Official
Catarina de Almeida Brito
Co-curator
Catarina de Almeida Brito is a writer and architect. Before starting Mae Office, Catarina worked at 3RW arkitekter in Bergen, NO. She co-founded Migrant Journal, an independent six-issue print publication exploring migration in all its forms. She has worked as a freelance journalist, and producer for Wallpaper* Magazine, Vinyl Factory’s The Spaces, among others. She also was a member of the Public Relations team for architecture firm OMA in Rotterdam, NL. Catarina trained as an Architect at the University of Bath and the Royal College of Arts, and holds a masters in City Design and Social Sciences from LSE Cities.
Paulo Moreira
Co-curator
Paulo Moreira is a Porto-based architect and researcher. He graduated from the Faculty of Architecture, University of Porto (Portugal), having studied also at the Accademia di architettura (Mendrisio, Switzerland). He received his PhD from London Metropolitan University, in 2018. In the same year, he founded INSTITUTO, a cultural venue in Porto, where he acts as artistic director. Moreira develops research in the architectural field, particularly in contexts of urban conflict and social deprivation. He authored chapters in academic journals, edited independent publications, conducted courses and workshops, and is the editor of Critical Neighbourhoods - The Architecture of Contested Communities (Park Books, 2022). He was a finalist in the RIBA President’s Award for Research 2019, Cities & Community category.
Richard Jphn Seymour
Director / Masterclass
British photographer and BAFTA-nominated filmmaker based in Lisbon. His work can be characterised as an attempt to reveal political, social, and environmental issues made manifest through the built environment and increasingly blurry line between landscape and city. Author of ‘Consumed’ (2013), a long-form photography and film project centred around China’s role in the rapid growth of consumerism, and what this means for the landscapes and individuals involved. His short film ‘Consumed’ (2017) was nominated for a BAFTA in the Short Film category 2017.
Haakon Rasmus Rasmussen
Debate participant
Founding Partner of 3RW arkitekter. Rasmussen has years of experience from projects within the Norwegian Defence Sector, where he has been a counselor for the sector’s restructuring processes, engaging in projects spanning from national plans to buildings and installations. He is the associate editor The City Between Security and Freedom (2017) and the co-editor of GIS - the Geographic Language of our Age (Norwegian edition 2008, English edition 2009). Apart from practicing, Rasmussen teaches at universities in Norway and abroad, and is part of national and international juries for architectural and planning competitions.
Cristina Monteiro
Debate participant
Cristina Monteiro is co-founder of DK-CM, a planning and architecture practice based in East London. She primarily works in the public sector on publicly-funded regeneration projects focussed on placemaking, local distinctiveness and the environment. As an RIBA Conservation Registrant, heritage and sustainability are central to her practice. Cristina was shortlisted for The Architectural Review’s Moira Gemmill Prize for Emerging Architecture 2021 and in the same year was appointed Vice Chair of the London Legacy Development Corporation’s Quality Review Panel.
Raquel Pais
Debate moderator
Raquel Pais (Porto, 1985) is a communication designer (2008) and founder of À Capucha!, a research-driven design practice that explores the relationships between craft, material and immaterial culture. À Capucha! was born as her master’s project at Central Saint- Martins College of Art and Design, UAL (2012). Throughout her education and professional practice she has been searching for broad-ranging perspectives on the design field, which has led her to collaborate with cultural institutions and become curatorial assistant of Porto Design Biennale 2019 and 2021, where she co-curated several exhibitions and co-edited two series of journals. She has worked in design studios in São Paulo (BIZU, 2009), New York (Base, 2009) and Buenos Aires (Pogo Creative Co., 2010). Raquel currently works as project and programme manager at INSTITUTO and attends the Executive MSc Social Business and Entrepreneurship at the London School of Economics (2022-23).
Ines Weizman
Masterclass
Ines Weizman is teaching at the Royal College of Art (RCA) in London and the founding director of the Centre for Documentary Architecture (CDA), an interdisciplinary research collective comprised of architectural historians, filmmakers and digital technologists. Recently she also began lecturing as a professor of architectural theory and design at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Weizman is the author of Documentary Architecture: Dissidence through Architecture (Santiago de Chile: ARQ Editiones, 2020). For the Bauhaus centenary, she edited an anthology of essays, Dust & Data: Traces of the Bauhaus across 100 Years (Leipzig: Spector Books, 2019). In 2014, she was the editor of Architecture and the Paradox of Dissidence, published by Routledge. Her book Before and After: Documenting the Architecture of Disaster, co-authored with Eyal Weizman, was published in the same year by Strelka Press. Weizman has also been involved in exhibitions and installations, such as Repeat Yourself: Loos, Law, and the Culture of the Copy (Venice, New York, Vienna) and Celltexts: Books and Other Works Produced in Prison (Turin, Berlin, Dublin, Venice). For the CDA she curated the exhibition The Matter of Data, which was shown from 2019 to 2022 with a varying thematic focus in Weimar, Tel Aviv, Berlin, Prague and now in Porto.
