26/06/2025 - 27/06/2025    Centro Vila Flor em Guimarães

The Association ‘The Future Design of Streets’, EAAD and Lab2Pt announce the 2nd International Conference ‘The future design of streets’ which will take place on 26 and 27 June 2025 at the Vila Flor Centre in Guimarães

In this context, the call for papers is open until 15 February 2025. This call focuses on street design and planning and will have Social, Natural, Mobility and Transitions as its central themes. More information at: https://thefuturedesignofstreets.eu/conference-porto-2022/?fbclid=IwY2xjawHjQNNleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHSY57IAk0yalxBRGG8k8ZWknEOOzQoYTzwAq4H9h6g9FthChAiq_F6x2uQ_aem_D_efirEY62MZfNUb-EuoAQ

Friday, 02/05/2025    EAAD - Campus de Azurém - Museu

As part of Plan A of the PhD in Architecture, 2024/2025 edition, Class #09 of the Advanced Knowledge Seminar, entitled “Reimagining Geographies: the Intersections of Spaces in Popular Cinema of the Diaspora”, will take place on May 2 at 2pm at the EAAD Museum.”, given by researcher Catarina Laranjeiro

Synopsis | Diaspora popular cinema refers to audiovisual works created by immigrants, produced with modest budgets and amateur actors and techniques. Made in European countries, these films tend to portray (and reproduce) the countries of origin of those who direct or produce them. For example, some films are shot in the suburbs of Lisbon, but their narratives take place in Bissau (Guinea-Bissau) or Praia (Cape Verde). Drawing on audiovisual works created by Cape Verdean immigrants in Europe - such as João Pereira (a.k.a. Tikai) in Portugal or CV TEP in Luxembourg - I propose to explore the connection that these works establish between the space filmed and the space represented. By filming the country of origin in the host country, surprising transnational stories are created, in which more than the shared imaginaries between immigrants and countries of origin, the unshared imaginaries between immigrants and the host country are revealed.

Bio | Catarina Laranjeiro is a researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa (FCSH-NOVA), where she is developing a research project on vernacular cinema in Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau and their European diasporas. She has a PhD in Post-Colonialisms and Global Citizenship from the Center for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra. She directed the film “Pabia di Aos” (2013) and co-directed the film “Fogo no Lodo” (2023). She participates in various projects that interweave anthropology, cinema and the visual arts.

23/04/2025 - 17/05/2025    EAAD - Garagem Avenida - Galeria

The exhibition “Pausa”, the result of the EAAD Artist Residency of 24/25, opens tomorrow, April 23rd at 5pm at the Garagem Avenida Gallery. With the participation of artists Carolina Pinto, Guilherme Monteiro, José Pedro Cunha, Lara Teixeira and Sofia Silva, and curated by Flávia Vieira, the exhibition will run until May 17, 2025.

Synopsis: This exhibition, the result of an artistic residency at the EAAD - UMinho Visual Arts Degree (24/25), brings together five artists who focus on the idea of expanded time - a time that resists quantification, escapes the chronometer of productivity and refuses the imperative of acceleration. In the rhythm of the pause and the interval, the works that make up this exhibition are presented as breathing spaces, as fields of suspension, and as territories where time unfolds in other possible rhythms.

Thursday, 17/04/2025   

According to FCT's preliminary results, the Lab2PT research center - a center of EAAD and ICS - was awarded the top rating of Excellent in the evaluation of Research and Development units, maintaining the result it had already obtained in the previous evaluation.

This rating reflects the work carried out in the 2018-2023 period, as well as securing Lab2PT's funding for the next five-year period 2025-2029.

Friday, 11/04/2025    EAAD - Campus de Azurém - Museu

As part of Plan A of the PhD in Architecture, 2024/2025 edition, Class #08 of the Advanced Knowledge Seminar, titled “The lines that April did not blur: territory, housing and racial violence”, will take place on April 11 at 2pm at the EAAD Museum, and will be given by Ana Rita Alves.

Synopsis | bell hooks tells us in 1990 - from the lived experience of black people - how the home is a place of organization and solidarity, refuge, subversion and struggle, a space where “everything that really matters” takes shape (hooks, 2015). Therefore, the fall of a house, the destruction of a neighborhood - through rehousing or, in its most violent form, eviction - can represent a hecatomb, implying the dispossession of families, (forced) displacement and the erasure of a “(black) sense of place” (Mckittrick, 2011). Amid the rubble, memory and solidarity. This session will seek to analyze and debate the intersection between territory, housing and racial violence in April Portugal through the analysis of legislation and public policies and the insurgency of black people, Roma and migrants based on the sometimes repeated gesture of (re)building a house and (re)designing a neighborhood.

Bio | Ana Rita Alves is an anthropologist and PhD in Human Rights in Contemporary Societies (UC), with the thesis “Beyond Loss: Race, Displacement and the Political”. She is currently a researcher on the project “Generating Bodies: from Aggression to Insurgency. Contributions to a Decolonial Pedagogy” (CeiED - Lusófona University) and a collaborating researcher at the Center for Social Studies (UC). Over the last decade, Ana Rita has produced critical knowledge on institutional racism, public policies, territory, housing and political violence in Portugal, in dialogue with residents and collectives from self-produced and rehoused neighborhoods. She is the author of the book “Quando ninguém podia ficar: racismo, habitação e território” (When nobody could stay: racism, housing and territory) (Tigre de Papel, 2021).