For one semester, design students and migrant entrepreneurs living in Tapada das Mercês came together to explore alternative socio-economic futures by co-designing sustainable products and services that valued the cultural backgrounds and daily practices of the participants.
The process ended with an Exhibition at Casa do Elétrico, in Sintra, in April 2018, in which the work of each group was presented under the motto "How can a learning space and time between entrepreneurs and designers bring innovation through cultural valorisation? We’ve experimented."
Transistórias is an project witin the “Oficina do Artesanato” (‘The Craft Workshop’) initiative coordinated by the Aga Khan Foundation Portugal, as part of the Vidas Plurais project and the K’CIDADE, Urban Community Development Programme, in partnership with the Association of the Islamic Community of Tapada das Mercês e Mem-Martins (ACITMMM).
Coordination and production: Aga Khan Foundation and the Lisbon School of Architecture, University of Lisbon
Artisans: Awa Seidi, Belvinda Graça, Cadijata, Cadijatú Bah, Cadidjato Dabo, Cadijatu Dabu Baldé, Cadijatu Dialo, Cumba Baldé Candé, Dandijatu Jalo, Fábio Évora, Fátima Tavares, Fernanda Santos, Filomena Santos, Lunta Seidi, Maria Amélia Santos, Maya, Morrida Pereira, Noor Jahna, Quinta Dju, Rozmin Virani
Design students, FAUL Product Master's Degree 2017/2018: Ana Rita Cardoso, Ana Ponte, Beatriz Loureiro, Christopher Wallace, Daniela Teresa Trovisco, Gabriel Surpanu, Isabel Rego, Luana Moss de Oliveira, Luís Correia, Maria Luisa Taddei, Patrícia Santos, Paulo Santos, Rita Viola, supervised by teacher Inês Veiga
Graphic Design: Inês Veiga
Support: Sintra Town Council, Vila Alda - Casa do Elétrico, Sintra
Documentary and Pictures: Aga Kahn Foundation, Inês Veiga
Exploring beyond the dominant vision that identifies this complex housing area as a risky place, during our walks we found livable everyday realities made by those who in fact inhabit the place. The aim of the project, in collaboration with the inhabitants, was to unveil the less visible and least expected that is already there, as a way to open breaches for a (re)appreciation of Marvila.
The graphic image of the project followed the idea of something that is difficult to read and yet it’s right there. By replacing letters with symbols found in maps and cartography, the logotype became an animation, simultaneously playing with the idea of an encrypted message and the idea that places and things are not static but move and change.
Curator and project coordination: Joana Braga
Co-Creation: Ana Riscado, Joana Braga, Sofia Borges, Tânia Moreira David
Field research: Ana Riscado, António Brito Guterres, Joana Braga, Sofia Borges
Design: Inês Veiga
Video Assistant: Mariann Vas
Guest artist: Gustavo Círiaco
Executive Production: Ana Riscado, Joana Braga
Production Assistant: Mafalda Miranda Jacinto
Production Assistance Quintais de Chelas: Joana Pires, Raquel Botelho
Initial Concept: Fernanda Eugénio e Joana Braga
Curator and project coordination from Nov, 2016 to Feb, 2017: Fernanda Eugénio e Joana Braga
Field research and co-creation from Nov, 2016 to Feb, 2017: Ana Dinger, Inês Veiga
Production: Topias Urbanas, AND Associação de Arte e Pesquisa, Maria Matos Teatro Municipal
Coproduction: Festival Lisboa na Rua
Support: Biblioteca Municipal de Marvila BLX – CML
Acknowledgements: Ana Rita Ricardo, Cláudia Matos, Liliana Coutinho, Paulo Silva.
Presentation in the scope of the Create to Connect network with the support of the Culture Programme of the European Union.
Based on the question of ‘what we can do for our neighbourhood’, as a group of social design researchers, we proposed a basic design course for young adults with no previous formal design education.
The approach combined intervention with an affective proximity to community and place. This combination allowed tacit design abilities to manifest more clearly in the young adults. Once they were engaged in exploring collective needs and desires, it became possible to grow personal design abilities, while stimulating entrepreneurship and learning to take responsibility for the decisions we all make every day as humans and active citizens. Overall, Kowork E5G involved the transfer of design knowledge in which the intersection between formal and informal education meant that this know-how emerged as a diffused ability and an intuitive basis for building a common language among participants.
Partners: ACMJ – Associação Cultural Moinho da Juventude, Gabinete de Apoio ao Emprego e Empreendedorismo, GIP – Gabinete de Inserção Profissional "O Moinho”, research group GESTUAL (CIAUD/FAULisboa)
Social Design team and course coordinators: António Pinto, Delano Rodrigues, Natália Plentz, Inês Veiga.
Graphic Design: Inês Veiga
Pictures by António Pinto, Delano Rodrigues, Natália Plentz, Inês Veiga.
Publisher: Tomkiewicz Centre
Edition: Finka Pé Batuque Group in synergy with the Tomkiewicz Centre and Associação Cultural Moinho da Juventude
Drawings of the Batucadeiras: Lut Caenen
Graphic Design: Inês Veiga
“Hoje, pensar a igualdade de género é refletir sobre a pluralidade de masculinidades e feminilidades, numa visão que não pode ser reduzida a formas e fórmulas binárias. Alunos e alunas mais conscientes sobre si e sobre o mundo capacitam-se para rejeitar discriminações, ganham aptidão para exercer uma cidadania crítica e informada e maior abertura à diversidade. A equipa multidisciplinar que pensou e executou ‘Um Género de Escola!’, trabalhou materiais pedagógicos assentes em estratégias educativas ativas, baseadas em modelos positivos e na ideia de que o género se aprende, se negoceia e se constrói nas relações entre todas as pessoas, tendo sempre como eixo norteador uma educação para o pleno exercício dos direitos humanos.”