Luís Urbano
Masterclass
Luis Urbano is an architect and teacher at Porto University Faculty of Architecture (FAUP). He graduated in Architecture from the University of Coimbra and holds a PhD in Architecture from FAUP. He has been lecturing and presenting papers in conferences and meetings, focusing mainly on the intersections between Architecture and Cinema. At FAUP, he has coordinated the research project ‘Silent Rupture’, which has produced 10 short films. He is the editor of ‘JACK - Journal on Architecture and Cinema’. He directed the short films on architecture ‘Sizígia’ (2012), ‘The House Next Door’ (2012), ‘How to Draw a House’ (2014) and ‘Morada’ (2019)’. He is the director of JackBackPack and vice-president of Marques da Silva Foundation.
Guest Institution
Ines Weizman
Curator / Director
Ines Weizman is teaching at the Royal College of Art (RCA) in London and the founding director of the Centre for Documentary Architecture (CDA), an interdisciplinary research collective comprised of architectural historians, filmmakers and digital technologists. Recently she also began lecturing as a professor of architectural theory and design at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Weizman is the author of Documentary Architecture: Dissidence through Architecture (Santiago de Chile: ARQ Editiones, 2020). For the Bauhaus centenary, she edited an anthology of essays, Dust & Data: Traces of the Bauhaus across 100 Years (Leipzig: Spector Books, 2019). In 2014, she was the editor of Architecture and the Paradox of Dissidence, published by Routledge. Her book Before and After: Documenting the Architecture of Disaster, co-authored with Eyal Weizman, was published in the same year by Strelka Press. Weizman has also been involved in exhibitions and installations, such as Repeat Yourself: Loos, Law, and the Culture of the Copy (Venice, New York, Vienna) and Celltexts: Books and Other Works Produced in Prison (Turin, Berlin, Dublin, Venice). For the CDA she curated the exhibition The Matter of Data, which was shown from 2019 to 2022 with a varying thematic focus in Weimar, Tel Aviv, Berlin, Prague and now in Porto.
Anna Luise Schubert
Director / Debate moderator
Anna Luise Schubert is an architectural researcher, curator and filmmaker. She is a board member of the Centre for Documentary Architecture (CDA), an interdisciplinary research collective that explores buildings as historical documents. With the CDA, she co-conceived their online archive project (documentary-architecture.org), organised the exhibition series "The Matter of Data" and worked on internationally presented films such as the 8-screen video installation "Deep White" (35’, 2019) and the documentary shorts "Umzugsgut" (35’, 2017) and "3 Hours by Car" (5’, 2019). She works currently as a research associate at the Chair of Architectural Theory and Science at the TU Darmstadt and is founding member of the Förderverein Palast der Republik e.V.
Ortun Bargholz
Director / Debate moderator
Ortrun Bargholz works as an architectural scholar at the intersections of architectural theory, documentary film and media art. She is currently a doctoral candidate in the German Research Foundation’s Research Training Group Identity and Heritage at TU Berlin and is investigating the strategies behind historicising aesthetics in contemporary architectural production. After studying architecture, she worked for the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, the TU Graz and the architectural office Kuehn Malvezzi. She is a co-founder of the Förderverein Palast der Republik e.V. and the Centre for Documentary Architecture e.V.
Markus Schlaffke
Director / Debate moderator
Markus Schlaffke is a documentary filmmaker, researcher and writer and founding member of the Centre for Documentary Architecture. He works on questions of performative memory, the aesthetics of archives and researches the intertwined cultural history of modernity between India, Afghanistan and Germany. Recent Projects: Reconstructing the Menaka Archive: Navigations through Dance Modernism between Kolkata, Mumbai and Berlin 1936–38 (Ph.D. thesis, 2021), More Planets less Pain: Constellations of of Artistic Research (exhibition, 2022), Phonograph and Memory: Tracing a Sound from Kabul (documentary, 2022), The Albatross Around my Neck (documentary, 2019), Songs without a Space: Music from Afghanistan (Documentary, 2016).
