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TALKS, WORKSHOPS AND PRACTICE SHARING
Drawing Across x Along x Between University Borders considers the epistemological and transformative potential of drawing research to connect divergent areas in the university today. The conference focuses on drawing-based collaborations between art, science and society to tackle artistic, educational and societal challenges. We invite artists, scientists, educators, students, university policymakers and persons interested in inter-transdisciplinary practices across academia, research, and society to contribute and join the discussion in three possible directions:
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WHY DRAWING ACROSS, ALONG, BETWEEN UNIVERSITY BORDERS?
If we step into a STEM workplace today, we find all types of drawings circulating among scientists, technology researchers, engineers, or mathematicians. Computer screens connected to databases, where information is processed into vivid graphic visualisations, coexist with everyday drawing activities: observational sketches, graphs traced with markers in whiteboards, hand-drawn diagrams on found papers, or instructional illustrations. Some of these drawings are representations used as surrogates that stand for already acquired knowledge, while others are models designed to generate insights and produce new knowledge. Regardless of their names, the nature of their media and surfaces, they all stand for formal and informal ways to extend our minds in situations involving visual-spatial reasoning, feedback, or memory retention. In the last two decades, this diversity was mirrored by the growing interest in drawing activities as topics of STEM practices and pedagogy, such as drawing-to-learn or learning-by-drawing.
Hybrid knowing spaces were also opened by art-science collaborative projects, where the objects, methods and epistemology of science meet artistic research. At this intersection, drawing acts as a situated form of inquiry to address and experiment with concepts and processes such as metabolism, movement, perception, pain, human mobility, emotion, matter, entropy, or time, among a diversity of phenomena across divergent areas.
Triggered by the debates surrounding the epistemological impact of drawing activities in science, a shift of focus has also occurred. In the hybrid knowing spaces opened by art-science collaborations, drawing activities are not restricted to visualising, modelling, or understanding. They are a form of agency whose goal is to connect, act and care, a way of staying with the trouble, as Donna Haraway would put it. By addressing drawing as an agency, we consider the links between who is drawing and what is being drawn as part of both the artistic and scientific research process; we focus on how objects and subjects are constituted in their mutual interactions through drawing in order to transform ways of knowing, sensing, feeling and acting in the world.
The three prepositions of the title – ACROSS X ALONG X BETWEEN – are attractors to explore drawing's different movements within university areas. They hint at possible research directions in terms of which the dualisms between embodied and discursive knowledge, image and writing or art and science in the university can be challenged.
[Day 1]
16 October
− i3S −
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Institute of Research and Innovation in Health
R. Alfredo Allen 208, 4200-135 Porto (Asprela Campus)
From the City Centre:
If you are travelling by metro, please use the Yellow Line (Stop Pólo Universitário). For further information, check the Andante website (https://andante.pt/en/plan-trip/).
If you prefer the bus, there are some lines connecting the city centre with Pólo Universitário. For further information, check the STCP website (https://www.stcp.pt/en/travel/).
[Day 2 & 3]
17 & 18 October
− FAUP −
FAUP - Faculty of Architecture, University of Porto
Via Panorâmica Edgar Cardoso 215, 4150-564 Porto (Campo Alegre Campus)
There are some lines connecting the city centre with FAUP. The nearest stop is the bus stop Planetário.
For further information, check the STCP website (https://www.stcp.pt/en/travel/).
If you prefer the metro, the nearest station is Casa da Música and it’s approximately 20 minutes away on foot.
From the Airport to the City Centre
— by metro (12 km)
If you're coming to Porto by plane, the simplest and cheapest way would be to take the metro.
Line E (Violet) connects the airport station to the "Estádio do Dragão" (FC. Porto Stadium) and the entire metro network.
It's necessary to buy an occasional Andante title to travel from the airport to Porto's centre (Title Z4). The Andante ticket can be purchased at any of the automatic ticket machines in the Metro station – occasional ticket (Z4). It costs 1.85€ + 0.60€ card and is valid for 1h (and is also rechargeable). You can also buy the Andante Tour, an unlimited and intermodal title valid for 1 or 3 days.
For more detailed information about the metro, please click on the link or see the image with the lines of the metro below:
From the Airport to the City Centre
— by taxi
All taxis are equipped with a taximeter, and the fare charged is limited to the amount displayed on the meter. A surcharge of 20% is applied on the following periods: weekends and public holidays; working days between 21H00 and 06H00 (surcharge automatically calculated by the taximeter).
Motorway toll charges are to be paid by the passenger. A fee of €1,60 will be charged for transporting luggage exceeding 55cm x 35cm x 20cm. Any tipping is left to the passenger's discretion. It is compulsory for passengers to be given a receipt. The average price for this distance is €25,00.
From Lisbon to Porto
— by train (≈ 3 hours)
If you're planning to come by train from Lisbon, notice that:
Porto is served by international trains, Alfa Pendular (high-speed train), intercity, inter-regional, regional and urban trains. From Lisbon, you must purchase a train ticket to the train station Porto - São Bento. When you arrive at Campanhã train station, you must transfer to another train with direction to Porto - São Bento (5 minutes by train), which is the closest train stop to the city centre. Average price for a one-way train ticket from Lisbon to Porto is 30€.
For further information check the CP – Comboios de Portugal's website: https://www.cp.pt/passageiros/en
The conference venues are in Asprela Campus (day 1) and Campo Alegre Campus (day 2 & 3) but can be easily reached from the City Centre. Please check bellow some suggestions of accommodation in these 3 areas.
Asprela Campus:
**ibis Porto São João
https://all.accor.com/hotel/3227/index.en.shtml
Rua Dr Plácido Costa, Nº 7579
4200-450 Porto - Portugal
Campo Alegre Campus / Boavista:
**Hotel Vice-Rei
https://www.hotelvicerei.com/
Rua Júlio Dinis, 779, Lordelo do Ouro e Massarelos,
4050-326 Porto, Portugal
***HF Tuela Porto
https://www.hfhotels.com/en/hotels-en/hf-tuela-porto-en/
Rua Arq. Marques da Silva, 200
4150-483 Porto - Portugal
****HF Ipanema Porto
https://www.hfhotels.com/en/hotels-en/hf-ipanema-porto-en/
Rua do Campo Alegre 156,
4150-169 Porto - Portugal
****Hotel da Música Porto
https://www.hoteldamusica.com/hotel/
Mercado do Bom Sucesso Largo Ferreira Lapa, 21 a 183,
4150-323 Porto – Portugal
City Centre:
**Moov Hotel Porto Centro
https://hotelmoov.com/en/hotels/porto-en/moov-hotel-porto-centro/
Praça da Batalha 32,
4000-101 Porto – Portugal
***Hotel São José
https://www.saojosehotelporto.com/en/Homepage.aspx
Rua da Alegria 172,
4000-034 Porto – Portugal
***Legendary Porto Hotel
https://www.legendaryportohotel.com/en/
Praça da Batalha 127,
4000-100 Porto
****Porto Trindade Hotel
https://www.portotrindadehotel.com
Rua de Camoes, 129/131
4000-144 Porto – Portugal
*ABOUT THE DRAWinU PROJECT
https://doi.org/10.54499/PTDC/ART-OUT/3560/2021
More information about the University of Porto campuses:
