INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE INTER≈ PHOTOGRAPHY AND ARCHITECTURE

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE INTER≈ PHOTOGRAPHY AND ARCHITECTURE

MUSEO UNIVERSIDAD DE NAVARRA

Pedro Leão Neto, editor da scopio Editions e docente na FAUP, moderou, no passado dia 4 de Novembro, na International Conference inter≈ photography and architecture, Museo Universidad de Navarra, a mesa redonda Painel 8: Proyectos editoriales com os convidados: Jesús Vassallo (Seamless: Digital Collage and Dirty Realism in Contemporary Architecture); Iñaki Bergera (Proyecto FAME); Ferran Ventura (Recolectores Urbanos); Juan García Millán (Ediciones Asimétricas); Rafael Levenfeld (Museo Universidad de Navarra). Apresentou também no contexto deste painel uma das mais recentes publicações da scopio Editions "Fotografias em obras de Eduardo Souto de Moura" de Luis Ferreira Alves.

Mais informações: http://museo.unav.edu/en/investigacion/congreso-internacional-inter-fotografia-arquitectura/programa

"ESPERA", EXPOSIÇÃO "OS INQUÉRITOS - PAISAGEM E POVOAMENTO

"ESPERA", EXPOSIÇÃO "OS INQUÉRITOS - PAISAGEM E POVOAMENTO

POR VALTER VINAGRE E BRUNO MORAES CABRAL, CENTRO INTERNACIONAL DAS ARTES JOSÉ DE GUIMARÃES, CCVF

O vídeo "Espera", de 2015, realizado por Valter Vinagre e Bruno Moraes Cabral, que integrou a exposição 'Posto de Trabalho' na Fundação EDP de 26 de Junho a 20 de Setembro de 2015, estará em exibição na exposição "Os Inquéritos (à Fotografia e ao Território) - Paisagem e Povoamento", no Centro Internacional das Artes José de Guimarães, Centro Cultural de Vila Flor, em Guimarães. Esta exposição terá lugar desde 17 de Outubro de 2015  a 31 de Janeiro de 2016.

Tendo como ponto de partida a expedição à Serra da Estrela, realizada sob a égide da Sociedade de Geografia de Lisboa, em 1881, que contou com a colaboração da Sociedade Martins Sarmento, a exposição "Os Inquéritos - Paisagem e Povoamento", reúne um conjunto de inquéritos ao território em que a fotografia (e em alguns casos o filme) assume partticular relevância.

O horário da exposição é de terça a domingo, das 10h às 19h.

DEBATES: DUELO/DUETO (AAI)

DEBATES: DUELO/DUETO (AAI)

COM VALERIO OLGIATI E BAS PRINCEN

No passado dia 14 de Janeiro de 2016, teve lugar a quarta sessão do Ciclo de Conferências AAI - Arquitectura, Arte e Imagem, na Casa das Artes, no Porto.

Trata-se de um Ciclo de Conferências organizado pelos Arquitectos Camilo Rebelo e Pedro Leão Neto, em parceria com a scopio Editions e o grupo de investigação CCRE (FAUP), sendo promotores a Direcção Regional de Cultura do Norte (DRNC) conjuntamente com a Associação Cultural Cityscopio e Camilo Rebelo, Arquitecto, contando com o apoio institucional da Casa das Artes e da Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto.

Os convidados desta quarta sessão foram o arquitecto Valerio Olgiati e o fotógrafo Bas Princen.

O ciclo de conferências AAI visa promover uma análise crítica global em torno da prática e disciplina da Arquitectura e da Arte em geral, procurando diversos cruzamentos entre estes dois mundos, bem como a sua ligação com o universo da Imagem.

CONVERSAS SOBRE ARQUITETURA: ENCONTRO COM O FOTÓGRAFO PAOLO ROSSELLI

CONVERSAS SOBRE ARQUITETURA: ENCONTRO COM O FOTÓGRAFO PAOLO ROSSELLI

Conversa sobre o uso estratégico do documento fotográfico com o propósito de ler o processo arquitetônico e as transformações urbanas, a partir de uma estratégia de investigação histórica e crítica sobre a arquitetura e a cidade, usando a fotografia como ferramenta narrativa.

Este ciclo de conversas a decorrer no Terraço vitoriano, em Roma, teve como primeiro convidado o fotógrafo Paolo Rosselli, cujo trabalho como fotógrafo começa no início dos anos setenta, depois de ter assistido ao estudo de Ugo Mulas. Os seus trabalhos mais recentes, muitas vezes focados em aspectos urbanos e na transitoriedade da imagem da cidade, compõem revistas italianas e estrangeiras. Publicou várias monografias dedicadas a arquitetos, entre eles Santiago Calatrava (1996), Rafael Moneo (2009), Norman Foster (2010), David Chipperfield (2011).

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Talk about the strategic use of the photographic document with the purpose of reading the architectural process and the urban transformations, starting from a historical and critical research strategy on architecture and the city, using photography as a narrative tool.  

This cycle of conversations taking place in the Victorian Terrace in Rome had as the first invited the photographer Paolo Rosselli, whose work as a photographer began in the early seventies, after having watched the study of Ugo Mulas. His most recent works, often focused on urban aspects and the transience of the city's image, compose Italian and foreign magazines. He has published several monographs dedicated to architects, among them Santiago Calatrava (1996), Rafael Moneo (2009), Norman Foster (2010), David Chipperfield (2011).

AULA ABERTA NO CI.CLO – PLATAFORMA DE FOTOGRAFIA

AULA ABERTA - CONFERÊNCIA ''A AURA DA IMAGEM”

A FBAUP RECEBEU NO ÚLTIMO DIA 30 DE NOVEMBRO, ÀS 17H30, A CONFERÊNCIA ''A AURA DA IMAGEM".

