management.
Paredes-Meias
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author(s): Ana Miriam Rebelo
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“Paredes-Meias” revisits the itinerary proposed by project “Peregrinações” produced and presented at the event “Manobras no Porto”, in 2012. Working form testimonies form participants, which are also residents of the parish of Vitória, a visual and sonic narrative was constructed, that proposes to discover fragments of the memories and daily lives of different generations of inhabitants.
This short animated film intends to document experiences of this place, intersecting past and present in a common space, where collective and individual memories build the identity of the place. Because this identity is also made up of routines, gestures and paths repeated day after day by successive generations, this path is proposed as a cycle, with no beginning or end, in which the spectator can enter and exit at any given time.
The photographs evoke the memory of these places, visible in buildings, streets, and walls marked by time, in which the traces of individual passages are inscribed. Small animated moments were drawn over them, sketched and simplified, volatile as memory. A sound recording of the itinerary was added to this visual component, complementing it with a layer from the present time.
"Paredes-meias" was awarded with the Best Documentary Project prize, by Manobras no Porto 2012
Direction: Ana Miriam & David Doutel
Photography: Ana Miriam
Animationo: David Doutel & Vasco Sá
Sounf design: Pedro Pestana
Radically Tender Spaces
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author(s): Janne Schröder
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Young people practicing collective care as a performative strategy for the creation of alternative social imaginaries.