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Álvaro Domingues
Geographer, PhD in Human Geography from FLUP, and Associate Professor at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto, FAUP in the integrated master and doctoral courses. Researcher at CEAU-FAUP, Center for Architecture and Urban Studies at FAUP.
Since July 2021, he has been a Corresponding Member of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences.
As a researcher at CEAU-FAUP, he has carried out regular research activities within the scope of projects with the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, with the Science and Technology Foundation, with CCDR-N and CCDRN-C, with the Junta de Galicia, with the Higher Technical Architecture of Coruña, with Erasmus University of Rotterdam-EURICUR, with Club Ville Aménagement – Paris; with the CCCB, Barcelona, with the Technical University of Barcelona-Architecture, with the University of Granada, with the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, EPFL-ENAC; with the Federal University of S. Paulo and Rio de Janeiro; with the municipalities of Guimarães and Porto, with the Order of Architects, with the Youth Foundation, among others.
Develops regular activity as a lecturer. He publishes in the daily press as a columnist (Jornal Público), in the electronic newspaper Correio do Porto, in archaically, and in the Jornal of the University of Porto, among others.
Among his most recent publications, the following stand out: “Paisagem Portuguesa, Francisco Manuel dos Santos Foundation, Lisbon 2022 (with Duarte Belo); “Portugal Possível”, Landscape Museum, Lisbon 2022 (with Duarte Belo and Rui Lage); “Paisagens Transgénicas”, Landscape Museum, Lisbon 2021; “Volta a Portugal”, ed. Bertrand, Lisbon 2017; “Vida no Campo”, Ed. Dafne, Porto 2012 and “A Rua da Estrada”, Ed. Dafne, Porto 2010
Geographer, PhD in Human Geography from FLUP, and Associate Professor at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto, FAUP in the integrated master and doctoral courses. Researcher at CEAU-FAUP, Center for Architecture and Urban Studies at FAUP.
Since July 2021, he has been a Corresponding Member of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences.
As a researcher at CEAU-FAUP, he has carried out regular research activities within the scope of projects with the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, with the Science and Technology Foundation, with CCDR-N and CCDRN-C, with the Junta de Galicia, with the Higher Technical Architecture of Coruña, with Erasmus University of Rotterdam-EURICUR, with Club Ville Aménagement – Paris; with the CCCB, Barcelona, with the Technical University of Barcelona-Architecture, with the University of Granada, with the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, EPFL-ENAC; with the Federal University of S. Paulo and Rio de Janeiro; with the municipalities of Guimarães and Porto, with the Order of Architects, with the Youth Foundation, among others.
Develops regular activity as a lecturer. He publishes in the daily press as a columnist (Jornal Público), in the electronic newspaper Correio do Porto, in archaically, and in the Jornal of the University of Porto, among others.
Among his most recent publications, the following stand out: “Paisagem Portuguesa, Francisco Manuel dos Santos Foundation, Lisbon 2022 (with Duarte Belo); “Portugal Possível”, Landscape Museum, Lisbon 2022 (with Duarte Belo and Rui Lage); “Paisagens Transgénicas”, Landscape Museum, Lisbon 2021; “Volta a Portugal”, ed. Bertrand, Lisbon 2017; “Vida no Campo”, Ed. Dafne, Porto 2012 and “A Rua da Estrada”, Ed. Dafne, Porto 2010
Francesco Careri
Associate Professor at the Department of Architecture of Roma Tre University, where is Director of the Master Environmental Humanities and of the Master Performing Arts and Community Spaces. In 1995 he co-founded the urban art laboratory Stalker, which consists of architects, artists, activists and researchers working experimentally and engaging in actions to create self-organised spaces and situations. With Stalker he develops the method of collective walking in the 'actual territories', the indeterminate or void spaces of the city, which have long been disregarded or considered a problem in traditional architectural practice. From 2009 to 2015 he is Director of the LAC Laboratory of Civic Arts of the University Roma Tre with which he realizes Terza Missione/Public Engagement projects such as Savorengo Ker-la casa di tutti in the Roma Camp Casilino 900. Since 2017 he is scientific responsible together with Prof. Fabrizio Finucci of the research group Laboratorio Circo and together with Prof Giovanni Caudo of the Laboratorio di Città Corviale with which he realizes urban regeneration projects. He is a member of the board of PhD in Landscapes of the contemporary city. Policies, techniques and visual studies, has participated in numerous national research projects (PRIN), is a member of international research groups, has contacts with many foreign universities where he is often invited to hold seminars, workshops and participation in conferences.
