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Once upon a Place – haunted houses & imaginary cities

Once upon a Place – haunted houses & imaginary cities is an international conference devoted to an emerging theme, taking place on the occasion of the Lisbon Triennial of Architecture 2010 and matching its official opening and exhibitions.

The event is dedicated to architects, historians, researchers, essayists, artists and authors, aiming at the reunion of a critical and creative international group for the cultural studies in architecture.

What kinds of stories do spaces and buildings “tell” us? What insights on architectural knowledge and experience can literary forms convey? Are designs, buildings and cities somehow a fabrication on the world? Does form follows fiction? Can fiction foresee architecture and urban futures?

The conference will tackle the reciprocal influences between architecture and fiction, whether they emerge under literary forms or other means related to visual narratives and popular culture.


Ene 11

(dis)location

(dis)location - Salvador explora a geografia de varias comunidades em Salvador, Brasil, através de narrativas orais de habitantes locais. Cinco narradores nos levam a um passeio pelas suas respectivas vizinhanças como parte de uma trajetoria pessoal da vida do seu dia a dia.

O projeto foi realizado durante o estágio de uma residencia artística do Instituto Two Heads situado no bairro central 2 de Julho de Salvador. A primeira filmagem do projeto (dis)location ocorre em Salvador, Brasil, e os narradores do filme (dis)location – Salvador são as pessoas que eu encontrei durante minha estadia na cidad

A jornada de navegação através de mapas feitos a mão com o intuito de descobrir vida e memoria em um outro bairro faz parte da proposta artística na qual se baseia o projeto (dis)location – Salvador. Este projeto é portanto parte de um projeto maior que pode ser realizado em qualquer lugar do mundo como um projeto de mapear as historias locai

O conceito central dessa obra é que a percepção é algo dinâmico dependendo da nossa condição e posição no tempo e no espaco. A exploração das geografias físicas, psicológicas e sociais expressa um desejo de aprofundar a percepção dentro de um processo de fazer visiveis as realidades sociais. Dessa forma, (dis)location torna-se um projeto enraigado que procura explorar as historias pouco ouvidas da trajetoria humana dentro de uma prática que rastreia e documenta movimento pelo espaco através do desenho manual e da voz de um mapa subjetivo de um espaço físico ou de uma paisagem urban

Esse documentario de um passeio de uma narrativa oral no espaço pode ser vivenciado de varias formas: pode-se ve-lo através de um tour virtual de cada bairro navegando-se pelo mapa desenhado a mão. Uma versão podcast e uma aplicação celular com GPS possibilitam uma navegação dos mapas feitos a mão em qualquer lugar do mundo ou no site, escutando-se as narrativas das historias locais e a caminhada. O documentario (dis)location – Salvador em forma de filme tambem esta disponivel para apresentações.


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URBZ   » MUMBAI
URBZ MASHUP Mumbai explores, challenges, subverts, questions and celebrates Mumbai’s ideas and practices of heritage enshrined in its colonial (pre and post included) architecture, arts, culture and politics.
The MASHUP activities cover the oldest neighbourhoods of the city. Girgaum, where Khotachiwadi – the much threatened and celebrated trophy heritage habitat exists – exists just a stone’s throw away from Chowpatty beach which is one of the most historic sites for social dissent and free expression. A fifteen minute walk from there takes you to Crawford Market – Mumbai’s oldest and favourite shopping destination. In between lies a maze of dense streets and bazaars that testify to the city’s numerous communities who made the city what it is, a city of shops, markets, dreams and collective aspirations.
In this maze lie stories, images and ideas of a city that provide newer definitions of what it means to be a Mumbaikar, through the many languages the city speaks in, the many cultural practices it invents, its changing and evolving built forms, its bazaars and markets that are as vital and dense as the air the city breathes – making the question of its identity richer than anything the city officially celebrates. Way richer than the imagination of its political leaders and much deeper than the possibilities framed by its most conscientious citizens.
The URBZ MASHUP welcomes participants from Mumbai, India and the rest of the world to use their skills and imaginations and dive into streets, walk into homes, converse, make images, play, then reinterpret, examine, and recreate newer imaginative frameworks that do justice to the city’s layered, dense and complex life.

URBZ  » MUMBAI

URBZ MASHUP Mumbai explores, challenges, subverts, questions and celebrates Mumbai’s ideas and practices of heritage enshrined in its colonial (pre and post included) architecture, arts, culture and politics.

The MASHUP activities cover the oldest neighbourhoods of the city. Girgaum, where Khotachiwadi – the much threatened and celebrated trophy heritage habitat exists – exists just a stone’s throw away from Chowpatty beach which is one of the most historic sites for social dissent and free expression. A fifteen minute walk from there takes you to Crawford Market – Mumbai’s oldest and favourite shopping destination. In between lies a maze of dense streets and bazaars that testify to the city’s numerous communities who made the city what it is, a city of shops, markets, dreams and collective aspirations.

In this maze lie stories, images and ideas of a city that provide newer definitions of what it means to be a Mumbaikar, through the many languages the city speaks in, the many cultural practices it invents, its changing and evolving built forms, its bazaars and markets that are as vital and dense as the air the city breathes – making the question of its identity richer than anything the city officially celebrates. Way richer than the imagination of its political leaders and much deeper than the possibilities framed by its most conscientious citizens.

The URBZ MASHUP welcomes participants from Mumbai, India and the rest of the world to use their skills and imaginations and dive into streets, walk into homes, converse, make images, play, then reinterpret, examine, and recreate newer imaginative frameworks that do justice to the city’s layered, dense and complex life.