/// 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.

/// KITCHAIN 2012 HAS JUST STARTED

(ENG) Yesterday was the opening of 2012 edition of the Festival  Belluard Bollwerk International and that means that Kitchain will be open in the next nine days for more food, drinks, talking and fun. We leave bellow a video from yesterday open event. As usual you can follow all the big and small stories of this nine days in the Kitchain blog.

/// EXHIBITION DEVIR MENOR

(ENG) We arrived yesterday from a long weekend in Guimarães where we went to see the opening of the exhibition Devir Menor and to meet the other collectives that were part of this event. We grab the opportunity and we also saw other interesting events and art exhibitions related to Guimarães 2012 European Capital of Culture. We post bellow some photos of Devir Menor, the exhibition where we had presented our project Kitchain that, by the way, it will open in just ten days for it's fourth edition in Fribourg, Swizerland. We will post more news about this in the next days.

/// 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

/// IBERIAN ARCHITECTURE: REENCOUNTERS

(ENG) MOOV will participate on the Iberian Architecture: Reencounters that will take place in Valladolid on July 5 and 6.  The “Reencounters" programme is curated by Ariadna Cantis and organized in partnership with the Lisbon Architecture Triennale.

These "Reencounters"  resume the idea of the "Iberian Encounters" started in 1997 by the architects Álvaro Siza Vieira and Rafael Moneo, which aimed to provide young architects from both countries the opportunity to show their projects and see their work assessed. During these two days, a group of 11 architects (six from Portugal and five from Spain), critics and teachers from two generations will discuss the proposals in an environment of creative exchange.

Eduardo Souto de Moura, Francisco Mangado, Martha Thorne (Executive Director of the Pritzker Architecture Prize), Pedro Gadanho (Chief Curator of Contemporary Architecture at MoMa) and Jacobo García-Germán were invited as critics for this programme.

Studios/Architects participating in Reencounters:

Nuno Graça Moura

MOOV
Guilherme Machado Vaz
SAMI - Arquitectos
Marta Brandão + Mário Sousa
Tiago Pimentel
Rodrigo García
SIC
MARGEN - LAB
Uriel Fogué (elii)
Javier Larraz 

+ info: www.arquitecturaiberica.net
 

/// MOOV IN PECHA KUCHA LISBON THIS SUNDAY

(ENG) We will be with Benedetta Maxia in Pecha Kucha Lisbon presenting our project Kitchain this sunday. The speed lecture will be at 6 p.m in Mercado Sta. Clara, Lisbon. More information about the event in  Pecha Kucha Lisbon blog.

/// KITCHAIN PUBLISHED IN DESIGNBOOM

(ENG) Kitchain, the long-term project we have developed for the Festival Belluard Bollwerk International, was published in designboom, a publication online dedicated to design, architecture, art , photography and graphics. You can read the article here.

/// UMA - ULTRA MARATONA ATLÂNTICA

“UMA – Ultra Maratona Atlântica” 
Directed by Carlos Gomes and Fran Lopez Reyes
Photography by Miguel Robalo
Original Soundtrack by Ricardo Webbens


(ENG)  'UMA – Atlantic Ultra Marathon, is a 43km marathon passing through the sandy beaches of Tróia, a Peninsula in the south of Portugal. This coast, one of the wildest, with the least human intervention in Europe, is the set for a unique competition with an impressive record of 2h 51m. 
A territory of rare natural beauty, with a coastline stretched along the Atlantic Ocean as far as the eye can see. For the majority of the athletes, the only objective is to reach the end and to inscribe in their bodies that distance, which defines, in itself, the whole territory. 
The installation constructs a scenographic memory of the territory following the choreographies and the routs of the athletes. The triptych works as an intensifier, enlarging possibilities of perception and forming a horizon of image, immersing the viewer in the psychological time of the journey.'

/// NOMAD HOUSE AVAILABLE IN IPAD

(ENG) Nomad House project was published on the publication New Expression On Housing 2. Following the research on the first issue, On Housing 2 focus on the limits of domestic architecture. In the publication you can find experiments and prototypes by artist and architects, working on subjects like Open Source, Flexible Systems, Shared Logics and others.
More information about this publication can be found here and New Expression On Housing 2 is available on the App Store here

Spark is a new book publisher for the iPad specialized in Architecture and Design.

/// TODAY AT 5pm

(ENG) We will be today in Universidade Lusiada talking about (re)thinking the city. Our lecture will be around the instigation of individual participation in collective projects to transform the city, upgrading of urban territories and buildings, the shadow as a device of social intensification and... soaps in the walls. If you feel in the mood come and have a look:

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

/// Did you know?

(ENG) Moby - himself - has an interesting blog about architecture! He moved a few months to Los Angeles and decided to start a blog to document the ecletic architecture of L.A. Go and have a look: Moby Los Angeles Architecture

/// JOHN WOOD AND PAUL HARRISON

(ENG) 'The camera of 10 x10 slowly scrolls down a 100-storey building, going from one floor to the one below, looking through the windows, room after room. The result looks like a strip of film. The rooms are often occupied by an ordinary office worker. It is always the same guy and he is wearing a suit. A pair of Dr Martens betray the fact that he might not want to be there, with a pie chart as his sole companion. He is very probably the most bored office worker you could come across. He kills the hours cycling within the confine of his office room, hiding behind furniture, crafting paper planes, launching paper planes, inflating a swimming pool mattress, dressing up as a cowboy, Spiderman or a knight Templar, etc.He might also be the one who arranges plastic office chairs into sculptures or perfectly symmetrical installations.'

in we-make money-not-art 

10 x 10, 2011
Single channel HD (16:9), 15:37 min
Extract 1:55 min

/// 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 

/// BLOWER VAC

(PT) A máquina pneumática é um objecto mecânico que tem como função criar vácuo, através da sucção de ar do interior de uma campanula de vidro, para a realização de experiências químicas. Interessou-nos esta propriedade do objecto em criar vazio, de estarmos perante uma máquina cujo principal objectivo era produzir ausência.

