Curated by José Bártolo
Core Programme
A showcase of millenial Portuguese design, a selection of projects that evoke the evolution of the profession, influenced by the social, environmental and economic issues of the contemporary world.
Curated by
Focusing on the first two decades of the current millennium it becomes apparent that a backdrop of various transformations has affected design as a discipline. Analysing its current configuration, the exhibition was conceived based on the idea of a map. The idea was to draw up a map of communication design from three points of view, focusing on intentions (motivations, themes and values), processes (method, authorship) and the ways in which projects come to life.
The selection process for the projects presented and their related curatorial concepts were intended to produce an open critical reading of contemporary communication design. As though map and territory were interchangeable, the intention was to allow visitors to experience coming closer, engaging them with projects where design shows itself, through some specifically contemporary characteristic, like a mediation process that is inseparable from the technological, economic, cultural and political circumstances that are its setting.
Activity
Exhibition
Venue
Galeria Municipal · Porto
Date
September 19 — November 17, 2019
October 19 — December 03, 2023
June 02 — July 25, 2021
September 18 — February 23, 2020