Opening Week Programme 19.09—28.09.2019
Post Millennium Tension
Curators
Programme
21.09 – 08.12.2019
Municipal Library of Porto

A Força da Forma

[Design and Democracy]

Mário Moura

22 – 23.11.2019
Teatro Municipal Constantino Nery

10th Typography Meeting

[Satellites]

[Hosted]

Rúben Dias

Sofia Meira

Margarida Azevedo

João Lemos

02 – 08.12.2019

DEPT.

[Selected]

19.09 – 08.12.2019
Casa da Arquitectura
Almeida Garrett Municipal Library

Descontecta

[Selected]

Design and Democracy

A Força da Forma

curator/

[exhibition booklet] Can the design of a guidebook travel further than the book? Can two competitors share the same logo? What do a TV Chef and a dictator have in common? A Força da Forma is an experimental exhibition which uses short stories about forms, formats and formalities, in an attempt to show some of the identities that Portuguese design has forged over time and the way in which these relate to various kinds of power – democratic, authoritarian, disciplinary, central, peripheral, etc..

Graphic Design Rui Silva Exhibition Project Rui Silva

21.09—08.12.2019 | opening 17:00 Biblioteca Pública Municipal do Porto [free entry]

 

— ASSEMBLY / ASSEMBLEIAS [parallel programme]

24.10.2019, 15:30 Affectively — The Dissemination of Photography History beginning with a Pop Album Cover Analysis — Jorge Carneiro José Carneiro (lecturer/designer)

31.10.2019, 15:30 Vitruvium Without Text André Tavares (architect/publisher)

14.11.2019 15:30 Make Me One Like This — Conversations on Appropriation in Art and Design Márcia Novais (designer) Sara & André (visual artists) 17:00 Book/catalogue launch [ed. Orfeu Negro] Mário Moura (curator) Rui Silva (designer)

21.11.2019, 17:00 Appropriation, Influence on Portuguese Graphic Postmodernism Jorge Silva (designer/art director) Luís Miguel Castro (designer/art director)

23.11.2019, 15:30 Guided tour With Mário Moura (curator)

28.11.2019, 15:30 Photography and Karaoke — Appropriation Strategies in Photography Books Susana Lourenço Marques (lecturer/designer)

07.12.2019, 11:30 + 15:30 Guided tour With Mário Moura (curator)

Biblioteca Pública Municipal do Porto [free entry]

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Mário Moura

Mário Moura is a design, art and culture critic based in Porto. He is a professor and researcher and has also distinguished himself as a lecturer at numerous conferences and for his critical intervention on the blog ressabiator.wordpress.com. His texts are regularly published in newspapers, magazines and on his blog, The Ressabiator. He is the author of the books Design em Tempos de Crise (Braço de Ferro, 2009) and O Design Que o Design Não Vê (Orfeu Negro, 2017), as well as of a doctoral thesis about Authorship in Design. He teaches design history and criticism at the Faculty of Fines Arts of Porto University. He is a member of the Instituto de Investigação em Arte e Design (i2ads).

Design and Democracy

We perceive design as the deliberate creation of relationship modes between ourselves and others, i.e. the production of forms of social interaction. These processes of social modelling reveal the action of design, of the production of objects, settings and interfaces, forms of communication and representation, services, programmes and policies that effect the mediation and shaping of human experience.

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4049-017 Porto

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