Experimental
Mariana Pestana
Curator
Mariana Pestana is an architect and independent curator interested in critical social practice and the role of fiction in design for an age marked by technological progress and an ecological crisis. She is a member of the interdisciplinary studio The Decorators. Recently she co-curated the exhibitions The Future Starts Here (V&A, 2018) and Eco Visionaries: Art and Architecture After the Anthropocene at (MAAT, 2018; Matadero & Royal Academy, 2019) and the 5th Istanbul Design Biennial (2020-21). She gained a PhD in Architecture from the Bartlett School of Architecture. Previously, she worked as a curator at the Department of Architecture, Design and Digital at the V&A Museum and lectured at Central Saint Martins, Chelsea College of Arts, Royal College of Arts, Universidade do Minho and Sandberg Institute. She is currently an Invited Assistant Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico.
Mariana Sanchez Salvador
Director / Debate participant
Mariana Sanchez Salvador é arquiteta e investigadora no DIN MIA’CET-IUL (ISCTE-IUL). A sua investigação é maioritariamente focada em como os espaços, da casa à cidade, são transformados pela comida ou por atividades relacionadas com a mesma. A sua tese de mestrado “Arquitetura e a Comensalidade: a história de uma casa através dos caminhos da comida” (Prémio Arquiteto Quelhas dos Santos, 2015) foi publicada em português pela Caleidoscópio (2016). Escreveu vários artigos relacionados com a sua investigação de doutoramento sobre “Foodscape of Lisbon”, premiada com uma bolsa de doutoramento pela Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT). Atualmente leciona a disciplina Food Systems no Mestrado “Food Design” na ESHTE (Estoril, PT).
Competition
Sofia Mourato
Coordinator / Selection committee
Sofia Mourato (Lisbon, Portugal) has always been inspired by how the processes of design, cinema, architecture and technology intersect. She is interested in connecting concepts and people in order to create something new at the intersection of knowledge with emotions. She appears frequently on and off stage as the former Lisbon architecture film festival director, guest curator, moderator and member of the jury at various events such as the Tallinn Architecture Biennale, the Budapest Architecture Film Days, Porto Design Biennale, Docomomo International, Web Channel Foundations, Experimenta Design, AA Visiting School, One Minutes Foundation, among others. She currently lives in Amsterdam, is the mother of two children and works as human centered designer, film curator and innovation agent.
Joana Rafael
Jury
Joana Rafael works in architecture, (topics related to) ecology, material and digital culture, science and technology studies. She has taught at Central Saint Martins, Creative Arts University and Instituto Superior de Ciências Educativas. She teaches contemporary culture in the post-graduation in Curatorship, Urban Culture and Spatial Practices at Escola Superior Artística do Porto. She completed her PhD in Visual Cultures and her MA in Architectural Research at Goldsmith, University of London, and the Metropolis programme of the Consortium between the Polytechnic University of Catalonia and the Centre for Contemporary Culture in Barcelona. She has a degree in architecture from the University of Minho.
Romea Muryń
Jury
Romea Muryń is a Polish architect and urban planner. After receiving her master’s degree from the West Pomeranian University of Technology and her bachelor’s degree from Copenhagen School of Design and Technology, she worked for 10 years as an architect and urban planner. Romea completed the postgraduate programme ‘Hybrid Urbanism’ at Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design and she was an adjunct Professor at INDA International Program in Design and Architecture, Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand. In addition to design and academic practice, Romea was a Program Director of ‘Creating Homes for Tomorrow’ and Editor-in-Chief at the CANactions Magazine. She is a co-founder of the studio Locument, established in 2015 and SKALA Architecture in 2018. Currently, she is Assistant Professor at the Department of Theory at Brno University of Technology.
Ivana Sehic
Jury
Ivana Sehic is an artist, architect and researcher. Born in Croatia, she lives in Porto. In her artistic practice, she explores the performativity of organic and non-organic matter and cyclical rhythms as restorative actions through movement, sculpture and text. She is an integral member of the visual art collective Atelier Caldeiras in Porto and the performance Flock Collective in London. Ivana holds an MA in Architecture from the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London. She is a doctoral student in the Contemporary Arts at the University of Coimbra, investigating possibilities between artistic and deviated mourning practices.
Miguel C. Tavares
Jury
Miguel C. Tavares is a filmmaker and visual artist based in Porto, Portugal. His work situates in a hybrid space between documenting reality and an artistic object and is defined by different types of projects and formats: documentaries, music videos, fashion, short films, architectural and editorial videos as well as live visuals for different types of performances.
Together with Ana Resende and Tiago Costa he started a series of films that explore visual constructions from architectural works. Their latest projects are ‘The Construction of Villa Além’ (in collaboration with Rui Manuel Vieira), a film that follows the construction of a house by Swiss architect Valerio Olgiati in a remote local of the Alentejo coast (world premiere in IndieLisboa 2017, La Biennalle di Venezia 2018). ‘Secluded Stillness’ (Azores, 2017), a film specially directed for the pico.house website, and meant to be screened in the installation format; ‘Three Patios for the Sun’, a film study about Casa Trevo and filmed during 2020’s Summer Solstice.
