Families and Children

To perform a simple task in an extremely complicated manner. This is the basis of a Rube Goldberg machine – the cartoonist inventor whose legacy continues to inspire and entertain in animations and videos. All you have to do is activate a piece with one simple movement, and a curious and spectacular circuit unfolds. Kinetic […]

Have you noticed how some buildings look like plants, flowers or even animals? We can identify axes of symmetry, repetitions, pure, complex and detailed geometries in all living things. Be inspired to create beautiful natural shapes with your hands with clay modelling. It is a unique tactile experience that connects us to the natural and […]

In this cyanotype workshop we will analyze the organic characteristics of fruits and vegetables like the ones we eat. Exploring the translucency, internal structure, colour and form, we will create images recorded by direct contact with paper, with a technique of historical photographic printing that invites to experimentation, both visual and physical-chemical of materials. PROGRAMME: […]

We will use color and different elements of tile patterns—seen on Lisbon’s façades—to generate new compositions. Through exercises of harmonies an chromatic illusions, we will discover the influence of colour in the feelings generated by these new images. From the walls to objects within the scale of the hand, we will transform the final composition […]

A house has the face of a pig, a robot, a dragon, a rabbit… We have this innate ability to recognize elements that adorn our face in symmetries found in constructions: eyes, nose, mouth, ears… There’s an instinct to attribute identity to buildings and create actors for the narrative of our surroundings. In this workshop, […]

Have you ever come across an animal you’d never seen before? Did you catch it, or made a drawing of it, to tell your friends what in it amazed you? And how was the land where it lived like? Its habitat, its home? In this workshop, we’ll explore maps, discover and invent new worlds, and […]

Chickens are worth a lot more than the eggs we eat. They are great helpers in a vegetable garden, as they scratch and clear the ground. They eat almost anything: grass, insects, leftovers and even rocks. They even spread the compost they produce! We’ll find special henhouses for them in the exhibition.

Have you thought of what it takes to build a house? Or a school? Or even a city? The amount of materials and ways to build can be endless! But we have to make choices and, first, we have to understand what spaces we are looking for; for what to store and who to welcome. […]

At home, do you have plants that you can eat? Do they grow all year round? Permaculture means “permanent culture” and, in this workshop, we are going to plant pots following some techniques of this system. We will also build wormeries with reused materials. Yes, for worms! They are great at decomposing organic waste into […]

Come learn how seed bombs are made and make some of your own. You can throw them all over the city and later see flowers, vegetables and fruits growing everywhere. These small clay balls mixed with seeds will help transform neglected spaces in the city into small, flowery, edible paradises!

Lisbon’s history merges with that of the  conquest of the ocean. In its architectural landmarks, the city evokes water and rationality as infrastructures of expansion, and manifests its role in the European colonial project. In this operatic performance, Lodovica Guarnieri proposes to re-enact the city’s built heritage as the material coalescence of a collective imaginary. […]