CONTRAST: UMA EXPOSIÇÃO ONDE MEMÓRIA, IDENTIDADE E LUGARES SE INTERRELACIONAM DE FORMA RIZOMÁTICA II

 
 
 

CONTRAST: UMA EXPOSIÇÃO ONDE MEMÓRIA, IDENTIDADE E LUGARES SE INTERRELACIONAM DE FORMA RIZOMÁTICA

2 de SETEMBRO de 2024 (2ª FEIRA), 17h00 | GALERIA DA Biblioteca| FACULDADE DE ENGENHARIA DA UNIVERSIDADE DO PORTO (FEUP)

No dia 2 de setembro, pelas 17h, a Galeria da Biblioteca da FEUP acolheu a exposição do projeto CONTRAST “UMA EXPOSIÇÃO ONDE MEMÓRIA, IDENTIDADE E LUGARES SE INTERRELACIONAM DE FORMA RIZOMÁTICA“.

A exposição caracteriza-se por um discurso visual e gráfico singular do livro do projeto CONTRAST enquanto objeto de narração, criando um espaço onde existe uma circularidade que é inerente a essa matriz narrativa. Os spreads que compõem os painéis no espaço expositivo têm assim como origem a publicação que explorou o potencial específico do livro físico como meio único de comunicação de narrativas visuais não lineares, onde a ficção e realidade se misturam de forma imaginativa.

A exposição que interpela os visitantes a procurar um significado nos fragmentos de viagens e projetos, teve a sua abertura oficial às 17h e foi marcada por uma breve apresentação informal por parte dos seus curadores José Carneiro, Né Santelmo e Artur Leão, tendo como público diversos estudantes da FEUP, bem como algum público em geral.

O envolvimento da Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FEUP) no projeto CONTRAST, nomeadamente através da unidade curricular de Fotografia e Cinema, foram destacados como significativos para reforçar o reconhecimento global do projeto.

 A sessão contou com a presença dos responsáveis pela unidade curricular de Fotografia e Cinema, nomeadamente o seu diretor Jorge Manuel Gomes Barbosa e o docente coordenador José Carneiro. Esteve também presente o diretor do projeto CONTRAST Pedro Leão Neto.

O projeto CONTRAST pretende contribuir para a divulgação, criação e ensino da fotografia na sua interação com a Arte, Arquitectura e Design. Esta contribuição será desenvolvida no âmbito nacional e internacional através da partilha de experiências e conhecimentos entre escolas, grupos e associações não académicas, aproximando o interesse de diversos públicos por estes temas numa perspetiva transversal e holística.

A coleção CONTRAST: A FOTOGRAFIA NO ENSINO SUPERIOR é constituída por publicações em livro com uma periodicidade bienal realizadas no contexto do grupo de investigação Arquitectura, Arte e Imagem do Centro de Estudos de Arquitectura e Urbanismo da FAUP e editadas pela scopio Editions, existindo já dois números publicados.

Reportagem do evento: Artur Leão

Mais informações em CONTRAST e FEUP/NOTÍCIAS

 

CONTRAST: UMA EXPOSIÇÃO ONDE MEMÓRIA, IDENTIDADE E LUGARES SE INTERRELACIONAM DE FORMA RIZOMÁTICA

 
 
 

CONTRAST: UMA EXPOSIÇÃO ONDE MEMÓRIA, IDENTIDADE E LUGARES SE INTERRELACIONAM DE FORMA RIZOMÁTICA

2 de SETEMBRO de 2024 (2ª FEIRA), 17h00 | GALERIA DA Biblioteca| FACULDADE DE ENGENHARIA DA UNIVERSIDADE DO PORTO (FEUP)

No espaço expositivo da Biblioteca da FEUP existe uma circularidade inerente evocada pelo discurso visual e gráfico singular do livro enquanto objeto de narração. Os spreads que compõem os painéis no espaço expositivo têm assim como origem a publicação que explorou o potencial específico do livro físico como meio único de comunicação de narrativas visuais não lineares, onde a ficção e realidade se misturam de forma imaginativa.

Esta estratégia, entendida como extensão do objeto nuclear livro (Contrast II), vai ao encontro da ideia de Umberto Eco de que os livros não são artefactos intocáveis e que a possibilidade de personalizar e mesmo ir mais longe, prolongando o livro através de outros suportes, é da maior importância para marcar o seu interesse e estudo posterior.

Estamos assim perante um conjunto de projetos fotográficos que denotam diversas estratégias, diferentes problemáticas e discursos visuais, onde há lugar tanto para o real e coerência, como também para o paradoxo e brincadeira, o oximoro*, onde memória, identidade e lugares se interrelacionam de forma rizomática.

Na verdade, a espantosa diversidade de imagens fotográficas, umas herméticas e frias no seu processo de fechamento, outras mais acolhedoras e reveladoras de uma significativa intimidade psicológica, reorganizam-se nos painéis da exposição tendo como base a lógica narrativa de cada autor do livro. A ligação entre os diferentes projectos é estabelecida através da interação de cores e padrões que inevitavelmente flutuam, tal como algumas das imagens ascendem ao vazio dos painéis.

A exposição interpela os visitantes a procurar um significado nos fragmentos de viagens e projetos que nos mostra através de imagens combinadas com diversos pensamentos, algo que o aproxima do conceito de opera aperta de Umberto Eco** porque possibilita várias interpretações.

 

O projeto CONTRAST pretende contribuir para a divulgação, criação e ensino da fotografia na sua interação com a Arte, Arquitectura e Design. Esta contribuição será desenvolvida no âmbito nacional e internacional através da partilha de experiências e conhecimentos entre escolas, grupos e associações não académicas, aproximando o interesse de diversos públicos por estes temas numa perspetiva transversal e holística.

A coleção CONTRAST: A FOTOGRAFIA NO ENSINO SUPERIOR é constituída por publicações em livro com uma periodicidade bienal realizadas no contexto do grupo de investigação Arquitectura, Arte e Imagem do Centro de Estudos de Arquitectura e Urbanismo da FAUP e editadas pela scopio Editions, existindo já dois números publicados.

Mais informações em CONTRAST e FEUP/NOTÍCIAS

 

Aula Aberta | As possibilidades interpretativas e expressivas da fotografia no ensino da Arquitetura, Arte e Design: o projeto Contrast

 

Aula Aberta | “As possibilidades interpretativas e expressivas da fotografia no ensino da Arquitetura, Arte e Design: o projeto Contrast”

28 de AGOSTO de 2024, 4.ª feira, 14h30(PT)
Instituto de Arquitetura e Urbanismo -UNIV. DE São Paulo -IAU-USP

Acesso online: https://meet.google.com/ofc-frne-hmv

Irá realizar-se no dia 28 de agosto de 2024, 4.ª feira, 14h30 (PT), via online, mais uma sessão do ciclo de Conferências, Debates e Aulas abertas Arquitectura, Arte e Imagem (AAI). A aula aberta com o título “As possibilidades Interpretativas e Expressivas da Fotografia no Ensino da Arquitetura, Arte e Design: o projeto Contrast” é especialmente dirigida para a unidade curricular coordenada pelo Prof. Dr. Luciano Bernardino da Costa (IAU-USP) apelidada de "Disciplina Tópicos" que estuda o tema Fotografia, Experiência e Espaço urbano. 

A aula aberta consistirá numa exposição e discussão alargada em volta do universo da Fotografia, tendo como objetivo oferecer uma visão crítica sobre as possibilidades interpretativas e expressivas da fotografia no ensino da Arquitetura, Arte e Design e possibilitar o debate sobre o papel e a importância do ensino e da prática da fotografia nas escolas superiores de arte, de design, de arquitetura e de estudos artísticos.

O projeto CONTRAST pretende contribuir para a divulgação, criação e ensino da fotografia na sua interação com a Arte, Arquitectura e Design. Esta contribuição é desenvolvida no âmbito nacional e internacional através da partilha de experiências e conhecimentos entre escolas, grupos e associações não académicas, aproximando o interesse de diversos públicos por estes temas numa perspetiva transversal e holística.

A coleção CONTRAST: A FOTOGRAFIA NO ENSINO SUPERIOR é constituída por publicações em livro com uma periodicidade bienal realizadas no contexto do grupo de investigação Arquitectura, Arte e Imagem do Centro de Estudos de Arquitectura e Urbanismo da FAUP e editadas pela scopio Editions, existindo já dois números publicados.

Enquadramento

A organização destas conferências / debates / aulas abertas é da responsabilidade da organização do grupo de investigação Arquitetura, Arte e imagem (AAI / CEAU / FAUP) e scopio Editions.

O objectivo geral destas actividades tem sido o de promover uma ampla reflexão sobre o contributo das imagens na compreensão da realidade e na construção de imaginários, entre o documento e a ficção, entre a reprodução e a manipulação, entre o analógico e o digital. Estas actividades têm vindo a integrar diversas acções ligadas ao universo da imagem contemporânea, mais especificamente à fotografia, permitindo também a participação de grupos e cidadãos exteriores à academia, abrindo desta forma as universidades à sociedade civil e a outras instituições.
No universo da Imagem, a Fotografia é objecto de particular interesse, sendo explorada e analisada de forma crítica como um instrumento de registo e investigação numa perspectiva Inquisitiva, Curatorial e Comunicativa. O espaço privilegiado para esse registo e investigação fotográfica é o da Arquitectura, entendida como um universo amplo que integra simultaneamente os níveis macro e micro da transformação do Território e da Cidade e as suas múltiplas Vivências. 

Com o apoio institucional da Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto (FAUP), da Reitoria da U. Porto e da scopio Editions, este Ciclo AAI – Arquitectura, Arte e Imagem - está muito ligado à exploração da fotografia como instrumento de reflexão sobre a transformação do espaço público. 

Através da realização destas aulas abertas pretende-se contribuir para a criação de um espaço de exploração, debate e reflexão de ideias em torno de novos caminhos de investigação sobre o espaço público, com um enfoque em dinâmicas emergentes de transformação urbana e a utilização da imagem com especial incidência pela fotografia como instrumentos de pesquisa e comunicação. 


Biografias

Pedro Leão Neto (AAI / CEAU / FAUP)
Arquitecto pela FAUP (1992) é investigador e professor auxiliar na FAUP desde 2007 na área da Comunicação de Arquitetura e Fotografia, sendo coordenador do grupo de investigação Arquitetura, Arte e Imagem (AAI), diretor da associação cultural Cityscopio e fundador e coordenador editorial das Edições scopio. Neto foi curador de várias exposições de fotografia de arquitetura em Portugal e no estrangeiro, bem como de diversos cursos, debates e seminários internacionais em torno do universo da Arquitetura, Arte e Imagem, sendo autor e editor de mais de 40 livros sobre estes temas. É o Diretor da revista científica Sophia Journal, uma publicação indexada com revisão por pares que integra uma conferência internacional, agora com uma chamada aberta centrada na habitação pública em múltiplas geografias. Concluiu o pós-doutoramento "Mapeamento de Fotografia Documental e Artística: Um olhar Contemporâneo sobre Arquitectura e Espaços de Referência no Porto" (2018) que integrou diversos projetos de fotografia contemporânea centrados na obra de Álvaro Siza e foi publicado em livro, tendo sido reeditado numa versão bilingue ampliada em 2022. Foi coordenador e Investigador Responsável (IR) de vários projetos de investigação nacionais e internacionais financiados por fundos públicos, como por exemplo, "Espaços Visuais de Mudança" financiado pela FCT (2019-2023).