Com a presença de Nélio Conceição (IFILNOVA) e Vítor dos Reis (FBAUL) 

Com a moderação de Miguel Leal (FBAUP) e Pedro Leão Neto (FAUP)

Decorreu no Auditório do Pavilhão Sul, na passada quinta-feira, numa sessão organizada a propósito da apresentação do 1º número da publicação SOPHIA “Crossing Borders, Shifting Boundaries. Uma colaboração entre a Unneeded Conversations (i2ADS/FBAUP) e a Scopio Editions (CEAU/FAUP).

Sobre a publicação Sophia

Esta é uma publicação periódica que tem como chancela a scopio Editions e o grupo de investigação CCRE integrado no CEAU, centro de I&D da FAUP.

Sophia é especificamente dirigida para trabalhos de reflexão teórica, e pretende ser o suporte de divulgação para um conjunto de textos críticos e exploratórios sobre Arquitectura, Arte e Imagem em sentido lato, isto é, incluindo os universos do desenho, fotografia, cinema, vídeo e novos media. 


Neste primeiro número são publicados três ensaios principais que questionam o universo da imagem, trazendo para a discussão diversos conceitos e autores como, por exemplo, Walter Benjamin:


• Wandering in a Sea of Ice – Voyage, Narrative and Resonance in the photographs of Nils Strindberg, de Eduardo Brito;


• Shedding the veils, making room: on some photographic motives in Walter Benjamin, de Nélio Conceição;


• From the ruins of Beirut by the reflexions on some Ray-Bans to the visionary experiences in the stereoscopic photographs by Francisco Afonso Chaves (1857-1926), de Vítor dos Reis.



Este primeiro número foi coordenado por Pedro Leão Neto e teve como Editores Susana Ventura e Edward Dimendberg (editor convidado) 
Coordenação Editorial ( CEAU - FAUP ) 


Mais informação sobre Sophia Peer Review Journal > http://sophiajournal.net/

APRESENTAÇÃO DO 1º NÚMERO DA PUBLICAÇÃO SOPHIA PEER REVIEW JOURNAL

APRESENTAÇÃO DO 1º NÚMERO DA PUBLICAÇÃO SOPHIA PEER REVIEW JOURNAL 

18 DE ABRIL DE 2016

Foi lançado no passado dia 18 de Abril o 1º número da revista Sophia Peer Review Journal “Crossing Borders, Shifting Boundaries: the Aura of the Image” na Galeria da Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade de Lisboa.

Esta apresentação contou com a presença de Vítor dos Reis, Susana Ventura, Pedro Leão Neto, Nélio Conceição e Joana Cunha Leal.


Sophia Peer Review Journal é uma publicação periódica que tem como chancela a scopio Editions e o grupo de investigação CCRE integrado no CEAU, centro de I&D da FAUP. Sophia é especificamente dirigida para trabalhos de reflexão teórica, e pretende ser o suporte de divulgação para um conjunto de textos críticos e exploratórios sobre Arquitectura, Arte e Imagem em sentido lato, isto é, incluindo os universos do desenho, fotografia, cinema, vídeo, televisão e novos media. 


Neste primeiro número são publicados três ensaios principais que questionam o universo da imagem, trazendo para a discussão diversos conceitos e autores como, por exemplo, Walter Benjamin:


Wandering in a Sea of Ice – Voyage, Narrative and Resonance in the photographs of Nils Strindberg, de Eduardo Brito;


Shedding the veils, making room: on some photographic motives in Walter Benjamin, de Nélio Conceição;


From the ruins of Beirut by the reflexions on some Ray-Bans to the visionary experiences in the stereoscopic photographs by Francisco Afonso Chaves (1857-1926), de Vítor dos Reis.



Este primeiro número foi coordenado por Pedro Leão Neto e teve como Editores Susana Ventura e Edward Dimendberg (editor convidado) 
Coordenação Editorial ( CEAU - FAUP ) 


Mais informação sobre Sophia Peer Review Journal > http://sophiajournal.net/

ARCHITECTURE PHOTOGRAPHY: THE COMPLEMENTARY INSIGHTS OF A PHOTOGRAPHER IN DIALOGUE WITH A CURATOR

ARCHITECTURE PHOTOGRAPHY: THE COMPLEMENTARY INSIGHTS OF A PHOTOGRAPHER IN DIALOGUE WITH A CURATOR

with the Portuguese curator Pedro Gadanho and the Italian photographer Paolo Rosselli

The second session of the conference cicle AAI – Architetcure, Art and Image – at Casa das Artes, in Oporto, occured on the 30th October. This event was organized by the architects Camilo Rebelo and Pedro Leão Neto in collaboration with the Scopio Editions and research group CCRE (FAUP) and with the institutional support of Casa das Artes.

To this second edition were invited the Portuguese curator Pedro Gadanho and the Italian photographer Paolo Rosselli, who developed a conversation about Architecture Photography, focusing on the work of Rosselli.

On one side, we had Pedro Gadanho, an utter connoisseur of the many ins and outs of this universe of Architecture Photography, denoting a very serene and intelligent posture, always making sure the conversation would not cool down or be lead to an uninteresting point, intervening from time to time without ever trying to be the centre of attention. Almost playing the role of the host, Gadanho insisted on standing out his interest on Paolo Rosselli’s work, mostly because it brings a humanized and quotidian side normally not so deeply developed by the traditional approach to Architetcure Photography. 