Duarte Natário
Jury
Duarte Natário (Porto, 1987) is a founding partner of the office Terra in Lisbon and a collaborator at the Landscape Observatory of FCUP, where he graduated in Landscape Architecture. In 2012, he received the IFLA Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe research grant. He writes about topics related to Landscape and Urban Planning, having collaborated with the national newspaper Público. Has been participating since 2019 in the organization of seminars and workshops integrated in the Landscape Observatory. He directed the documentary ‘Tudo é Paisagem’ (Everything is Landscape), about the history of Landscape Architecture in Portugal, with the support of APAP, shown at the 2019 edition of Festival Arquiteturas, at Cinema São Jorge.
Andreia Garcia
Selection Committee
Architect, curator and researcher. She holds a PhD in Architecture from the Faculty of Architecture, University of Lisbon (2015). She is the founder of Architectural Affairs studio; her work has been selected for: FAD Awards (Spain, 2018, 2019 and 2020); Dezeen Awards (UK, 2019); finalist in the BigMAT Award (France, 2019); LEONARDO Award (Belarus, 2019); honorable mention in the HAUSER Award (Germany, 2020); nominated EU Prize for Contemporary Architecture - Mies van der Rohe Award 2022. She was responsible for the curatorships: Smaller Cities (Guimarães European Capital of Culture, 2012), Projecto Memória (Centenário do Theatro Circo de Braga, 2015), Fast Forward (MAM, 2019), Import / Export (Maia Contemporary Art Biennale, 2019), co-curator Anuário (CMP, 2020), Contemporâneos Extemporâneos (Situation 21, 2021). She is the director of art(e)facts biennale. She is the co-founder of Galeria de Arquitectura. She has been a guest lecturer at the Architecture School, University of Minho and the Architectural Association, London. She is an Assistant Professor at the University of Beira Interior.
Daniela Silva
Selection Committee
Daniela Silva is an architect, researcher and writer. With a markedly multifaceted and international career, she has practiced in France, Japan, Italy and China.
Since 2011, she has worked in several studios in Portugal (among which atelier Ressano Garcia Arquitectos, in Lisbon), France (WONK architects, in Lille) and Japan (Sou Fujimoto Architects, in Tokyo). After an invitation to teach architecture at Shandong Jianzhu University in Jinan - China, and a period of professional practice abroad, she returned to Portugal to pursue a career in research. Currently, she divides her professional activity between her practice in an architecture office in Lisbon and her PhD research on Digital Architecture at ISCTE. In addition, she is a curator and research manager at the online platform ‘Non Architecture’, besides writing for different international architecture and design magazines. Since 2018, she is a production assistant at Arquiteturas Film Festival.
Sara Nunes
Selection Committee
Sara Nunes was born in 1985, in Lisbon. She completed her master's degree in Architecture, in 2009, at Escola Superior Artística do Porto and Universität Kassel, in Germany. In 2013, she founded Building Pictures, an architecture film production company, with over 300 short films made, often selected for film cycles/film festivals and exhibitions: Arquiteturas Film Festival, Encontros da Imagem, In\visible cities-International Festival of Urban Multimedia, Venice Biennale 2016 and 2021, 3rd Istanbul Design Biennale, Selina's Outdoor Cinema Nights, ADFF (Architecture and Design Film Festival - New York) and Architecture Short Films-MAAT. In 2018, she was a finalist in the Living Places - Simon Architecture Prize. In 2021, she launched the weekly podcast ‘In the Country of Architects’ about architects and landmark Portuguese architecture. She is currently directing her first feature film 'The Flying Photographer' about Fernando Guerra, and is working on a documentary about Álvaro Siza, 'The Houses of the Future'.
Vasco Mendes
Selection Committee
Vasco Mendes was born in Porto in 1987. His work crosses music, rhythm, architecture and cinema. His strong connection with the musical universe has already led him to create dozens of video clips for Portuguese bands such as Clã, Capicua and White Haus. He also produces documentaries where the main theme is music, the city and the people, accompanying albums, orchestras and projects where music appears as a unifying element for people of all ages, social strata, origins and religions. His work has already taken him to film in different countries such as Germany, Bulgaria, Poland, Malta, Hong Kong, USA, China and the UK, and to be awarded in festivals such as the New York International Film Awards, Vila do Conde International Short Film Festival, Los Angeles International Film Festival or Roma Short Film Festival.