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Guided tour / class
Anuária exhibition 2019/2020 | FAUP
A guided tour / class took place on the 22nd of October, conducted by Pedro Leão Neto, aimed at students of the curricular units of Computer Aided Architecture Project and Photography curricular units 1st Cycle (CAAD I) and Photography, Architecture, City and Territory 2nd Cycle (FACT), at the premises of FAUP where the Anuária Exhibition is currently taking place with works from the academic year 2019/2020, whose theme is related to the research project Visual Spaces of Change (VSC).
CAAD I
The objective of CAAD I / FAUP, 1st Cycle in the 1st semester, is to develop the theoretical and practical bases related to the themes of visual communication strategies for architectural design at an early stage of development, with a special focus on the analysis and communication of the study territory and in the use of photography and its potential to question and problematize the universe of Architecture, City and Territory.Photography is used as a research tool and critic of the study territory with a view to the conception and production of a collective and individual photobook on that territory.The work strategy adopted in practical classes guides students to develop parallel individual and collective communication and photography exercises, with the study territory being a public space or architecture program located in Greater Porto.
CAAD II
The objective of CAAD II / FAUP, 1st Cycle in the 2nd semester, is to continue to develop and refine the work developed in CAAD I with regard to the theoretical and practical bases related to the theme of communication strategies for architectural design in an internship development, but now focusing on a communication and representation process capable of questioning the universe of Architecture, Art and Image by (re) thinking and exploring the various instruments of representation of thought and imagination, thereby expanding an architectural practice or theory.The work strategy adopted in practical classes is the same as that adopted in CAAD I, guiding students to develop parallel individual and collective communication exercises to create a photobook / artist's book, with the study territory being a public space or program of architecture located in Greater Porto.
FACT
The objective of FACT, 2nd Cycle in the 1st semester is, on the one hand, to deepen the study and practice acquired in CAAD I and II on the use of photography and its potential to question and problematize the universe of Architecture, City and Territory. On the other hand, taking students to develop a visual photographic narrative with greater maturity, capable of communicating new perspectives on space and urban reality and that can form a basis for their final dissertation on MIARQ.The aim is to make students aware of works by different authors who use documentary photography to question and problematize urban space and its modes of appropriation and to awaken in them an awareness of the existence of different currents and artistic strategies when using documentary photography as an instrument of investigation and critical communication in the universe of Architecture, City and Territory.The work strategy adopted in practical classes is the same as that adopted in CAAD I, guiding students to develop, in parallel, individual and collective communication exercises to create a photobook / artist's book.
Visual Spaces of Change
Visual Spaces of Change proposes a visual communication strategy based on the development of contemporary photography projects that reflect on the different dynamics of urban change to open up new horizons for public intervention in the public space. These projects are conceived as “visual narratives” of these dynamics, intentionally interfering with the metropolitan territory in a self-reflective representation of its own process of change, reducing the distance between the objects of investigation (landscapes, places, public and collective spaces) and the their representations.
Collaborative structire
Visual Spaces of Change brings together a diverse set of institutions and researchers, architects, curators, photographers and authors of visual arts, in an exercise of joint reflexivity around common concerns related to the transformation of the territory, the public space and the environment. The active collaboration of this wide network of institutional actors aims to increase their capacity to intervene in their social reality through concerted actions.
Universidade do Porto | Porto, Portugal
Universidade do Minho | Braga, Portugal
Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto (FAUP) | Porto, Portugal
Centro de Estudos de Arquitectura e Urbanismo (CEAU) | Porto, Portugal
Arquitectura, Arte e Imagem (AAI) | Porto, Portugal
Centro ALGORITIMI | Braga, Portugal
Laboratório de Arquitectura, Arte, Imagem & Inovação (AAi2Lab) | Porto, Portugal
Universidade de Saragoça (AAi2Lab) | Saragoça, Espanha
Universidade de Liverpool – Escola de Arquitectura (AAi2Lab) | Liverpool, Reino Unido
Centro para a Arquitectura e as Artes Visuais (CAVA) | Liverpool, Reino Unido
Metro do Porto | Porto, Portugal
Museu de Arte, Arquitetura e Tecnologia (MAAT) | Lisboa, Portugal
i2ADS – Instituto de Investigação em Arte, Design e Sociedade (FBAUP) | Porto, Portugal
FAME – Fotografia e Arquitectura Moderna em Espanha | Espanha