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ARTISTIC PROGRAMME

Between June and November, the festival’s eight architectural installations will be activated by an artistic programme led by eight invited artists and designers, through proposals developed in collaboration with local communities. Each project includes a public presentation, but grows out of a participatory process made up of meetings, workshops and shared experiences. For each activation, you’ll find more information on how to get involved.




31 MAY · 15h00 — 21h30FESTIVAL OPENING TOUR

OPENING TOUR
A special bus tour to launch the festival, offering a first look at the architectural installations. The journey includes a curatorial introduction and presentations by the invited architecture teams.

> Starting point: Praça dos Arsenalistas, Fujacal
> Registration now open (limited places)
7 JUNE [ NEIGHBOURS ] GUSTAVO CIRÍACO +
ANDREA SONNBERGER


WALKING PERFORMANCE 
A silent walk with chairs moves through the rhythms and invisible thresholds of the Fujacal neighbourhood, revealing the everyday gestures, uses and connections that shape its lived spaces and shared life.

> Fujacal
> Architectural installation by Parto Atelier
17 - 21 JUNE [ COMMON JAM ] DANIEL PARNITZKE

WORKSHOP + COLLECTIVE BREAKFAST
Learn how to collectively build a handmade stove using local materials and prepare jam with fruit from the São Vicente urban garden — ending with a shared breakfast with the local community.

> São Vicente urban garden
> Architectural installation by Atelier Local
> Registration opening soon

25, 26 JUNE, 31 JULY and 2 AUGUST 

FERMENTATION WORKSHOP 
+ PERFORMATIVE LUNCH
A performative lunch prepared through practices of observation, harvesting and fermentation at the Quinta das Lameiras urban garden — exploring more reciprocal, symbiotic and sensitive ways of relating to this shared space.

> Quinta das Lameiras urban garden 
> Architectural installation by RAM
> Registration opening soon


PERFORMATIVE EXPERIENCE
A performative experience of touch and attentive listening, where objects created for the Quinta da Capela neighbourhood invite moments of slowing down, self-care, and shared reflection on everyday life.

> Quinta da Capela
> Registration opening soon
6 SEPTEMBERZABRA
PERFORMANCE – INSTALLATION
A performance-installation takes the form of a ritual of encounter, where human and non-human presences come together with the Fontainhas neighbourhood, exploring new ways of being and imagining the commons.


> Fontainhas
> Architectural installation of Manuel Bouzas
> Registration opening soon

13 SEPTEMBER
FRAME COLECTIVO

WORKSHOP & CONVERSATION
A workshop and open conversation with the Makro neighbourhood, where memories of the area, urban ecology practices, and gestures of collective imagination come together to reflect on and reimagine the commons.


> Makro Area
> Registration opening soon
20 SEPTEMBER
A RECOLETORA

WORKSHOP
A workshop in Parretas where storytelling, foraging, and shared meals are activated as practices of knowledge and connection between humans and ecosystems.


> Parretas
> Registration opening soon




4 OCTOBER
LANDRA

WORKSHOP
A workshop exploring the soil and seeds of the Quinta da Armada urban garden, promoting biodiversity as a collective practice of regeneration and ecological care.

> Quinta da Armada urban garden
> Architectural installation of LIMIT Architecture Studio
Registration opening soon






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