School and Groups

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 […]

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: […]

In the context of the exhibition curated by Sébastien Marot showcased at CCB – Garagem Sul, we propose a tour to an iconic Greenhouse in Lisbon – Estufa Fria – that has multiple connections with the themes addressed by Agriculture and Architecture. On this special visit with one of the authors of the Estufa Fria rehabilitation […]

Throughout time, architecture has been used as a tool to express power. There are manifestations of dominance and political significance behind spatial configurations, buildings and artefacts. Traumnovelle propose the analysis of Caixa Geral de Depósitos’ headquarters as a case study of the use of ornament in an institutional context. Through architectural depictions, the workshop explores […]

The Prose of Madness is an invitation to dissent. The proposal is to look from a different angle or the other way around, as a gesture of openness to discover new narratives. This is an exercise in both freedom and constraint. As gazing at symmetry through the looking-glass and discovering the difference. As assembling a […]

The configuration of architectural elements—columns, arches, domes—results from specific needs; just as each type of building. This is also why different forms, geometries, typologies and construction techniques take shape and evolve. We will question and explore these in small challenges during the visit to the exhibition Economy of Means.

For us, it is intrinsic to seek coherence between the exercise of abstraction and the experience of space. Inattention to the immediate reality and excessive displaced information are a predicament to cognitive dissonance and entropy. Recognizing and understanding the poetics in banality, clarity and simplicity in the built world is a condition to establish an […]

Come and discover with Fruta Feia the journey that the products we eat make from the countryside to our homes, every day. Let’s think together about the role of cities in the production and distribution of food. You’ll learn the impact it has and that it brings problems, such as food waste. Together we will […]

A collection of objects, fragments, pieces, form a library of possibilities, an atlas. We work with these elements as tools to face a series of challenges. Julio Gotor Valcárcel proposes solving three-dimensional puzzles in which the important thing is not the accumulation of these elements but their order, their structure, their logic. Challenges that arouse […]

With the industrialization of food, the current models of time optimisation and the exponential growth of cities, we gradually lose grasp of food production, trapped in thea consumer position of consumers. In this workshop, Klodiana Millona gives back to the kitchen its place of fundamental space of dialogue, placing the dining table at its center. […]

Bringing to the forefront the parallels between systematic classification and self-generative form, this workshop addresses the themes of type and strategy in the main exhibition “Economy of Means”. In three days of debate, the Swiss collective F.A.T. moderates conversations with students, professors and practitioners to deconstruct fundamental concepts in architecture,  from their original classical meanings […]