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Research visit to La Foresta – Accademia di Comunità hosted by Bianca Elzenbaumer and Flora Mammana.
Act 6: Collecting – Collectively preparing tomato passata and lighting the wood-fired oven for pizza.
Act 5: Commoning – Welcoming the MareVettaMare sports association to Le Vigne.re.
Collective caring and hanging of Fantasia at the Grosseto Psychiatric Hospital. Part of the project Oração às Alienadas.
“Corpo e Memória” workshop at the Lisbon Psychiatric Hospital, as part of the project Oração às Alienadas.
Act 4: Kindling – Inauguration of the wood-fired oven and collective preparation of a communal dinner.
“Corpo e Memória” workshop at the Grosseto Psychiatric Hospital, as part of the project Oração às Alienadas.
First artists in residency at Le Vigne.re. companhiacompanhia with azuLABula, Clarice Rito, Fernanda Modiano, and Ronaldo Januário with the support of FUNARTE.
Festivities under Siege. Conference in Ljubljana organised by Krater Collective.
Act 3: Becoming Common – Opening the rural House to the community, giving it a name, and caring for it collectively.
Guest visitors Magnus Ericson, Head of IASPIS Applied Arts, and Eylül Şenses, Programmer at SALT in Istanbul. The visit is part of their research for the project Practice Matters.
Welcoming Rinaldi Family, the former inhabitants of the rural House: Lorella, Giovannni and Mauro.
Continuous repair of the rural House.
Visit to Museo di Casa d’Erci, a community-run rural house museum dedicated to preserving and sharing rural practices, knowledge, and traditions.
Engagement with Mondeggi Bene Comune – Fattoria Senza Padrone. A weekend of learning about their practices, methods, and skills, including olive tree pruning.
Act 2: Repairing – Beginning of physical repairs at the house.
Publication To be more than a student: a learning journey at Urgent Pedagogies Reader.
Visit to Krater Collective hosted by Danica Sretenović and Amadeja Smrekar.
Art and Politics: On Friendship and the Political Imaginary course gathering in Ljubljana. Visiting galleries and museums, collective discussions, food, and wine.
General Assembly of the Entity of Decolonization Association.
Visit to the culturally re-inhabited medieval Borgo Tatti during the Sagra, a community celebration centered on food traditions.
Act 1: Pane e Rose (Bread and Roses). First event hosted at the rural house. Collective repair, planting roses and welcoming neighbours.
Participation in the exhibition Poéticas do Feminino: estética, política e voz, with the work Interlúdios, developed in collaboration with azuLABula and Marcelo Valle as a continuation of Oração às Alienadas – Ato 1. Held at Caixa Cultural São Paulo, curated by Zeca Medeiros and Otavio Avancini.
New DAAS cohort research week at Borgo Rizza.
Kick-off of the house repair project in rural Italy. Keys received, ready to get to work!
Art and Politics: On Friendship and the Political Imaginary, one-term online course at HDK-Valand – Academy of Art and Design, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
New horizons: One-year stay in Grosseto, Italy.
Presentation of my architectural-artistic practice at the TERRRA network, in Brezoi, Romania. Hosted by Doina Petrescu and Constantin Petcou.
Amazing visit to the ASTRA Museum in Sibiu, Romania, together with Magnus Ericson and Constantin Petcou. A collection of rural traditions, practices, tools, food diversity and examples of the region’s architectural heritage.
Research trip to Romania with Magnus Ericson to visit the TERRRA network in Brezoi, hosted by Doina Petrescu and Constantin Petcou, alongside the Erasmus program coordinated by Katarina Boehm of My Villages.
azuLABula, invited by Cesar Oiticica Filho, expanded Oração às Alienadas into a new act, Ato V – Corpo de Baile bringing more emphasis on movement. Exhibited at the new gallery of Teatro Glauco Gil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Visit to the collective Lumen in Florence, Italy.
