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Sarajevo II- From Olympic to Ruin: the afterlife of Sarajevo’s Bobsleigh Track

Sarajevo II- From Olympic to Ruin: the afterlife of Sarajevo’s Bobsleigh Track

Ruins occupy an ambiguous position in contemporary cities. They can be interpreted as symbols of failure, decline, and abandonment, but they may also acquire new […]
Sarajevo I- Landscapes of Violence: Memory and the Everyday in Sarajevo

Sarajevo I- Landscapes of Violence: Memory and the Everyday in Sarajevo

Cities are built over time, accumulating advances, progress, and development, as well as destruction, inequality and violence. Urban history, heritage, and memory are the result […]
When Ruins Become Home. Everyday life at the edge of ruin

When Ruins Become Home. Everyday life at the edge of ruin

I arrived early in São Jacinto. The waterfront was already in motion, a quiet but steady pedestrian flow where visiting fishermen crossed paths with local […]
Decomposing Bodies

Decomposing Bodies

The flight is delayed. Strong winds are battering the island. Some planes don’t land and turn back, others can’t take off. The electronic board, for […]
Between the bus stop and the park: signs of a city in transformation

Between the bus stop and the park: signs of a city in transformation

I leave home early, before the city gathers pace, and it is at the bus stops that I begin to notice that Braga is no […]
The city that reveals itself during Holy Week in Braga

The city that reveals itself during Holy Week in Braga

During Holy Week in Braga, the ways in which people move through, dwell in, and use urban space are transformed. It is not only the […]
Antiques, collectibles, just stuff, or resistance in the form of debris?

Antiques, collectibles, just stuff, or resistance in the form of debris?

…the curtains drawn, with a few points of light—the corner of the bookshelves, the record player, the desk, the low table between the two sofas, […]
Hatred in the form of a frog

Hatred in the form of a frog

The use of objects as symbolic devices in hate speech, particularly in cultural and political contexts, is not a recent phenomenon. Throughout history, symbolic appropriation […]
The Street as Experience, Body and Politics

The Street as Experience, Body and Politics

The idea of the street immediately takes me back to my childhood in Mondim de Basto, a small Portuguese town nestled between Minho and Trás-os-Montes. […]
What time has the time of the garden of São João da Ponte Park?

What time has the time of the garden of São João da Ponte Park?

How important is time in the way we experience and feel urban public spaces and in the relationship we develop with these physical spaces?   […]
“The sky over Florence”. What is the meaning or function for contemporary public art?

“The sky over Florence”. What is the meaning or function for contemporary public art?

Anyone visiting Florence around April would have come across the outdoor exhibition “Il Cielo Sopra Firenze”/“The Sky Above Florence”[1], by Emmanuel Giannelli. A contemporary Italian […]
The displays of death in Póvoa de Varzim

The displays of death in Póvoa de Varzim

The title here displayed could be linked to yet another eccentric chapter in contemporary urban routines. However, even though there may be some breathtaking episodes […]
Warsaw II: At (from) the top, an ode to the green!

Warsaw II: At (from) the top, an ode to the green!

According to Heller (2013), green is calming, and, according to a survey conducted with Germans, it was found that, after the colour blue, green was […]
Warsaw I: The library-garden, from a Benjamin perspective

Warsaw I: The library-garden, from a Benjamin perspective

The discovery of Warsaw’s City Library is experienced as a truly unexpected event. An illustrative image of such a first impression is given to us […]
Pro-Palestine Barcelona: a movement-city

Pro-Palestine Barcelona: a movement-city

On the street, on the way to any destination, sometimes more or less noticed by those who walk it, suddenly a set of words appears. […]
What to say and what to do about public benches? A brief guided reading…

What to say and what to do about public benches? A brief guided reading…

In 1992, in Los Ángeles, a ‘revolt’ took place that ended up unleashing the ‘downtown fortress’ on urban space designers. Vázquez describes that While windows […]
Pause your eyes at the clothesline and make it a “place” (Tuan style)

Pause your eyes at the clothesline and make it a “place” (Tuan style)

On sunny days like this, hanging on external clotheslines, with cord or wire, more or less improvised, freshly washed pieces dry in the sun and […]
Guerrilla archaeology in the Heraklion Seafront: Distress, Ruins, Debris, and Amalgams

Guerrilla archaeology in the Heraklion Seafront: Distress, Ruins, Debris, and Amalgams

Syrah aftertaste anguish gratifying anguish — unfathomable I surrender three cierges turn four I fade in their splendour   This short essay is an attempt […]
Post and neo-colonial proximities | exiting Varosha

Post and neo-colonial proximities | exiting Varosha

This visual essay draws the trajectory of an uneasy spatiotemporal navigation into post and neo-colonial contexts and cultural disputes. It comes us a response to […]
At the Igrejas Caeiro’s House-Museum: sound, listening, and body

At the Igrejas Caeiro’s House-Museum: sound, listening, and body

Anyone driving up from the center of Caxias, towards Alto do Lagoal, on a narrow but busy road, flanked by houses described as “luxury” or […]
Plumes and Palm Trees: A flutter in the urban context

Plumes and Palm Trees: A flutter in the urban context

During the Carnival, among the peculiar landscapes of Madeira Island, we find carnival revelers carrying feathers attached to their costumes. In this essay, I seek […]
A•PER•TUR – sound installation

A•PER•TUR – sound installation

By capturing the centuries old sounds engraved in different parts of her surroundings and transposing them into another geography and temporality through her voice, Ece […]
Crossing the bridge

Crossing the bridge

It is a summery May day afternoon in Porto and I am gazing into a photograph on my sun-glared computer screen, trying to see a […]
A•PER•TUR: A sonic aisle through time, space and justice-making

A•PER•TUR: A sonic aisle through time, space and justice-making

A•PER•TUR is a site-specific vocal, sonic and textual intervention, by Ece Canli, that aims to activate the frequencies of “in-betweenness” and bring forward the materiality […]
SUPPORTS FOR LIVING IN THE WORLD

SUPPORTS FOR LIVING IN THE WORLD

What exists is beyond what can exist. (Santos, 2001, p. 20) Recently, reading a thesis (Von der Weid, 2014) on perceptual capacities in blind people […]
Thessaloniki: order and ruin

Thessaloniki: order and ruin

Upon arrival in Thessaloniki in the late afternoon of August 30, my first impressions are permeated by the stifling, stuffy, dusty air and the brown […]
What would a city without children be? And what is a children’s city like?

What would a city without children be? And what is a children’s city like?

During the periods of confinement due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the emptying of public spaces filled us with desolation. Places that once came alive with […]
Pandemic Diary – Conversations about the house

Pandemic Diary – Conversations about the house

The pandemic diary, as we call it, was originally presented during the seminar Conversations about the house – a subjective and interdisciplinary approach, held virtually, […]
Covid-19 in the street art discourse

Covid-19 in the street art discourse

Discourse is a tool used in times of peace and in times of war. It involves verbal language, images, social actors, and a specific context […]
A record of what I forgot: a non-linear tour between São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro

A record of what I forgot: a non-linear tour between São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro

I was a child with exceptional creative tendencies. From the bedroom to the kitchen, I would go on my own. From the kitchen to the […]
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