Blower Vac é uma instalação que utiliza o ar como matéria de transformação do espaço e como detonador da mensagem através da sua presença ou ausência . O público é convidado a interagir com um dispositvo eléctrico transformado que aspira ou sopra ar. Essa movimentação alternada de ar provoca o enchimento ou esvaziamento de duas bolsa de tecido que incorporam em si duas mensagens distintas que só podem ser visualizadas à vez uma vez efectuado o respectivo processo de insuflação ou desinsufluação.

Dimensões: 110 x 100 x 50cm
Material: Aspirador eléctrico, tecido elástico
Objecto quimico interpretado: Máquina Pneumática

Blower Vac foi apresentado na exposição Visões da Química no Campus da Caparica da Universidade Nova que terminou ontem e que pedia a um grupo de sete artistas - Miguel PalmaAna Romana & Susana Anágua, Ana Vasconcelos, Enrique Williams, Helena Abrantes, Miguel Faro, Miguel Palma e MOOV - um novo olhar sobre objectos históricos usados em laboratórios químicos.

/// PERFORMANCE ARCHITECTURE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

/// ARTEFACT FESTIVAL NOTES #11

(ENG) After the post dedicated to the unCloud project, we would like to share two more projects: Time/Bank by Julieta Aranda & Anton Vidokle and Macht Geschenke: The Making of Capital by Christin Lahr. The two art projects deal with money and time.

As you can read in the program: "Time/Bank is a platform for cultural and arts communities where groups and individuals can pool and trade time and skills, bypassing money as a measure of value. Time/Bank is based on the premises that everyone in the field of culture has something to contribute, and that it is possible to develop and sustain an alternative economy by connecting existing needs with unacknowledged resources.
Time/Bank is a platform for cultural and arts communities where groups and individuals can pool and trade time and skills, bypassing money as a measure of value. Time/Bank is based on the premises that everyone in the field of culture has something to contribute, and that it is possible to develop and sustain an alternative economy by connecting existing needs with unacknowledged resources."

For Macht Geschenke: The Making of Capital, the artist Christin Lahr took over the chair of the mayor of Leuven and spent the first week of the Festival at her workstation in one of the exhibition spaces, continuing her meticulous work. Quoting, once more, the festival program about the work she presented: “since May 31, 2009, Christin Lahr has been making daily money transfers of 1 cent to the German Federal Ministry of Finance, thus helping to counter the growing mountain of debt in small doses. In the field "reason for payment", she always writes 108 characters from "CAPITAL: A Critique of Political Economy" by Karl Marx. That way, bit by bit, the entire text of the book will be transferred into the state’s central account via online banking. The transmission of the roughly 15,709 cents and 1,696,500 characters will take about 43 years.”

We had the opportunity to talk with Christin about her work and we were the lucky ones to receive two original screenshots of the money transfer she made. Her idea is actually to substitute the money transfer numbers with the name of the people who have received them.   

/// ARTEFACT FESTIVAL NOTES #10

(ENG) A great time-lapse of yesterday night capture by Wieni Kookt, one of the three groups that made the Kitchain Do-It-Yourself sold out night.

/// ARTEFACT FESTIVAL NOTES #9

(ENG) Another morning in STUKcafé...

/// ARTEFACT FESTIVAL NOTES #8

(ENG) Sunday KITCHAIN! Eight adults with two children at one kitchenette. Among other things they wanted to grill some turkey at the outdoor grill but after a while they have decided to grill it inside! Too much rain in Leuven! At the other kitchenette a really nice surprise: a couple coming directly from Wuppertal to eat at the KITCHAIN! The evening was really nice and friendly! We were able to carry out Freeman mission because many people made their promises! And it’s always special to have children running around the KITCHAIN! We ended up playing on the Pedro Reyes see-saw "Leverage" (a post about his wonderful piece soon!!!)!  

/// ARTEFACT FESTIVAL NOTES #7

(ENG) On Saturday, we had the pleasure to spend a wonderful KITCHAIN evening with Davis Freeman, his daughter, or as he introduced her to us “my assistant” and other 6 guests! The evening started with “Promises” and we need to explain this concept a little bit: it’s a really simple and great idea, he asks people to make promises that will contribute to a more sustainable world, like: “You promise you will take a shower just for 2 minutes for 1 week… You promise you will buy just second-hand clothes for 1 month...” and so on… If people agree they sign a paper and they will get a badget…and a free shot of vodka! Us and many people eating at the KITCHAIN made promises and the atmosphere was great! We also played a multiple choice quiz related to the environment and after a delicious shortbread, made by Davis daughter, we ended up singing a karaoke version of “I will always love you”! Thanks a lot Davis!