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Rethinking Collaborative Public Art: Agents and values in the monument to multiculturalism in Almada, Portugal

Sat, 02 Aug 2014 00:00:00 +0000

What are the advantages of having a collaborative process instead of a single authorship to build a public monument? Is the result really a reflection of the communities’ values? How do the various agents interact? The paper focuses on the evaluation of a collaborative art process in Portugal.

A Participatory Public Art Process in Almada: Agents and Values

Sat, 05 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0000

The impact of public art on the territory has an undeniable cultural dimension since it creates new sensorial and visual agents, with potential social interactivity. In this paper we present and discuss a Portuguese case-study of participated public art, developed for the Caparica Civic Centre (Almada, Portugal) by a team that includes artists (sculptors), anthropologists, local associations and inhabitants. The territory and the community were the main pillars for the conception of a three piece monument, built in a multicultural neighborhood, through a progressive and interactive working methodology, between 2011 and 2013.

Anthropological contributions to participated public art: The case of the Monument to Cultural Diversity in the Fróis Urban Park, Almada (Portugal)

Tue, 06 Aug 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Paper co-authored with Filipa Ramalhete, Maria Assunção Gato and Sérgio Vicente, and presented at the IUAES 2013 Congress, which took place in Manchester on August 5–10, 2013.