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Decoding the Communal Self: Ethnographic Documentary and Design as Methodologie...
Roberti, Ana Clara Nunes; Martins, Nuno; Brandão, DanielThis article draws on the interdisciplinary potentialities of design for societal intervention, to present and discuss approaches to ethnographic documentary in vulnerable socio-economic contexts, and specifically social housing neighborhoods. The article reflects on the impact of the approach taken in the project “Echoing the Communal Self: designing the dissemination and replication of self-initiated practice...
Sobreiro: Participation and intervention of local communities in the historical...
Roberti, Ana Clara Nunes; Santos, Helena; Brandão, DanielThis paper intends to discuss a collaborative initiative, carried out within the scope of a doctoral scientific research in the field of Arts and Design and an institution that supports socio-economically vulnerable communities. The work took place in the Sobreiro Social Housing, located in the city of Maia, in Portugal, home to more than 600 families. By using methodologies specific to arts and cultural studie...
Self-initiated practices in the urban community of Balteiro: Design challenges ...
Martins, Nuno; Brandão, Daniel; Penedos-Santiago, Eliana; Alvelos, Heitor; Lima, Cláudia; Barreto, Susana; Roberti, Ana Clara NunesThis project aims to identify, document, interpret and disseminate current self-regulated community practices in social housing neighborhoods in the city of Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal, in 2021. The main, specific case study is the neighborhood of Balteiro. We present methodologies and the first outcomes of the ethnographic work developed at Balteiro, namely an analysis of the origins, dynamics, needs and curre...
Observação documental: O registro imagético e sonoro da vivência nas escadarias...
Roberti, Ana Clara Nunes; Brandão, DanielEste artigo é uma reflexão sobre as metodologias documentais na experiência realizada sobre o registro visual do cotidiano das Escadas das Verdades e do Codeçal, no Centro do Porto, que teve como motivação a permeabilidade entre o público e o privado no modo de vida local. A partir de um trabalho de quase dois anos (2013 a 2015), foi realizado um documentário no âmbito do Mestrado em Design da Imagem na Univers...
The dialectical relationship between the authorial and the collaborative in con...
Roberti, Ana Clara Nunes; Santos, Helena; Brandão, DanielThis article discusses the intersections between authorial and collaborative work in the scope of ethnographic documentary departing from three case studies: two research projects and one citizen collective of participatory media. All case studies were developed in Porto, Portugal, between 2013 and 2020, focusing on the city’s invisibilities and everyday experiences, searching for alternative narratives to the ...
From intimacy to urban landscape: Images of the transformations of the Rainha D...
Roberti, Ana Clara Nunes; Santos, Helena; Brandão, DanielThe present communication proposes an imagery study on the transformations of the social housing Rainha Dona Leonor, in Porto, rehabilitated between 2017 and 2019. Through an immersive ethnographic work, it was possible to closely follow the radical changes that took place, from the demolition of the five housing blocks to the construction of a single block. In short, our methodology was guided by the following...
The ethnographic film as a way of thinking: Responsibilities of the encounter w...
Roberti, Ana Clara Nunes; Santos, Helena; Brandão, DanielThis paper addresses the ethical encounter between the filmmaker/researcher and the subject in the scope of ethnographic film, reinforcing its importance as an artistic and scientific field capable of dealing with places and people in situations of identity and social risk. The basis for the discussion is the research project Island City (Roberti 2020), which studied and documented deeply embedded and socioecon...
Getting to know local communities through backyards: An ethnographic reflection
Roberti, Ana Clara Nunes; Monteiro, RuiThis paper departs from an on-the-ground pilot case titled “In My Backyard? A citizen science pilot project on home farming and gardening”, led by Rio Neiva – Environmental NGO and its partner CEA – Municipal Centre for Environmental Education of Esposende, Portugal, aiming to support a long-term transition to sustainable backyards.2 It focused on a semi-rural region of northern Portugal, between the cities of ...
(Re-)valuing and co-creating cultures of water: A transdisciplinary methodology...
von Schönfeld, Kim Carlotta; Roberti, Ana Clara Nunes; Lopes, Bruno; Conceição, Gisele Cristina daThis article develops a transdisciplinary methodology for valuing and co-creating ‘tapestries’ of Blue Heritage. Given impending threats to the environmental sustainability and maintenance of Cultural Heritage surrounding oceans and freshwaters, it is increasingly urgent to develop a methodology that addresses the significance of the past and its rapport with the continuous future creation and valuing of what w...
Interweaving environment, heritage, and society through Cultures of Water: An i...
Schönfeld, Kim Carlotta von; Roberti, Ana Clara Nunes; Lopes, Bruno; Conceição, Gisele C.Cultures of Water provide a particularly useful lens through which to perceive environment, heritage and society in conjunction within the scope of cultural studies, with special consideration for an essential and powerful actor: water. This special issue provides examples of a myriad of perspectives, manifestations and consequences of what Cultures and Water have been, are, and can be. This introduction delive...