Porto Design Biennale 2021
December 27, 2020
France introduced as Guest Country
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: this is the curatorial proposal of the duo Caroline Naphegyi and Sam Baron for the Porto Design Biennale 2021.
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 PDB.