According to the Portuguese curator, the main stream publications highlight and invest excessively on the aesthetical and constructive matters of Architecture, often creating stereotypical images without the intelligence and sensibility required to comprehend the architectonic space and the site in which it is inserted. On Gadanho’s own words, this recurrent praxis “tends to be exhaustive by portraying a building from every possible angle and trying to give a false objectivity of that building or architecture” by means of “certain tricks that work out oddly, like trying to remove people” and most of all ”trying to obliterate the city from the scope of architetcure” much by influence of “the architect’s desire to aestheticize their own work, making it something abstract, devoid of any quotidian dimension.” Gadanho believes that Rosselli’s photographs are on the antipodes of this more usual and common approach, offering us a richer and more profound understanding of architecture and space, by means of a vantage point and artistic strategy that results in critical images that allow a new perspective on architecture and the city through images whose framework and plasticity capture with sensibility, intelligence and emotion, the life and configuration of Architectural space.

On the other side, Rosselli brought a very clear tone to the conversation, reminding that Architecture Photography is, before anything else, Photography and that its range and possibilities are not restrict, even fitting inside a certain category, among many others, when we talk about Photography. According to the Italian photographer, one should not approach Architecture Photography in a technical way but in a personal one, finding in his personal approach the motivation for his constant search for a new relationship with Architecture through Photography. Curiously, in his case, this new relationship with Architecture is in many cases established by means of a direct inspiration in fictional literature, developing a kind of filter, typical of a novelist or a poet, that allows him to discern in which way and what to capture or not in his photographs – in this matter, he grasps much of the puctum epiphany, bequeathed by Roland Barthes – assuming nonchalantly that for him “the most important is, above all, to read books.”

It is possible that his amusement by this layered fusion between objects and fragments in his photographic work may come from this literary universe, becoming almost a pattern in his work the combination of elements that, beforehand and by a certain inherence, do not go together: “it is my process”, says Rosselli, “I am very tolerant in Photography” – a tolerance that he takes to the point of intervening graphically a posteriori on the captured image putting any purism aside. It is in this limbo, in this undefined exploratory area, that one sees how much Photography is for Rosselli an instrument of discovery, not only of the world of Architecture but also of himself, as he goes along, becoming more and more aware of certain personal and selective paradoxes. This can be seen, for example, with his dislike of cars in real life in confrontation with the fact of using these same cars in his photographic compositions, considering them a valuable addition; or his aversion toward shopping that converts itself into a kind of fascination by photographing shopping places.

In parallel, or maybe in consequence of his personal approach rather than a technical one, Rosselli assumes, even with a certain pleasure, a voyeuristic facet – beyond the inseparable voyeurism of the photographic act. For example, this happens when he suggests to the viewer his constant, however subliminal, presence in his photographs, without letting the camera capture parts of his own physiognomy. Moreover, along his speech there were some indications that this effect, this implicit impression on his work, may be profoundly related to a very peculiar vision of the world, of a very experimented and wise lightness, when he says “I don’t want to be serious; life is serious but I like to be funny.”

Albeit his lightness, Rosselli was neither superficial nor unilateral at any time about his more personal and intimate posture towards Architecture Photography. From the very beginning, Rosselli stressed the umbilical relationship between the photographer and the camera – an old discussion on Art and Technique and becoming more pertinent and actual nowadays – presenting an insight about his long study and questioning relating to that bond between Man and Machine. “Since I started photographing”, says Rosselli, “ I started a competition; who is making photography: the camera or Mr.Rosselli?”. From this restlessness, which at any moment diminishes his legacy as an author, he stands stoically in defence of Technique: “The camera is not a stupid object. The camera sees more than the photographer” even because, he admits, “I have many prejudices but the camera does not[...] the camera is freer than Mr.Rosselli.”

Other essential issues were also discussed, like the process of deconstructing conventions in Architecture Photography, the way in which the space is read, the relationship with the viewer, the interpretation of images or even the implication of two authorships in conflict – the architect’s and the photographer’s – always with an open mind and without prejudice, in a clear search for insights coming from a practical experience and from the reflections that this practice brought about, whether from the photographer’s point of view, whether from the curator’s.

In the final part of the conversation, Gadanho introduced some important ideas related to the logics of representation linked to the universe of Architecture Photography. He enhanced the relevance and interest of having adopted, at a certain point, a perspective and modus of work that tried to be more diversified, going beyond a certain traditional representation of Architeture. He brought back the idea that Architecture is truly a cultural production, making necessary this enriched interpretation from other quadrants, for it contributes to its openness – in the sense of Umberto Eco’s open work by. The praxis and discipline of Photography allow this enrichment of architectural interpretation by making possible the representation of vantage points that may diverge from the ones with which the architects would like to see their work represented. This allows to create in many cases a richer spatial interpretation and representation of the work of Architecture that should not be limited in the self-representation of the architect, assuming itself as a work of interpretation per se.

Much more a duet than a duel, this meeting of a little more than an hour between the Portuguese curator and the Italian photographer, contributed significantly to shed some light over some less obvious particularities in the field of Architecture Photography, never losing the essayistic sense one requires when two individualities meet. Undoubtedly, it was a significant valuable dialogue and text.

Author
Mário Carvalho (colaborador da scopio network)  

Editorial review
CCRE/FAUP (Editorial Department, scopio Editions)  

APRESENTAÇÃO DO LIVRO BEING & BECOMING

APRESENTAÇÃO DO LIVRO BEING & BECOMING

Museu do Douro
Peso da Régua
15 de Março, pelas 21h30

A apresentação da publicação Being and Becoming ficou a cargo do seu editor, Pedro Leão Neto e o painel da mesa redonda que contou com a presença do autor, de Artur Cristovão e Eric Many.

APRESENTAÇÃO DE EDUARDO SOUTO DE MOURA

APRESENTAÇÃO DE EDUARDO SOUTO DE MOURA

"FOTOGRAFIAS EM OBRAS DE EDUARDO SOUTO DE MOURA" SCOPIO EDITIONS

Excerto da apresentação do livro “Fotografias em obras de Eduardo Souto de Moura” de Luis Ferreira Alves. Discurso de Eduardo Souto de Moura, no passado dia 18 de Junho 2016, na Galeria Rui Alberto, no Porto. A apresentação contou também com a presença do autor e do editor da scopio Editions, Pedro Leão Neto.