A investigação de Neto, profundamente enraizada na sinergia entre inovação pedagógica e atividades de extensão universitária, exemplifica uma abordagem multidisciplinar que abrange a Arquitetura, a Arte, o Design e a Fotografia. Um trabalho significativo que se alinha com os objetivos pedagógicos de Neto é o projeto Contraste, que estabelece uma rede de iniciativas artísticas multidisciplinares que melhoram o panorama educativo da fotografia em diversas áreas artísticas e disciplinares. Ao promover colaborações entre onze instituições de ensino superior, o projeto amplia o impacto pedagógico e interdisciplinar da fotografia na Arquitetura, Arte, Design e Fotografia, apresentando resultados significativos como as publicações "Contraste I e II: Fotografia no Ensino Superior".

Luciano Bernardino da Costa (IAU-USP)
Professor-Doutor do Instituto de Arquitetura e Urbanismo da Universidade de São Paulo, campus São Carlos. Co-coordenador do Núcleo de Espacialidades Contemporâneas, NEC. Atua em ensino e pesquisa na graduação e pós graduação na área de ‘Representação e Linguagem da Arquitetura e da Cidade’ em suas interlocuções com a produção artística, a imagem e a percepção do urbano, tendo artigos e ensaios teóricos-fotográficos publicados sobre o tema em revistas nacionais e internacionais e em Anais de Congressos. Doutor pela Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo da Universidade de São Paulo_FAU-USP, 2010, na área de Projeto, Espaço e Cultura. Mestrado em Educação pela UNICAMP, 2001. Graduação em Ciências Sociais, UNICAMP. Tem a fotografia como companheira em reflexões e experimentações visuais voltadas ao espaço urbano.

 

Les traces énigmatiques des autres

 

Les traces énigmatiques des autres

BY FIONA SEGADÃES DA SILVA


In «les traces énigmatiques des autres» a semi-contemplative approach is taken to maintain our conflicting relationship with the gradual destruction of the living things. This ongoing project, like a bad omen, emphasize our helplessness and uncertainty when it comes to the living world that we have dissociated from. An underlying tension among the images is created by impending catastrophe and palpable chaos, while silent phenomena form a wavering atmosphere. By captu- ring living landscapes, a deeper reflection on our vulnerability as individuals occurs. Could the photographic act channel the emotional tension of a vulnerable living body? We must develop the ability to sense a profound connection with the natural and organic world that surrounds us and perhaps images contribute to this intention. Everything is based on observations of decontextualized places that transports us to a dimension that is both tense and mysterious.

SHORT BIOGRAPHY

Fiona Segadães Da Silva (b.1995) is a photographer and an image book publisher. She currently lives and works in Le Havre (France). Her practice is built by a sensitive and tangible approach to the images. She is particularly interested in our ways of haunting bodies and spaces, our relationships with the living things and mental health. Her photographic work focuses on sensory perceptions and non-verbal projections. Freshly graduated with honors in 2022, since then her work was published in international group publications and part of some collective exhibitions.

Website
https://fionasegadaesdasilva.fr/

Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/segadaesdasilvafiona/

 

CHAMADA ABERTA | Prémio John Goto ESMAD, P. PORTO

 
 
 

eXTENSÃO do PRAZO | CHAMADA ABERTA | Prémio John Goto ESMAD, P. PORTO | 14 OUTUBRO 2024

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Prémio John Goto ESMAD, P. PORTO 

Aberto à participação de estudantes do ensino superior nas artes visuais, de qualquer nacionalidade, individuais ou em grupo.

A Escola Superior de Media Artes e Design (ESMAD), do Instituto Politécnico do Porto (P. PORTO), lança o Prémio John Goto ESMAD, P. PORTO, em homenagem ao artista fotógrafo John Goto, cujo trabalho inovador contribuiu para a reformulação da fotografia como meio de comentário social e crítica cultural.

O grupo de Arquitetura, Arte e Imagem (AAI) do Centro de Estudos de Arquitetura e Urbanismo CEAU-FAUP integra este Prémio existindo também uma parceria de Comunicação e Disseminação desta iniciativa através do projeto Contrast que reúne 12 escolas de ensino superior a lecionar fotografia em diversas áreas disciplinares e artísticas.

Desafiamos a participarem os estudantes do ensino superior nas artes visuais (fotografia, vídeo, cinema, artes digitais, multimédia, design, artes plásticas), de qualquer nacionalidade, individuais ou em grupo, com abordagens inovadoras que utilizem a fotografia e/ou outras áreas atrás referenciadas, como meio de reflexão sobre a contemporaneidade. 

Serão seleccionadas 4 propostas de exposições ou instalações, individuais ou coletivas, por um júri de seleção, constituído por artistas e investigadores de reconhecida competência.As exposições, que apresentem as obras selecionadas, estarão patentes ao público, em data a definir, nos espaços de exposição do universo P. PORTO e instituições protocoladas com a ESMAD.O/as autor/as cujas propostas sejam selecionadas obtêm uma verba para apoio e produção, no contexto das exposições, no valor de 1500€ (mil e quinhentos euros).

 

CANDIDATURAS ONLINE- submete a tua candidatura através do link https://iri24.esmad.ipp.pt/john-goto/até ao dia 14 de Outubro de 2024

Consulta o Regulamento em anexo para informações detalhadas sobre o concurso Prémio John Goto ESMAD, P. PORTO

CONTRAST PROJECT

The team of this project counts on the solid experience ofseveral higher education institutions – ARCO, DARQ, DCAM, EA.UCP, ESAP, ESMAD, FAUP, FBAUL, FBAUP, FEUP, IPT e UL.CUP – that through several projects, research and initiatives, ensure a strong integrated and complementary strategy of teaching, research and communication.

The project has a joint coordination in partnership with the Cultural Association Cityscopio, ESMAD-uniMAD andFBAUP – i2ADS, and is led by FAUP through the research group Architecture, Art and Image (AAI) integrated in theCentre for the Study of Architecture and Urbanism (CEAU), being funded by DGARTES contest to support projects of creation and edition, through the Cultural Association Cityscopio.

 

OPEN CALL | John Goto Prize ESMAD, P. PORTO

 
 
 

DEADLINE eXTENSION | OPEN CALL | John Goto Prize ESMAD, P. PORTO | OCTOBER 14TH 2024

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John Goto Prize ESMAD, P. PORTO  

Open to higher education students in the visual arts, of any nationality, individuals or groups.

The School of Media Arts and Design (ESMAD), of the Polytechnic Institute of Porto (P. PORTO), is launching the John Goto Prize ESMAD, P. PORTO, in honour of the artist-photographer John Goto, whose innovative work contributed to the reformulation of photography as a means of social commentary and cultural criticism.

The Architecture, Art and Image (AAI) group at the Centre for Architecture and Urbanism Studies (CEAU-FAUP) is part of this Award, and there is also a partnership for the Communication and Dissemination of this initiative through the Contrast project, which brings together 12 higher education schools teaching photography in various disciplinary and artistic areas.

We invite higher education students in the visual arts (photography, video, cinema, digital arts, multimedia, design, fine arts), of any nationality, to participate, either individually or in groups, with innovative approaches that use photography and/or the other areas mentioned above as a means of reflecting on contemporaneity.

Four proposals for exhibitions or installations, individual or collective, will be selected by a selection panel made up of artists and researchers of recognised competence.The exhibitions featuring the selected works will be open to the public, on a date to be defined, in the exhibition spaces of the P. PORTO universe and institutions with agreements with ESMAD.The authors whose proposals are selected will receive a grant of €1,500 (one thousand five hundred euros) for support and production in the context of the exhibitions.

ONLINE APPLICATIONS - submit your application via the link https://iri24.esmad.ipp.pt/john-goto/until 14 th October 2024.

See the attached Regulations for detailed information on the John Goto Prize competition ESMAD, P. PORTO

CONTRAST PROJECT

The team of this project counts on the solid experience ofseveral higher education institutions – ARCO, DARQ, DCAM, EA.UCP, ESAP, ESMAD, FAUP, FBAUL, FBAUP, FEUP, IPT e UL.CUP – that through several projects, research and initiatives, ensure a strong integrated and complementary strategy of teaching, research and communication.

The project has a joint coordination in partnership with the Cultural Association Cityscopio, ESMAD-uniMAD andFBAUP – i2ADS, and is led by FAUP through the research group Architecture, Art and Image (AAI) integrated in theCentre for the Study of Architecture and Urbanism (CEAU), being funded by DGARTES contest to support projects of creation and edition, through the Cultural Association Cityscopio.

 

Intersection of photography and architecture: scopio Editions, Sophia Journal and photography projects in the book Another approach to the works of Álvaro Siza

 
 
 

Intersection of photography and architecture: scopio Editions, Sophia Journal and photography book Another approach to the works of Álvaro Siza

Lecture AT ETSAB - Barcelona School of Architecture - UPC | JUNE 17 | 10:00/12:00 - Time zone: Europe/Madrid - by Pedro Leão Neto (Faculty of ArCHITECTURE OF University of Porto - FAUP)

Mirar es proyectar. Los arquitectos y la fotografía - Degree in Architecture | ETSAB |EA LLOTJA - Intensive Day | June 2024

LECTURE VIDEO-CALL

Time zone: Europe/Madrid
Information for joining with Google Meet
Video call link: https://meet.google.com/ava-aqsm-wuv


Pedro Leão Neto (Porto, 1962) is an architect and a faculty member of the School of Architecture at the University of Porto (FAUP), where he is also the coordinator of the research group Architectur, Art and Image (AAI). Pedro holds an MA from the in architecture from the University of Porto (1997) and a PhD from the University of Manchester (2002). He has curated several exhibitions on architectural photography and international conferences, namely ‘Sophia Journal International Conference’, now in its ninth edition (2024 / 2025). Pedro is the Editor-in-Chief of Sophia Journal and coordinator of the scopio Editions, which is focused on documentary artistic photography related to architecture.

Cristina Gaston Guirao, PhD - Associate professor in Departament of Architectural Design - ETSAB - Barcelona School of Architecture - UPC, responsible for the program Mirar es proyectar. Los arquitectos y la fotografía - Degree in Architecture | ETSAB |EA LLOTJA - Intensive Day | June 2024 - will open the session. The lecture Intersection of photography and architecture: scopio Editions, Sophia Journal and photography book Another approach to the works of Álvaro Siza will be the responsibility of Pedro Leão Neto (Editor-in-Chief of the Sophia Journal), who will at the end open the floor for any questions concerning the scopio editorial project and Sophia Journal.

The aim of the lecture is to communicate the broader context of scopio Edition, which creates a series of publications in magazine and book format, namely its scopionewspaper collection and CONTRAST publications, as well as the academic journals on the U.Porto and its significant photographic archive online, providing information on architecture and the public spaces in Portugal. The work is developed with the support of the research group AAI – FAUP and imany projects have the partnership of Rectory of U. Porto Rectory, U.PORTO PRESS and Porto Town Hall, Department of Culture. The lecture will focus on scopio Editions editorial project, Sophia Journal publication and a selection of photography projects in the book Another approach to the works of Álvaro Siza, being followed by open questions from the public concerning the editorial projects and the work developed by research group AAI-FAUP.

Visit scopio website at http://www.scopionetwork.com/ for recent projects as well as scopio bookstore and Sophia Journal.

Mirar es proyectar. Los arquitectos y la fotografía

Grado en Arquitectura | ETSAB |EA LLOTJA

JORNADA INTENSIVA 17 de junio 2024

Program

9.45-10.00
Recepción en la Llotja en el porche del vestíbulo de entrada
10.15_11.30
Conferencia online por Pedro Leao Neto: Intersection of photography and architecture: scopio Editions, Sophia Journal and photography projects in book Another approach to the works of Álvaro Siza. (en Aula I2)

11.30-12-00 Pausa

12.00_14.30
Taller de cianotipia en Laboratorios de fotografía y de serigrafía.

