June 02 — July 27, 2021
Exhibition · Workshop
2021
June 02 — July 25, 2021
Alter-realities
Designing the Present
The program for this issue was prepared and implemented during the covid-19 pandemic.
How can we make and prototype together, reveal, critique and amplify Alter-Realities in order to reorientate ourselves towards futures where trust in each other is restored, where regeneration not destruction is evident, and where we find a new relationality between us and Others?
We are tired of real, imagined or manipulated multiple crises. Inaction deepens our weariness, blunts our intellect, dulls our bodies and erodes our souls. We need to re-make worlds, re-animate ourselves and forge new relations while rejecting unsustainable hegemonies and divisive ideologies. Designing in the present can show us how to live better despite times of contagion and crisis.
- Alter-Scapes
- Create perceptions to reorientate and experience our cities differently. What systems, objects, maps and interventions can we create to shift our current perceptions through alternative cartographies, mobilities, architectures and/or energy flows to “see” and experience our cities differently?
- Alter-Care
- Caring for human and beyond human life, by growing new social imaginaries. How do we materialize design as care? How do we deal with cultural, social and political differences in notions of care?
- Alter-Production
- Materializing and prototyping to re-invigorate and regenerate people and place. How might we combine local resources with open everything (design, production, software, information, knowledge) to reimagine ways of making things, services and experiences?
- Alter-Livelihoods
- Designing to encourage more fulfilling ways of living, working, playing, giving and receiving. How can we co-construct these livelihoods through design to give us pleasure, restore our dignity and protect our well-being? Can design slow us down, help us find meaningful work and generate novel forms of income?
Alastair Fuad-Luke
Chief Curator
Alastair Fuad-Luke is a facilitator, educator, researcher, writer and activist exploring and challenging how design is applied to societal, ecological, economic, political and educational issues. From July 2016 to March 2021 Alastair was Full Professor of Design Research at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, South Tyrol, Italy and from 2011–2014 was Professor of Emerging Design Practices at Aalto ARTS, Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland where, during the World Design Capital 2012, he worked with Lahti Regional Development to develop a ‘co-design eco-system’ for the city.
Programme
June 17 — July 31, 2021
Exhibition
Wild Care
June 21 — July 17, 2021
Conference · Workshop
Habitar 424
July 02 — July 23, 2021
Conference
Peripheral Perspectives
June 02 — July 02, 2021
Exhibition
Liminal Ghettos
June 02 — August 23, 2021
Voices from the Atelier
Guest Country
France
Turning the focus to the usefulness of design practice, revealing its ability to question reality, challenge complexity and propose concepts and adaptations for a closer and fairer world.
For the Porto Design Biennale, Caroline Naphegyi and Sam Barone have developed a programme that aims at action and intervention in the territory, which will convene, through a process inspired by the model of the 'weird corpse', French and Portuguese thinkers, designers, architects and design critics.
The curators are part of the programme of the guest country, France, developed in partnership with the Institut français du Portugal and the French Embassy in Portugal. Articulated with the general theme proposed by Alastair Fuad-Luke (Alter-Realities: Designing the Present), the programme aims to be a space for open dialogue between the Portuguese and French artistic communities, the citizens of Porto and Matosinhos and all visitors to the Porto Desig Biennale.
Satellites
The Open Call for Projects invites designers and cultural agents to submit projects related to the theme of the event. The projects selected by the jury are part of the Porto Design Biennale Satellite Program.
July 07 — July 09, 2021
Caring Assemblies
Design for Better Futures
July 23 — July 24, 2021
For the Record
The Politics of Design in Music Video
July 10 — July 19, 2021
A Recoletora
July 02 — July 03, 2021
Control Wars Laboratorio
June 02 — July 23, 2021
Yūgen App
June 07 — July 09, 2021
Petites folies
Other landscapes over Douro
June 02 — July 23, 2021
Exploratory with impact
Participatory design for the 99% habitat
Constellations
The selected projects are independent and autonomous projects regarding curation, financing and production that engage with the theme of this edition.
Alter-realities · Designing the Present
54 days
86 events
10 curators
137 speakers
8.6k visitors
Programme
7 Exhibitions
50 Talks
16 Workshops
13 Actions
Serviço Educativo
40 Guided tours
+700 visitors
Media
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798 Posts
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Open Call · Satellites
181 designers
44 countries
8 selected projects
1/9
Opening Museum Vibrant Matter Exhibition
Photography Credit: Renato Cruz Santos
Organization
Promoted by
Câmara Municipal do Porto
Câmara Municipal de Matosinhos
Organised by
esad—idea,
Investigação em Design e Arte
Board
Luísa Salgueiro
President
Rui Moreira
Vice-President
Sérgio Afonso
Executive Director
Magda Seifert
Vice-Director
Diogo Vilar
Advisory Board
Andrew Howard
Bárbara Coutinho
Fernando Brízio
José Bártolo
Magda Seifert
Maria Milano
Mariana Pestana
Nuno Faria
General Curator
Alastair Fuad-Luke
Curatorial Team
Alberto Altés
Ana Jara
André Cruz
Carlo Ratti
Fran Edgerley
Inês Marques
Olivia Page
Assistant Curator
Raquel Pais
Assistant Curator
Colloquia
Joana Couceiro
Research Assistant
Museum of Vibrant Matter
Tiago Patatas
Curators of France, Guest Country
Caroline Naphegyi
Sam Baron
Assistant Curator of France, Guest Country Isabel Abreu
Jury Open Call Graphic Design
Inês Nepomuceno
João Guedes
Lars Harmsen
Maria João Macedo
Raquel Pais
Tereza Ruller
Thomas Spallek
Jury Open Call Satellites
Ana Sofia Cardoso
Beatrice Leanza
Bianca Elzenbaumer
Carlos Azeredo Mesquita
David Pinho Barros
Noura Al-Khasawneh
Production Director
Sofia Meira
Exhibition Project Management
Eleonora Fedi
Production and Assembly
Alexandre Barbosa
Alexandre Costa
Carlos Rocha
Filipe Pinto
José Castro
Project Management
Sara Pinheiro
Sara Botelho
Design Consulting
João Martino
Art Direction, Graphic Design and Motion Design
(1234)
Irina Pereira
João Castro
Miguel Almeida
Serafim Mendes
Graphic Design
Inês Nepomuceno
Susana Martins
João Queirós
Susana Xavier
Nuno Maio
New Media Direction
Rafael Gonçalves
New Media Developer
Pedro Meireis
Video Direction
Carlos Amaral
Sound Direction
Rui Caldas
Photography
Bruno Mesquita
Renato Cruz Santos
Video
Bruno Mesquita
Editorial Coordination
Andreia Faria
Publications and Store
Margarida Antunes
Educational Service
Cláudia Pinhão
Ana Sofia Cardoso
Communication and Social Media
Inês Catarina Pinto
Press Office
Sara Cunha
Cafeteria Chef
Daniela Real Apoio
Cafeteria Support
Andreia Campos
Partners
Main sponsor
Lexus
Guest country
Ambassade de France au Portugal
Institut Français
Institutional
APDL – Porto de Leixões
Associação de Turismo do Porto e Norte
BEDA – The Bureau of European Design Associations
Clube de Criativos de Portugal
Casa da Arquitectura
Casa do Design Matosinhos
Câmara Municipal de Lisboa
CEiiA
ESAD Arte + Design
FAUP – Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto