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- Deprovincializing and Denationalizing European FeminismsPublication . MONTANARO, MaraTo rethink European feminisms on an international scale requires a powerful theoretical reworking of space. It is a question of thinking the materiality of its borders not as something fixed, given once and for all, but, on the contrary, as a dimension where the feminist struggles, the new subjectivations that come out of it, the changing gender relations, constantly reformulate and rebuild its limits, its borders. Hence, the need to consider a geography capable of making space the object of a critical problematization, to show how this space - and its historicity - is affected in its geographical and cultural materiality by the postcolonial and decolonial feminist struggles. In this text I will focus on showing how “denationalizing European feminisms”, following Dipesh Chakrabarty’s invitation to provincialize Europe, means to interrogate the genealogy, the very story of European feminisms, through this denationalization. If belonging to the women’s movement does not require the blind adherence to a dogma or a definite and valid representation of all times, then re-politicizing European feminisms means inventing new ways of being together, by choosing according to which priorities and by what means to tinker with fragmentary theories, or even how “to move” to implement a plural and multilingual dialogue - in short, it is a question of imagining a radically international feminism.
- Europe Without Organs? Opicinus de Canistris and the New Anomos of the EarthPublication . MOLL, Łukasz; POSPISZYL, MichałThe on-going crisis of identity of Europe is related to deep transformations of European borders. Today’s borders no longer lie at the limits of territorial order. We live in turbulent times of shifting and metamorphosing of the European borders. In this critical context, new geopolitical imaginaries of Europe are much needed. We argue that, in our situation, an analogous representational crisis of Europe which arose at the end of the Middle Ages is worth examining. The collapse of medieval vision of the world, in which “res publica christiana” played the crucial part, was followed by the revolution in the mapping of space with portolans, scientific cartography and secularization of knowledge. One of the most imaginative and confusing cartographer of the passage from political theology of papacy and empire to modern territorial state system was the 14th-century priest Opicinus de Canistris. Our theoretical attempt is a part of renewed interest in Opicinus’ work (K. Whittington, V. Morse). We propose the analysis of his maps in the light of medieval theories of political body. Rapid social changes enabled Opicinus to combine theological and secular arguments in order to represent deterritorialization of Europe (as understood by Deleuze and Guattari). Opicinus experienced new possibilities of mapping space before Eurocentric reterritorialization of the globe took place (as described by Carl Schmitt in The Nomos of the Earth). His discovery of forces of immanence and free flows of desire may be of actual relevance today, when spatial order of Europe passes through profound transformations of unknown destination. The Deleuzian reading of Opicinus’ body-worlds could contribute to deepening our imagination into cartography of the anomos, of autonomous and mobile force of migrants who cease to be organized by the paradigm of inhospitable European sovereignty.
- Gerhard Richter: Between the sayable and the intelligiblePublication . SUSIGAN, Cristina
- Europe’s SicknessPublication . RUIZ de SAMANIEGO, AlbertoIs Europe sick? Has it always been sick? More than a hundred years ago, Nietzsche wrote: “Europe is a sick man, and an incurable sick one.” If so, we would like to diagnose what such a disease consisted of and still consists, and if there is a cure.
- Plataforma para a etapa de problematização no ensino de designPublication . Selau, Luiza Grazziotin; Linden, Júlio Carlos de Souza van der; Duarte, Carlos Alberto MirandaA compreensão do problema de projeto é parte essencial de um processo de design, visto que conduz todas as tomadas de decisão posteriores. É identificada uma negação a respeito da etapa de problematização por parte dos estudantes de graduação em design, que se interessam mais pela fase criativa do que pela assimilação do problema a ser trabalhado. Desta forma, a Tese tem como objetivo propor um recurso que auxilie os estudantes de ensino superior em design na compreensão das oportunidades de projeto. Para o desenvolvimento da proposta foram realizadas pesquisas bibliográfica, documental e de observação participante por meio da triangulação (YIN, 2005), e a análise dos dados qualitativos obtidos foi feita com base nos períodos de imersão em contextos de ensino no Brasil e em Portugal (PDSE - Programa de Doutorado Sanduíche no Exterior). A proposta resultante foi desenvolvida a partir do método INTERAD – Interfaces Interativas Digitais aplicadas à Educação (PASSOS, 2011) com período de mobilidade na Finlândia, a fim de proporcionar experiência diferenciada ao processo de desenvolvimento da solução. Os requisitos para o resultado foram definidos a partir das imersões realizadas e a proposta foi validada por meio de testes com usuários pertencentes ao público-alvo. O resultado apresenta uma ferramenta que assessora o processo de problematização de projetos, com estratégias que facilitam a compreensão dos aspectos relevantes do projeto e viabilizam o desenvolvimento de alternativas mais consistentes diante da demanda, bem como formas de analisar o resultado selecionado confrontando com as informações iniciais disponibilizadas. Entrega-se como resultado uma plataforma digital interativa com foco na problematização de projetos, que pode ser expandida para outras etapas do processo de design e para outras áreas que fazem uso de projetos, além de proporcionar espaço para exposição de portfólio dos estudantes e interação entre academia e empresas.