14.30-15.30
Pausa-comida en Espai Olivera. Podéis traer vuestros tuppers. Nosotras ponemos el postre.

16.00-17.00
Masterclass por Martí Llorens: El arte de conservar. Una aproximación a los orígenes de la fotografía de Arquitectura en la Sala petita.

17.00-18.00
Exposición de fotolibros y cianotipias en la Biblioteca

Unlocking Architectural Discourse and Ideas: scopio Editorial Project

At its core, scopio Editions focuses on contemporary photography related to architecture, the urban landscape, and territories. The presentation will allow understanding the "why" and "how" of scopio, elucidating its nuclear role in stimulating discussions and nurturing ideas within the realm of architecture through the lens of photography.

The presentation intends to highlight the tangible impact of this editorial endeavour, manifesting in a remarkable series of publications in both magazine and book formats, namely its scopionewspaper collection and CONTRAST publications, as well as the academic journals on the U.Porto OJS platform—Sophia Journal —bridging the worlds of photography, architecture, and art.

This editorial project is closely affiliated with the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto (FAUP) and its Centre for Architecture and Urbanism Studies (CEAU) and it has played a pivotal role increating a network of researchers and initiatives around this universe of common interest as in the present forthcoming conference - Landscapes of Care: Public housing across multiple geographies - crossing theories and practices. 

Sophia Journal

Sophia Journal is an international academic, open access, peer-reviewed journal, published by the Centre for Studies in Architecture and Urbanism (CEAU) - Research group Architecture, Art and Image (AAI) at the Faculty of Architecture, University of Porto, Portugal (FAUP), in collaboration with the association Cityscopio and their publishing imprint scopio Editions.

Landscapes of Care: Public housing across multiple geographies: crossing theories and practices

Sophia Journal's third thematic, “Landscapes of Care”, addresses research, projects, experiences, and contemporary photographic and visual practices that focus on how architecture, understood in a broad sense, can help to heal the relationships between man and habitat, as well as the socio-environmental crisis that the planet is experiencing.

This issue, focusing on public housing, allows contributions to be centered on a dynamic reading of the city that is conditional and conditioned by housing typology. Combining architecture, public housing, habitat, and urban planning, we are convoking works that explore an interpretative narrative about housing and those who live in it, pilot projects with communities of practice capable of generating strategic visions about the possible future of city and territory, housing and the lives it (trans)forms, in this ontological relationship between the Man and house.

Another Approach on the Works of Álvaro Siza
Contemporary Documentary Photography on Portuguese Architecture

The book is based on the research work that has been carried out at FAUP since 2015 around Documentary Artistic Photography focused on Portuguese Architecture, namely the research work carried out by the author for his Post-Doctorate at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto, ‘Mapping Documentary Artistic Photography: A Contemporary Look at Architecture in Porto (MFDA-ARP)’ (2018). Pedro Leão Neto's scientific advisors were Jorge Figueira, Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture at the Faculty of Science and Technology of the University of Coimbra between 2010 and 2017 and Visiting Professor in the PhD Programme in Architecture at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto, who supervised the research work, together with José Maçãs de Carvalho, Assistant Professor in the Department of Architecture at the University of Coimbra and at the College of Arts. The reissue of the book (2022) helps to consolidate the research, as well as ensuring the continuity of this study and analysis, namely the particular study on the different perceptions and representations of a set of architectural buildings designed by the architect Álvaro Siza that are photographed by different photographers.

About the CONTRAST project

The Contrast project corresponds to the creation of a network of multidisciplinary artistic initiatives in Art, Architecture, Design and Photography that counts with the direct involvement of eleven institutions of higher education teachingphotography in various disciplinary and artistic areas.

The project has been selected for funding in the DGARTES contest to support projects of creation and edition, through theCultural Association Cityscopio, with joint coordination between ESMAD-ID+ and FBAUP – i2ADS, and led by FAUP. 

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ABOUT SCOPIO EDITIONS

scopio Editions is an independent publisher closely affiliated with the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto (FAUP) and its Research and Development Centre for Architecture and Urban Studies (CEAU). The scope of interest for scopio Editions broadly encompasses Architecture, Art, and Image (AAI), with a particular focus on Documentary and Artistic Photography related to Architecture, the City, and Territory.

scopio Editions operates with a dynamic structure, featuring both periodic and non-periodic publications. Its primary objective is to disseminate various works and authors who engage with or investigate the AAI field through a critical, exploratory, and innovative approach. The central emphasis is on Photography associated with Architecture, the City, and Territory.

 

2ª edição do Project Rooms 2024 - Rodrigo Machado Encarnação - Bienal' Fotografia do Porto

 

Participação da FAUP no Project Rooms 2024 - Ci.CLO - BienaL Fotografia do Porto


Rodrigo Machado Encarnação - Artista seleccionado da Faculdade de Arquitetura da Universidade do Porto para integrar os Project Rooms 2024 da Bienal Fotografia do Porto

Rodrigo Machado Encarnação em representação da FAUP estará na Bienal Fotografia do Porto, entre os 6 artistas emergentes selecionados pelas 6 escolas de arte parceiras da Bienal Fotografia do Porto para integrar os Project Rooms em 2024.

A apresentação decorrerá no dia 4 de junho 2024, às 18h, no Batalha Centro de Cinema.

Esta apresentação assinala o início da segunda edição dos Project Rooms, que têm como intenção apoiar a produção de um portefólio sobre os projectos de final de curso, para ser apresentado a profissionais das artes e público geral. Os artistas emergentes seleccionados terão a oportunidade de discutir a produção e a apresentação do seu portefólio com 3 profissionais no campo das artes visuais — Vera Carmo, curadora independente, e os diretores artísticos da Bienal’23 Fotografia do Porto, Jayne Dyer e Virgílio Ferreira.

O professor responsável por acolher o projeto na Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto foi o professor Pedro Leão Neto.

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Organização e Produção: Ci.CLO Plataforma de Fotografia

Apoio Financeiro: República Portuguesa – Direção-Geral das Artes, Câmara Municipal do Porto

Mecenas: Banco BPI, Fundação “la Caixa”

Instituições de ensino parceiras: Escola Superior Artística do Porto, Faculdade de Belas-Artes da Universidade do Porto, Faculdade de Belas-Artes da Universidade de Lisboa, Escola Superior de Media Artes e Design, Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto, Escola das Artes Católica Porto

Parceiros: Batalha Centro de Cinema

 

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BY KATYA YANOVA


It's said that the universe always makes a sound, but we cannot hear it because we are born in it.

I was born in the year when my country ceased to exist and became another country. Just as my dad taught our dog to bark his last name syllable by syllable, so did my country learn to be called a different name and live in a new way. I was simply learning to live in the place where I was born. 
These days I think more and more about what my parents and teachers put into defining me as "good" or "bad." How much of "me" was in a snowflake costume at a New Year's Eve party in the kindergarten or at the church service with my grandmother. How much "me" was at school assembly in a brown dress with a white apron, how much was at the seasonal potato harvest down in the country, how much was at the family holiday with the chimes announcing the beginning of a new year, how much "me" are there in each step of the bright green entrance hall of our five-story condo? 
More often I think about what are the actor of my statements and the true agents of intentions? Thoughts are dependent on a system of linguistic, cultural and social rules. To feel means to manifest true experiences and unconsciously transmit meanings. Who is the author of signs, symbols, codes, precise structures, templates?  Just a flickering portrait of the motives and reasons accumulated by memory and consciousness to do one way and not the other. Perhaps I am only a part of a collective formed by time, where it is no longer possible to define the boundaries of personal contribution and highlight one's own "I".

SHORT BIOGRAPHY

The key themes of my artistic practice are related to issues of agency, problems of communication and the human impact of traumatic events. I work with long-term photographic projects, combining with installation form, sculpture, performative video and sound. I am interested in the image of the contemporary person experiencing emotional instability, transitional states between stages of personal and social development. Using and rethinking my lived experience, exploring the elements of my personal archive, as if being an indicator, I emphasize the problems and crises of my generation.

Website
www.yanovakatya.com

Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/nichaykat/

 

LAUNCH AND PRESENTATION OF THE SCIENTIFIC JOURNAL SCOPIO MAGAZINE ARCHITECTURE, ART AND IMAGE - UTOPIA

 
 
 

LAUNCH AND PRESENTATION OF THE SCIENTIFIC JOURNAL SCOPIO MAGAZINE ARCHITECTURE, ART AND IMAGE - UTOPIA


19th June 2024 (Wednesday), 18h00 | Common House (Rectory) of the U. Porto

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The launch and public presentation of the scientific journal scopio Magazine Arquitetura, Arte e Imagem AAI - Utopia Volume 1 will take place on 19 June 2024 at 6pm at the Casa Comum (Rectory) of the U. Porto, as well as the award ceremony for the second edition of the International Drawing and Photography Competition (DPIc).

The event's programme includes an opening panel by Fátima Vieira (Vice-Rector of U. Porto - Culture, Museums and U.Porto Press), followed by a presentation of the scientific journal by its director Pedro Leão Neto (FAUP).

After this, the editor of the Flash: Reviews and Curatorial Projects section, Gabriel Hernandez (ETSAM), will take the floor. Pedro Maia (FBAUP) will then present the International Drawing and Photography Competition (DPIc) and the session will close with the DPIC 2023 Awards ceremony, which will be attended by a representative of AEFAUP.

This event will also be attended by the various authors and editors who are part of this Volume 1 of scopio Magazine Arquitetura, Arte - UTOPIA, namely Gabriela Vaz-Pinheiro (FBAUP), Jose Carlos Mota and Sofia Marques da Silva (FPCEUP), among many others.

Editors: David Viana, Fátima Vieira, Gabriel Hernández, Isa Clara Neves, José Carneiro, Maria Neto, Mário Mesquita, Miguel Leal, Pedro Maia, Pedro Leão Neto

Invited Authors and Submitions: Alexander García Düttmann, Chloé Darmon, Gabriela Manfredini, David Leite Viana, Jorge Maia, Telma Ribeiro, Gabriela Vaz-PInheiro, Inês Nascimento, Inês Osório, James Smith, José Carlos Mota, Alexandra Ataíde, Lorenzo Stefano Iannizzotto, Peter Bennett, Rafaela Lima, Roberto Bottazzi, UCL, Sofia Marques da Silva

 Programme

Opening session - Fátima Vieira (Vice-Rector of U. Porto)

18.00 - 18.15

Presentation of the scientific journal - Pedro Leão Neto (FBAUP)

18.15 - 18.30

Fllash: Reviews and Curatorial Projects - Gabriel Hernandez (ETSAM)

18.30 - 19.15

Presentation of the DPIc Competition and DPIC 2023 Awards Ceremony - Pedro Maia (FBAUP) and Miguel Silva (representing AEFAUP)

19:15 - 19:45

Presentation of the scientific journal Scopio Magazine AAI-Utopia by Pedro Leão and Maria Neto | CEAU-FAUP

ABOUT THE JOURNAL

scopio Magazine Architecture, Art and Image is an international academic, open access, peer-reviewed journal, published by the Centre for Studies in Architecture and Urbanism (CEAU) - Research group Architecture, Art and Image (AAI) at the Faculty of Architecture, University of Porto, Portugal (FAUP), in collaboration with i2ADS and CETAPS being published by U. Porto Press and scopio Editions. 