Visit to the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze to research Il Seme Anarchico, an anarchist newspaper from Lentini published by Francesco Martinez. Part of Memorie Ribelli.
Research visit to Nature Academy in Montepreti, Italy. Welcomed by the host Anna Maria Orrù and Morten Søndergaard.
Research visit to the Museo della Mezzadria Senese in Buonconvento, Italy.
Entity of Decolonization Annual Gathering: home is the mother of return. Launch of Entity of Decolonization association.
Il ritorno delle Memorie Ribelli: Ricordare – Ricostruire – Resistere workshop with Laura Fiorio and Goga in Borgo Rizza, Sicily, Italy.
Research trip to Borgo Rizza, Sicily, Italy, featuring a special celebration for Madame Cadec 40.
Article Position, Context and Translation – The letters of Lina Bo Bardi and Bruno Zevi published in the Cadernos ProArq Nº 43- Revista de Arquitetura e Urbanismo do PROARQ – UFRJ.
Participation in the Seminário Memórias da Loucura 7 with the artist azuLABula, at Instituto Municipal de Assistência à Saúde Nise da Silveira, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Oração às Alienadas in the group exhibition “Himalaya Niloticus Crocodile Diamond” at Centro Cultural Capiberibe, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Participation in II colóquio crítica . mídias . memória | diálogos transatlânticos em arquitetura with the article Position, Context and Translation – The letters of Lina Bo Bardi and Bruno Zevi in Porto, Portugal.
Studio visit and painting with artist Xadalu Tupã Jekupé at Iaspis, the International Programme for Visual and Applied Arts, Stockholm, Sweden.
Performance at Art Rio with companhiacompanhia part of the exhibition Oração às Alienadas Ato 3 – Semeadura at Centro Municipal de Arte Hélio Oiticica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Visit to Araçá Project – Atlantic Forest Research and Conservation Alliance in Nova Friburgo, Rio de Janeiro.
Performance in the opening of Parada 7 – Levante Floresta with companhiacompanhia part of the exhibition Oração às Alienadas Ato 3 – Semeadura at Centro Municipal de Arte Hélio Oiticica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Visit to Museu de Arte Osório Cesar (MAOC) – Complexo Hospitalar do Juquery with the curators Elielton Ribeiro and Michelle Louise Guimarães in Franco da Rocha, São Paulo, Brazil.
Activations of the exhibition Oração às Alienadas Ato 1, 2 and 3 with the artist azuLABula, at the Espaço Travessia Medicinal Garden, Instituto Municipal de Assistência à Saúde Nise da Silveira, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Oração às Alienadas Ato 3 – Semeadura in colaboration with azuLABula, Elizabeth Franco, Clarice Rito at Centro Municipal de Arte Hélio Oiticica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Oração às Alienadas Ato 2 – Dona Yayá in colaboration with azuLABula at Centro de Preservação Cultural da USP – Casa de Dona Yayá, São Paulo, Brazil.
Visit to Instituto Bardi – Casa de Vidro to access archive materials for Diálogos Transatlânticos.
Presentation at the conference Learnings/Unlearnings: Environmental Pedagogies, Play, Policies, and Spatial Design at Fårgfabriken, Stockholm.
Walking as a research practice in Lagorai, Northern Italy.
Research visit to the Fondazione Bruno Zevi, collecting archive materials for Diálogos Transatlânticos.
Activations of the exhibition Oração às Alienadas, featuring a collective reading of Trialogue da Loucura with artist azuLABula, at Espaço Travessia, Instituto Municipal de Assistência à Saúde Nise da Silveira, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Workshop “Corpo e Memória” with artist azuLABula, activating the exhibition Oração às Alienadas through a collective reading of Trialogue da Loucura, at Espaço Travessia, Instituto Municipal de Assistência à Saúde Nise da Silveira, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Oração às Alienadas presented in the collective exhibition “Ainda Não Falamos Sobre Isso”, curated by Marcelo Valle at Espaço Travessia, Instituto Municipal de Assistência à Saúde Nise da Silveira, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In collaboration with artist azuLABula.
