Porto Design Biennale 2023
April 18, 2023
Open Call for Satellite Projects
We are inviting designers and cultural agents to submit projects for the Satellite Programme of the Porto Design Biennale under the theme of the third edition, Being Water: How we flow together and shape each other.
UX-1Neo robot developed by INESC TEC's Centre for Robotics and Autonomous Systems (CRAS) as part of the European UNEXUP project.
For this edition, is proposed a transdisciplinary laboratory platform
of observation, reflection, creativity, and learning, which will act simultaneously in the visible and invisible, organic and inorganic, and ephemeral spectra of water. This platform-laboratory is “hydrated” through six proposals:
— Promethean Beasts: Shapes of the human;
— Magical Reality: Living with the un/known;
— Bodies of Water: Where water becomes common — vegetable matter, meat, mineral;
— Dynamic Landscapes: Dancing margins, borders that don't exist;
— Flying Rivers: Rethinking the sources, uses, and representations of water;
— Affective Geologies: The living history of a recipe.
More than categorising, the goal is to encourage participants to explore different forms of action that can be expressed in a variety of formats, including debates/colloquiums, workshops/trainings, exhibitions/installations, publications/editions, interventions/events, and collaborations/coproductions. In order to integrate the biennale's parallel programme, we value projects that propose critical interpretations of the general theme of this edition, that can rethink the traditional formats of public presentation, and that broaden the range of audiences reached and the ways of interacting with them. For this purpose, monetary support will be granted to the 10 projects selected by the Jury, according to their nature, relevance, and dimension, which may cover their full or partial implementation. The amount, totalling 60,000.00 [sixty thousand Euros], is allocated according to the detailed budget of each project, in support circumscribed to crates of support limited to the following levels:
- 9,000.00 euros [nine thousand euros]
- 6.000,00 euros [six thousand euros]
- 3.000,00 euros [three thousand euros]
Calendar
- Opening of Applications: 19th April
- Requests for clarification: 12th May
- Clarifications: Until 19 May
- Closing of applications: 23h59 of 26 June
- Jury meetings: Between 11 and 18 July
- Announcement of results: 25 July
- Signing of contracts: Until 9 August
- Production of projects: Until the completion of the project (to take place between 19 October and 3 December)
- Opening of Porto Design Biennale 2023: 19th October
- Closing of Porto Design Biennale 2023: December 3rd
- Project execution report: Up to January 14th, 2024