It is formed by an interdisciplinary team integrating the Editorial and Scientific Committee of this periodical. The publication embodies a dynamic information space focused on the dissemination of the themes of Architecture, Art and Image (AAI), understanding these subjects in a comprehensive interdisciplinary way and integrating several research centres. 

The physical and online publication aims to offer critical, explorative and informative text capable of reaching an interdisciplinary audience, making it accessible to criticism and discussion, namely to debate / (re) think Architecture, Art and Image in contemporaneity. 

Scopio Magazine will be governed annually by a major theme of interest and is structured through different sections allowing readers to travel between the worlds of Architecture, Art and Image through multiple perspectives and subject focuses.  

 More information: scopio Magazine Architecture, Art and Image

VOLUME 1 - SCOPIO MAGAZINE ARCHITECTURE, ART AND IMAGE | UTOPIA

The magazine scopio Architecture, Art and Image for Volume 1 had as its thematic cycle ‘Utopia’, inspired by the idea that the transformation of our society will only be possible if we have ambitious visions for the future and propose operational paths, devised in a creative and collaborative way. As Ernst Bloch argued eight decades ago in The Hope Principle, utopias offer visions of a better future and should therefore be seen as part of our reality and not thought of outside of it. In this sense, utopias are illusory images that direct us towards real possibilities and help us build a path towards social transformation.

OPEN CALL | "EXPLORING CONTEMPORARY REALITIES"
With this Open Call "Exploring Contemporary Realities", we launch the annual major theme of interest for scopio Magazine AAI – Exploring Contemporary Realities, Volume 2, and initiate a new collaboration with the project Contrast: Multidisciplinary network of artistic initiatives in Art, Architecture, Design and Photography through SCOPIO & CONTRAST International Conference.

The call will have as responsible Editors academics / artists coming from both scopio Magazine AAI and the Contrast project. This editorial team will ensure the necessary peer review work through the U. Porto OJS platform.

scopio Magazine AAI will be, in this way, the official publishing academic periodical for International Conference SCOPIO & CONTRAST and the submissions are both for the Conference and its 2nd volume in partnership with Contrast addressing the theme Exploring Contemporary Realities.

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LANÇAMENTO E APRESENTAÇÃO DA REVISTA CIENTÍFICA SCOPIO MAGAZINE ARQUITETURA, ARTE E IMAGEM - UTOPIA

 
 
 

LANÇAMENTO E APRESENTAÇÃO DA REVISTA CIENTÍFICA SCOPIO MAGAZINE ARQUITETURA, ARTE E IMAGEM - UTOPIA

19 DE JUNHO de 2024 (quarta-feira), 18h00 | Casa Comum (Reitoria) da U. Porto


PT/ENG

No dia 19 de Junho de 2024, às 18h00, na Casa Comum (Reitoria) da U. Porto vai ter lugar o lançamento e apresentação pública da revista científica scopio Magazine Arquitetura, Arte e Imagem AAI - Utopia do Volume 1, bem como a entrega dos prémios da segunda edição do Concurso Internacional de Desenho e Fotografia (DPIc).

O programa do evento integra uma mesa cuja abertura estará a cargo de Fátima Vieira (Vice-Reitora da U. Porto - Cultura, Museus e U.Porto Press), seguindo-se a apresentação da revista científica por parte do seu diretor Pedro Leão Neto (FAUP).

Após este início, será dada a palavra ao editor da secção Flash: Reviews and Curatorial Projects Gabriel Hernandez (ETSAM). Em seguida Pedro Maia (FBAUP) fará a apresentação do Concurso Internacional de Desenho e Fotografia (DPIc) e a sessão encerra com a cerimónia de entrega dos Prémios DPIC 2023 contando a presença de um representante da AEFAUP.

Este evento conta ainda com a presença dos diversos autores e editores que integram este Volume 1 scopio Magazine Arquitetura, Arte – UTOPIA, nomeadamente entre muito outros, Gabriela Vaz-Pinheiro (FBAUP), Jose Carlos Mota e Sofia Marques da Silva (FPCEUP).

Editors: David Viana, Fátima Vieira, Gabriel Hernández, Isa Clara Neves, José Carneiro, Maria Neto, Mário Mesquita, Miguel Leal, Pedro Maia, Pedro Leão Neto

Invited Authors and Submitions: Alexander García Düttmann, Chloé Darmon, Gabriela Manfredini, David Leite Viana, Jorge Maia, Telma Ribeiro, Gabriela Vaz-PInheiro, Inês Nascimento, Inês Osório, James Smith, José Carlos Mota, Alexandra Ataíde, Lorenzo Stefano Iannizzotto, Peter Bennett, Rafaela Lima, Roberto Bottazzi, UCL, Sofia Marques da Silva

Programa

Abertura da mesa - Fátima Vieira (Vice-Reitora da U. Porto)

18.00 - 18.15

Apresentação da revista científica - Pedro Leão Neto (FBAUP)

18.15 - 18.30

Fllash: Reviews and Curatorial Projects - Gabriel Hernandez (ETSAM)

18.30 - 19.15

Apresentação do Concurso DPIc e cerimónia de entrega dos Prémios DPIC 2023 - Pedro Maia (FBAUP) e Miguel Silva (em representação da AEFAUP)

19:15 - 19:45

Apresentação da revista científica Scopio Magazine AAI-Utopia por Pedro Leão e Maria Neto | CEAU-FAUP

SOBRE A REVISTA

scopio Architecture, Art and Image é uma publicação científica internacional de acesso aberto, anual e com revisão por pares, publicada pelo Centro de Estudos de Arquitectura e Urbanismo (CEAU) - Grupo de Investigação Arquitectura, Arte e Imagem (AAI) da Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto (FAUP), Portugal, em colaboração com  o Instituto de Investigação em Design, Media e Cultura (ID+) e o Centro de Estudos Ingleses de Tradução e Anglo-Portugueses (CETAPS) com a chancela dupla da U. Porto Press e scopio Editions.

Constituída por uma equipa interdisciplinar que integra o Conselho Editorial e Científico, a publicação periódica encarna um espaço dinâmico de informação centrado na divulgação das áreas de estudo relacionadas com Arquitectura, Arte e Imagem (AAI), sendo estas temáticas compreendidas de uma forma abrangente e interdisciplinar, integrando diversos centros de investigação.

A publicação física e online visa oferecer um texto crítico, exploratório e informativo capaz de atingir um público interdisciplinar, tornando-o acessível à análise e ao debate, nomeadamente para  (re)pensar Arquitectura, Arte e Imagem na contemporaneidade.

A revista scopio Magazine será regida anualmente por uma temática geral e está estruturada em diferentes secções, permitindo aos leitores viajar entre os mundos da Arquitectura, da Arte e da Imagem através de múltiplas perspectivas e focos temáticos.

 

Volume 1 - SCOPIO MAGAZINE ARCHITECTURE, ART AND IMAGE | UTOPIA

A Revista scopio Arquitetura, Arte e Imagem convidou à apresentação de propostas para este Volume 1 do seu ciclo temático "Utopia" inspirada pela ideia de que a transformação da nossa sociedade só será possível se tivermos visões ambiciosas para o futuro e propusermos caminhos operacionais, idealizados de forma criativa e colaborativa. Como defendeu Ernst Bloch há já oito décadas, em O Princípio Esperança, as utopias oferecem visões de um futuro melhor, devendo, por isso, ser vistas como parte de nossa realidade e não pensadas fora dela. As utopias são, nesse sentido, imagens ilusórias que nos direcionam para possibilidades reais e nos ajudam a construir um caminho de transformação social.

CHAMADA ABERTA | "EXPLORAR REALIDADES CONTEMPORÂNEAS”

Com esta Chamada Aberta "Explorar Realidades Contemporâneas", lançamos o grande tema de interesse anual da scopio Magazine AAI - Exploring Contemporary Realities, Volume 2, e iniciamos uma nova colaboração com o projeto Contrast: Rede multidisciplinar de iniciativas artísticas em Arte, Arquitetura, Design e Fotografia através da Conferência Internacional SCOPIO & CONTRAST.

A chamada terá como editores responsáveis académicos/artistas provenientes tanto da revista scopio AAI, bem como do projeto Contrast. Esta equipa editorial assegurará o necessário trabalho de peer review através da plataforma OJS da U. Porto.

A scopio Magazine AAI será, desta forma, o periódico académico oficial da Conferência Internacional SCOPIO & CONTRAST e as submissões são tanto para a Conferência como para o seu 2º volume em parceria com o Contrast, abordando o tema Explorando Realidades Contemporâneas.

Guia de ajuda para a Submissão
Link para submissões

Para qualquer consulta:

Por favor contacte os nossos Editores em scopiomagazine@arq.up.pt

 

INSTITUIÇÕES DE ENSINO E CENTROS DE INVESTIGAÇÃO


 

Train to the future

 

Train to the future

BY KRISTINA SERGEEVA


Norilsk is the northernmost city in the world with a population of over 150,000. An artificially created industrial city during Stalin's repressions, Norilsk is popular for its various mineral resources and large mining operations. Norilsk is associated with permafrost, lack of light, depressing landscapes and a grim history.

I went on a photographic expedition to Norilsk with the aim of reflecting the identity of contemporary Russia through the mythologization of ruinized spaces. Train to the future is a journey into a future that has already arrived.

I see Norilsk as a place where the sense of time has been lost. As in all of Russia, the war has suspended the present. I am trying to find a suitable metaphor for the new time, the thin line between past and future. Wandering around the city, I imagine myself as a discoverer of a new land that is no longer with me. During the creation of the project, I was inspired by the stories of eyewitnesses about the victims of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.

SHORT BIOGRAPHY

Kristina Sergeeva (1996) is a visual artist from St. Petersburg, Russia. She uses photography, book and print forms in her artistic practice. The field of study in Kristina's projects revolves around the exploration of themes of collective and individual memory and personal perception of the contemporary Russian context. In her work she focuses on reworking and making sense of history, searching for national identity through observation and exploration of the landscape of post-soviet space.

Website
https://kristina-sergeeva.ru

Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/_tinaserg/

 

Presentation of scopio editorial Editions | Sophia Journal and its forthcoming conference: Landscapes of Care:Public housing across multiple geographies - crossing theories and practices

 
 
 

Presentation of scopio EDITIONS | Sophia Journal and its forthcoming conference | Landscapes of Care:Public housing across multiple geographies - crossing theories and practices

a catalyst for discussion and construction of architectural ideas, by Pedro Leão Neto, University of Porto

Sophia Journal Vol. 9: Landscapes of Care: Public housing across multiple geographies - crossing theories and practices.
Editors: 
Maria Neto (UBI-FAUP), Paz Nuñez Martí (UAH-ETSAM)
Guest Editors: Igea Troiani (LSBU), Joan Mac Donald (U. Chile), Jorge Tárrago Mingo (ETSAUN)

ESCUELA TÉCNICA SUPERIOR DE ARQUITECTURA | UNIVERSIDAD DE NAVARRAAPRIL 12 - 16:00 to 17:00

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The scopio Editions project and Sophia Journal presentation will take place on April 12 - 16:00 to 17:00, 2024, at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura | Universidad de Navarra. 

Asier Santas, the director of the architecture department at the University of Navarra, will open the session. The scopio Editorial Project and Sophia Journal presentation will be the responsibility of Pedro Leão Neto (Editor-in-Chief of the publication), who will open the floor for any questions concerning the editorial project and Sophia Journal.

Unlocking Architectural Discourse and Ideas: scopio Editorial Project

At its core, scopio Editions focuses on contemporary photography related to architecture, the urban landscape, and territories. The presentation will allow to understand the "why" and "how" of scopio, elucidating its nuclear role in stimulating discussions and nurturing ideas within the realm of architecture through the lens of photography.

