Porto Design Biennale 2023
April 19, 2023
Fernando Brízio presented as chief curator
The curatorial proposal starts from the most fundamental element, Water, to discuss and think about the role of Design in the emerging environmental survival.
Fernando Brízio, Porto Design Biennale 2023 Chief Curator Bruno Mesquita
Curator Fernando Brízio presented a proposal for the third edition of the Porto Design Biennale that highlights the importance of water and the need to develop new relationships with the world and with this natural resource through design.
The curatorial proposal involves the creation of a transdisciplinary platform-laboratory that aims to observe, think and learn about water in its visible and invisible spectrum.
To the main theme of the biennale, Being Water: How we flow together and shape each other, Fernando Brízio associated six interconnected proposals: "Promethean Beasts: Forms of the Human", "Magic Reality: Living with the Un/Unknown", "Bodies of Water: Where Water Becomes Common - Plant Matter, Flesh, Mineral", "Dynamic Landscapes: Margins that Dance, Borders that Don't Exist", "Flying Rivers: Rethinking the Sources, Uses and Representations of Water" and "Affective Geologies: The Living History of a Recipe".
From water, the curator hopes to nurture a new lexicon that expands and reveals the complex and intricate web of interdependencies that connects us to the planet as a whole.
The proposal comes at a time when it is predicted that by 2030 there will be a 40% deficit of water in relation to demand, making the need to care for this essential natural resource even more pressing.