Dwelling in Transition — Experiences from Lockdown is an exploratory project aimed at reflecting on domestic space, anchored on a collection of experiences/ reflections/ testimonials on dwelling during the pandemic’s lockdown restrictions.

Through an open call, we invite design, art and architecture students to share their personal points of view, poetic and artistic records, diaries or analyses, on different formats, such as drawings, texts, photographs, videos, starting with a set of keywords that evoke the experience of dwelling.

Dwelling is a comprehensive concept, therefore it is not limited to domestic space (housing, furniture, everyday objects) and its practices; it also refers to our daily relationship with the city’s space, with our workplaces and leisure spaces and with the intermediate spaces that work as a transition between them.

This challenge aims to activate a reflection on living in times of pandemic, with the ultimate goal of building an exhibition and a publication.

Dwelling in Transition — Experiences from Lockdown is supported by the Portuguese Directorate-General for the Arts, organised by esad–idea, Research in Design and Art, developed in partnership with ESAD – College of Arts and Design, University of Madeira – Department of Arts and Design and University of Algarve – School of Education and Communication. It has the support of ico-D – International Council of Design, Municipality of Matosinhos, Casa do Design, CAPC – Círculo de Artes Plásticas de Coimbra and RAR Imobiliária.

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selected works

— 126 submissions | 28 selected works

Adriana Faísca, Solidão - 01
Adriana Rodrigues, Deitado no teto
Ana Beatriz Ruivo, Calendário de uma vida confinada
Ana Leonor Nogueira, Luan Fontes, Ricardo Ribeiro, Pedro Freire, Diogo Abreu, Mariana Santos, Catarina Rodrigues, Novo anormal
Ana Luísa Cação, O Espaço e o Tempo
Anne Keiffenheim, Rear window
Beatriz Couto, Overlooking the world
Bruna Fonseca, The walls of the mind
Camilla Cristante, Carolina Campiotti, Nicole Nunes, Sara Moniz, Pietro Ibba, Nicolò Cozza, Our lockdown diary
Chougui Sabrin, Rella Chiara, Spedicato Laura, Rodrigues Vanessa, Agostinho Jessica, Fernandes Francisco, Two sides
Coletivo 6 2 4 (Beatriz Rosendo, Maria Filipe, Miguel Van-Zeller, Patrícia Moreira, Raquel Coutinho, Rúben Vasques), Loop
Diogo Ferreira, Virtual public space in a private place
Eunice Menezes, Quarta onda
Eva Ribeiro, Empty spaces and inhabited bodies
Franziska Räder, Peace in rest
Iago Costa, Um quarto com alguém
Inês Azevedo, Casa
Inês Leal, Jornal como registo do tempo…
Jay Albaos, Open Letters to Sea
José Pinto, Rodrigo Ramos, Ana Marmelo, I can not
José Pacheco, Do outro lado da janela
Júlia Pinto, Reflexão silenciosa
Mariana Matos, Um minuto eterno (5h20/5h21)
Marta Santos, O diário de emoções
Natalie Feldesman, House Projections
Raquel Lagoa, A viagem impossível
Telmo Fernandes, É preciso que eu diminua
Vitor Malva, Untitled (conflito)

— jury report, 02.12.2021

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WHAT?

Drawings, texts, photographs, videos. Personal reflections, poetic records, artistic records, diaries, analyses.
Goal: to be presented to the public in an exhibition and in a publication.

HOW?

From a selection of three keywords, one from each topic:
Elements: wall | ceiling | balcony | door | window | threshold | light | enclosure
Actions: rest | suspend | interrogate | exchange | overlap | listen | move | whisper
Objects: handle | mirror | drawer | coffee cup | socks/ slippers | bread | table | note
Concepts: horizon | scenery | invisible | symbolic | traces/signs | roots | rhythm | shadow

WHO?

Individual or collective higher education applicants, from design, art or architecture training and/or knowledge areas, and from all nationalities.

WHEN?

Proposals: from September 15 to November 21 2021
Exhibition + Publication: May 2022

HOW?

Terms & Conditions here
Application form here

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