The presentation intends to highlight the tangible impact of this editorial endeavour, manifesting in a remarkable series of publications in both magazine and book formats, namely its scopionewspaper collection and CONTRAST publications, as well as the academic journals on the U.Porto OJS platform—Sophia Journal —bridging the worlds of photography, architecture, and art.

This editorial project is closely affiliated with the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto (FAUP) and its Centre for Architecture and Urbanism Studies (CEAU) and it has played a pivotal role increating a network of researchers and initiatives around this universe of common interest as in the the present forthcoming conference - Landscapes of Care: Public housing across multiple geographies - crossing theories and practices. 

Sophia Journal

Sophia Journal is an international academic, open access, peer-reviewed journal, published by the Centre for Studies in Architecture and Urbanism (CEAU) - Research group Architecture, Art and Image (AAI) at the Faculty of Architecture, University of Porto, Portugal (FAUP), in collaboration with the association Cityscopio and their publishing imprint scopio Editions.

Landscapes of Care: Public housing across multiple geographies: crossing theories and practices

Sophia Journal's third thematic, “Landscapes of Care”, addresses research, projects, experiences, and contemporary photographic and visual practices that focus on how architecture, understood in a broad sense, can help to heal the relationships between man and habitat, as well as the socio-environmental crisis that the planet is experiencing.

This issue, focusing on public housing, allows contributions to be centered on a dynamic reading of the city that is conditional and conditioned by housing typology. Combining architecture, public housing, habitat, and urban planning, we are convoking works that explore an interpretative narrative about housing and those who live in it, pilot projects with communities of practice capable of generating strategic visions about the possible future of city and territory, housing and the lives it (trans)forms, in this ontological relationship between the Man and house.

Research group 'Arquitectura, Arte e Imagem — AAI'  CEAU.FAUP
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ABOUT SCOPIO EDITIONS

scopio Editions is an independent publisher closely affiliated with the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto (FAUP) and its Research and Development Centre for Architecture and Urban Studies (CEAU). The scope of interest for scopio Editions broadly encompasses Architecture, Art, and Image (AAI), with a particular focus on Documentary and Artistic Photography related to Architecture, the City, and Territory.

scopio Editions operates with a dynamic structure, featuring both periodic and non-periodic publications. Its primary objective is to disseminate various works and authors who engage with or investigate the AAI field through a critical, exploratory, and innovative approach. The central emphasis is on Photography associated with Architecture, the City, and Territory.

 

Anomie

 

ANOMIE

BY QUINTIN H. O’CONNELL


Anomie, the title of this series, refers to a concept rooted in Durkheimian sociology. It denotes a state characterized by weakened normative bonds between individuals and the broader community, leading to moral ambiguity and alienation.

Émile Durkheim's exploration of anomie in the context of suicide rates revealed a critical connection between social integration and normative regulation. Anomie represented a void where social norms conflicted with the internal motives of individuals, causing discontent and ennui. In fact, the modern world is plagued by unheard of rates of depression and suicide.

In this series, O’Connell focuses on his own anomic sentiments. Namely, the disconnect experienced as one embedded within a culture which normalizes behaviors that harm the global ecosystem and thwart personal growth and flourishing; a culture which privileges consumption over poise and meaning.

Yet, amidst the sense of anomie, the series aims to unravel a veiled beauty concealed within solitary and quiet moments. It contemplates the mysterious allure of nature, inviting viewers to reflect on a delicate harmony that still exists within the unsettling dissonance of our modern world.

Serving as both a visual and philosophical exploration, Anomie offers a pensive journey into the transformative power of photography as not only a means of escape, but also self-overcoming and valuation.

SHORT BIOGRAPHY

Quintin H. O’Connell developed the Anomie series in 2023 alongside his undergraduate studies at the University of Florida, where he obtained his BA in Sociology and Philosophy. Born in 1998, O’Connell is a budding American artist working in photography. His images attempt to reach into the complexities of the human condition, exploring themes of identity, belonging, and the timeless human pursuit of a meaningful life.

Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/eliadesqu/

 

Camilo Rebelo PARALLEL UNIVERSES

 
 
 

Camilo Rebelo PARALLEL UNIVERSES

17.04.24 - 17.05.24

Opening 17 aprile con Andrea Campioli | Massimo Bricocoli | Pedro Neto

Lecture ore 16:00, Aula IV

Visita alla Mostra ore 18:00
Comitato organizzatore
Guva Bertelli, Marco Bovati, Marco Bozzola, Stefano Di Vita, Pierfranco Galliani, Henrique Pessoa, Michele Roda.

POLITECNICO MILANO | SCUOLA DI ARCHITETTURA URBANISTICA INGEGNERIA DELLE COSTRUZIONI | DIPARTIMENTO DI ARCHITETTURA E STUDI URBANI | SPAZIO TUNNEL

On 17th April, at 4:00 PM, Politecnico Milano – Scuola di Architettura Urbanistica Ingegneria delle Costruzion – Dipartimento di Architettura e Studi Urbano – Spazio Tunnel –hosted the Lecture and Exhibition Camilo Rebelo Parallel Universes, which embraced Camilo Rebelo´s lecture about his work, a short presentation by Pedro Leão Neto about his book “OLIM”, and the Exhibition opening and launch of its catalogue in the collection “Red Series | A Project on Display”, edited by Guya Bertelli.

The event commenced with the official opening of the session by Professor Guya Bertelli, who introduced Arq. Camilo Rebelo to an audience of students, professionals, and scholars. Then, professors Andrea Campioli and Massimo Bricocoli discussed the interest and importance of the long-time collaboration with Polimi.

Next, Camilo Rebelo presented his lecture, beginning by communicating his engagement in teaching at POLIMI for 11 years and then explaining several of his architectural projects from the set in the Camilo Rebelo Parallel Universes Exhibition, and published in a special catalogue. 

Finally, the Editor of Camilo Rebelo´s book “OLIM”, Pedro Leão Neto, conducted a short presentation about Rebelo´s book, elaborating on the author´s ideation process and nonlinear narrative, where memory, identity and places are linked to one another in a rhizomatic way.

 

Mesa Redonda Contrast | Evento integrado na programação do 25 de Abril da Casa Comum 8 de Abril de 2024

 
 
 

Mesa Redonda Contrast | O ensino da Fotografia como um dispositivo Utópico: Repensar, Questionar Realidades Urbanas

Evento integrado na programação do 25 de Abril da Casa Comum 8 de Abril de 2024 (segunda-feira), 18h | Casa Comum – Reitoria da U. Porto

No dia 8 de Abril, pelas 18h, a Casa Comum acolheu a mesa redonda Contrast | A Fotografia como um dispositivo utópico: Repensar, Questionar Realidades Urbanas. Esta mesa redonda, enquadrada na programação do 25 de Abril da Casa Comum, tinha como objetivo debater a importância do ensino da fotografia como um dispositivo utópico, ou seja, para a ideação de projetos transformadores e criação artística, bem como para analisar e representar criticamente a arquitetura, a cidade e o território, e a forma como as pessoas vivem e transformam estes espaços.

O evento teve início com a abertura oficial feita por Pedro Leão Neto (FAUP) que depois de apresentar os convidados a uma audiência de estudantes, profissionais e académicos,, introduziu e contextualizou as temáticas do debate e em seguida deu início ao debate que se seguiu.

A mesa redonda contou com a participação de diversos investigadores e docentes, muitos deles coordenadores e editores que integram o projeto Contrast, nomeadamente, Joana Caetano (CETAPS / FLUP), José Carneiro (FBAUP / ID + / i2ADS), Maria Neto (CEAU / FAUP - UBI), Mário Mesquita (FAUP / FBAUP / i2ADS), Olívia Marques da Silva (uniMAD/ESMAD /IPP) e Rui Lourosa (ESAP).

O debate que teve como mote a temática O Ensino da Fotografia como um Dispositivo Utópico foi enriquecido através das perspetivas únicas de cada um dos participantes que partilharam as suas análises e experiências enriquecedoras em volta da ideias da Utopia, e da fotografia como um dispositivo utópico capaz de um registo documental ficcional. Foram debatidas diversas estratégias visuais que permitem repensar e questionar a identidade e o significado simbólico dos lugares, de cidade bem como perceber como os mesmos são vividos e transformados.

Não esquecendo as celebrações do 25 de abril, a conversa abordou os seguintes pontos chave:

  • A fotografia como registro histórico da Revolução dos Cravos e suas repercussões na sociedade portuguesa.

  • A importância da memória visual na preservação da identidade coletiva e individual.

  • De que modo a fotografia pode desempenhar um papel na educação para a cidadania, valorizando a democracia e a liberdade.

O evento integrou ainda a vídeo-exposição “Contrast: Repensar, Questionar Realidades Contemporâneas” que ainda está patente por alguns dias na Casa Comum, e que comunica os trabalhos fotográficos de estudantes e de autores emergentes realizados no contexto de ensino das diversas instituições envolvidas no porjeto Contrast.


O projeto CONTRAST pretende contribuir para a divulgação, criação e ensino da fotografia na sua interação com a Arte, Arquitectura e Design. Esta contribuição será desenvolvida no âmbito nacional e internacional através da partilha de experiências e conhecimentos entre escolas, grupos e associações não académicas, aproximando o interesse de diversos públicos por estes temas numa perspetiva transversal e holística.
 

BIOGRAFIAS

Joana Caetano (CETAPS / FLUP)
Joana Caetano
é assistente convidada na FLUP, onde leciona Estudos sobre a Utopia, colaboradora do CETAPS-Centre for English and Anglo-Portuguese Studies e da U.Porto Press, e Editora Executiva de VIA PANORAMICA: Revista de Estudos Anglo-Americanos/ A Journal of Anglo-American Studies. Concluiu o Doutoramento com uma tese intitulada Hainish Hospitalities: Ursula K. Le Guin’s Constellation of Utopian Care, em 2023, na Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto, com financiamento da FCT. Tem publicado capítulos de livros, recensões e artigos em várias revistas científicas, nomeadamente em Utopian Studies Journal, nos Cadernos de Literatura Comparada e na Revista BANG!, na qual tem uma rubrica dedicada a Ursula K. Le Guin.

José Carneiro (FBAUP)
Professor Auxiliar na Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Porto. Director do Mestrado em Design da Imagem (FBAUP). Director do Centro de Estudos em Design e Arte (FBAUP). É doutorado em Arte e Design pela FBAUP, 2014. É investigador integrado no ID+ Instituto de Investigação em Design, Media e Cultura e colabora com o i2ADS - Instituto de Investigação em Arte Design e Sociedade. É autor de vários artigos científicos e tem participado regularmente em conferências nacionais e internacionais. Desenvolve trabalho artístico e de design de comunicação. É autor do projecto Records & Photographs e do programa de rádio Clube da Esquina. Mais informação em www.josecarneiro.org.