His main publications are the books Constant. New Babylon, una città nomade, Testo & Immagine, Torino 2001; Walkscapes. El andar como pràctica estética / Walking as an aesthetic practice, Editorial Gustavo Gili, Barcellona 2002, trad.it. Walkscapes. Camminare come pratica estetica, Einaudi, Torino 2006; Stalker /Savorengo Ker. Dal campo nomadi alla casa di tutti, Linaria, Roma 2015; Pasear, detenerse, Gustavo Gili, Barcelona 2016, Sao Paulo 2017; Stalker On / Campus Rom, Altrimedia edizioni, Matera 2017, con Lorenzo Romito; Nomadismo Architettura Ospitalità. Esperienze e azioni dal camminare al CIRCO, Bordeaux Edizioni, Roma 2020.
Associate Professor at the Department of Architecture of Roma Tre University, where is Director of the Master Environmental Humanities and of the Master Performing Arts and Community Spaces. In 1995 he co-founded the urban art laboratory Stalker, which consists of architects, artists, activists and researchers working experimentally and engaging in actions to create self-organised spaces and situations. With Stalker he develops the method of collective walking in the 'actual territories', the indeterminate or void spaces of the city, which have long been disregarded or considered a problem in traditional architectural practice. From 2009 to 2015 he is Director of the LAC Laboratory of Civic Arts of the University Roma Tre with which he realizes Terza Missione/Public Engagement projects such as Savorengo Ker-la casa di tutti in the Roma Camp Casilino 900. Since 2017 he is scientific responsible together with Prof. Fabrizio Finucci of the research group Laboratorio Circo and together with Prof Giovanni Caudo of the Laboratorio di Città Corviale with which he realizes urban regeneration projects. He is a member of the board of PhD in Landscapes of the contemporary city. Policies, techniques and visual studies, has participated in numerous national research projects (PRIN), is a member of international research groups, has contacts with many foreign universities where he is often invited to hold seminars, workshops and participation in conferences.
His main publications are the books Constant. New Babylon, una città nomade, Testo & Immagine, Torino 2001; Walkscapes. El andar como pràctica estética / Walking as an aesthetic practice, Editorial Gustavo Gili, Barcellona 2002, trad.it. Walkscapes. Camminare come pratica estetica, Einaudi, Torino 2006; Stalker /Savorengo Ker. Dal campo nomadi alla casa di tutti, Linaria, Roma 2015; Pasear, detenerse, Gustavo Gili, Barcelona 2016, Sao Paulo 2017; Stalker On / Campus Rom, Altrimedia edizioni, Matera 2017, con Lorenzo Romito; Nomadismo Architettura Ospitalità. Esperienze e azioni dal camminare al CIRCO, Bordeaux Edizioni, Roma 2020.
Felipe Criado-Boado
My main interest has always been the study of space. Everything else, came from there.
Even if my passion is fundamental research, my strong commitment with a knowledge devoted to produce relevance in the social realms and, therefore, oriented upon the model of the science value chain, brought my career simultaneously through three main avenues: thinking archaeology, engineering research groups and managing science. My research track has been shaped cooperating with public and private entities, training people and engaging different communities. I try to keep symmetrical balance between fundamental and applied research, and between the academic and the social realms.
Between 1980 and 1990, I studied megalithism, the origins of monumental architecture and landscape archaeology.
Between 1991 and 2000, I developed a theoretical framework of cultural landscapes models and a theory of archaeological visibility, besides an early move towards the cultural heritage and a first approach to the cultural heritage value chain.
Between 2001 and 2010, I delve into an archaeology of space and developed an interpretive method to sustain the production of archaeological meaning. Gradually, I came more engaged with community archaeology and studied the different modes of scientific practice. In 2001 I moved to CSIC but still keeping a basis in the USC. Between 2003-2008 I was director of the CSIC section of Human and Social Sciences.