APRESENTAÇÃO DE PEDRO LEÃO NETO [CONTEXTUALIZAÇÃO]

APRESENTAÇÃO DE PEDRO LEÃO NETO [CONTEXTUALIZAÇÃO]

"FOTOGRAFIAS EM OBRAS DE EDUARDO SOUTO DE MOURA" SCOPIO EDITIONS

Excerto da apresentação do livro “Fotografias em obras de Eduardo Souto de Moura” de Luis Ferreira Alves. Discurso de Pedro Leão Neto, no passado dia 18 de Junho 2016, na Galeria Rui Alberto, no Porto. A apresentação contou também com a presença do autor, Luis Ferreira Alves, e do arquitecto, Eduardo Souto de Moura.

ARCHITECTURE, CITY AND TERRITORY: NEW APPROACHES FROM CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY 3/3

ARCHITECTURE, CITY AND TERRITORY: NEW APPROACHES FROM CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY 3/3

Excerto da apresentação do livro “Fotografias em obras de Eduardo Souto de Moura”. Discurso do editor (sobre o autor), Pedro Leão Neto, no passado dia 18 de Junho de 2016, na Galeria Rui Alberto, no Porto. A apresentação contou também com a presença do autor, Luis Ferreira Alves, e do arquitecto Eduardo Souto de Moura.

ARCHITECTURE, CITY AND TERRITORY: NEW APPROACHES FROM CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY 3/3

ARCHITECTURE, CITY AND TERRITORY: NEW APPROACHES FROM CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY 3/3

Public presentation followed by open questions from the public concerning the Editorial Project focused on Documentary and Artistic photography related to Architecture, City and Territory. It will be seen how this Editorial Project SCOPIO has, on the one hand, supported and spread the various text and image content related to the topics of interest and whose origins emanate from initiatives and projects in which the research group CCRE collaborates, or that is coming from its research line City Spaces and Culture. On the other hand, how it has spread several photography projects and authors who conduct research on photography as an exploratory and innovative tool for thinking critically the themes of Architecture, City and Territory.

The project aims to promote the awareness and reflection upon art and documentary photography in regards to its conception as an instrument to question Architecture, City and Territory universe. This means understanding Architecture as an extended discipline and practice with an interest, on one side, in the real space and its experiences, exploring new spatial forms and architectural codes, and on the other side, in how architecture operates within larger systems: socio-cultural, technical, and historical.

ARCHITECTURE, CITY AND TERRITORY: NEW APPROACHES FROM CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY 2/3

ARCHITECTURE, CITY AND TERRITORY: NEW APPROACHES FROM CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY 2/3

ROUNDTABLE AT UNIDAD PREDEPARTAMENTAL DE ARQUITECTURA DA UNIVERSIDADE DE ZARAGOZA, 19TH OCTOBER

Public presentation followed by open questions from the public concerning the Editorial Project focused on Documentary and Artistic photography related to Architecture, City and Territory. It will be seen how this Editorial Project SCOPIO has, on the one hand, supported and spread the various text and image content related to the topics of interest and whose origins emanate from initiatives and projects in which the research group CCRE collaborates, or that is coming from its research line City Spaces and Culture. On the other hand, how it has spread several photography projects and authors who conduct research on photography as an exploratory and innovative tool for thinking critically the themes of Architecture, City and Territory.

The project aims to promote the awareness and reflection upon art and documentary photography in regards to its conception as an instrument to question Architecture, City and Territory universe. This means understanding Architecture as an extended discipline and practice with an interest, on one side, in the real space and its experiences, exploring new spatial forms and architectural codes, and on the other side, in how architecture operates within larger systems: socio-cultural, technical, and historical.

ARCHITECTURE, CITY AND TERRITORY: NEW APPROACHES FROM CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY 1/3

ARCHITECTURE, CITY AND TERRITORY: NEW APPROACHES FROM CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY 1/3

Public presentation followed by open questions from the public concerning the Editorial Project focused on Documentary and Artistic photography related to Architecture, City and Territory. It will be seen how this Editorial Project SCOPIO has, on the one hand, supported and spread the various text and image content related to the topics of interest and whose origins emanate from initiatives and projects in which the research group CCRE collaborates, or that is coming from its research line City Spaces and Culture. On the other hand, how it has spread several photography projects and authors who conduct research on photography as an exploratory and innovative tool for thinking critically the themes of Architecture, City and Territory.

The project aims to promote the awareness and reflection upon art and documentary photography in regards to its conception as an instrument to question Architecture, City and Territory universe. This means understanding Architecture as an extended discipline and practice with an interest, on one side, in the real space and its experiences, exploring new spatial forms and architectural codes, and on the other side, in how architecture operates within larger systems: socio-cultural, technical, and historical.

AULA ABERTA NO CI.CLO – PLATAFORMA DE FOTOGRAFIA

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AULA ABERTA NO CI.CLO – PLATAFORMA DE FOTOGRAFIA

“DIÁLOGOS ENTRE FOTOGRAFIA, ARQUITECTURA, CIDADE E TERRITÓRIO, ENQUADRADO NOS VÁRIOS DOMÍNIOS SÓCIO, POLÍTICO E CULTURAL: SCOPIO EDITIONS”

No passado sábado, dia 21 de Janeiro 2017, Pedro Leão Neto, Editor da scopio Editions e Docente / Investigador na área da Arquitectura e Fotografia (FAUP), apresentou numa sessão aberta da plataforma CI.CLO, “Foto-livros: Narrativas Visuais e Sintaxe”, tendo como base textos de análise crítica de Gerry Badget e David Bate sobre estratégias visuais e lógicas sequenciais passíveis de adoptar na construção de um foto-livro, são comentados diversos exemplos de edição fotográfica e de técnicas de narrativa visual.


