Pilot Projects

Joaquim – O Conde de Ferreira e seu legado

PI Nuno Coelho

CEIS20, Direção-Geral das Artes

Funding CEIS20 Funding: Pilot Actions

Project introduction
A scientific and artistic research project based on the analysis, study and interpretation of the life and work of Joaquim Ferreira dos Santos, known as the Count of Ferreira, and his legacy in the present day, with particular emphasis on his heritage, material and economic dimensions. Through qualitative research and interdisciplinary dialogue processes – with contributions from the fields of history, sociology, economics, architecture, design, and the visual and performing arts – the project will seek to understand and articulate the subjectivity of human experience in the present. Project components: 1) the organisation of a scientific seminar; 2) the production of an exhibition, complemented by two “talks”, two guided tours, and a workshop; 3) two publications; 4) the development of a master’s thesis; and 5) paper presentations at conferences.

Objectives
1) The production of interdisciplinary knowledge, bringing together specialists from different fields of knowledge, namely history (health, education, and slavery), economics and sociology. This will contribute to innovative approaches and promote new scientific discourses;

2) The production of artistic research developed from the respective disciplinary fields of activity of the individuals invited to the team, namely Architecture, Design and Visual and Performing Arts, under the guidance of the Principal Investigator of this proposal (curatorship and editorial coordination);

3) Encourage interaction and articulation between scientific producers and cultural agents based in Portugal (with a special focus on the city of Porto) with others based in different geographical areas (namely Angola, Brazil and the Netherlands) working on themes similar to those of this proposal, allowing for the exchange of knowledge, experiences and methodologies that promote the development of their activities (scientific and artistic) and their forms of research;

4) Position the Portuguese academic and artistic community in a broad national and international debate on academic and artistic practices that promote a critical reflection on the collective past.

Cidades do Norte da Lusitânia Romana em 3D: Ensaio sobre a sua história em cenários híbridos de aprendizagem

PI: Sara Dias Trindade

Co-PI: Ricardo Costeira da Silva and Pedro C. Carvalho

CEIS20 Team Ricardo Costeira da Silva, Pedro C. Carvalho

Universidad Francisco de Vitoria (Madrid), Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Funding CEIS20 Funding: Pilot Actions

This project aims to prepare pedagogical and museographic digital content for the presentation of historical-archaeological paths of public and private spaces of the Roman cities of Conímbriga and Idanha-a-Velha. This product will be tested in two versions suitable for two types of target audience. One is based on an immediate, in situ application that provides the visitor with an immersive sensorial experience. The second is aimed at the school environment and seeks to provide the teaching context with resources that facilitate the perception and apprehension of scientific content in line with the educational programmes taught. It is hoped, in this way, to fill a gap that still exists today, concerning the articulation of scientific knowledge produced in archaeological spaces and the syllabus contents foreseen in the Aprendizagens Essenciais and to enrich, through digital, the access to knowledge by both the general and the school public. It is based on the virtual modelling of some buildings of the Roman city of Conímbriga and the production of pedagogical contents related to those spaces in articulation with the modelled spaces in Idanha-a-Velha, These resources will allow students to have a window on a past "no longer visible" and to understand, in situ, what the cities of Conímbriga and Idanha-a-Velha were and how they are integrated in the wide historical-geographical space of the Roman Empire and of a time that is at the origin of ours – our cultural matrix is also, at the origin, markedly Roman.

REPROGRAM-EU: fostering inclusive values, policies, and identities through participatory cultural programming in the European Union

reprogram-eu.ceis20@uc.pt

PI: Sérgio Neto

Co-PI: Joana Ricarte

CEIS20 Team Clara Isabel Serrano, Vanessa Nunes

Funding CEIS20 Funding: Pilot Actions

REPROGRAM-EU (purposely a homophone for ‘reprogram you') will develop exploratory research aiming to analyse how young European citizens relate to the European Union (EU) and to test an intervention model in Horizon Europe Research & Innovation Action's fashion for counteracting the current rise of extremism in the continent through creative and participatory cultural programming. Taking Portugal as a case study, it will gather cross-national original data on European youth's viewpoints about the values and policies that characterize the Union, as well as their correlation with feelings of (de-) identification with/from the bloc. Epistemologically, this project deals with the relationship between values, policies, and identities from an intersubjective and interdisciplinary perspective, drawing from both quantitative and qualitative methods. It will assess university students' understanding of the interconnectedness between these dynamics, to analyse from the bottom-up how one influences the other, their impact on individuals' positionality regarding the EU, and on processes of identity (re)construction. Then, this research-action proposal will test an intervention model based on the potential of cultural programming, and more specifically, tailor-made theatre forum performances, for fostering debate related to contemporary societal challenges such as the rise of extremism, exclusionary politics, and the crises of democracy. To this aim, REPROGRAM-EU will provide an alternative training offer for University of Coimbra students with the implementation of participatory and disruptive theatre workshops followed by public performances headed towards the community inspired by the Theatre of the Oppressed techniques. REPROGRAM-EU's activities and results will contribute to building resilient societies, and fostering inclusion, democratic values, and human rights by providing a method for cultural, political, and individual reprogramming in the European Union, targeting academic and non-scientific communities alike.

This research is headed towards a practical policy impact, as well as societal transformation. It tackles current and important issues in the international agenda that go beyond the case study proposed, dealing with the connections between increasing inequality, precarity, and lack of perspectives at the individual level with the global tendency of rising extremism, marginalization of difference and promotion of exclusionary politics that have eroded democratic institutions and allowed for increasing distrust on this system. This research will promote debate on and raise awareness of these issues and the conditions for counteracting them, acting within the University of Coimbra's borders and beyond. Being also transformative INS in nature, as it is grounded on a research-action approach, REPROGRAM complies with, and answers to the Sustainable Development Goals number 4 - Quality Education, 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities, 16 - Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions and 17 - Partnerships for the Goals. Its results will foster inclusive values, political thinking, and identities within the University of Coimbra's community, as well as the city of Coimbra in general, promoting the usage of the arts as a tool for the co-creation of democracy, social inclusion, and human rights. Its outreach and sustainability strategy also points to the development of partnerships aiming to “strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development” (SDG17), insofar as it intends to be an exploratory phase for a wider research project application.

Funded by CEIS20 as part of the multiannual funding of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies of the University of Coimbra/CEIS20 by the Foundation for Science and Technology. Head Researcher: João Rui Pita (2nd phase: 2017-2019; 3rd phase: 2020-2022).

Funded by CEIS20 as part of the multiannual funding of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies of the University of Coimbra/CEIS20 by the Foundation for Science and Technology. Head Researchers: Ana Leonor Pereira and João Rui Pita (2017-2020), Victoria Bell.