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Letter to José Bragança de Miranda | Movie

Letter to José Bragança de Miranda | Movie

Synopsis: “Drawing on a lesson by José Bragança de Miranda on the Temptations of Saint Anthony and the death of Christ, Edmundo Cordeiro paints a […]

Edmundo Cordeiro

2026
In Search of Lost Space | Article

In Search of Lost Space | Article

Abstract: “This article reflects on contemporary transformations in the experience of time and space in a society shaped by technological acceleration, a culture of constant […]

Daniel Lisboa

2026
The System of Objects | Book

The System of Objects | Book

Synopsis: “In modern consumer societies, objects are no longer produced to satisfy the basic or secondary needs of human beings; rather, most of them go […]

Jean Baudrillard

1968
Urbanized | Documentary

Urbanized | Documentary

Synopsis: “Over half the world’s population now lives in an urban area, and 75% will call a city home by 2050. But while some cities […]

Gary Hustwit

2011
The Poetics of Space | Book

The Poetics of Space | Book

Synopsis: “How can an image, sometimes highly singular, reveal itself as a concentration of the entire psyche? How can that singular and ephemeral event that […]

Gaston Bachelard

1957
The Deindustrialized World: Confronting Ruination in Postindustrial Places | Book

The Deindustrialized World: Confronting Ruination in Postindustrial Places | Book

Synopsis: “Since the 1970s, the closure of mines, mills and factories has marked a rupture in working-class life. The book The Deindustrialized World examines the […]

Steven High, Lachlan MacKinnon e Andrew Perchard

2017
The Art of Science and the Science of Art | Podcast Series

The Art of Science and the Science of Art | Podcast Series

The Art of Science and the Science of Art Podcast Series | Passeio – CECS/University of Minho What if objectivity were also made of intuition? […]

Passeio – CECS/Universidade do Minho

2026
Soil Depaving in Europe | Initiative

Soil Depaving in Europe | Initiative

An initiative that originated in the Netherlands, and has already been replicated in Belgium and Germany, is mobilising volunteers who compete between cities to mitigate […]

Público

2026
The Decline of the Public Figure | Book

The Decline of the Public Figure | Book

Synopsis: “From eighteenth-century urban society to the world we live in now, including the decline in political participation in recent decades, Richard Sennett, one of […]

Richard Sennett

1974
Empowering youth through local mapping: a community-driven approach using OpenStreetMap | Article

Empowering youth through local mapping: a community-driven approach using OpenStreetMap | Article

Abstract: “This paper presents the methodology and outcomes of a community-driven mapping initiative involving secondary school students across five European countries. Leveraging OpenStreetMap (OSM) as […]

Susana Sastre-Merino; Miguel Marchamalo; Alberta Albertella; Quang Huy Nguyen; Jana Michalková; Miloslav Michalko; Elisa Filippi; Piero Messina

2026
Trás-os-Montes | Movie

Trás-os-Montes | Movie

Synopsis: “Trás-os-Montes crosses elements of documentary, ethnographic film, and fiction, with the aim of transmuting into images the rustic customs of the far northern region of […]

António Reis; Margarida Cordeiro

1976
The boys and the girls | Documentary

The boys and the girls | Documentary

Synopsis: “It is 8 o’clock in the morning, and seven-year-old boys and girls enter the schoolyard: the boys go to the left to play with […]

Claudia García de Mateos Sanchis

2024
Letters from Wolf Street | Documentary

Letters from Wolf Street | Documentary

Synopsis: “In a Warsaw neighborhood, Arjun films the street where he lives and writes letters to the friend with whom he arrived there years earlier—and […]

Arjun Talwar

2025
The Chimera | Movie

The Chimera | Movie

Synopsis: “La Chimera is a feature film by Italian filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher that explores the themes of archaeological looting, the illicit sale of historical artefacts […]

Alice Rohrwacher

2023
És a Nossa Fé | Documentário

És a Nossa Fé | Documentário

Synopsis: “You Are Our Faith” is a cinematic reflection on the game and on the relationship between the masses and the messianic spectacle into which […]

Edgar Pêra

2004
Bad Ideas | Book

Bad Ideas | Book

Synopsis: “Carlota Juncosa explains how she got into the world of graffiti. With the insecurities typical of adolescence and what it meant to join a […]