Launch and presentation of the report Hur jämställt blev det – och vad kan vi lära oss? In collaboration with Vanessa Duarte, Jennie Björstad, and Dafni Sarakinis. Supported by ARkus.
Visiting museums and archives: Museo della Civiltà, Archivio di Stato, and Museo dei Diari with artist Laura Fiorio for the Colonial Archives project.
Launch of publication “What does it mean “To decolonize”? 6″ from Decolonizing Architecture Advanced Studies – DAAS at the Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm.
Participation in the Third Annual Gathering of Ente of Decolonization in Borgo Rizza, Sicily.
Visit to Espaco Travessia at Instituto Municipal de Assistência à Saúde Nise da Silveira and Museu do Inconsciente with artista azuLABula, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Collective reading of O Re-encontro de Mercedes Baptista e Marielle Franco nas ruas do Rio de Janeiro as part of the Instituto dos Arquitetos do Brasil – IAB Women’s Day programme in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Immersion with the collective companhiacompanhia in Lumiá, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Publication of Carta ao arquiteto in the book collection “Planalto Riots: Making and unmaking a failed coup in Brazil” edited by Lou Caffagni, Isabel Löfgren, Gizele Martins and Paola Sartoretto.
Visting archive Memorie Coloniali in Modena with artist Laura Fiorio for the Colonial Archives project.
Interview with Paulo Tavares and Gabriela de Matos about Golden Lion Prize for the Brazilian Pavilion in 18th Internationl Architecture Venice Biennale 2023 in “The Architect’s Newspaper”.
Visiting Italian National State Archive in Rome for the Colonial Archives project.
Participation in the collective exhibition/happening O Banquete: oferendas de amor – A Viagem in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Presentation of Letters at Ex-posição with the artist azuLABula in Centro Cultural dos Correios, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Research visit at the Centro De Preservação Cultural da USP – Casa de Dona Yayá, São Paulo, Brazil.
Moderating Roda de Mulheres: Arquitetas, as part of “Rumo ao Março Feminista”, at the Instituto dos Arquitetos do Brasil (IAB), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Research trip to Brasília reflecting on fascist colonial connections in modern architecture.
Labour as a Modern Erasure in Design and Architectural History, Practice, and Education in Brazil presented by Dr. Livia Rezende at the ‘All Hands on Deck’ symposium at the University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
Nature Voices Third Walk Vão do Moleque in Brazil with ecologist Paula Koeler Lira to connect territories, stories, and ourselves. Awarded a Project Grant by the Graham Foundation.
Immersion trip to the north of Brazil, visiting local communities in the Amazon Forest. Reflections on coloniality, identity and imperialism.
Nature Voices awarded with a Graham Foundation grant to support the third walk of the series in Brazil with ecologist Paula Koeler Lira.
Launch of publication “What does it mean “To decolonize”? 5″ from Decolonizing Architecture Advanced Studies – DAAS at the Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm
Research grant fom Arkus to work on a report on feminist urban projects in Sweden. Collective application with Vanessa Duarte, Jennie Björstad and Dafni Sarakinis.
Having tea and biscuits with Sylvia Pankhurst’s grandson, Alula Pankhurst, at their home in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
abRen Residency, supported by Konstnärsnämnden – The Swedish Arts Grants Committee, with Rahel Shawl in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Participation in the collective exhibition/happening O Banquete: oferendas de amor in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Participation in the “Difficult Heritage Summer School – Second Edition” in Borgo Rizza, Sicily. A collaboration between Decolonizing Architecture – DAAS and Critical Urbanism – Basel Univetsity.
Mapping Heritage article published in “Building Narratives” publication by Architektūros Fondas, Vilnius.
Nature Voices First Walk along the Lapland in Sweden with ecologist Paula Koeler Lira to connect territories, stories, and ourselves. Awarded a Project Grant by the Graham Foundation.