Maria Neto (CEAU / FAUP - UBI)
Arquitecta, professora auxiliar convidada no DECA-UBI e investigadora no CEAU-FAUP e ICHaB-ETSAM. Doutorada em Arquitectura (EA-UAH+ICHaB-ETSAM, 2022) com bolsa individual FCT, merecedora de nomeação para o Prémio Extraordinário, tem estudos de pós-graduação em Development of Human Settlements in the Third World (ICHaB/ETSAM) e prática profissional em Humanitarian Shelter Coordination (IFRC/UNCHR/Oxford Brookes University). Colaborou, no terreno, com o UNHCR no Quénia e a BRC em Inglaterra, no suporte ao refugiado e requerente de asilo. Foi distinguida com o Prémio Fernando Távora, foi oradora convidada da representação portuguesa na 17ª Exposição Internacional de Arquitectura da Bienal de Veneza e seleccionada para a antologia do Prémio Universidades Trienal de Lisboa. Integra diversos projetos de investigação com fundos competitivos (FCT, MICIU e DGArtes), e é autora de vários artigos, capítulos de livros e livros publicados. Editou também várias revistas e livros da especialidade pela Scopio Editions, editora com a qual colabora desde 2013. A par da docência no DECA-UBI e da prática em gabinete próprio no Porto, colaborou com o IHRU no programa “Da Habitação ao Habitat”, e actualmente coordena na UBI, o acordo interinstitucional UBI-FAUP-CMF, para a execução de 5 edifícios no âmbito da Bolsa Nacional de Alojamento Urgente e Temporário (BNAUT), direccionada às comunidades de refugiados, requerentes de asilo e migrantes.

Mário Mesquita (FAUP)
É Arquitecto, Urbanista e Fotógrafo. É Doutorado em Arquitetura (FAUP) - “Das redes da invisibilidade na equação contemporânea do território. De processo, projeto, obra e serviço público de água no Porto no entre séculos XIX/XX: uma investigação/acção na perspectiva do ser arquitecto e da emergência das transdisciplinaridades”, Mestre em Planeamento e Projeto do Ambiente Urbano (FAUP/FEUP) - “Formação e consolidação do tecido urbano na zona das Antas - Porto 1880- 1950” e Licenciado em Arquitetura (FAUP). É Professor Auxiliar na FAUP, onde lecciona desde 1999. Nesta instituição é Professor de Projeto 5, Regente de “Porto: Territórios e Redes da Invisibilidade” e Co-regente de “Arquitetura: Processos de Transformação no Ensino Aprendizagem” (MIARQ/ FAUP) Pertence ao corpo docente dos seguintes cursos: INOVPED “A Comunidade como Prática” (FPCEUP), “Formação Avançada em Interpretação e Criação Coreográfica” (Companhia Instável), “Portefólio” (FBAUP) e “Beyond Museums Training course” (UNESCO Chair “Water Heritage and Sustainable Development”, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice - Italy) É Coordenador da Comunidade de Inovação Pedagógica - UP “PTRI” Como Investigador Integrado no i2ADS coordena “Processos de transformação no ensino artístico-científico no Porto (1950-2016)” e, como Investigador Colaborador no CITCEM, coordena “Territórios das invisibilidades” e a Comunidade de Investigação PTRI. É Investigador Principal na Águas do Porto, coordenando o Plano Director do Património, da Plataforma de Informação e Interpretação do Património e do Parque Patrimonial das Águas - UNESCO/WWM.

Olívia Marques da Silva (ESMAD)
Licenciada em Filosofia pela Universidade do Porto e doutorada em Fotografia pela Escola de Arte & Design de Derby, Reino Unido (Ph.d.,Mphil/ Ph.d./MA). Associa a atividade académica à expressão artística enquanto fotógrafa, participando em diversas exposições individuais e coletivas. Foi bolseira da Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian e do Centro Português de Fotografia. A ligação ao Politécnico do Porto começou em 1992, onde foi diretora do Departamento de Artes da Imagem da Escola Superior de Música e Artes do Espetáculo (ESMAE), criou e coordenou o Mestrado em Comunicação Audiovisual com uma Especialização em Fotografia e Cinema Documental e Produção e Realização Audiovisual. Foi presidente do Conselho Técnico- Científico da ESMAE. Foi consultora fotográfica do Museu do Carro Elétrico dos Sociedade de Transportes Coletivos do Porto0. Colabora com os seguintes centros de investigação: CCRE, FAUP e eCPR/South Wales University. Coordena a Conferência Anual de Multimédia, Fotografia e Cinema , de Imagens do Real Imaginado (IRI) É atualmente Presidente da Escola Superior de Media Artes e Design (ESMAD) do P.PORTO.

Pedro Leão Neto (FAUP)
Arquiteto licenciado pela Faculdade de Arquitetura da Universidade do Porto (FAUP, 1992), mestre em Planeamento e Projeto do Ambiente Urbano (FAUP-FEUP, 1992), doutor em Planning and Landscape (Universidade de Manchester, 2002) e pós-doutorado (FAUP, 2018). Professor e Investigador na FAUP, é coordenador do grupo de investigação Arquitetura, Arte e imagem (AAI) e das Edições scopio, sendo Editor-in-chief da revista científica Sophia Journal Arquitetura, Arte e Imagem e Investigador Principal (PI) do projeto Visual Spaces of Change (VSC) financiado pela FCT e do projeto Contrast: Rede de Iniciativas Artísticas Multidisciplinar na Arte, Arquitetura, Design e Fotografia (Apoio a Projetos - Criação e Edição – DGartes). Regente das unidades curriculares de Comunicação de Projeto de Arquitetura e de Fotografia de Arquitetura, Cidade e Território, o seu campo de investigação é focalizado no universo da Arquitetura, Arte e Imagem. Dentro deste campo de investigação publicou e editou mais de 30 livros, diversos artigos científicos, coordenou diversos projetos de Investigação, exposições, conferências e concursos internacionais.

Rui Lourosa (ESAP)

Doutorado em Arte dos Media na Universidade Lusófona do Porto. Licenciado em Arte e Comunicação pela Escola Superior Artística do Porto, participante e bolseiro no Stage Europeo degli Esordi em Lucca, possui o DEA pela Universidade de Vigo no programa Modos de Conhecimento na Prática Artística Contemporânea. Atualmente é investigador do grupo de investigação Arte e Estudos Críticos do Centro de Estudos Arnaldo Araújo. Enquanto artista, desenvolve continuamente trabalho no âmbito da sua investigação: a fotografia, a etnografia e o funerário. Trabalha e investiga o fotográfico no seu carácter processual: digital, mas mais especialmente analógico, alternativo e histórico. Experimenta continuamente com o processo fotográfico e cinematográfico estereoscópico na relação da geração e manutenção da imersividade com a perturbação e o desconforto. Tem vindo a apresentar continuamente comunicações, conferências e exposições acerca da sua investigação e prática artística. É docente na Escola Superior Artística do Porto em várias unidades curriculares na área do projeto e da impressão e onde organiza o programa “VISUA – Laboratório de Experimentação e Práticas Visuais” é também membro do Conselho Geral e do Conselho Pedagógico da ESAP e foi desde 2009 até 2016 Director do Curso Superior de Artes Visuais – Fotografia.

 

 


 

Apresentação do projeto scopio EDITIONS | Revista Sophia

 
 
 

Apresentação do projeto scopio EDITIONS | Revista CIENTÍFICA Sophia e da sua próxima conferência | Landscapes of Care:Public housing across multiple geographies - crossing theories and practices

um catalisador para O DEBATE e construção de ideias EM VOLTA DO UNIVERSO DA ARQUITETURA, por Pedro Leão Neto, Universidade do Porto

Revista Científica Sophia Vol. 9: Landscapes of Care: Public housing across multiple geographies - crossing theories and practices.
Editors: 
Maria Neto (UBI-FAUP), Paz Nuñez Martí (UAH-ETSAM)
Guest Editors: Igea Troiani (LSBU), Joan Mac Donald (U. Chile), Jorge Tárrago Mingo (ETSAUN)

ESCUELA TÉCNICA SUPERIOR DE ARQUITECTURA | UNIVERSIDAD DE NAVARRA12 ABRIL - 16:00 to 17:00

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A apresentação do projeto scopio Editions e da Revista Científica Sophia terá lugar no dia 12 de abril - 16:00 às 17:00, 2024, na Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitetura | Universidad de Navarra. 
Asier Santas, diretor do departamento de arquitetura da Universidade de Navarra, abrirá a sessão. A apresentação do Projeto Editorial scopio e da Revista Científica Sophia estará a cargo de Pedro Leão Neto (Diretor de Sophia Journal), após a apresentação a sessão será aberta ao público para quaisquer questões relativas ao projeto editorial e à Revista Científica Sophia.

Unlocking Architectural Discourse and Ideas: scopio Editorial Project

At its core, scopio Editions focuses on contemporary photography related to architecture, the urban landscape, and territories. The presentation will allow to understand the "why" and "how" of scopio, elucidating its nuclear role in stimulating discussions and nurturing ideas within the realm of architecture through the lens of photography.

The presentation intends to highlight the tangible impact of this editorial endeavour, manifesting in a remarkable series of publications in both magazine and book formats, namely its scopionewspaper collection and CONTRAST publications, as well as the academic journals on the U.Porto OJS platform—Sophia Journal —bridging the worlds of photography, architecture, and art.

This editorial project is closely affiliated with the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto (FAUP) and its Centre for Architecture and Urbanism Studies (CEAU) and it has played a pivotal role increating a network of researchers and initiatives around this universe of common interest as in the the present forthcoming conference - Landscapes of Care: Public housing across multiple geographies - crossing theories and practices. 

Sophia Journal

Sophia Journal is an international academic, open access, peer-reviewed journal, published by the Centre for Studies in Architecture and Urbanism (CEAU) - Research group Architecture, Art and Image (AAI) at the Faculty of Architecture, University of Porto, Portugal (FAUP), in collaboration with the association Cityscopio and their publishing imprint scopio Editions.

Landscapes of Care: Public housing across multiple geographies: crossing theories and practices

Sophia Journal's third thematic, “Landscapes of Care”, addresses research, projects, experiences, and contemporary photographic and visual practices that focus on how architecture, understood in a broad sense, can help to heal the relationships between man and habitat, as well as the socio-environmental crisis that the planet is experiencing.

This issue, focusing on public housing, allows contributions to be centered on a dynamic reading of the city that is conditional and conditioned by housing typology. Combining architecture, public housing, habitat, and urban planning, we are convoking works that explore an interpretative narrative about housing and those who live in it, pilot projects with communities of practice capable of generating strategic visions about the possible future of city and territory, housing and the lives it (trans)forms, in this ontological relationship between the Man and house.

Research group 'Arquitectura, Arte e Imagem — AAI'  CEAU.FAUP
FAUP SIGARRA

SCOPIONETWORK WEBSITE
SOPHIA JOURNAL | AAI OJS WEBSITE

ABOUT SCOPIO EDITIONS

scopio Editions is an independent publisher closely affiliated with the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto (FAUP) and its Research and Development Centre for Architecture and Urban Studies (CEAU). The scope of interest for scopio Editions broadly encompasses Architecture, Art, and Image (AAI), with a particular focus on Documentary and Artistic Photography related to Architecture, the City, and Territory.

scopio Editions operates with a dynamic structure, featuring both periodic and non-periodic publications. Its primary objective is to disseminate various works and authors who engage with or investigate the AAI field through a critical, exploratory, and innovative approach. The central emphasis is on Photography associated with Architecture, the City, and Territory.

 

Presentation of scopio editorial project | Sophia Journal and its forthcoming conference: Landscapes of Care:Public housing across multiple geographies - crossing theories and practices

 
 
 

Presentation of scopio EDITIONS project | Sophia Journal and its forthcoming conference | Landscapes of Care:Public housing across multiple geographies - crossing theories and practices

a catalyst for discussion and construction of architectural ideas, by Pedro Leão Neto, University of Porto

Sophia Journal Vol. 9: Landscapes of Care: Public housing across multiple geographies - crossing theories and practices.
Editors: 
Maria Neto (UBI-FAUP), Paz Nuñez Martí (UAH-ETSAM)
Guest Editors: Igea Troiani (LSBU), Joan Mac Donald (U. Chile), Jorge Tárrago Mingo (ETSAUN)

ESCUELA TÉCNICA SUPERIOR DE ARQUITECTURA | UNIVERSIDAD DE NAVARRAAPRIL 12 - 16:00 to 17:00

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The scopio Editions project and Sophia Journal presentation will take place on April 12 - 16:00 to 17:00, 2024, at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura | Universidad de Navarra. 

