A more sustainable and inclusive version of the ‘The Three Little Pigs’ tale characterized as Maruxa, Xaquín and Fuco bring circular bioeconomy to more than 1,000 Galician schoolchildren through the example of a wooden ‘batea’ (mussel farming system characteristic of the Galician Rías Baixas) and with the support of storytelling sessions and a school contest.
The project converts and naturalizes a historically occupied play area by a school sports court into a children’s playground, preserving the memory of the place by leaving the lines of games of the old court as traces of memory. A new topography of vegetation allows the garden to be recreated until the school level and create a new adapted access way. The new tree planting allows shading and biodiversity to be introduced into the playground. A staircase–stage makes the play area multifunctional.
seekicks is an ongoing creative platform enabling access to knowledge and resources in the area of innovation and entrepreneurship for design and art students, graduates, and professionals. One of the experimental formats we work on is the Start-up Studio. In the studio, we explore collaborative entrepreneurial skills development for arts and design practitioners.
The initiative is about transitioning from a dying, polluting, male-centric economy, to a green & innovative one, where women's role is more visible & youth decide the future. The aim is to develop robotics, financial, sustainability & citizenship skills among students, in the multidisciplinary, intergenerational&participative setting of a Robotics Hub and of various educational & co-design activities, that will further be used to develop an attractive, sustainable and inclusive urban area.
Triplex Confinium is the first strategic partnership between the architecture schools within the DKMT Euroregion focused on the spatial heritage of minor settlements and towns set along the borders of Romania, Hungary and Serbia. Its main objective is to create awareness, among local actors, tutors and students of our common BAUKULTUR as well as to imagine ways of addressing its strengths and weaknesses using a complex toolkit, combining various pluridisciplinar tactical approaches.
The building industry has a significant impact on the environment and without great transformations on both design strategies and building techniques the world climate ambitions will be compromised. According to the World Green Building Council, building and construction are responsible for 39% of all carbon emissions in the world.
We believe that to address this issue there we must considered two combined paths. New technologies of digital fabrication applied to the use of natural materials.
Based on the concept of Circular Education, this initiative takes scientists back to their primary schools to deliver hands-on science workshops for children from their hometowns. Through this initiative students from underserved communities in Portugal create meaningful connections with science and scientists realising that “people like me can be a scientist” and developing positive attitudes towards science and higher education.
The first phase of BiodiverCities project converts construction sites into urban wild spots and enables citizens to create sustainable housing structures for pollinator species.
The lack of dialogue between citizens and city authorities fuels polarized arguments but does not provide direction for resilient urban ecosystems. We’re building a cultural shift based on artistic and scientific research, rather than opinions, and provide accessible design tools to achieve it locally.
The long-term objective of Explorer is to foster community building and promote individuals’ connection with the surrounding biodiversity, by increasing civic engagement and improving relationships between children, young adults and older generations. It unites individuals with a shared passion for nature and community through hands-on, interactive activities, such as nature explorations and practical initiatives that use biodiversity, science and sustainable consumption as means to these ends.
Project 19 is an activity that combines ocean literacy, marine science education and communication. Portuguese high school students (15-18 years old) were invited to analyse scientific papers about concrete ocean problems and present what they found most relevant through artistic performances, visual arts and communication materials that they found appealing to their generation. Some outcomes included conventional formats. Others were very creative. All were truly inspiring.