Between 2011 and 2020, I proposed the “xscape” concept to explain the formal regularities in the different dimensions of past human landscapes, embraced a soft model of science for Humanities and Heritage and turned towards cognitive science. This goes hand to hand with a holistic and critical approach to cultural heritage and the query about heritagization processes. In 2010 INCIPIT is created and I am named its first director. Between 2009 and 2013 I was head of the Area of Science and Society of CYTED (the Program of Science and Technology for Development funded by the Latin-American conference of Presidents), and assistant of the Spanish State Secretary of Research. Between 2015 to 2021 I was President of the EAA (the European Association of Archaeologists).
In 2021, I´ve got an ERC SyG project (acronym XSCAPE) on “Material Minds: Exploring the Interactions between Predictive Brains, Cultural Artefacts, and Embodied Visual Search”. This is a huge project that involves four PIs: Johannes Müller, archaeologist, from KAU (Germany), Luis M. Martínez, neuroscientist, from CSIC Alicante, Andy Clark, cognitive scientist, from University of Sussex (UK) and myself as corresponding PI of the project. The project aims to study in what ways the worlds we build and inhabit alter our own minds and the ways we process information, analysing how the material structures of our buildings, artefacts and landscapes change fundamental patterns of thought and attention, so that understanding change in these ‘material codes’ becomes part of understanding the emergence of the modern mind.
My main interest has always been the study of space. Everything else, came from there.
Even if my passion is fundamental research, my strong commitment with a knowledge devoted to produce relevance in the social realms and, therefore, oriented upon the model of the science value chain, brought my career simultaneously through three main avenues: thinking archaeology, engineering research groups and managing science. My research track has been shaped cooperating with public and private entities, training people and engaging different communities. I try to keep symmetrical balance between fundamental and applied research, and between the academic and the social realms.
Between 1980 and 1990, I studied megalithism, the origins of monumental architecture and landscape archaeology.
Between 1991 and 2000, I developed a theoretical framework of cultural landscapes models and a theory of archaeological visibility, besides an early move towards the cultural heritage and a first approach to the cultural heritage value chain.
Between 2001 and 2010, I delve into an archaeology of space and developed an interpretive method to sustain the production of archaeological meaning. Gradually, I came more engaged with community archaeology and studied the different modes of scientific practice. In 2001 I moved to CSIC but still keeping a basis in the USC. Between 2003-2008 I was director of the CSIC section of Human and Social Sciences.
Between 2011 and 2020, I proposed the “xscape” concept to explain the formal regularities in the different dimensions of past human landscapes, embraced a soft model of science for Humanities and Heritage and turned towards cognitive science. This goes hand to hand with a holistic and critical approach to cultural heritage and the query about heritagization processes. In 2010 INCIPIT is created and I am named its first director. Between 2009 and 2013 I was head of the Area of Science and Society of CYTED (the Program of Science and Technology for Development funded by the Latin-American conference of Presidents), and assistant of the Spanish State Secretary of Research. Between 2015 to 2021 I was President of the EAA (the European Association of Archaeologists).
In 2021, I´ve got an ERC SyG project (acronym XSCAPE) on “Material Minds: Exploring the Interactions between Predictive Brains, Cultural Artefacts, and Embodied Visual Search”. This is a huge project that involves four PIs: Johannes Müller, archaeologist, from KAU (Germany), Luis M. Martínez, neuroscientist, from CSIC Alicante, Andy Clark, cognitive scientist, from University of Sussex (UK) and myself as corresponding PI of the project. The project aims to study in what ways the worlds we build and inhabit alter our own minds and the ways we process information, analysing how the material structures of our buildings, artefacts and landscapes change fundamental patterns of thought and attention, so that understanding change in these ‘material codes’ becomes part of understanding the emergence of the modern mind.
Paola Viganò
Architect and urbanist, is Full Professor in Urban Theory and Urban Design at the EPFL (CH) (where she directs the Habitat Research Center and the Lab-U) and at IUAV Venice (IT). She received the Grand Prix de l’Urbanisme in 2013, the title of Doctor Honoris Causa by the UCLouvain in 2016 in the frame of “Utopia for our Time”, the Flemish Culture Award for Architecture in 2017, and the Golden medal to the career of Milano Triennale in 2018. Together with Bernardo Secchi, she founded Studio (1990-2014) working on numerous projects and visions in Europe. Since 2015, StudioPaolaViganò works on the ecological and social transition of cities, landscapes and territories designing urban and territorial projects and realizing public spaces in Europe as the new public park in Dessel Nuclear Research center (Belgium), or Marie Janson Plein in Brussels, together with VVV. Studio has also recently won the competition for the realization of the municipal plan (PdCom) of Lugano (Switzerland) and is consultant of the City of Geneva for its municipal plan (PdCom). Studio is finally coordinating the Strategic Scheme for the recovery of the Vesdre Valley (Belgium) after the flooding catastrophe of 2021 summer.
