/// KITCHAIN IN THE EXHIBITION DEVIR MENOR

(ENG) Our project Kitchain will be part of the exhibition Devir Menor that will open next saturday June 16 in the city of Guimarães. We will give a small talk about the project integrated in the pre-opening programme of the exhibition.

Devir Menor  explores projects sensitive to the specificity of contextual conditions, often using other tactics to the traditional methodology of architecture and making a social and economic operative critique, committed on transformation and on revitalization of its context. The architectural project acquires a proximity to everyday life and a processual nature, the modalities of relation with the context change the project itself and the work becomes reflexive and relational. These works are close to cultural practices, characterized also by a particular reconciliation that defies the global and local; they have a strong spatial component and use, among others, techniques of materials recycling, reuse of existing resources, the do-it yourself, or experiment various work modes. The project´s concept is a collaboration between Inês Moreira (architect and curator) and Susana Caló (philosophy researcher and editor)

The exhibition consists of a spatial immersive installation that explores the potential of the drawings, registers, videos and pictures of the invited participants, privileging an informal and intuitive relation with the public. It also presents a selection of 50 reference publications, as well as documental materials and essays produced especially for the project. The installation will establish a dialogue with the building of Sociedade Martins Sarmento, a proeminent building in the city of Guimarães, designed by the architect Marques da Silva.

New projects:
Iconoclasistas + Bernardo Amaral + Paulo Moreira (Argentina + Portugal)
Paulo Tavares (Brazil and United Kingdom)
Mario Ballesteros (Mexico)

Authors / collectives:
Al BordE arquitectos (Ecuador)
Ángela Bonadies + Juan José Olavarría (Venezuela)
Borde Urbano consultores (Chile)
Control + z + Straddle3 + Lamatraka Cultural (Spain)
Cristobal Palma (Chile and United Kingdom)
Husos (Spain + Colombia)
Iconoclasistas (Argentina)
Blaanc + Rootstudio (Portugal + Mexico)
José Luis Uribe Ortiz (Chile)
Louise Marie Cardoso Ganz (Brazil)
Maria Luz Bravo (Mexico)
Monica de Miranda + Artéria Arquitectura (Portugal)
Moov (Portugal)
La Panaderia (Spain)
Plano B (Portugal)
Supersudaca (Latin America)
Todo por la Praxis (Spain)
Tomás Garcia Puente (Argentina)
Urban Think Tank (Venezuela)

+ info: www.devirmenor.com