Friday, 2/25/2022
On February 25 at 6:00 pm, it will be held the launching session of the book "Cartographies. Between Place, Time and Scale", by Cidália F. Silva, Marta Labastida, Rute Carlos and Fernando P. Ferreira.
Through the selection of cartographies
developed in Integrated Master theses in the field of knowledge of City and
Territory at the EAUM, the book aims to reflect on forms and methods of
representing contemporary places inside and outside the Portuguese territory,
thus making visible the relational complexity that each of these places bears
in its specificity.
The book will be presented by Bruna
Montuori (School of Architecture, Royal College of Art), Maria Goula (Cornell
University) and Susana Oliveira (FBAUL) and moderated by Cidália F. Silva (EAAD UMinho / SRH University) and
Fernando P. Ferreira (Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL).
We kindly invite everyone
interested to attend through the link:
https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/88699017337?pwd=cU1UdnA2R1N4a3ovMS9KZEFGRGg5Zz09
Biographies
Bruna Montuori is an urban researcher and
designer based in between London and Rio de Janeiro. She is a PhD Candidate at
the School of Architecture, Royal College of Art. Her research investigates
narratives and insurgent citizenship through the work of Redes da Maré
organisation in Maré, Rio de Janeiro. Within Redes da Maré, Bruna has been
working as a graphic designer and consultant since 2019. In the UK, she has
been collaborating as a guest lecture and guest critic for SoA/RCA in the
programmes of MA Environmental Architecture, MRes Architecture, and MA History
and Theory. She is currently a PGR Rep of the Participatory Geographies
Research Group (PYGYRG) conducting events and publications on interdisciplinary
participatory research. Bruna holds a Master's degree in Architecture from the
Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, University of São Paulo (FAU-USP) where
she co-founded the Relational Design research group. Furthermore, she worked as
curator assistant of the 11th São Paulo Architecture Biennial in 2017 and
worked as a design consultant for a number of organisations in São Paulo,
Brazil.
Maria Goula, Director
of Graduate Studies and Associate Professor at the Landscape Architecture
Department, CALS, Cornell University. Maria is a licensed Architect and a
Landscape Architect with a Ph.D. in Landscape Design Theory. She develops
research on coastal tourism, with a focus on the interpretation and reinvention
of leisure landscape patterns in an era of multiple uncertainties. In the core
of her practice and research resides an ambition to unveil, speculate and
reflect on intrinsic values of ordinary landscapes in constant change. The
elaboration of landscape cartographies is the main tool to address the latter
in order to enrich planning policy-making and design tools for resilient
landscapes. Her awarded contribution as a leading researcher for the creation of
landscape specific cartographies for two Landscape Catalogues commissioned and
coordinated by the Catalan Landscape Observatory forged her experience beyond
studio work. With her research on contemporary urban design, on contemporary
cartography tactics, with the direction of Ph.D. candidates, and moreover, with
collaborative and participative pioneer design work, she is working on
reversing the attitude of design disciplines towards the aforementioned
landscapes. Maria is a foundation member of the International Landscape
Biennial of Barcelona since 2000. She is a member of the Board of Foundation
Landscape Architecture Europe-LAE, Wageningen, Netherlands, as well as a member
of the Board of the Journal of Landscape Architecture [JOLA].
Susana Oliveira, Associate Professor, Faculty of
Fine-Arts, Lisbon University, Portugal. She studied Fine-Arts, has an MA in
Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art and PhD in Communication and Culture and
published several articles and books on visual culture. She co-organized the
1st International Conference on Architecture and Fiction – Once Upon a Place,
Lisboa 2010, published in book format in 2013, and was co-proposer of Writing
Urban Places network. She was Visiting Scholar at GSAPP – Columbia University
NY in 2014, with postdoctoral research in Architectural Imagination in Fiction
Literature, a subject she keeps pursuing, namely within Graphic Representation,
Book History and Culture and Word & Image Studies. She also works as a
freelance illustrator and has published over 25 youth and children’s
books.
