The third session of the cycle of debates ‘Architecture and Art in the (Re)Construction of Urban Place’ is dedicated to the theme ‘Feeling the context, building the city, modelling identity’ and will feature Fernanda Fragateiro (artist), João Gomes da Silva (landscape architect), Rui Mendes (architect) and Sara Antónia Matos (curator).

This debate proposes a reflection on urban regeneration projects in collaboration between architects and artist Fernanda Fragateiro: a) Jardim Inclinado, a project in collaboration with architect Rui Mendes, for Montijo, in 2022; b) Jardim das Ondas, a project in collaboration with landscape architect João Gomes da Silva, for Parque das Nações, in 1998.

This dialogue - which aims to objectively address the processes, contexts and purposes behind the outcome of the works - is joined by curator Sara Antónia Matos, director of the Atelier-Museu Júlio Pomar, a position she combines with the programming of Lisbon's Municipal Galleries (and author of the doctoral thesis ‘Inhabiting spaces, The experience of space from artistic practice: from sculpture to spatiality’, 2012).

The aim of this round table is to understand what challenges can be encountered when establishing this type of collaboration in urban regeneration processes and, based on these examples, to map out possible collaborative methodologies that could be reproduced (or improved) for the evolution of contemporary urban planning practice in processes that deal with regenerating a sense of place.

Biography

Fernanda Fragateiro is an artist and professor (IST). As an artist, she operates in the field of three-dimensionality, challenging relationships of tension between architecture and sculpture. Fernanda Fragateiro's work enhances relationships with place, summoning the viewer to a position of performativity. Some of her projects are the result of collaborations with other visual artists, architects, landscape architects and performers. The artist is represented by Galeria Elba Benitez (Madrid), Bienvenu Steinberg & Partner Gallery (New York), Galeria Filomena Soares (Lisbon) and Irène Laub Gallery (Brussels).

João Gomes da Silva was born in Lisbon in 1962. He graduated in Landscape Architecture from the University of Évora in 1987, where he taught as an assistant from 1987 to 1994. He is currently an Associate Professor at UAL (PT), an Aggregate Professor at AAMendrisio USI (CH) and was a Visiting Professor at GSD Harvard (USA). He has been invited to teach at various universities and has taken part in conferences and seminars in the field of Landscape Architecture and Landscape. In 1997 he founded Global Arquitetura Paisagista with Inês Norton, creating a group that generates thought and practice on Landscape, based on the interpretation of contemporary economic, social and cultural transformations. He has dedicated his professional life, individually or in collaboration, to the critical production of Landscape.

Rui Mendes is an architect, with a studio in Lisbon since 2002, university lecturer since 2009 (DAUAL and UEVORA), with projects presented at the Lisbon Triennale 2010 and 2016 and at the Biennale di Venezia 2012 and 2021. Since 2014 he has worked in partnership with the artist Fernanda Fragateiro and Marta Labastida on ‘O Esteiro do Montijo em Projeto’, with Atelier BUGIO/João Favila, with BAK GORDON and since 2019 with Bartolomeu Costa Cabral. He was co-editor of Jornal Arquitectos between 2012-2015. In 2024, he completed his doctoral research at ISCTE on ‘The New City of Santo André in the Sines industrial complex’.

Sara Antónia Matos has a degree in Sculpture from FBAUL, a Master's in Curatorial Studies and a PhD with the thesis ‘Da Escultura à Espacialidade’ from the same university. She is the Director of the Atelier-Museu Júlio Pomar (2012) and the Municipal Galleries/Egeac. She is the technical and scientific coordinator of the Contemporary Art Bank (BAC). She is associated with the IHA Research Centre at FCSH-NOVA, group: MUST-Museum Studies. She has been a curator since 2006 with exhibitions at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Carmona e Costa Foundation, Berardo Museum, MACE, MAAT, SNBA, etc. She regularly publishes essays on art in specialised publications. She was a guest lecturer at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon and coordinator of the Sculpture Course at Ar.Co (Lisbon).

About the Cycle ‘Architecture and Art in the (Re)Construction of Urban Place’

‘Architecture and Art in the (Re)Construction of Urban Place’ is a Cycle of Debates that promotes a moment of public and collective reflection on contemporary processes of spatial production of the urban. This cycle is part of the research carried out by Inês Osório (FCT scholarship holder) as part of the PhD programme in Architecture, Dynamics and Urban Forms at FAUP, affiliated to the ‘Morphologies and Dynamics of the Territory’ research group at the Centre for Architecture and Urbanism Studies (MDT/CEAU-FAUP).

Sponsors: zet gallery | Host organisations: CEAU/FAUP, CAAA, zet gallery | Research funded by FCT, República Portuguesa-Educação, Ciência e Inovação

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