In 2019, her work has been exhibited at the Shenzen Biennale and in 2021 at the Venice Biennale.
In 2022, she receives the Schelling Prize for Architectural Theory.
Among her recent publications:
Viganò Paola (2022), «Life as a Common: Space for a New Biopolitical Project» in New Geographies 12, Commons, Mojdeh Mahdavi and Liang Wang, eds., Harvard University Press.
Cavalieri Chiara & Viganò Paola (2019), eds., The Horizontal Metropolis. A Radical Project, Zürich: Park Books.
Viganò Paola (2016), Territories of Urbanism. The Project as knowledge Producer, Routledge-EPFL Press.
Viganò Paola, Secchi Bernardo and Fabian Lorenzo, (2016), eds., Water and Asphalt. The Project of Isotropy, Zürich.
Architect and urbanist, is Full Professor in Urban Theory and Urban Design at the EPFL (CH) (where she directs the Habitat Research Center and the Lab-U) and at IUAV Venice (IT). She received the Grand Prix de l’Urbanisme in 2013, the title of Doctor Honoris Causa by the UCLouvain in 2016 in the frame of “Utopia for our Time”, the Flemish Culture Award for Architecture in 2017, and the Golden medal to the career of Milano Triennale in 2018. Together with Bernardo Secchi, she founded Studio (1990-2014) working on numerous projects and visions in Europe. Since 2015, StudioPaolaViganò works on the ecological and social transition of cities, landscapes and territories designing urban and territorial projects and realizing public spaces in Europe as the new public park in Dessel Nuclear Research center (Belgium), or Marie Janson Plein in Brussels, together with VVV. Studio has also recently won the competition for the realization of the municipal plan (PdCom) of Lugano (Switzerland) and is consultant of the City of Geneva for its municipal plan (PdCom). Studio is finally coordinating the Strategic Scheme for the recovery of the Vesdre Valley (Belgium) after the flooding catastrophe of 2021 summer.
In 2019, her work has been exhibited at the Shenzen Biennale and in 2021 at the Venice Biennale.
In 2022, she receives the Schelling Prize for Architectural Theory.
Among her recent publications:
Viganò Paola (2022), «Life as a Common: Space for a New Biopolitical Project» in New Geographies 12, Commons, Mojdeh Mahdavi and Liang Wang, eds., Harvard University Press.
Cavalieri Chiara & Viganò Paola (2019), eds., The Horizontal Metropolis. A Radical Project, Zürich: Park Books.
Viganò Paola (2016), Territories of Urbanism. The Project as knowledge Producer, Routledge-EPFL Press.
Viganò Paola, Secchi Bernardo and Fabian Lorenzo, (2016), eds., Water and Asphalt. The Project of Isotropy, Zürich.
Cooking Sections
Cooking Sections examines the systems that organise the world through food. Using site-responsive installation, performance and video, they explore the overlapping boundaries between art, architecture, ecology and geopolitics. Established in London in 2013 by Daniel Fernández Pascual and Alon Schwabe, their practice uses food as a lens and a tool to observe landscapes in transformation. They have worked on multiple iterations of the long-term site-responsive CLIMAVORE project since 2015, exploring how to eat as humans change climates. In 2016 they opened The Empire Remains Shop.
Their work has been exhibited at Tate Britain, Serpentine Galleries, SALT, Bonniers Konsthall, Lafayette Anticipations, Grand Union, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Atlas Arts, HKW, Storefront for Art and Architecture; the Taipei Biennial, 58th Venice Biennale, Istanbul Biennial, Cleveland Triennial, Shanghai Biennial, Los Angeles Public Art Triennial, Sharjah Architecture Triennial, Sharjah Art Biennial, Performa17, Manifesta12, and New Orleans Triennial among others. They have been residents at Headlands Center for the Arts, California; and The Politics of Food at Delfina Foundation, London. They are part of British Art Show 9. They were guest professors at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich in 2020-21. They are Senior Research Fellows and Principal Investigators at CLIMAVORE x Jameel at the Royal College of Art, London.
