MOOV AT URBAN INTERVENTIONS CONFERENCE

/// KITCHAIN 2013 EDITION STARTED

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/// LECTURE 11.04.2013

/// A NEW COMMUNITY BASED PROJECT

/// 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

/// 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

/// NEXT TWO WEEKS

(ENG) In the next two weeks we will be running a studio on the EWWUD - European Workshop Waterfront Urban Design 2012. EWWUD is a intensive Program dedicated to the generation of methodology to contribute for sustainable development of port cities. It has its first edition in 2010 and it's hosted by Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias (ULHT). It gathered about 80 students from several universities who worked together for two weeks.

+ info

/// MOOV LECTURE

(RE)Create Alternative Urban City
Universidade Lusíada - Auditório 1
19th of March / 17H00 - 19H00 

/// MOOV IN THE BOOK "ARTE E DELINQUÊNCIA"

(ENG) MOOV has contributed with a text to the book Arte e Delinquência edited by Gulbenkian Foundation. The text is about our experience of six months working with minors that are hindered into Educational Centres of the Lisbon district.

































(images Maga-Atelier)

/// MOOV IN THE EXHIBITION STRATEGIES FOR PUBLIC OCCUPATION

(ENG) Yellow Arrow and Demo_polis has been included in the exhibition "Strategies for Public Occupation" that will be on view until Thursday December 22nd on the Store Front for Art and Architecture in New York.  The projects are displayed in the form of postcards. These postcards will be available to the public the last day of the exhibition - Dec 22nd - to be sent to the pertinent Structures of Power. You can find images and videos of the exhibition on the website.

Demo_polis  / 2006

Yellow Arrow 2004 > 2007

/// MOOV GETS 2nd PRIZE IN INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION

(ENG) It is a pleasure to inform that our proposal obtained the Second Prize in the International Architecture Design Competition “Symbiosis in the Rural Landscape” for the new headquarters of Fundecor in Puerto Viejo, Sarapiquí, Province of Heredia, Costa Rica. We will soon get back to the blog with more details about our project and the competition.

/// MOOV TALKS

(ENG) MOOV will be lecturing and talking with studentes about art, sustainability and ephemeral public spaces interventions in the next days. If you are around just join us at:


27.11.2011 - 18H 
ISCTE - University Institute of Lisbon - School of Human and Social Sciences


03.11.2011 - 09H
FAUTL - Technical University of Lisbon - Architecture School

/// WE HAVE BEEN DOING TWO COMPETITIONS

/// SUMMER LAB #1

(ENG) We are doing our bags to participate in the Imagine 2020 Summer Lab #1 :  “From science to art: forests at the heart of life”  that will take place in Montpellier - France from 24th to 27th August.

In recent years our understanding and awareness of global climate change has increased greatly. However, there is a gap between scientific knowledge and concern on one hand and understanding and action by wider society on the other.

The Imagine 2020 Network,  born in June 2010, brings together eleven performing arts venues and festivals across nine European countries. The idea is to support artistic works that look at the causes and effects of climate change to increase awareness among the artistic community and the general public, rethink mobility and producing practices, and provoke change within the cultural sector and beyond. Every summer, the network organises a Summer Academy for artists. Scientists, economists, philosophers, policy makers, NGO representatives will meet interested artists across all disciplines from across Europe to engage them in a dialogue on global change. The Summer Academy will provide the opportunity to step outside day-to-day work and engage with colleagues from across many disciplines, with the scientific support of Cirad (Centre of International Cooperation in Agricultural Research for Development) and the forestry network Silva.

Download the program 

/// KITCHAIN BUSY DAYS

www.kitchain.net

/// COMMUNITY VEGETABLE GARDEN

(ENG) After a long waiting for funds and several community meetings, it will be under construction during July 2011 the vegetable garden developed by MOOV to the community of Vale da Amoreira. Follow the construction during July in our blog.

/// KITCHAIN IS BACK

(ENG) From 24.06 to 02.07.2011, Kitchain will be again in activity in the Festival Belluard Bollwerk Internacional . Follow the day by day of it in the Kitchain blog.

/// KITCHAIN 2011 LAYOUT

(ENG) We start to have a ritual in the office since we won the competition in 2009 to design the Festival centre OF the Belluard Bollwerk International in Fribourg with our proposal Kitchain. Every April, since then, arrives an email from the direction of the Festival asking for a new layout to the next edition.

For this year, we divided the tables layout in two areas: a cooking and eating area and a lounge and bar area. As we believe that Arsenal has a great potencial to host complementary actvities such as films screening, performances, lectures, etc,  we leave an empty space between this two areas to let extra activities to happen.  We are now trying to convince the festival to build a small grandstand for about 15/20 seats that can be moved around the space according to the events.

For this year we also introduce what we call a "Japanese corner". A lounge area where people can eat, drink and talk seated on pillows.Technically, it is made by the flat table units adjusted with a wooden piece of about 42cm from the floor. 

Over the last years we noticed that many people like to enjoy the grass near by the Kitchain, so we planned a big table there, where people can also eat and gather there. This table, as the japanese corner, is made by 2 flat table units adjusted with a wooden piece of about 42cm from the floor, allowing eating at the table while you are seating on the grass!

Until now, Kitchain has been a great adventure where we have the opportunity to meet new and interesting people and reinvent our proposal each new Festival edition. We hope to continue to surprise the people, offering new solutions with the same furniture and to continue to have a lot fun in the process.

Below the two previous layout and, in first hand ,this year's layout.