A Plataforma CI.CLO é uma estrutura independente de formação pesquisa e criação, na área da fotografia e a sua interação com outras disciplinas artísticas, ambientais e sociais. Oferece um programa regular de formação, debate, residências artísticas, exposição e difusão.

Este programa de formação conta com a colaboração de artistas formadores, curadores e investigadores ligadas à fotografia, mas também de outras disciplinas de Filosofia, Ciências Sociais e Ambientais, que irão orientar debates e oficinas específicas e temáticas, centradas no laboratório de formação, com o objetivo de desencadear processos de pensamento criativos através do intercâmbio multidisciplinar e transversal a diversos conhecimentos e experiências, nomeadamente Virgílio Ferreira (organizador e coordenador do projecto), Maria do Carmo Serén, Olivia da Silva, Paulo Catrica, Rita Castro Neves, João Lima, Susana Lourenço Marques, Pedro Leão Neto, Tiago Porteiro, Manuela Ferreira, Rui Leal, Luís Fernandes, Marco Rocha, Krzysztof Candrowicz, Ricardo Mendes, Álvaro Domingues, Christian Barbe, David Antunes, Jorge Castro Ribeiro, Katja Tschimmel, Pedro Sena Nunes.

HUMANITARIAN ARCHITECTURE PRACTICES

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HUMANITARIAN ARCHITECTURE PRACTICES

In the call for the number 3 of Branca Journal “Humanitarian Architecture practices” it is proposed to promote interdisciplinary research and critical reflections on humanitarian practice, with a special focus on the contributions that the disciplines of architecture and urban planning can make to communities experiencing extreme poverty, forced displacement by natural disasters or conflict, and the increasing impacts of climate change. 

We invite researchers, professionals and students to contribute with papers to the following topics: 

1. Research: call for contributions about the history, processes, opportunities, contexts and impacts of humanitarian practice with special focus on the disciplines of architecture and urban planning; 

2. Professional Practice: call for contributions on reflective practices or/and its critical analysis within the field of humanitarian architecture through design-based projects in the emergency and development fields; 

3. Design Education: call for different strategies in which design education is, or might be, enriched through the integration of humanitarian architecture issues.    

Deadline for submissions: 23rd November 2018.  

For more information http://revistabranca.com

Exposição "Sedimento" - Maria Oliveira

Exposição "Sedimento"

Projecto fotográfico de Maria Oliveira

A exposição “Sedimento”, um projeto fotográfico de Maria Oliveira, inaugurou quarta-feira, 3 de novembro, no Centro Interpretativo do Mundo Rural, no Vimieiro.

A exposição pode ser visitado até dia 10 de fevereiro de 2019, de quarta-feira a domingo, das 10 às 13 e das 14 às 18 horas.

Centro Interpretativo do Mundo Rural

Maria Oliveira é uma autora que já participou em diversas residências artísticas, tem exposições individuais e coletivas e possui no seu curriculum já diversos prémios, estando representada na coleção do MAR-Museu de Arte do Rio.

BIOGRAFIA

Nasceu em Ponte de Lima (1982) e reside, actualmente, no Porto.  Entre 2016 e 2017 foi artista residente da Ci.clo - Plataforma de Fotografia, onde desenvolveu o projecto ‘Guardar o fogo para dias de pouca luz’, que integrou a exposição coletiva itinerante, patente em vários locais em Portugal e no estrangeiro. Em 2017, expôs no Colégio das Artes, em Coimbra, o trabalho ‘Sedimento’ e participou na exposição Atlántica Colectivas do Festival Fotonoviembre, em Tenerife. O projecto ‘sob vigia dos animais antigos’ foi exposto no FotoRio (Rio de Janeiro), Festival Outono Fotográfico (Ourense), Galeria More Than A Gallery (Paris). Participou nas publicações A Process, Der Greif Magazine (Alemanha), Cadernos de Imagens, Cineclube de Guimarães e Revista Golpe D’Asa e em diversas plataformas online. Foi selecionada para a Leitura de Portfolios da PhotoEspaña (PHE) em 2016, vencedora do Festival Audiovisual Black & White, em 2015 e 2007 e do Concurso Portugalidades, em 2012.  Integra a colecção do MAR-Museu de Arte do Rio.

mariaoliveira.fotografia@gmail.com

SCOPIO INTERNATIONAL PHOTOBOOK CONTEST 2018

SCOPIO INTERNATIONAL PHOTOBOOK CONTEST 2018

NEW DEADLINE | CROSSING BOARDERS AND SHIFTING BOUNDARIES: TERRITORY

Deadline for entries: 28th February, 2019 23:59 (Portuguese time), for any information or inquiry use the following e-mail: scopiocontests@cityscopio.com

The third Edition of SCOPIO International Photobook Contest has as theme Crossing Borders and Shifting Boundaries: Territory, which is the main theme of the current cycle of scopio Magazine that focuses on diverse countries and on how architecture is transformed, how it reflects different hybrid cultural identities in many countries and how all of this interacts with and affects our cities and the landscape, always bearing in mind the mentioned categories: Architecture, City and Territory.

The 3 winners (first prize and 2 honourable mentions)  will be partially published in scopio Magazine VIEWFINDER, which will be entirely devoted to this contests. The first prize for the photobook will be granted the possibility for making a special edition published in Author´s Book collection. All the Awarded narratives will be published and highlighted in the networks and other web supports of the institutions that integrate the contest organization, as well as by scopio Editions.

