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 substance of things

JOÃO MIRANDA
“Ultimately, it is possible to assert that the exhibition The substance of things lies at the genesis of new matters, as the invitation for the exhibition and the subsequent development of the exhibition project facilitated the creation of two (new) axes.”