FAUP | Applications until 21 JANUARY 2026 | COURSE “PHOTOGRAPHY AS A TOOL FOR INTERPRETING AND REPRESENTING ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN SPACE”
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CONTINUING EDUCATION AT FAUP
Applications are open until January 21, 2026, for the continuing education unit 'Photography as a Research Tool for Urban Space'. This training aims to empower trainees to use photography as a tool for investigating, interpreting, and representing urban space, and to provide a collaborative support environment for the development of individual projects.
Over eleven sessions, reference authors and works will be presented, allowing for the contextualization of contemporary practices that intersect research and artistic creation. Individualized support will be provided for projects under development through tutorial guidance sessions and moments of collective discussion and analysis.
Pedagogical guidance will be provided by Researcher Ana Miriam Rebelo, with scientific supervision by Professor Pedro Leão Neto.
Accredited with 4 ECTS credits, this training unit constitutes the second module of the continuing education course 'Photography as an Instrument for Interpreting and Representing Architecture and Urban Space'.
The course costs 150 euros for students, teachers and staff of the University of Porto, 180 euros for U.Porto alumni and 200 euros for the general public. In all cases, an additional 2 euros is charged for school insurance.
The course will feature guest speakers and a space for dissemination on the Scopio Network platform.
Trainer: Ana Miriam Rebelo
Scientific Supervision: Professor Pedro Leão Neto
Target audience
The course is aimed at a multidisciplinary community whose main interest lies in architecture and urban space, whether as a field of practice, a subject of research or a theme for artistic creation. The course therefore welcomes university students, researchers and professionals from various fields – from architecture and urban planning to visual arts and social sciences – as well as other people interested in photography, architecture and urban space.
The aim is to promote a participatory multidisciplinary environment, encouraging the exchange of knowledge and experiences between different areas of knowledge and enriching perceptions about the dynamics of production, use and appropriation of urban space.
Module 2 – The photographic device as an instrument for investigating urban space.
Programme content
- Photography and research: photography as a means of documentation and as a discursive practice in the investigation of urban space
- Authors and reference works: different approaches and strategies between research and artistic practice
- Visual ethnography practices
- Strategies for analysing and exploring space: photography as a discursive element that constructs meanings about spaces, architecture and society
- Visual narrative: construction of photographic discourses in digital and printed format
Workload: 11 sessions | 33 contact hours
Calendar: 20 February to 22 May 2026
Timetable: Fridays - 3pm > 6pm
Mode: face-to-face
Language of communication: Portuguese (PT)
4 ECTS
Biographies
Ana Miriam is a photographer, researcher and professor in the field of visual arts and visual culture. She graduated in Fine Arts at École d'Enseignement Supérieur d'Art de Bordeaux (2005). She holds a Master in Contemporary Artistic Creation from the University of Aveiro (2019) and a PhD in Design from the University of Porto (2025), funded by Fundação para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia. She is currently a teacher and researcher at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto. She is a member of the Center for Studies in Architecture and Urbanism (CEAU) and Research Institute for Design, Media and Culture (ID+). Her artistic and scientific production, disseminated through communications, publications and exhibitions, focuses on the production, perception and representation of urban space, with an emphasis on informal dynamics of production and use of public space.
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