Participation in CES (Centro de Estudos Sociais – Universidade de Coimbra) Summer School Epistemologias do Sul VI: Existir, Resistir e Lutar através das Artes.
Publication of the article “Shared and Not Contested: Modern Erasures in Design and Architecture—History, Practice, and Education in Brazil” co-authored with Livia Rezende, in the book “Building/Object: Shared and Contested Territories of Design and Architecture” published by Bloomsbury
Nature Voices First Walk along the Alentejo Coast in Portugal with ecologist Paula Koeler Lira to connect territories, stories, and ourselves. Awarded a Project Grant by the Graham Foundation.
External critique guest for the final review of “Public Realm as Process” by P4 students from School of Architecture and the Built Environment , Royal Institute of Technology – KTH, Stockholm.
Launch of publication “What does it mean “To decolonize”? 4″ from Decolonizing Architecture Advanced Studies – DAAS at the Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm.
End of the year discursive exhibition of Post-Master Decolonizing Architecture Advanced Studies – DAAS at Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm.
Participation in the trip to Messaure and Jokkmokk with Tensta Konsthall in the frame of the exhibition “Hurting and Healing”.
Participated in the first activation of the discursive exhibition “Ente di Decolonizzazione – Borgo Rizza” by DAAR (Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti) at the Mostra d’Oltremare, Naples.
Colonial Archives awarded a Project Grant from the Swedish Arts Grants Committee – Konstnärsnämnden.
Sharing my artistic research practice with participants of Decolonizing Architecture Advanced Studies – DAAS at Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm.
Publication “Request & Response: conviviality and reflexiveness” curated and edited by Roberta Burchardt.
Launch of the e-pub Architectural Dissonances, from L’Internationale. Co-edited and published a conversation text with Roberta Burchardt: A Continuous Dialogue.
Urbanismo Feminista at FAU- UFRJ. Online lecture on feminism and the urban environment at the Faculty of Architetcure and Urbanism, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
3 weeks trip to Addis Ababa to implement the abRen Residency – cancelled due to war in Ethiopia
abRen Residency at Iaspis, the International Programme for Visual and Applied Arts by Konstnärsnämnden – The Swedish Arts Grants Committee. Development of aBren residency program with Rahel Shawl in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Urbanismo Feminista at the program IAB-Compartilha. Two-day lecture and workshop, in collaboration with architect Marina Lage on Feminism and the urban environment. Part of the extensive educational program of the Instituto Brasileiro de Arquitetos, Rio de Janeiro, IAB-RJ.
Participation in the Difficult Heritage Summer School, in Borgo Rizza, Sicily. A collaboration between with Decolonizing Architecture and Critical Urbanism from Basel Univetsity.
Launch of publication “What does it mean “To decolonize”? 3″ from Decolonizing Architecture Advanced Studies – DAAS at the Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm.
ABF reading group ‘Bodies of Care’ with Jenny Richards and Gunilla Lundahl.
Performing Trialogue Act3 at Iaspis Open Studio Spring 2021.
Online lecture ‘Building Narratives,’ part of the Lecture Series City and Social Justice in the Department of Architecture at the University of Cyprus.
Mapping Heritage featured as exhibition #9 on the Micro-exhibition series ‘Building Narratives‘ organized by Architektūros Fondas, Vilnius.
Letters presented at Alliances & Commonalities 2020 online conference in artistic research from Stockholm University of Arts – Uniarts, Stockholm.
Research mentorship for second-year participants of Decolonizing Architecture Advanced Studies – DAAS at the Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm.
Organization on the online conference ‘Decolonizing Education’ with Nadira Omarjee, Shahram Khosravi and Alessandro Petti at Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm.
Teaching Assistant for the Decolonizing Architecture Advanced Studies – DAAS. Weekend at Långholmen, marking the kick-off of the Decolonizing Architecture academic year in Stockholm.
