COUNTER-ARCHITECTURE
Re-constructing Reality

Counter-architecture is a collaborative research-project taking place between September of 2020 and January of 2021 — four performative actions, four talks and four debates that will result in a green paper, in the year where Lisbon is the European Green Capital, aimed to think the future of what we call “urbanity”.

Control/Transgression

Law determines what has and can be limited by the norms by which different human activities are governed. However, there is always a margin for transgression established by the use, in all cultures, which means that “legitimacy”, recognized by most members of a society, does not coincide with strict “legality”. This lends a symbolic character to the law in its spirit or enforcement that the legislator/politician manages, in most cases, accordingly to circumstantial interests. Nevertheless, the creative gesture often moves in that interval, especially in Architecture and the Arts.

Session #2/4 
maat: stage 1

→ 16.00 
Performative action with Teatro Praga: Counter-architecture: Control/Transgression (w/ english subtitles)
Videoconference with Neil Leach: The Politics of Space in the Age of Covid-19 ” (in english)

Intermission

→ 18.00 
Debate with Idalina Baptista, João Miranda, Lia Vasconcelos, Paulo Carapuça and José Bragança de Miranda [moderator] 

Organisation: efabula (Lucinda Correia, Rosa Matias Baptista, Andreia Páscoa, Sara Reis, Marta Rema, Susana Sequeira)