Walking and Listening to Places, Their Temporal Layers and Ingrained Entanglements | Creative Methodologies Workshop

Joana invites us to walk and listen to places, to their temporal layers and ingrained entanglements. The workshop will concentrate on walking and listening as forms of place-based research and practice that will allow us to engage with concrete sites and to read traces of multiple, often conflicting, temporal layers engraved in them. On the first day, we will experiment with different audio walks and the distinct ways they affect and expand our nomadic experience of the places they cross. On the second day, after a public lecture by Joana, we will immerse ourselves in embodied research, experimenting with ways of listening to a specific path along Marvila and Beato, a complex and heterogeneous territory where remains of industrial and rural pasts coexist with scattered neighbourhoods separated by fast lanes and more recent interventions resulting from land and property pressures. Based on embodied and aural experience, participants, organised in groups, will outline an audio walk aiming to expand the experience and understanding of the materialities, temporalities, uses, affections and contradictions of this territory.

26-28th of February | 3 Full-days | In-person workshop | Around Lisbon and in Room A202 (Building 4, Iscte) | Registration needed via AfDevLives@iscte-iul.pt (few spots available)

27th of February | 10:00 | Open Lecture (hybrid event) | Room B202 (Building 4, Iscte) and online (Zoom link to join) Title: “Sound and performative walks: ambulatory practices to critically reconfigure the experience and engagement with inhabited space”