Workshop Mapping Heritage in Vilnius Palace of Concerts and Sports part of the ‘Building Narratives’ programme organized by Architektūros Fondas, Vilnius,
Residency at Iaspis, International Programme for Visual and Applied Arts from Konstnärsnämnden – The Swedish Arts Grants Comittee.
Launch of publication “What does it mean “To decolonize”? 2″ from Decolonizing Architecture Advanced Studies – DAAS at the Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm.
Launch of DAAS Web platform for Decolonizing Architecture Advanced Course, Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm.
Article on Dear You and De-Tour published on the newspaper Stockholmstidningen n#2.
Launch MOPS – Maps on the Politics of Space website in partnership with Tove Möller and Astrid Eriksson.
De-tour, the bus tour in Stockholm that explores the politics of private ownership in the city. In partnership with Tove Möller and Astrid Eriksson and supported by a research grant from Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm.
Article on Connecting Stories published on the newspaper Stockholmstidningen n#1.
Letters presented at the exhibition ‘Emotional Practices’ at Open, an online gallery incubated at Royal College of Arts – RCA, London.
Trialogue Act 2 published in “What does it mean “To decolonize”? 1″ from Decolonizing Architecture Advanced Studies – DAAS at the Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm.
Launch of publication “What does it mean “To decolonize”? 1″ from Decolonizing Architecture Advanced Studies – DAAS at the Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm.
Trialogue Act2 presented in the end of year discursive exhibition of Decolonizing Architetcure Advanced Studies – DAAS at Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm.
Connecting Stories on ‘Act 1 Earth Market’ organized by Mossutställningar in Djurgårdsstaden, Stockholm.
Article on Maps on the Politics of Space with Tove Möller and Astrid Eriksson published at Kultwatch online magazine.
Research trip to Asmara and Addis Ababa with Decolonizing Architecture Advanced Studies – DAAS.
Trialogue performed at the Theatre of ‘Istituto Italiano di Cultura’, Stockholm.
‘Staging the Message. The Architecture of Communication’ – ResArc at KTH – Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm.
Trialogue presented as part of the 5x5x5 program of Manifesta 12 in Palermo, within the ‘International Symposium for the Critical Re-use of the Casa del Mutilato’ in Palermo, Sicily.
Organization of the ‘International Symposium for the Critical Re-use of the Casa del Mutilato’ in Palermo, Sicily
Trialogue presented at the annual exhibition of Decolonizing Architecture Advanced Studies – DAAS at Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm.
Conference ‘Decolonizing Architecture: Internal Colonialism – Refugee and colonial heritage – Knowledge Production’ together with participants of Decolonizing Architecture at Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm.
Research Trip to Boden, Sweden with Sandi Hilal and Decolonizing Architecture participants to visit the ‘Living Room’ project with Yasmeen Mahmoud.
ABF reading group ‘Cirkeln om staden’ with Elof Hellström and Julia Lindblom.
Research Trip to Palermo in Sicily, Italy with Decolonizing Architecture Advanced Studies – DAAS.
Publication ‘Decolonizing North’ from the conference organized with Konsthall C and participants of Decolonizing Architecture at Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm.
Research grant from Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm to develop the project De-Tour in collaboration with Tove Möller and Astrid Eriksson.
Research Trip to Palermo in Sicily, Italy with Decolonizing Architecture Advanced Studies – DAAS.
Conference ‘Decolonizing North’ participants of Decolonizing Architecture together with Konsthall C at Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm
Post-Master course Decolonizing Architecture Advanced Studies at the Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm.
Dear You published in the exhibition catalogue ‘To surface’ from Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm.
Dear You exhibited in the group show ‘The Promise’ at Index, Stockholm
Dear You featured in Dagens Nyheter newspaper.
Dear You presented at ‘Critical Habitats’ final show from Royal Institute of Art in Tomteboda, Stockholm.
Post-Master course ‘Critical Habitats’ at the Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm.