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The inscriptions on the doors of the underground public toilets at Oriente Station cannot be read merely as signs of obscenity, vandalism, or degradation of public space. They are also fragments of a precarious, anonymous, and deferred semiotic system, in which unknown subjects negotiate desire, presence, risk, and recognition.

To my mind, crossing the threshold of a museum should always be a small act of collective commitment. And visiting one on May 18th is […]

A walk through the city, on foot or by car, is enough for any passer-by or driver to come across a luminous sign with shades […]

Braga. The coppery glow of the afternoon envelops the granite of Praça do Município. Walking here is usually an exercise in stillness. Time always seems […]

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 […]

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 […]

It is on the streets that children transform themselves, educating one another, lives that complement each other, enter into conflict, and grow without knowing they […]

Once associated almost exclusively with the nomadic peoples of Central Asia, yurts have become, across Europe and North America, fashionable symbols of simplicity, freedom and […]

It is the unforeseen events that occur in public space — where unexpected occurrences and chance interfere with the functioning of urban life — that […]

Some places reveal themselves through sight. Others become more legible when we take the time to listen. One June morning, I sat in Praça da […]

There are roads you travel by car and roads you travel with your whole body. The EN103, between Barcelos and Braga, is one of this […]

I embark on a third essay inspired by Póvoa de Varzim and, faced with this initiative, I find myself reflecting on a conversation I had […]

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 […]

There are many colourful threads that have connected us since 1972. Brancal’s wools interweave the towns and cities of the region, forming a knit that […]

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 […]

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 […]

Public space is often described as an open, democratic territory accessible to everyone. However, this idea of universality conceals a more complex reality: public space […]

One of the images in my virtual archives proves that my encounter with Correntes d’Escritas (Currents of Writing) took place on February 21, 2018, the […]

I perceive Cagliari as a beautiful, unexplainable woman. She both reveals and conceals herself. I randomly turn to passages from Fernando Pessoa’s The Book of […]

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 […]

The city usually presents itself as a coherent design, as if the outline of its streets and the stability of its façades were enough to […]

Sonnet 18 Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of […]

“Whenever I return from the sea, I come back dizzy, filled with a light that pierces through me.” — Raul Brandão, Os Pescadores (1912/1982, n/p.) Dawn has […]

As an adult, I often find that childhood experiences come back to me with greater intensity. Certain everyday situations acquire a strange ability to reactivate […]

…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, […]

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 […]

Reflections of light and shadow from the poetry of Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) and the cinema of Béla Tarr (1955-2026) arrived, without any causal relationship between […]

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. […]

The nightlife in São Paulo is one of the most famous in the world. This reputation comes from the city’s vibrant cultural scene and nightlife: […]

On the day that Passeio – The Urban Art and Culture Platform of CECS – celebrated its 10th anniversary, I travelled south. The coincidence was […]