Testing the Waters
Performative Tour November 08 — November 11, 2023
local Praça de Gomes Teixeira, Porto
curador The Ironing Board (Marta Ríos, Miguel Parrrra)
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Testing the Waters is a social design project that researches and problematises water management in urban public spaces. Using the guided tours typically offered to tourists in Porto, the project will tell stories about public fountains in the city’s historic centre, collecting testimonies and enhancing collective ways of dealing with the prospect of water scarcity.
INFORMATIONS
8-11.10.2023
Hours: 10:00, 12:00, 18:00
Starting Point: Fonte dos Leões (Praça de Gomes Teixeira)
Distance: 1.8km
Duration: 1.5h
Language: English
The Ironing Board is a design-critique-turned-design-commedy duo formed by Marta Ríos and Miguel Parrrra. Based in Rotterdam, Miguel and Marta use comedy-making and queer storytelling as a methodology to play around contemporary standards related to the sharing of knowledge, within and beyond the design field. They believe that these conventions can be reconsidered and messed around with in order to find morte cooperative and subversive ways of practising and communicating design.