On Monday, March 27, the 5th The Thinking Hand Didactic Workshop 'Broadway Boogie Woogie' will take place at Pavilhão Carlos Ramos, in FAUP, between 9am and 12.30pm.

The Thinking Hand Teaching Workshop combines the perspectives (and homonymous works, from 1914 and 2009, respectively) of British educator James G. Legge and Finnish architect Juhani Pallasmaa. Like the four previous editions, this event will bring together twenty-one pre-school children and nine MiArq.

For Education, in the research-teaching axis of DiPDArq, this working morning will take place under the guidance of professors Assucena Maria Miranda, Ana Isabel Costa e Silva, Rui Américo Cardoso and Luís S. Viegas, at the crossroads of the mentioned thinking hand perspectives. This 5th edition of the event, as a creative activity and sharing between the Pre-school of the Frejufe Basic School of the Levante da Maia Grouping and the FAUP, aims to realize a physical model (maquette) representative of Mondrian's "Broadway Boogie Woogie" (1942-43). A little different from the previous ones, this edition was stimulated by the theme "The Day the Earth Screamed for Mother 2" (evoking, especially, environmental, nature, animals and affections issues) and qualified by the development of several activities at the Kindergarten, under the special guidance of Educator Assucena Maria Miranda. These activities embarked on a differentiating trajectory, particularly through the dialogical, didactic and experimental work from some works of art by two notable artists: "The Red Tree" (1908-10), "Composition II in Red, Blue and Yellow" (1930) and "Broadway Boogie Woogie" (1942-43) by Piet Mondrian; and "Schlafzimmer in der Ainmillerstraße 36" (1909), "Concentric Rings" (1918) and "Composition VIII" (1922) by Wassily Kandinsky. It is in this context and sense, that we intend in this 5th Didactic Workshop The Thinking Hand, to aim at the realization, resulting from the work of the four groups, of a maquette of "Broadway Boogie Woogie" by Piet Mondrian.

Participants

Professors - Assucena Maria Miranda (EBFrejufe/ALMaia), Ana Isabel Costa e Silva, Rui Américo Cardoso e Luís Viegas (FAUP); Estudantes Finalistas do MiArq - Ana Luísa Alvim, Beatriz Teixeira, Catarina Viola, Desyrée Marmello, Inês de Oliveira Dias, Inês Salgueiro, Joana Fraga, José Pedro Cerdeira, Jorge Reis, Mariana Lima, Marta Ferreira e Raquel Mesquita; e Crianças (Jardim de Infância da Escola Básica de Frejufe do Agrupamento Levante da Maia) – Ana Isabel Simões, Afonso Azevedo, Benedita Dantas, Benedita Silva, Carolina Pinto, Cloe Carvalho, Doriana Fernandes, Duarte Gomes, Francisca Teixeira, Gonçalo Cardoso, Hugo Miguel Simões, Inês Silva, João Silva, James Silva, Mafalda Andrade, Maria Luísa Ramos, Maria Teresa Ramos, Matilde Teixeira, Matteo Marques, Nuno Ribeiro e Yara Sanhoane.

Organization

Luís Viegas
Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto

Rui Américo Cardoso
Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto

Ana Isabel Costa e Silva
Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto

Assucena Maria Miranda
E. B. Frejufe do A. L. Maia

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