Last contest photobook publication - NO

The contest has now a new structure and organization, which is now the responsibility of 5 international institutions related to Architecture, Art and Image (AAI), which are the Faculty of Architecture on University of Porto (FAUP), Escola Superior de Media, Artes e Design (ESMAD / P.PORTO), School of Architecture in Zaragoza (EINA), School of Architecture in Liverpool (LAS) and University of South Wales (USW).

The general objectives of this contest, as the name implies, is directed towards the creation of an Artist Photobook, which also involves the visual defition of a concept. The focus is on creating a narrative, of no less than 20 images with a descriptive memory of no more than 1000 words, assuming that by presenting a story the reader will pulled and "entertained". In this case, an image is linked with the next one at a fundamental, conceptual and emotional level, increasing the reader's attention to the work in order to figure out what those connections are. Our aim is to reveal the potential of the photobook as a mature medium capable of communicating different perspectives and of combining diverse art expressions to convey in a unique way the rich multi-layered contemporary issues related to architecture, city spaces and the territory where people live and work. In this sense, we are accepting entries of small limited editions of Artist Photobooks or Dummies, as long as they follow the regulations and the publishing disclosure rights of the contest.

We are also searching for new talents and awareness towards photography and architecture through the Artist Photobook, both in Portugal and abroad, and moreover to raise a wider appreciation of our architectural, cultural and intellectual inheritance and promote the photography platform scopio Network. This site shall also be used to publish the projects within the contest.

We are interested in photobooks that may reveal the multiple layers of history embedded in the architecture of cities from different parts of the world, showing how these cities are in constant evolution and how they define new forms of occupation of the available territory. We are also interested in understanding how social, economic and political systems and values affect the territory and its cities, as well as the way people live and work on those places.

For this number of scopio Magazine Viewfinder: Crossing Borders and Shifting Boundaries - Territory, the primarily focus will be on the subject of residential spaces, public spaces, urban scattered communities and city life in general. It will try to show works that characterise the rich multifaceted world of contemporany cities and / or non traditional urban communities regarding immigrants or minorities' different types of block, neighbourhoods, cultural diversity and values expressed in various types of residential and public spaces. Among other things, it is about looking at architectural spaces and their many signs, which reveal the values, customs and culture of the people who live there. In fact, the aim is to show a varied set of works capable of providing a creative and significant body of evidence as regards to the diversity and richness of our cities' architecture and life. In addition, it will focus on how the cities contribute to structure and characterise the territory and are responsible for order and disorder applied to urban and territorial issues. Moreover, there will be an interest in work that explores how cities and other natural systems as rivers, seas, forests and other alike have been in interaction and characterize the territory in terms of spacial morphology and political systems and values affect the way territories evolve and are categorised.

To be considered eligible for the contest, the participants should send us by email the following:

• Physical book dummy;

• 3 original prints (300mm x 240 mm - vertical or horizontal format);

• The digital version of the 3 prints sent + cover (to divulge through our site);

• A descriptive memory of no more than 1000 words, preferably bilingual or English only)

Please note that to receive back by email the physical book dummy, if not selected, participants must send to us the dummy in a pre-paid mail pack.
The organisation will select a set of self-published Dummies to be part of the CITYZINES showcase in scopio Network.

Organization:

CCRE - CEAU - FAUP

ESMAD / UniMAD / P.PORTO

School of Architecture in Zaragoza (EINA)

School of Architecture in Liverpool (LSA)

University of South Wales (USW)

CITYSCOPIO Associação Cultural

This year’s jury will be announced soon.

Official language: Portuguese and English

Rules available here

The address to submit your work is:

CCRE - CEAU - FAUP

Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto
Via Panorâmica S/N | 4150-564 Porto

SCOPIO INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY CONTEST 2018

SCOPIO INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY CONTEST 2018

NEW DEADLINE | CROSSING BOARDERS AND SHIFTING BOUNDARIES: TERRITORY

Deadline for entries: 28th February 2019 23:59 (Portuguese time), addresed to the following e-mail: scopiocontests@cityscopio.com

The third Edition of SCOPIO International Photography Contest has as theme Crossing Borders and Shifting Boundaries, which is the main theme of the current cycle of scopio Magazine and focuses on diverse countries and on how architecture is transformed, how it reflects different hybrid cultural identities in many countries and how all of this interacts with and affects our cities and the landscape, always bearing in mind the mentioned categories: Architecture, City and Territory.

The 5 winners (first prize and honourable mentions) will be published in a new scopio Magazine VIEWFINDER, which will be entirely devoted to this contests. Awarded narratives will be published and highlighted in the networks and other web supports of the institutions that integrate the contest organization, as well as by scopio Editions.

scopio Magazine Crossing Borders and Shifting Boundaries, City

Escape Architecture (Jurgen Beck)

New  Leipzig (Silke Koch)

Disappearing into Night (David Kendall)

The contest has now a new structure and organization, which is now the responsibility of 5 international institutions related to Architecture, Art and Image (AAI), which are the Faculty of Architecture on University of Porto (FAUP), Escola Superior de Media, Artes e Design (ESMAD / P.PORTO), School of Architecture in Zaragoza (EINA), School of Architecture in Liverpool (LAS) and University of South Wales (USW).

The general objectives of this contest are the strengthening of photography as an inquisitive instrument for architecture, searching for new talents and awareness towards photography and architecture both in Portugal and abroad, and moreover to raise a wider appreciation of our architectural, cultural and intellectual inheritance and promote the photography platform scopio Network. This shall also be used to publish the projects within the contest.

Thus, we are interested in photography and in projects that may reveal the multiple layers of history embedded in the architecture of cities from different parts of the world, showing how these cities are in constant evolution and how they define new forms of occupation of the available territory. We are also interested in understanding how social, economic and political systems and values affect the territory and its cities, as well as the way people live and work on those places.