Cooking Sections were nominated for the Turner Prize in 2021. They were awarded the Special Prize at the 2019 Future Generation Art Prize and were nominated for the Visible Award for socially-engaged practices. Daniel is the recipient of the 2020 Harvard GSD Wheelwright Prize for Being Shellfish.
Cooking Sections examines the systems that organise the world through food. Using site-responsive installation, performance and video, they explore the overlapping boundaries between art, architecture, ecology and geopolitics. Established in London in 2013 by Daniel Fernández Pascual and Alon Schwabe, their practice uses food as a lens and a tool to observe landscapes in transformation. They have worked on multiple iterations of the long-term site-responsive CLIMAVORE project since 2015, exploring how to eat as humans change climates. In 2016 they opened The Empire Remains Shop.
Their work has been exhibited at Tate Britain, Serpentine Galleries, SALT, Bonniers Konsthall, Lafayette Anticipations, Grand Union, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Atlas Arts, HKW, Storefront for Art and Architecture; the Taipei Biennial, 58th Venice Biennale, Istanbul Biennial, Cleveland Triennial, Shanghai Biennial, Los Angeles Public Art Triennial, Sharjah Architecture Triennial, Sharjah Art Biennial, Performa17, Manifesta12, and New Orleans Triennial among others. They have been residents at Headlands Center for the Arts, California; and The Politics of Food at Delfina Foundation, London. They are part of British Art Show 9. They were guest professors at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich in 2020-21. They are Senior Research Fellows and Principal Investigators at CLIMAVORE x Jameel at the Royal College of Art, London.
Cooking Sections were nominated for the Turner Prize in 2021. They were awarded the Special Prize at the 2019 Future Generation Art Prize and were nominated for the Visible Award for socially-engaged practices. Daniel is the recipient of the 2020 Harvard GSD Wheelwright Prize for Being Shellfish.
Irene Kopelman
She studied at the School of Arts of the National University of Córdoba. In 2002/2003, Kopelman completed the International Residency program at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam.
During the first years after her studies, she made different collaborations in the collections of museums such as the Geological Museum (Artis, Amsterdam); the Entomological Collection (University of Amsterdam - UvA); the Teylers Museum (Haarlem); the Natural History Museum in London and the Astronomical Observatory in Córdoba (Argentina). Subsequently, she became curious about the process of personally confronting the landscape through projects linked to lava fields, in the Hawaiian national park or the Antarctic landscape. This process led her to become interested in the processes that make up these landscapes, approaching to understanding them and the analysis of scientific methodologies in very diverse institutions such as the Manu Learning Center, Madre de Dios, Peru; Sabah Parks from Malaysia, from the Netherlands Center for Natural Biodiversity (NCB); the STRI (Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute) in Panama; the World Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS) or the Swiss Federal Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research (SLF), among others.
Irene Kopelman's work is based on a long-term commitment to ecological issues and an interest in the parallels between the practices of science and art. Finding points of convergence between the two fields is one of the focal points of her work. Ecological concerns are intertwined with her strong belief in drawing as a tool for understanding.
She studied at the School of Arts of the National University of Córdoba. In 2002/2003, Kopelman completed the International Residency program at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam.
During the first years after her studies, she made different collaborations in the collections of museums such as the Geological Museum (Artis, Amsterdam); the Entomological Collection (University of Amsterdam - UvA); the Teylers Museum (Haarlem); the Natural History Museum in London and the Astronomical Observatory in Córdoba (Argentina). Subsequently, she became curious about the process of personally confronting the landscape through projects linked to lava fields, in the Hawaiian national park or the Antarctic landscape. This process led her to become interested in the processes that make up these landscapes, approaching to understanding them and the analysis of scientific methodologies in very diverse institutions such as the Manu Learning Center, Madre de Dios, Peru; Sabah Parks from Malaysia, from the Netherlands Center for Natural Biodiversity (NCB); the STRI (Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute) in Panama; the World Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS) or the Swiss Federal Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research (SLF), among others.
Irene Kopelman's work is based on a long-term commitment to ecological issues and an interest in the parallels between the practices of science and art. Finding points of convergence between the two fields is one of the focal points of her work. Ecological concerns are intertwined with her strong belief in drawing as a tool for understanding.