Joana Pestana Lages
Funded by BIP/ZIP program
Edition, Lisbon 2019
Promotor: Mulheres na Arquitetura
Partners: School Library São Vicente, Group of Schools Patrício Prazeres, Associação para a Inovação Social Questão de Igualdade.
Coordination: Joana Pestana Lages
Authors: Joana Pestana Lages, Ana Carolina Ferraz, Vanise Lima
Print: Gráfica Sobreirense
Graphic Design: Inês Veiga
Illustrated human figures: Vector_Art
Pictures by Joana Pestana Lages
Sofia Borges and Suzanne Barnard, awarded in 2016 by IndieLisboa: Festival Internacional de Lisboa (Portugal), Myart Film Festival (Italy) and in 2017 by the 6th Mumbai Shorts Film Festival (India).
“...I would describe the film as a kind of sensory ethnographic memory, a memory of the everyday life and migrational experience of an older Indian-Portuguese couple who worked as tailors in a neighborhood under demolition on the outskirts of Lisbon.”
Barnard, Suzanne; Greene, Erice; Gupta, Nisha. MAXAMBA and Memory-Making Amid Traumatic Displacement (2021). Journal of Humanistic Psychology (JHP). USA.
The round table conversations were face-to-face, and at the same time, on the Miro platform where participants freely registered thoughts, inserted pictures, and captured each others’ sayings. While the conversations were open and curious, explorative and sometimes tangential. They created a grounding for theoretical speculation, and allowed for trying out new ways of looking at and saying things. They were much less conclusive than what we first imagined, and more about recognition of and respect for differing perspectives. Consequently they opened up the meanings and means-ends of design.
The newspaper was the medium in which we thought could best capture the spirit of the conversations and how they’ve developed. Each double-page is dedicated to each round: expectations; collaboration; results; perspectives. It was considered a portrait of the conversation, so the Layout used metaphors to compose the content that had been generated.
The round table conversations happened in parallel to the codesign project in Tingbjerg Library (see Det Kan Fix!).
Partners: The Center for Codesign Research (CODE) and From-Now-On creative and cultural consultancy
Producers: Daniel Charny and Thomas Binder
Graphic Design: Inês Veiga (visiting scholar at CODE)
The festival was part of the project “Biliotekets Skaberværelse” promoted by the Tingbjerg Library and the Center for Codesign Research (CODE) to explore how can a library space build community. Proposing a wide range of activities, including a Fixperts design challenge and a lottery sponsored by the local supermarket, the festival mobilised people living in and outside Tingbjerg who came to fix clothes, repair bikes, build bee hives, make lamps, listen to a music concert and discuss possible futures in the library.
The visual identity of the festival drew from the shapes and colours already used in the project to create a flexible visual system that would be easily recognised by dwellers and simultanously adapt to the different needs of producing the festival.
Coordination and Partnership: Tingbjerg Bibliotek, Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademis Skoler for Arkitektur, Design og Konservering and the Center for Codesign Research (CODE), From-Now-On creative and cultural consultancy.
Local Partners: SPAR BENT supermarket, Tingbjerg Kebab House, Malerselskabet Tingbjerg and Dame- go herrefrisør Salon Tingbjerg (Lottery); The Institute of Making, University College London (The materials library); 3D Printhuset København (3D printers).
Tingbjerg Bibliotek: Thomas Nielsen and Mikkel Hellden-Hegelund
Codesign graduates: Gaia Colantonio, Martin Krogh
Codesign tutors: Thomas Binder, Sissel Olander
Codesign research assistant: Monika Havnø
Event Production: Sofia Germani (codesign student), From Now On
Fixperts: Christian Fisker, Eivind Omtveit, Emil Behnke, Emma Heegaard, Esben Kaldahl, Joel Wolff, Sanne Böckhaus (KADK Industrial design bachelors).
Fix Partners: The pensionist club, the Tingbjerg Library and the Tingbjerg elderly home
Fixperts Tutor: Daniel Charny (From-Now-On)
Graphic Design: Inês Veiga
Illustration: Dorte Gottlieb Löfström and Eva Árnadóttir (KADK Visual Communication bachelors)
Photography/Video: Monika Havnø, Martin Krogh
Invited specialists: Heleen Klopper and Lotte Dekker, Gareth Lloyd (Machines room), Lea Jagendorf (Fixperts Director of Learning)
Special thanks to: Elizabeth Ashley-Fox Jensen
Photos by: Inês Veiga, Elizabeth Ashley-Fox Jensen.
Book design for Yves Cabannes, urban specialist, activist, scholar and Emeritus Professor of Development Planning at University College London.
Edited with Cecília Delgado, in the first edition Cabannes’s intention was to outline a manifesto organised as a dossier with case files reporting some of the most significant ways in which common citizens are transforming their cities. The pictures were taken by the people and organisations involved in the Participatory Budgeting processes and by the editor himself. Therefore visual communication tried to emphasise an insider's view as a way to prove readers that alternatives to the capitalist city are possible.
1st edition, self-published in 2015.
Published by Black Rose Books and Yves Cabannes, 2017.
Graphic Design: Inês Veiga