The speed of utopia: a Visual Essay.
Duarte Belo
“We walk through the streets of any Portuguese city. There are buildings from various historical eras. We take photographs of space and time. It is not easy to interpret the reality.”
Lisbon: Resilience and Vulnerability. Reflections on the post-25 April 1974 city. Introduction to the dossier.
RICARDO CARVALHO & INÊS LOBO
“The city is the place where culture and technology, man and nature, come together to create a possibility for the common good. Nowadays, it is a site of potential and confrontation, of cohesion and protection, but also of instability and exclusion. What always prevails is its enormous potential and capacity for improvement.”
The post-25 April city. A conversation with geographers Margarida Pereira and Gonçalo Antunes
FILIPA RAMALHETE, MARGARIDA PEREIRA & GONÇALO ANTUNES
“Urbanisation and the accompanying intensification of economic extraction models, changes in family dynamics and social norms and widespread uncertainties surrounding housing, employment and lifestyle choices are global phenomena, particularly pronounced in several European countries.”
Culture in ecology – a revolutionary tradition
MARIA MATOS SILVA & ANA BEJA DA COSTA
“Over time, our relationship with the natural systems we are part of has changed. Individual and community experiences and memories have created collective memories, shaping different cultures, different ways of being and acting in the world in which we live.”