COMPRAÇA | WHAT CAN A MARKET DO?
COMPRAÇA is a research and intervention project that aims to highlight the role of social communication in transforming urban space into a lived place and the participation of each citizen in the process of building a commonplace and a shared/contested feeling.
The Public Market of Braga (A Praça), recently requalified, as an urban medium under transformation, is a laboratory of everyday urban life: it allows the observation and study of changes, tensions/conflicts/negotiations, but also of the potential and creativity that guide the interactions between multiple agents. Understanding the communicative nature of this dynamic is quite relevant, insofar as it allows us to enhance the effectiveness of the common action between the subjects, in their different roles, the sense of cohesion and connection in the intersubjective and social fabric of common ground and to contribute to cultivating the rights to daily sociality, leisure and public life in the urban space.
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Cycle “What can Art? do” | _Ágora de Cá_
Throughout ten sessions, starting in October 2023 and until the end of 2025, zet gallery and Passeio are launching a new cycle within ÁGORA DE CÁ, starting by the question: WHAT CAN ART DO?, which is inspired by the premise of Spinoza (1632-1677), in his Ethics III, “The fact is that no one has determined, until now, what the body can do, that is, experience has taught no one, until now, what the body – exclusively by the laws of nature as considered only corporally, without being determined by the mind – can and what it cannot do”.
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The Art of Science and the Science of Art
Podcast Series | Passeio – CECS/University of Minho
What if objectivity were also made of intuition?
What happens when those who investigate also create?
The Art of Science and the Science of Art brings together researchers from the Portuguese academy who combine teaching, research, and artistic practice. In five conversations, they explore creative processes, doubts, discoveries, and the meeting points between art and science — questioning boundaries and revealing the human side of knowledge production.
A series from Passeio – Platform for Art and Urban Culture, from the Center for Communication and Society Studies, available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
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