Asier Santas, the director of the architecture department at the University of Navarra, will open the session. The scopio Editorial Project and Sophia Journal presentation will be the responsibility of Pedro Leão Neto (Editor-in-Chief of the publication), who will open the floor for any questions concerning the editorial project and Sophia Journal.

Unlocking Architectural Discourse and Ideas: scopio Editorial Project

At its core, scopio Editions focuses on contemporary photography related to architecture, the urban landscape, and territories. The presentation will allow to understand the "why" and "how" of scopio, elucidating its nuclear role in stimulating discussions and nurturing ideas within the realm of architecture through the lens of photography.

The presentation intends to highlight the tangible impact of this editorial endeavour, manifesting in a remarkable series of publications in both magazine and book formats, namely its scopionewspaper collection and CONTRAST publications, as well as the academic journals on the U.Porto OJS platform—Sophia Journal —bridging the worlds of photography, architecture, and art.

This editorial project is closely affiliated with the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto (FAUP) and its Centre for Architecture and Urbanism Studies (CEAU) and it has played a pivotal role increating a network of researchers and initiatives around this universe of common interest as in the the present forthcoming conference - Landscapes of Care: Public housing across multiple geographies - crossing theories and practices. 

Sophia Journal

Sophia Journal is an international academic, open access, peer-reviewed journal, published by the Centre for Studies in Architecture and Urbanism (CEAU) - Research group Architecture, Art and Image (AAI) at the Faculty of Architecture, University of Porto, Portugal (FAUP), in collaboration with the association Cityscopio and their publishing imprint scopio Editions.

Landscapes of Care: Public housing across multiple geographies: crossing theories and practices

Sophia Journal's third thematic, “Landscapes of Care”, addresses research, projects, experiences, and contemporary photographic and visual practices that focus on how architecture, understood in a broad sense, can help to heal the relationships between man and habitat, as well as the socio-environmental crisis that the planet is experiencing.

This issue, focusing on public housing, allows contributions to be centered on a dynamic reading of the city that is conditional and conditioned by housing typology. Combining architecture, public housing, habitat, and urban planning, we are convoking works that explore an interpretative narrative about housing and those who live in it, pilot projects with communities of practice capable of generating strategic visions about the possible future of city and territory, housing and the lives it (trans)forms, in this ontological relationship between the Man and house.

Research group 'Arquitectura, Arte e Imagem — AAI'  CEAU.FAUP
FAUP SIGARRA

SCOPIONETWORK WEBSITE
SOPHIA JOURNAL | AAI OJS WEBSITE

ABOUT SCOPIO EDITIONS

scopio Editions is an independent publisher closely affiliated with the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto (FAUP) and its Research and Development Centre for Architecture and Urban Studies (CEAU). The scope of interest for scopio Editions broadly encompasses Architecture, Art, and Image (AAI), with a particular focus on Documentary and Artistic Photography related to Architecture, the City, and Territory.

scopio Editions operates with a dynamic structure, featuring both periodic and non-periodic publications. Its primary objective is to disseminate various works and authors who engage with or investigate the AAI field through a critical, exploratory, and innovative approach. The central emphasis is on Photography associated with Architecture, the City, and Territory.

 

CHAMADA ABERTA | "EXPLORAR REALIDADES CONTEMPORÂNEAS”

 
 
 

CHAMADA ABERTA | "EXPLORAR REALIDADES CONTEMPORÂNEAS”

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Com esta Chamada Aberta "Explorar Realidades Contemporâneas", lançamos o grande tema de interesse anual da scopio Magazine AAI - Exploring Contemporary Realities, Volume 2, e iniciamos uma nova colaboração com o projeto Contrast: Rede multidisciplinar de iniciativas artísticas em Arte, Arquitetura, Design e Fotografia através da Conferência Internacional SCOPIO & CONTRAST.
A chamada terá como editores responsáveis académicos/artistas provenientes tanto da revista scopio AAI, bem como do projeto Contrast. Esta equipa editorial assegurará o necessário trabalho de peer review através da plataforma OJS da U. Porto.
A scopio Magazine AAI será, desta forma, o periódico académico oficial da Conferência Internacional SCOPIO & CONTRAST e as submissões são tanto para a Conferência como para o seu 2º volume em parceria com o Contrast, abordando o tema Explorando Realidades Contemporâneas.

Scopio Magazine AAI is transitioning to continuous publication to better align with the dynamics of Open Access electronic publishing, moving away from the constraints of its previous model geared towards traditional print formats. This shift aims to expedite the dissemination of research to the community, offering immediate benefits to both readers and authors by ensuring quicker access to new findings. The adoption of a continuous publication strategy enhances the open review process by reducing the time from submission to publication and by boosting the visibility of individual contributions, thus fostering greater engagement and dissemination within the scholarly community.

The present call aims to explore the use of photography and other means of visual representation as forms of artistic research, documentation, and analysis of different configurations on the transformation of the physical environment and how it is understood and shaped by a diverse field of study, practices and cultures. This means, besides other things, to better understand through photography and film the relationship between culture and space and explore how culture, beliefs, behaviours, and practices, interacts with and shape the physical environment of different territories and their architectures, cities and landscapes, as well as to acknowledge contemporary discourses and usages of landscape concepts[1].

Social transformations are linked to changes in the inhabited place, and recent history has revealed the speed with which space changes. These transformations have been so radical that regular documentation about the impermanence of the place has become urgent. In fact, places are uncertain spaces and to represent them visually is to preserve their understanding, recent life experiences such as the gentrification of large cities or the health crisis have imposed profound changes on contemporary life models and, consequently, allowed the creation of previously unthinkable photographs. This is where the “Exploring contemporary realities” is located, artistic projects and documentary projects that operate from the expanded field of architecture, art and design from its actual materialization to the experiences of the place; exploring different levels of privacy, scales and urban landscapes. Focusing also on the exploration of the discursive space that operates in broader systems: sociocultural, political, historical and even technical.

If we accept the image as a kind of visual language2 , disseminated and received in different geographic points, this call extends this dialogue, opening up to the integration of different looks of cultural identities from other regions, places and countries; the specificity of the place as a way to increase our understanding of society and the territory. The objective is to encourage the use of images for the construction of artistic projects that promote critical views on the transformation of the physical environment as a result of the way they are perceived and experienced in their multiple facets. In summary, the aim is to take advantage of the current role of the image as a way of expanding knowledge with a particular focus on photography, recognized as a privileged means of expression and research for the understanding of architecture and urban landscapes and for the construction of the imaginary; between document and fiction; reproduction and manipulation; analogue and digital visual representation as a means of crossing different disciplines, blurring artistic boundaries.

The call is interested in the construction of artistic projects and theoretical essays using photography and film as a way of communicating the experience of space, questioning how people live and work, as well as architectural practices and urban landscapes. We want to encourage students and researchers to develop projects that are not limited to documenting and describing reality, but to deepen knowledge that enhance the construction of more effective and meaningful ways of understanding our relationships with the territory, even anticipating a possible future. It is intended to develop visual essays based on conceptually and artistically strong photographic artistic practices.

We are open to submissions that explore photographic representation as an artistic research tool, both in theoretical work and in field work, in all its possible and complex artistic visions. We want to awaken the interest of authors in the areas of architecture, art and design encouraging the creation of photographic series that explore new frontier paradigms, which can contribute to the critical analysis of the dynamics of physical and social transformation, understanding architecture and urban landscape as living and inclusive organisms.

The organization of the international conference will integrate members coming from scopio Magazine AAI Editorial team and the Contrast project, reinforcing in this way the network of multidisciplinary artistic initiatives in Art, Architecture, Design and Photography.

Abstracts for conference presentation will be published in the e-book of abstracts of the SCOPIO & CONTRAST International Conference, which will have also the program and will be accessible and free to download through scopio Magazine AAI and Contrast platforms at the time of the event.

Subsequent publication of the most relevant (expanded – full manuscripts) contributions will be published in section Exploring Contemporary Realities | Open Call of scopio Magazine AAI ], Volume 2.

 

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

scopio Magazine AAI

Research group AAI (FAUP) integrated in the I&D centre of FAUP (CEAU) and the Centre for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies of the Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto (CETAPS/FLUP), i2ADS – Institute of Research in Art, Design and Society is a R&D unit based at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto (FBAUP), Research Institute for Design, Media and Culture [ID+] and the Institute Arquitecture and Development (Arq.ID) based at University Lusófona of Porto, counting with the institutional support of U.Porto’s Rectorate and in partnership with AEFAUP, counting with the support of other Student Associations of U.Porto.

Contrast project

The team of this project counts on the solid experience ofseveral higher education institutions – ARCO, DARQ, DCAM, EA.UCP, ESAP, ESMAD, FAUP, FBAUL, FBAUP, FEUP, IPT e UL.CUP – that through several projects, research and initiatives, ensure a strong integrated and complementary strategy of teaching, research and communication.

The project has a joint coordination in partnership with the Cultural Association Cityscopio, ESMAD-uniMAD andFBAUP – i2ADS, and is led by FAUP through the research group Architecture, Art and Image (AAI) integrated in theCentre for the Study of Architecture and Urbanism (CEAU), being funded by DGARTES contest to support projects of creation and edition, through the Cultural Association Cityscopio.

 

Integrated program to conference

The Contrast RC Exhibition “Exploring Contemporary Realities”

The exhibition is the result of a selection of photographic works by students and emerging authors made in the context of teaching at the various institutions involved in the project, "while at the same time allowing students to explain their projects, as well as observe their photographic works both in book format and on the online platforms of Contrast and of Society of Artistic Research Research Catalog (RC)", using a Mobile Projector for projecting the exhibition in diverse rooms and auditoriums.

The RC allowed to create custom designed webpages used for the exhibition containing many types of media including: text, video, images, and audio recordings. The way in which these materials are presented was customizable by the authors and curators exploring the possibilities of collaboration with multiple authors on the development of the exhibition.

The exhibition aims to contribute to the dissemination of photography in its interaction with Art, Architecture and Design. This contribution will be developed at national and international level through the sharing of experiences and knowledge between schools, groups and non-academic associations, bringing together the interest of different audiences in these themes from a transversal and holistic perspective.

The contents of the exhibition will also be online and the exhibition experience is registered purely for research purposes, being analysed in the context of the ongoing Contrast project.

 

Author GuidelinesSubmissions of abstracts for conference

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Instructions

To submit your abstract proposal, please send a 400 – 500 words text (including title, references and a maximum of five images) and a short bio for author’s (up to 70 words each) and name, title, affiliation, pronouns, email, phone, and address until 1st of November 2024.

All presentations must be in English and should take no more than 15 minutes to present. Please indicate the number of panellists to participate in your presentation.
                                              

Abstracts for conference presentation will be published in the e-book of abstracts of the SCOPIO & CONTRAST International Conference, which will have also the program and will be accessible and free to download through scopio Magazine AAI and Contrast platforms at the time of the event.

Abstracts and manuscript drafts of the entries considered most relevant (expanded – full manuscripts) contributions will be invited to published in scopio Magazine AAI - Exploring contemporary realities, Volume 2 and for that purpose will be further reviewed to deliver a 2nd final manuscript.