For this number of scopio Magazine Viewfinder: Crossing Borders and Shifting Boundaries - Territory, the primarily focus will be on the subject of residential spaces, public spaces, urban scattered communities and city life in general. It will try to show works that characterise the rich multifaceted world of contemporany cities and / or non traditional urban communities regarding immigrants or minorities' different types of block, neighbourhoods, cultural diversity and values expressed in various types of residential and public spaces. Among other things, it is about looking at architectural spaces and their many signs, which reveal the values, customs and culture of the people who live there. In fact, the aim is to show a varied set of works capable of providing a creative and significant body of evidence as regards to the diversity and richness of our cities' architecture and life. In addition, it will focus on how the cities contribute to structure and characterise the territory and are responsible for order and disorder applied to urban and territorial issues. Moreover, there will be an interest in work that explores how cities and other natural systems as rivers, seas, forests and other alike have been in interaction and characterize the territory in terms of spacial morphology and political systems and values affect the way territories evolve and are categorised.

Photographic entries should be submitted through email - the web service WeTransfer at http://www.wetransfer.com can be used and the following email address should be utilized: scopiocontests@cityscopio.com

The submission must consist of a zipped folder (max. size 40 MB) with the name of the participant (FIRSTNAME_LASTNAME.zip) which must contain:

• Title

• Body with resume (must not overcome 2000 characters), preferably bilingual or English only;

• Work summary: technical elements;

• Each project submitted to contest should contain a minimum of 10 and maximum of 15 photographs;

Digital signatures or watermarks on the images submitted to contest are not allowed.

The set of images must be all in JPEG or TIFF format, and each image should not exceed 2MB. The files of the images must be identified and numbered according to the display order that is intended, for example PROJECT_NAME_PHOTO1, PROJECT_NAME_PHOTO2

Warning: these lower resolution images are intended to be viewed on a computer screen, the participants should create these images from the original higher resolution photographs, and should also keep them in their possession in order to sent them to the organization if requested for printing purposes.

All the photography narratives will be evaluated by an independent jury. Annually, scopio invites curators, architects, artists and photography connoisseurs to view and select the most innovative photography works in this international contest.

Organization:

CCRE - CEAU - FAUP

ESMAD / UniMAD / P.PORTO

School of Architecture in Zaragoza (EINA)

School of Architecture in Liverpool (LSA)

University of South Wales (USW)

CITYSCOPIO Associação Cultural

This year’s jury will be announced soon.

Rules available here
To submit your work, click here.

VSC PORTABLE PROJECTOR IDEAS INTERNATIONAL CONTEST

VSC PORTABLE PROJECTOR IDEAS INTERNATIONAL CONTEST

RESEARCH PROJECT VSC

U. Porto – CCRE-CEAU/FAUP

U.Minho – Centro ALGORITMI – Lab2PT

Deadline for submitting applications: January 31st, 2019.

GENERAL CONTEXT

This contest encourages students of architecture, artists and multidisciplinary teams to come up with an original idea for the creation of a mobile structure designed for the exhibition of Contemporary Photography Projects within the research project VISUAL SPACES OF CHANGE (VSC).

VSC is the first stage of an Architecture, Art, Image and Innovation (AAI2) project about emerging dynamics of change in the Metropolitan Area of Porto (AMP). Contemporary Photography Projects (CPP) will be developed and implemented in specific places, conceived as "visual narratives" that intentionally interfere with the metropolitan territory in an exercise of self-reflexive representation of its own process of urban change. This network of public and collective spaces will constitute an "Open Museum" in the AMP, stimulating artistic and cultural institutions to broaden their reach and participation in the public space.

The territory under study in this project is used simultaneously as the laboratory for empirical experimentation and the stage of visual representation of the agents and processes of urban change that are intended to be analysed. This project will produce visual syntheses of these dynamics, in order to give visibility to specific aspects of their interconnected nature and historical uniqueness that are difficult to perceive without the purposeful use of image and photography.  This project opens new avenues of investigation by proposing an original combination of methods of visual research and spatial analysis, in order to change perceptions about contemporary dynamics of transformation of the public space, with the objective of collectively transforming the imaginary of the city to the metropolitan scale, contributing to the identification of opportunities for co-evolution between citizens, institutions and the urban environment. 

This international contest is thus part of a dynamic of research for the creation of a set of tools that aim to respond to the need to develop a deeper reading about processes of transformation of the city, through the universe of image, especially photography, supporting the communication of contents related to emerging dynamics of change in public spaces in articulation with historical spaces, museums and other cultural spaces of the AMP.

Theme and object of the contest

The VSC Portable Projector is an idea contest with the objective of motivating students of architecture, art, photography, multimedia and design, as well as artists and interdisciplinary treams, to develop an original concept for a portable projector to be used along the implementation phase of the VSC project.

Inserted in this broader context, this contest intends to reward original ideas for the creation of a set of mobile Portable Projector devices for the display of various analogic and digital contents. The Portable Projector device proposed by each candidate should be made up of a structure that is light and portable or that integrates locomotion mechanisms that enable easy transport and displacement from each installation and exhibition space.

The evaluation of the proposals will value the design of the Portable Projector structure, its mobility and flexibility of use and adaptation, the capacity to be used in exterior and interior spaces and the feasibility of the project, considering that the mobile projectors will be placed in several points of the AMP.