- European Dream. ‘Keep bangin’ on the wall’Publication . CRUZ, CarlaThis paper discusses ideas around European identity, the ideal of free movement, and the building of ‘Fortress Europe’ through artistic work I developed between 2005 and 2006; and endorses feminist theorist Rosi Braidotti’s idea of “becoming minoritarian” as an antidote to constructing an European identity based on old and new xenophobic and racist ideas, supported through my experience of leading the feminist exhibition project All My Independent Wo/men between 2005 and 2013, as a similar project of operating from the margins as a place of potentiality.
- Empreendedorismo nas incubadoras do Distrito de SantarémPublication . Silva, David Filipe Santos; Simões, Jorge Manuel MarquesO empreendedorismo, é um tema com uma importância cada vez maior e com mais relevância em termos científicos. Sendo referenciado como um dos mais relevantes contributos para o crescimento económico, criação de emprego, inovação e para a melhoria competitiva das empresas e das regiões. Nesse sentido as incubadoras pretendem oferecer todas a ferramentas necessárias para o desenvolvimento das startups incubadas, sendo que importa referir as duas tipologias de empreendedorismo existente, por necessidade e por oportunidade. De salientar que diversos autores defendem que o empreendedorismo por oportunidade é aquele que desenvolve de uma forma mais sólida o crescimento económico e, por conseguinte, a competitividade da região. Assim sendo, o objetivo principal desta investigação é percecionar se o empreendedorismo presente nas incubadoras do distrito de Santarém é, por necessidade ou por oportunidade, assim como a experiência anterior à criação das startups, se os negócios presentes nas incubadoras são ou não empreendedores, quais os apoios fornecidos pelas incubadoras e se contribuem de uma forma relevante para o crescimento económico da região de uma forma competitiva. Para a recolha de informação, foi efetuada uma entrevista semiestruturada aos responsáveis das startups presentes nas incubadoras do distrito de Santarém, podendo assim responder à questão da presente investigação
- From Peripheral to Cosmopolitan. The Crisis-Images in Miguel Gomes Arabian NightsPublication . MIRANDA, LuísThe ever-elusive essence and idea of Europe are once again questioned and debated because of its most recent crisis, which began with the sovereign debt crisis of the peripheral Eurozone economies. This article intends to be a reflection on what it is to be part of Europe as subpart/division/peripheral border of it, developing it around two levels of analysis: firstly, the artistic response to the events and social disruptions that took place on the European crisis and, in particular, through the way some cinema has looked at them; and secondly, one in which this cinematographic artistic response is created from the European periphery, and in this singular case, Portugal. Its object of analysis is the film The 1001 Nights, by the Portuguese filmmaker Miguel Gomes and divided into 3 volumes: The Restless One (2015), The Desolate One (2015) and The Enchanted One (2015).
- To Draw Borders and The Aesthetic Mind: Reviewing Europe With Almada NegreirosPublication . LAMBERT, Maria de Fátima
- Eurorenovation (euroremont): The art of concealingPublication . FILYUK, KaterynaSoon after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the phenomenon of Eurorenovation emerged ready to help numerous citizens of the newly established Ukrainiain state to get rid of their gloomy past. The movement, disguised as the reorganization of the private space of one’s own home, actually functioned as a face-lift and a cover-up of all sorts of problems instead of the much-needed search for solutions. Plastic euro-windows and euro-doors, dropped ceiling and plastic paneling flooded Ukraine, mimicking European design and eventually the lifestyle while effectively ignoring massive infrastructural problems, poverty and the immense gap between a devastated country in transition and a seemingly flourishing Europe. In 2010, R.E.P. group initiated a long-term project called Eurorenovation aiming at identifying symptoms of this process and consequently apprehending Eurorenovation in its complexity in order to be able to describe similar sociocultural relations in other countries. Over the following years the artists created a series of installations, where they literally copied recognizable trends in the popular interior redesign of Soviet apartments using cheap imported materials. Strange as it may sound, but Europe – Ukraine’s role model – may have fallen into the very same trap. A tendency towards the cosmetic concealment of problem areas and patching up instead of coming up with problem-solving methodologies characterizes European governance in recent years. With that said, the Ukrainian know-how could be of practical value as well as the R.E.P. group visual research that convincingly demonstrate the dangers of the Eurorenovation approach.