Publication date (tbc): by December 2024

 

Some issues of interest that can be taken on board when answering this call are the following:

  • How photography and film can be used for communicating contemporary realities and the way architecture, landscape and city forms relate with public spaces and their contemporary appropriation;

  • What photography and film tell us about the world we inhabit and can be used as a creative process that brings to light new ways of understanding architecture and landscape realities in contemporary urban space, as well as document their cultural significance and heritage values;

  • How photography and film can be used to confront present architectural programs, planning  and public spaces;

  • How photography and film may set forward the idea of a new understanding of architecture, changing our on-site perception and even turning it into a projected vision in space

  • The uses of photography and film in identifying, recording and 'unlocking' sites of transformation – i.e. buildings, landscapes, and places, which are undergoing, or will undergo, a process of renewal

  • Photographic and filmic series that focus on the perceptive, sensorial and affective experience of architecture and landscape in the urban and rural context. 

Accepted submissions engage with the issues above in the form of full papers, short papers or visual essays. 

[1] See the discussion of key conceptions of landscape circulating as part of the recent discourse i.e.  landscape as a fundamental building block, a communicative medium, and a realm of imaginative constructs." Vera Vicenzotti. "The Landscape of Landscape Urbanism." Landscape Journal 36, no. 1 (2018): 75-86. https://lj.uwpress.org/content/36/1/75

[2] Nathan Jurgenson - The Social Photo: On Photography and Social Media, Verso, 2019, p. 13-14

Mais informação em: 

scopio Magazine AAI: https://www.up.pt/revistas/index.php/scopio/announcement/view/33
CONTRAST: https://contrast.arq.up.pt/en/news/open-call-exploring-contemporary-realities/
SIGARRA / FAUP: https://sigarra.up.pt/faup/pt/noticias_geral.ver_noticia?p_nr=81962

Research group:  Architecture, Arte and Image — AAI CEAU.FAUP

 

OPEN CALL | "EXPLORING CONTEMPORARY REALITIES"

 
 
 

OPEN CALL | "EXPLORING CONTEMPORARY REALITIES"

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With this Open Call "Exploring Contemporary Realities", we launch the annual major theme of interest for scopio Magazine AAI – Exploring Contemporary Realities, Volume 2, and initiate a new collaboration with the project Contrast: Multidisciplinary network of artistic initiatives in Art, Architecture, Design and Photography through SCOPIO & CONTRAST International Conference.

The call will have as responsible Editors academics / artists coming from both scopio Magazine AAI and the Contrast project. This editorial team will ensure the necessary peer review work through the U. Porto OJS platform.

scopio Magazine AAI will be, in this way, the official publishing academic periodical for International Conference SCOPIO & CONTRAST and the submissions are both for the Conference and its 2nd volume in partnership with Contrast addressing the theme Exploring Contemporary Realities.

Scopio Magazine AAI is transitioning to continuous publication to better align with the dynamics of Open Access electronic publishing, moving away from the constraints of its previous model geared towards traditional print formats. This shift aims to expedite the dissemination of research to the community, offering immediate benefits to both readers and authors by ensuring quicker access to new findings. The adoption of a continuous publication strategy enhances the open review process by reducing the time from submission to publication and by boosting the visibility of individual contributions, thus fostering greater engagement and dissemination within the scholarly community.

The present call aims to explore the use of photography and other means of visual representation as forms of artistic research, documentation, and analysis of different configurations on the transformation of the physical environment and how it is understood and shaped by a diverse field of study, practices and cultures. This means, besides other things, to better understand through photography and film the relationship between culture and space and explore how culture, beliefs, behaviours, and practices, interacts with and shape the physical environment of different territories and their architectures, cities and landscapes, as well as to acknowledge contemporary discourses and usages of landscape concepts[1].

Social transformations are linked to changes in the inhabited place, and recent history has revealed the speed with which space changes. These transformations have been so radical that regular documentation about the impermanence of the place has become urgent. In fact, places are uncertain spaces and to represent them visually is to preserve their understanding, recent life experiences such as the gentrification of large cities or the health crisis have imposed profound changes on contemporary life models and, consequently, allowed the creation of previously unthinkable photographs. This is where the “Exploring contemporary realities” is located, artistic projects and documentary projects that operate from the expanded field of architecture, art and design from its actual materialization to the experiences of the place; exploring different levels of privacy, scales and urban landscapes. Focusing also on the exploration of the discursive space that operates in broader systems: sociocultural, political, historical and even technical.

If we accept the image as a kind of visual language2 , disseminated and received in different geographic points, this call extends this dialogue, opening up to the integration of different looks of cultural identities from other regions, places and countries; the specificity of the place as a way to increase our understanding of society and the territory. The objective is to encourage the use of images for the construction of artistic projects that promote critical views on the transformation of the physical environment as a result of the way they are perceived and experienced in their multiple facets. In summary, the aim is to take advantage of the current role of the image as a way of expanding knowledge with a particular focus on photography, recognized as a privileged means of expression and research for the understanding of architecture and urban landscapes and for the construction of the imaginary; between document and fiction; reproduction and manipulation; analogue and digital visual representation as a means of crossing different disciplines, blurring artistic boundaries.

The call is interested in the construction of artistic projects and theoretical essays using photography and film as a way of communicating the experience of space, questioning how people live and work, as well as architectural practices and urban landscapes. We want to encourage students and researchers to develop projects that are not limited to documenting and describing reality, but to deepen knowledge that enhance the construction of more effective and meaningful ways of understanding our relationships with the territory, even anticipating a possible future. It is intended to develop visual essays based on conceptually and artistically strong photographic artistic practices.

We are open to submissions that explore photographic representation as an artistic research tool, both in theoretical work and in field work, in all its possible and complex artistic visions. We want to awaken the interest of authors in the areas of architecture, art and design encouraging the creation of photographic series that explore new frontier paradigms, which can contribute to the critical analysis of the dynamics of physical and social transformation, understanding architecture and urban landscape as living and inclusive organisms.

The organization of the international conference will integrate members coming from scopio Magazine AAI Editorial team and the Contrast project, reinforcing in this way the network of multidisciplinary artistic initiatives in Art, Architecture, Design and Photography.

Abstracts for conference presentation will be published in the e-book of abstracts of the SCOPIO & CONTRAST International Conference, which will have also the program and will be accessible and free to download through scopio Magazine AAI and Contrast platforms at the time of the event.

Subsequent publication of the most relevant (expanded – full manuscripts) contributions will be published in section Exploring Contemporary Realities | Open Call of scopio Magazine AAI ], Volume 2.

 

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

scopio Magazine AAI

Research group AAI (FAUP) integrated in the I&D centre of FAUP (CEAU) and the Centre for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies of the Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto (CETAPS/FLUP), i2ADS – Institute of Research in Art, Design and Society is a R&D unit based at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto (FBAUP), Research Institute for Design, Media and Culture [ID+] and the Institute Arquitecture and Development (Arq.ID) based at University Lusófona of Porto, counting with the institutional support of U.Porto’s Rectorate and in partnership with AEFAUP, counting with the support of other Student Associations of U.Porto.

Contrast project

The team of this project counts on the solid experience of several higher education institutions – ARCO, DARQ, DCAM, EA.UCP, ESAP, ESMAD, FAUP, FBAUL, FBAUP, FEUP, IPT e UL.CUP – that through several projects, research and initiatives, ensure a strong integrated and complementary strategy of teaching, research and communication.

The project has a joint coordination in partnership with the Cultural Association Cityscopio, ESMAD-uniMAD andFBAUP – i2ADS, and is led by FAUP through the research group Architecture, Art and Image (AAI) integrated in theCentre for the Study of Architecture and Urbanism (CEAU), being funded by DGARTES contest to support projects of creation and edition, through the Cultural Association Cityscopio.

 

Integrated program to conference

The Contrast RC Exhibition “Exploring Contemporary Realities”

The exhibition is the result of a selection of photographic works by students and emerging authors made in the context of teaching at the various institutions involved in the project, "while at the same time allowing students to explain their projects, as well as observe their photographic works both in book format and on the online platforms of Contrast and of Society of Artistic Research Research Catalog (RC)", using a Mobile Projector for projecting the exhibition in diverse rooms and auditoriums.

The RC allowed to create custom designed webpages used for the exhibition containing many types of media including: text, video, images, and audio recordings. The way in which these materials are presented was customizable by the authors and curators exploring the possibilities of collaboration with multiple authors on the development of the exhibition.

The exhibition aims to contribute to the dissemination of photography in its interaction with Art, Architecture and Design. This contribution will be developed at national and international level through the sharing of experiences and knowledge between schools, groups and non-academic associations, bringing together the interest of different audiences in these themes from a transversal and holistic perspective.

The contents of the exhibition will also be online and the exhibition experience is registered purely for research purposes, being analysed in the context of the ongoing Contrast project.

 

Author GuidelinesSubmissions of abstracts for conference

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Instructions

To submit your abstract proposal, please send a 400 – 500 words text (including title, references and a maximum of five images) and a short bio for author’s (up to 70 words each) and name, title, affiliation, pronouns, email, phone, and address until 1st of September 2024.

Selected authors will be notified by the 15th of September 2024 and will benefit from Editorial orientation and instructions in order to deliver conference presentation in pdf or powerpoint / keynote format by the 1 of November 2024 and a first draft of manuscript by the 1 of December 2024.

All presentations must be in English and should take no more than 15 minutes to present. Please indicate the number of panellists to participate in your presentation.
                                              

Abstracts for conference presentation will be published in the e-book of abstracts of the SCOPIO & CONTRAST International Conference, which will have also the program and will be accessible and free to download through scopio Magazine AAI and Contrast platforms at the time of the event.

Abstracts and manuscript drafts of the entries considered most relevant (expanded – full manuscripts) contributions will be invited to published in scopio Magazine AAI - Exploring contemporary realities, Volume 2 and for that purpose will be further reviewed to deliver a 2nd final manuscript.

Publication date (tbc): by December 2024

 

Some issues of interest that can be taken on board when answering this call are the following:

  • How photography and film can be used for communicating contemporary realities and the way architecture, landscape and city forms relate with public spaces and their contemporary appropriation;

  • What photography and film tell us about the world we inhabit and can be used as a creative process that brings to light new ways of understanding architecture and landscape realities in contemporary urban space, as well as document their cultural significance and heritage values;

  • How photography and film can be used to confront present architectural programs, planning  and public spaces;

  • How photography and film may set forward the idea of a new understanding of architecture, changing our on-site perception and even turning it into a projected vision in space

  • The uses of photography and film in identifying, recording and 'unlocking' sites of transformation – i.e. buildings, landscapes, and places, which are undergoing, or will undergo, a process of renewal

  • Photographic and filmic series that focus on the perceptive, sensorial and affective experience of architecture and landscape in the urban and rural context. 

Accepted submissions engage with the issues above in the form of full papers, short papers or visual essays.

[1] See the discussion of key conceptions of landscape circulating as part of the recent discourse i.e.  landscape as a fundamental building block, a communicative medium, and a realm of imaginative constructs." Vera Vicenzotti. "The Landscape of Landscape Urbanism." Landscape Journal 36, no. 1 (2018): 75-86. https://lj.uwpress.org/content/36/1/75

[2] Nathan Jurgenson - The Social Photo: On Photography and Social Media, Verso, 2019, p. 13-14

More information: 

scopio Magazine AAI: https://www.up.pt/revistas/index.php/scopio/announcement/view/33
CONTRAST: https://contrast.arq.up.pt/en/news/open-call-exploring-contemporary-realities/
SIGARRA / FAUP:
https://sigarra.up.pt/faup/pt/noticias_geral.ver_noticia?p_nr=81962

Research group:  Architecture, Arte and Image — AAI CEAU.FAUP