Helena Pires
Helena Pires is an Associate Professor at the Department of Communication Sciences, Institute of Social Sciences, University of Minho, Portugal, and a member of the Communication and Society Research Centre. She has a PhD in Communication Sciences in the area of Semiotics of Communication at the University of Minho in 2007. In this same institution, he has taught in the areas of Advertising, Semiotics and Communication and Art. For four years, until November 2019, she was coordinator of the Advertising Group of SOPCOM – Portuguese Society of Communication Sciences. She has published and developed research work in the field of visual and urban culture, namely on (urban) landscape, and in particular on landscape in contemporary art.
Short essays in Passeio:
- Warsaw I: The library-garden, from a Benjamin perspective
- What to say and what to do about public benches? A brief guided reading…
- An encounter with the poetics of a ruin, at the Duque de Bragança Market
- Thessaloniki: order and ruin
- Nettie Burnett’s gallery-atelier
- Embodied experiences in the public market of Braga
- The art of filling time. Revisiting Henrique Baixinho’s objects
- Tussen Kunst & Quarantaine: creativity during a global pandemic
- São Marcos’ Street is my home
- (In)communicability intervals
- Memories and images of traditional commerce in Braga
- Art in transit: the path of Bruno Guedes
- A ride to Limassol
- A ride by São Marcos Street