Call interno para Investigadores do CEAU com e / sem Doutoramento integrarem candidatura AAi2 Capacitation Lab como Key staff (Investigadores seniors) e Early Stage Researchers (ERS)
The AAI2Lab aims to reinforce research collaboration between Portugal, Spain and Sweden to strengthen the mobilizing potential of Architecture, Art and Image in order to identify and render visible new collective spaces of political action and urban intervention through an interdisciplinary research and pedagogical context with a significant component of Contemporary Photography that AAi2 Lab understands being Photography posited as a relevant artistic, critical and documentary research tool. combined with complementary research in Information Technology and Space Syntax.
The mission of AAi2Lab project is inspired by broad conceptions of creativity and innovation as inducing forces of social and institutional co-evolution, exploring the potential of photography and mapping combined with qualitative and quantitative approaches, for making imaginative questions on space appropriation, urban perception and socio-cultural diversity and address transversal problems within interdisciplinary debates on Architecture, City and Territory.
The project consists in reinforcing the activity of an international capacitation laboratory, the AAI2Lab, based in the Centre of Architecture and Urbanism Studies of Faculty of Architecture of Porto University (FAUP-CEAU) with the collaboration of 2 European leading institutions, challenging exchange of students, teachers, and researchers within the fields of Architecture, Art, Image, and Information Technology.
AAi2 Lab is crucial to create an interdisciplinary framework of actions and collaborations, which will give a significant answer to some of the Widening Partner research weaknesses and boost strategic capacities and research skills of FAUP and its I&D centre. This means, besides other things:
(1) Reinforcement of a more active collaboration between widening partner research groups, with other national and international partners;
(2) Strengthening of an overall ethos focused on research and action covering an inclusive interdisciplinary field on the subject of work and ways of life characteristic of several populations in the contemporaneity, being attentive to the relationship between the spaces of architecture, the city, the territory and its experiences;
(3) Integration of research from emerging new PhDs and post-graduates in AAi2 Lab implementing an interdisciplinary collaborative international platform for research and empirical studies;
(4) Stimulation of the innovation capacity of FAUP using cutting-edge technologies applied to urbanism, architecture, art and image;
(5) Stimulation of the dialogue of early stage researchers with other professionals, articulating academic training, professional practice and scientific research through the internationalization of collaboration and experience exchange through workshops, debates, conferences and other knowledge-sharing actions aimed at students of Architecture, Art and Image at national and international level;
(6) Reinforcement of the link research-teaching, with advanced ‘levels’ of knowledge being offered to early stage researchers, both from Master and Continuing Professional Development (CPD), through the AAi2 Lab E-Learning courses modules. These will increase the impact and income generation of the widening research partner;
(7) Internationalization of the on-going Visual Spaces of Change (VSC) project and Contemporary View of City Spaces and Architecture in Oporto: Documentaries and Artistic Photography Mapping (MFDA-ARP) as a vital strategy to disseminate the research developed and reinforcement of the Porto region and their knowledge centres;
(8) Stimulation and support the integration of new research projects focused on critical issues regarding informal settlements or marginalized areas in our cities, contributing to open the traditional understanding of the Architecture, City and Territory towards more inclusive and committed design.
AAi2Lab is grounded in the idea that valid scientific insight in society can be acquired by observing, analysing, and theorizing its visual manifestations (Pauwels, 2010) and that there is the need to use diverse visual media for researching, documenting and analysing socio-spatial issues by combining diverse images, photography and data visualization as meaningful research approaches in the study of how collective spaces are used, perceived and transformed through everyday appropriation. All this means, besides other things, combining artistic and documentary visual strategies with qualitative and quantitative analysis of collective spaces transformation. The potential of intertwining qualitative and quantitative analysis, as well as the artistic and documentary visual strategies, should inform, have as a result and anchor configurational methodologies and relational socio-spatial logics synthesised within collective spaces through collected information of socio-spatial appropriation and urban perception.
Thus, it wants to ensure the constant research and development of knowledge in the creation, experimentation, innovation and evolution of various artistic areas, with particular emphasis on experimentation and research of architectural culture and contemporary photography, mainly exploring the value of visual perception in the development of these themes. In this way, this laboratory aims to rearticulate the ethical and aesthetic dimensions of these disciplinary fields, by developing communication strategies and critical self-reflexive exercises, inserted in a broad cosmopolitan discussion on the redefinition of collective spaces. These are the places for appropriation by individuals on behalf of themselves or of larger agencies and groups mainly configured as local actions. In this process, global patterns emerge from space appropriation initiatives reflected in daily decisions. Local actions are successively done, undone and transformed as individuals adapt to what is locally optimal.
The mission of AAi2Lab is to activate the potential of young generations of students, researchers, architects and artists to intervene in their socio-spatial reality, exploring the use of image, namely Contemporary Photography, for observing, analysing and theorizing different dimensions of collective spaces based on visual research methods. The active cooperation between the various partner entities of the AAi2Lab aims to stimulate a multidisciplinary research dynamic, where photography among other investigation tools, is a significant visual instrument tool, around the many hybrids between the spaces of the commons, urban spaces of collective use and the public sphere, in a joint effort to understand how these social constructions can be mutually transformed, preserved or regenerated through concerted actions.
At AAi2Lab, the power of image is used to bridge objective and subjective aspects of observation, analysis, interpretation and expression of the multiple overlapping realities that configure collective spaces. Crossing borders and shifting boundaries across disciplines, this collaborative platform fosters synergies between different sensibilities and skills, in order to develop innovativeresearch-action practices capable of strengthening emerging spaces of participation and citizenship.
Contact informationAAI | Architecture, Art and Image
info.aai@arq.up.pt
Convocatória a projetos Twinning do Horizonte 2020
Os projetos Twinning visam reforçar significativamente uma área específica de investigação numa instituição reconhecida, criando uma ligação entre esta instituição e, no mínimo, duas instituições de investigação líderes em outros Estados Membros.O Twinning deverá contribuir para os seguintes objetivos: - Melhorar a capacidade C&T das instituições “ligadas”; - Elevar o perfil do pessoal de investigação, bem como da instituição envolvida.As propostas Twinning deverão definir claramente a estratégia científica para incrementar e estimular a excelência científica e a capacidade de inovação numa determinada área de investigação, melhorando, paralelamente, a qualidade científica dos parceiros envolvidos nas actividades do Twinning. Os proponentes deverão ainda justificar os eventuais contributos do projecto para a Estratégia de Especialização Inteligente nas regiões onde estão instalados. Os projetos Twinning deverão produzir um impacto significativo e mensurável na capacidade científica e inovadora das instituições iniciantes, através, por exemplo, do aumento em publicações com arbitragem cientifica e citações.