The portable projectors should be designed to provide various levels of interaction with the public, from the display of photographs, book, tablet and iphone - in order to be complementary devices to these various supports, thus responding to the following functional categories:

(a) To allow different levels of interaction with the public, allowing on the one hand the projection of images (fixed or moving) from the CPPs communicating the various spaces of the cities and territories of the selected MPA. On the other hand, allow individual interaction with a person from the audience, between representations of fixed images of the space of the VSNP and the real space;

(b) Allowing individual or book photographs with images of the cities and territories of the AMP and viewing these two-dimensional images in three dimensions (stereoscopy) to allow a kinesthetic experience that defies normal monocular vision;

(c) To allow the placement of ipad and iphone devices in the portable projector and to project to another scale in the space of the VSNP the contents of various visual narratives and CPP that will be accessible through an online VSC platform, as well as through augmented reality (4D).

Through these functional applications and uses of the portable projectors, these will allow the general public to visualize different aspects of selected spaces of the AMP with diverse supports, encouraging interaction with the represented spaces and a greater critical perception of the processes and dynamics of change in the territory under study.

Organization and responsibility of the international contest

This competition is open to all students in the areas of Architecture and Design, nationally and internationally, being possible and desirable the constitution of multi-displinars teams. Students / teams with winning proposals will have the opportunity to become directly involved with the VSC project, materializing their proposal with appropriate material and conceptual support.

The launching and organization of the competition is the responsibility of the research group Center for Communication and Spatial Representation (CCRE), integrated in the FAUP R & D center (CEAU), in collaboration with the CITYSCOPIO Cultural Association, being linked to the project Visual Spaces of Change (VSC).

The coordination of the competition is the responsibility of the consortium CCRE-CEAU / FAUP and Centro ALGORITMI-Lab2PT / UMINHO responsible for the application presented by U. Porto in the contest - Projects for Scientific Research and Technological Development (IC & DT) - http: //www.poci -compete2020.pt/concursos/detail/AAC_02-SAICT-2017.

Participants

The competition is open to all students of Architecture and Design, or to multidisciplinary teams in which one of these areas is present, nationally and internationally.

Each participation / proposal must fall at least, into one of the categories indicated in the section of this regulation "Subject and object of the competition": a), b), c) or may include more than one category simultaneously, according to the versatility of the proposed portable project.

Participation in the contest is individual or in groups up to 5 elements. It is encouraged that the composition of the groups to be interdisciplinary, provided that one element is a student in the areas of Architecture or Design.

Material to be delivered by each candidate:

- Poster, in A1 format, printed with the presentation of the proposal / concept. The graphic elements to be presented should be decided by each competitor and should give priority to expressive communication of the idea and its materialization.

- In case of being selected to execute the proposal, the competitor will have to deliver, within two weeks after announcement of the result, an A3 dossier with complementary plants, cuts, constructive details and descriptive memory. In case of not fulfilling this obligation, the organization reserves the right to disqualify it and to elect the proposal in second place to be fulfilled, passing through the same process.

- Any competitor may submit the complementary dossier to the proposal before the winner is announced, if it deems it necessary for a better understanding of the project. - CD with PDF of Poster A1 (resolution of 300dpi) and Dossier A3 (if applicable).

- Document in A4 format containing personal information about the competitor, including name of each element, telephone contact, email and Institution of Education.

Submission of the proposals

The works will be delivered by 6:00 pm on January 1, 2019, at the CEMR premises (at CEAU-FAUP) or by post. Any competitor may submit their tender before that date. At the time of delivery, participants will receive a receipt confirming receipt of the work.

Júri

The works will be evaluated by a jury composed of the following elements:

– Pedro Leão Neto (FAUP, coordinator of the VSC project);

- Luis Gonzaga  (UMINHO);

- José Barbedo  (Researcher / FAUP - CCRE-CEAU);

 - Invited researcher (FAUP - CCRE-CEAU);

 - Invited researcher (UMINHO) ;

- Invited researcher (UMINHO);

- Invited researcher (UMINHO) 

- (invited person(s) from outside VSC project)

In case of a tied vote, it is up to the VSC coordinator to resolve the final decision. The jury reserves the right not to award any of the prizes provided for in this Regulation if it considers that the submitted works do not meet the expected meritorious levels. The decisions of the jury are sovereign, not admitting appeal.

Awards

The prizes for the 3 winner (s) will be the inclusion of their study and credits in the VSC research project, being at least ensured the inclusion of one of the proposals for execution. The authors of this winning proposal will be contacted to deepen the project, with the support of CCRE-CEAU-FAUP, AAi2 Lab and Centro ALGORITMI-Lab2PT / UMINHO and other partners, in order to make feasible its construction.

Without prejudice to the prizes awarded to each of the winning proposals, a certificate of participation will be given to each contest team, as well as their entries will be made available on the platforms and networks of the CCRE group (websites, social networks, etc.).

Disclosure and publication of results

The result of the contest will be announced until 28 February 2019 on the contest website, social networks and internet platforms associated with the VSC project, namely:chttp://scopionetwork.com/, https://sigarra.up.pt/faup/pt/web_page.Inicial and other public sites.

Ownership and permissions

Without prejudice to the respective copyright, the works submitted by the competitors will become the property of the organizing entities to which the publication and exhibition rights will be reserved.

CCRE reserves the right to disclose, within the scope of this competition, by the means it deems most convenient, the work submitted by its competitors, always referring to the authorship of the work.

The intellectual property of the works is reserved to the authors of the proposals.

General provisions

The act of presenting to the competition presupposes the full acceptance of the rules defined by this Regulation. Failure to comply with the rules makes it impossible to enter the competition. The organization does not accept any additional responsibilities other than those explained in this Regulation, directly or indirectly arising from this Contest.

More information:

http://www.eracareers.pt/opportunities/index.aspx?task=global&jobId=101596

https://sigarra.up.pt/faup/pt/cur_geral.cur_view?pv_curso_id=45

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZN8uHG9_O9tcwEJ_da2NNWnz-TUa0OWX/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/113TRpManojTfHVZNFqJ43zuYPGpyhUvC/view?usp=sharing