Friday, 5/9/2025
EAAD - Campus de Azurém - Museu
As part of Plan A of the
PhD in Architecture, 2024/2025 edition, Class #10 of the Advanced Knowledge
Seminar, entitled “The Green Years or the prevalence of space over time”, will
take place on May 9 at 2pm at the EAAD Museum, and will be given by Maria
Augusta Babo.
Synopsis | Paulo Rocha's
film is a revisitation of the new Portuguese cinema and also allows us to
discuss how in cinema the narrative plot succumbs to the urban landscape. This
movie has no story. The moments follow one another. Two young characters wander
aimlessly through 1960s Lisbon. In the meantime, their drift shows the viewer
the modernist modification of the urban landscape, on the one hand, but also
the emergence of a desolate and amorphous no-man's land, forming the periphery
of the newly built areas, a true non-place. There is a power of the image
beyond the narrative that becomes the key to reading this film. But not a fixed
landscape. Movement, technical acceleration, appears between the lines of the
shots, through all the means of transportation used. The succession of
landscapes exudes a faint, filigree melancholy that leads to the dramatic outcome.
Bio | Maria Augusta Babo
holds a PhD in Semiology from the University of Paris VII (1981) and an MA in
Cultural Theory from the University of Minho (2011). Retired as an Associate
Professor, she taught from 1981 to 2021 in the Department of Communication Sciences
at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa - FCSH.
She was President of the Centro de Estudos de
Comunicação e Linguagens - CECL - and director of the Revista de Comunicação e
Linguagens between 1999 and 2006. Between
1998 and 2008, she was President of the jury of the Scientific and Technical
Translation Prize in Portuguese Language. She founded the Iberian Semiotics
Association with Jorge Lozano in 2016. In 2018 she received the National
Culture Center Prize - An idea to change the world - and was received at the
UN. She has participated in and organized conferences and publications in her
areas of expertise: Semiotics, Writing Theory and Subjectivation Processes. She
has supervised four doctoral theses. “Cultures of the Self - Configurations of
Subjectivity” is his latest book. She directs the project “We The Peoples -
Collaborative, Intercultural Platform” at ICNOVA, where she is an integrated
researcher.