Carlota Juncosa

2026
Urban loops of play, analysing the children network and play spaces in the city of Barcelona | Thesis

Urban loops of play, analysing the children network and play spaces in the city of Barcelona | Thesis

Abstract: “This thesis investigates how to improve the interaction between children and the urban environment of Barcelona, by utilising public leisure spaces and improving children’s […]

Tzvetelina Borissova Vesselinova

2024
Cities and macro-urbanisation policies | Essay

Cities and macro-urbanisation policies | Essay

Description: “Boris Vormann, a lecturer in Political Science at Bard College Berlin, a liberal arts university, focuses his writing on the infrastructure which, although invisible, […]

Boris Vormann

2026
Mr. Ego’s speeches: chewing on Edgar Pêra | Thesis

Mr. Ego’s speeches: chewing on Edgar Pêra | Thesis

Abstract: “The central aim of this thesis is to study the relationship between life history, art, and communication, based on a specific case study. For […]

Teresa Lima

2026
Cities and Memory | Project

Cities and Memory | Project

Description: Cities and Memory is one of the world’s biggest sound projects, covering 140 countriesand territories with more than 8,000 sounds and more than 2,500 contributing artists. Website: https://citiesandmemory.com/ Image: yory

Stuart Fowkes
Urban Sonorities | Project

Urban Sonorities | Project

Description: “The Urban Sonorities Studio is an interdisciplinary research, teaching and extension group, created in 2017 under the leadership of Professor Pedro Silva Marra (Depcom-UFES) and […]

Pedro Silva Marra & Thaíse Valentim Madeira

2017
Galeria Providência | Project

Galeria Providência | Project

Description: “Morro da Providência is, by decree, the country’s first open-air favela museum. However, the essential synergy between external interventions and the soul of the community […]

Hugo Oliveira

2017
The Beauty of a Naked Body. Essay on the City | Book

The Beauty of a Naked Body. Essay on the City | Book

Resume: “A romantic manifesto on the wreckage of the concept of the city that is also a call for its reconstitution (…) Appearing to be a […]

José António Bandeirinha

2026
Dear Diary | Movie

Dear Diary | Movie

Synopsis: “Directed and performed by Nani Moretti, ‘Dear Diary’ is a comedic look at life and 1990s Italy, and is arguably the most popular film by […]

Nanni Moretti

1993
Visual Culture Seminar: Anthropology and Sound – Some Reflections on Ethnographic Research and Audiovisual Production

Visual Culture Seminar: Anthropology and Sound – Some Reflections on Ethnographic Research and Audiovisual Production

On 9 April, the CECS Visual Culture Seminar took place, organised jointly with the SOPCOM Visual Culture Working Group, and was broadcast online. The guest […]

Viviane Vedana

2026
Visual Culture Seminar: From Cartography to Montage – A Return to Some Interpretive Gestures of Urban Inscriptions

Visual Culture Seminar: From Cartography to Montage – A Return to Some Interpretive Gestures of Urban Inscriptions

On 4 March, A Passeio, in partnership with the SOPCOM Semiotics and Rhetoric Working Groups, organised the Visual Culture Seminar: “De la cartographie au montage: Retour […]

François Provenzano

2026
Visual Culture Seminar: We Are Still Here – Galeria Providência

Visual Culture Seminar: We Are Still Here – Galeria Providência

The Visual Culture Seminar “We Are Still Here: Galeria Providência” arose from the presentation of the extension project: “Galeria Providência and CAC/FCS Laboratory: Favela and University […]

Cíntia Sanmartin Fernandes

2026
Concrete Stories | Project

Concrete Stories | Project

Description: “French photographer @romainjacquetlagreze documents a reality in Hong Kong that goes unnoticed at first glance. In the series Concrete Stories, the rooftops of buildings cease to […]

Romain Jacquet-Lagrèze

2017
The Movement of Things | Movie

The Movement of Things | Movie

Synopsis: “The film asserts a poetic ethnography (the representation of the tasks of rural domestic life — an almost exclusively female universe — milking, agricultural […]

Manuela Serra

1985
Scenes From the Class Struggle in Portugal | Documentary

Scenes From the Class Struggle in Portugal | Documentary

Synopsis: “Combining newsreel footage, still photographs, interviews and analytical narration, this documentary focuses on the anti-fascist and anti-imperialist efforts of working-class labour groups, peasants and […]

Philip J. Spinelli & Robert Kramer

1977
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