/// MOOV AT IBERIA CRITICA

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MOOV AT URBAN INTERVENTIONS CONFERENCE

/// SWARS IN ARQUITECTURAS FILM FESTIVAL LISBOA

MOOV and DASS will give a talk about their project SWARS -  Architecture Strikes Back on the new Arquitecturas Film Festival Lisboa. We will be on Cinema City Alvalade on the 29th of September from 18H to 18H30 talking about   transforming iconic buildings in spaceships.

For more informations about the Festival: www.doyoumeanarchitecture.com

/// KITCHAIN 2013 EDITION STARTED

Meanwhile, in the Kitchain from Antoine M. on Vimeo.

/// PLAYGROUNDS - LECTURE MAY 30

/// LECTURE 11.04.2013

/// A NEW COMMUNITY BASED PROJECT

/// TO START THE YEAR

(ENG) We are starting the year with a project for two pavillions dedicated to art display. More news soon.

/// STREET MUSEUM OF ART

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/// BEYOND VISIBLE

"Um happening e uma mesa-redonda na semana do Bairro Alto. 

E se durante uma noite pudesse construir a sua própria exposição? Parece-lhe impossível? Então apareça dia 14 de Dezembro, a partir das 21.30,  na rua da Barroca no Bairro Alto (número 9 a 13), pegue numa lanterna, conduza-a e surpreenda-se com aquilo que um pequeno foco de luz é capaz de lhe mostrar.

Beyond Visible é uma intervenção urbana que vai ser apresentada no âmbito das comemorações do Bairro Alto e é a terceira exposição da dupla de fotógrafos Pedro Costa e Ricardo Lopes. Depois de “Espaços Liminares” em 2010 e  “Bairros como Nós”, em 2011, arriscam mais uma vez dar a conhecer o lado invisível do bairro através de uma intervenção artística e original.

Em paralelo, realiza-se a partir das 18 horas, na Galeria Zé dos Bois (ZDB), uma mesa redonda, moderada igualmente  por Pedro Costa e Ricardo Lopes, ambos investigadores do Dinamia’CET, na qual de forma informal se discute o potencial da intervenção artística na esfera pública, em particular em espaços liminares como o do Bairro Alto. Participam no debate, António Louro, do Atelier MOOV, Joana Craveiro do Teatro do Vestido, Miguel Januário, aka Mais Menos, e os investigadores Mirian Tavares, Pedro Botelho e Luis Balula."

/// "LUANDA NÃO É PEQUENA"

/// CPAM 2012 WEEKEND

(ENG) Our talk would be about internationalization and how the concentration of architect are not the best starting point. More info about this architect's meeting in the event's blog.

/// DRAWING HOPE

(ENG)  We have been helping our good friends from blaanc to organize a drawing auction to get funds to the Adobe for Women association. The money obtained will help to finish  20 sustainable houses in the indigenous village of San Juan Mixtepec, in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca.
Adobe for Women is a non-profit association, founded in 2011, whose goal is the recovery and education of earth construction techniques; this is our contribution to a more human and sustainable use of space and the planet’s resources. 

+ info about Adobe for Women

/// LET'S GO OUT

(ENG) The project KITCHAIN has been published in the book Let's Go Out from Gestalten. The book provides a current overview of trailblazing spaces that go well beyond the classic models of restaurants, cocktail bars, and clubs.

About the book:

Going out to enjoy eating, drinking, and spending time together is practically a basic human need. Digital networking and social media have increased our demand and appreciation for face-to-face encounters and genuine experiences in the real world. The places where one chooses to eat or drink play almost as important a role as the company one keeps while doing so. The more unusual or authentic the surroundings, the more exciting or memorable going out becomes. Designers, architects, interior designers, artists, and gastronomes from around the world are creating extraordinary possibilities for bringing together friends, partners, business associates, or even strangers. 

The projects in Let’s Go Out! clearly demonstrate the essential role that concept and furnishings play in our experience of eating and drinking. These inspirational examples appeal to all of our senses and, in the process, they hone both our taste buds and our visual awareness.

+ info at Gestalten website

/// LONG STREETS FOR SHORT STORIES IN LISBON

(ENG) Some photos of our installation Long Streets for Short Stories that's in display in Travessa da Marta Pinto, Belém, Lisbon until November 11th. For a full experience of the installation we recommend a visit after 8pm when the lights are on.

/// UNITED STATES OF EUROPE - EXHIBITION DESIGN

(ENG) We finished a month ago the exhibition design of United States Of Europe, a arts travelling exhibition about European identity and today's Europe.  We were so busy before holidays that we didn't have time to post anything about it. Below, some pics of our work.

/// LONG STREETS FOR SHORT STORIES OPENING

(ENG) To everyone that will be in Lisbon next saturday, we will be opening in Vicente Festival the urban installation Long Streets For Short Stories that we have been developing with the artist Miguel Faro. This will be the third presentation of this piece after Tallinn (Estonia) and Riga (Latvian). We are creating a site specific portuguese story to this presentation. We post the invitation bellow to everyone that wants to drink a glass of wine with us in next saturday afternoon.

Long Streets For Short Stories
from 8th september until 11th November 2012
Travessa do Marta Pinto, Belém, Lisbon

+ info: www.travessadaermida.com

/// SWARS IN BRICKS & BALLONS

(ENG) The book “Bricks & Balloons” by Mélanie Van Der Hoorn was launched, it contains one full color spread out of “Swars” as well as its cover. The book is available in the publisher site.

"Bricks & Balloons brings together a wealth of architectural projects that reach out to the world of comics, many published here for the first time. There are also a number of comic-strip creators who have made existing or imaginary buildings a key feature of their work, thereby expressing their perspective on architectural and urban issues. The comic strip medium has proved to be of importance for architecture in three ways: as architecture criticism, as a form of presentation (or representation) and in a few instances even as a method of designing or part of the design process. The book is based on unique first-hand information collected during dozens of interviews with architects and comic strip artists. It sheds light on how such work comes about, what drives architects to resort to this unconventional medium, the response they get from it and the potentials they see for architecture in the use of comics, the ’ninth art’."

in 010publishers website

/// KITCHAIN EDITION 2012

(ENG) After nine days of performances, exhibitions, talks and workshops, the Belluard Festival has come to an end and the doors of the Arsenal have closed. The Kitchain has been once more disassembled and all the tables and benches will quietly wait for the next year edition. This year we had a special contribution on the blog for recording the Kitchain : mr. Antoli and his fantastic videos! We show you below a selection of the best videos that Antoli posted during the nine days of the festival. See you next year and if you want to know more go to kitchain.net

Kitchain Belluard 2012 - dimanche from Kitchain Belluard on Vimeo.

Kitchain Belluard 2012 - jeudi from Kitchain Belluard on Vimeo.

Kitchain Belluard 2012 - Future Nostalgia from Kitchain Belluard on Vimeo.

/// REECUENTROS IBÉRICOS

(ENG) We have finally landed in the office after a few days in the spainish city of Valladolid. We went there to take part in the Reencuentros Ibéricos de Arquitectura. The directors of the event were the architects Francisco Mangado and Eduardo Souto Moura who commented all the works that have been presented by the six portuguese and six spanish emerging architects and offices that took part in this forum. The discussion focussed on the limits of the discipline and on the growing tendency of young architects to stretch the operative fields of architecture to different areas such as micro interventions in public spaces or the design of strategies for large territories. We had the opportunity to meet lots of interesting people and to talk with architects that, unitl then, we only knew by the name without associating a face to it. We had a great time. Thanks to Jacobo Garcia Germán, Ariadna Cantis and Maitez Rodriguez for for all the organization.