Mobile Workshops

 

To welcome the IFoU2025 conference attendees, mobile workshops are organized to explore the city of Lisbon through the perspective of our colleagues and experts.

All mobile workshops will be conducted on foot and are free of charge, but each group is limited to 20/30 participants.

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Pre-registration is mandatory—check the descriptions and choose yours!

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Mobile WS01_Marvila: from Neighboring to Gentrification, from Housing to Retail Assets. The City of Capital disputes

​Trabalhar com os 99% and Ateliermob, with Tiago Mota Saraiva & Jéssica Abrahão Ribeiro

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During the 20th century, Marvila was the main working class neighborhood of Eastern Lisbon. It was heavily industrialized and it had the bigger shanty towns around the railways. After the Carnation Revolution, Marvila became the district with more public housing buildings to rehouse people that were living under the most poor conditions.

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Nowadays, from October 2023 – September 2024 and according to the National Data Institute (INE),Marvila is the most expensive district in Portugal (6.014,00 €/sqm) to buy a house.

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WS01 will be held in between the two railway lines, in between the gentrified river banks and the public housing areas.

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- Meeting time/point: 2:00pm, Portugal Pavilion (IFoU venue)

- Estimated duration: between 2:00pm and 5:30pm

- End point: Portugal Pavilion (IFoU venue)

- Necessary equipment: comfortable shoes and water (BUS + walking journey)​​​

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Mobile WS02_Lisbon, the time of the hills

​FormaUrbisLab-FA.ULisboa, with Carlos Dias Coelho

 

Lisbon developed from an intense relationship between a river and a system of hills. Located in a place that provided defense and accessibility, in its three millennia of existence it welcomed a succession of diverse civilizations that shaped its organization and form. In this journey we will seek to recognize the reasons for its location, the main phases of the city's growth, the metamorphoses to which it was subjected and the contribution of each culture to the configuration of the built space that we can experience today.

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- Meeting time/point: 2:30pm, Portugal Pavilion (IFoU venue)- Estimated duration: between 2:30pm and 6:30pm

- End point: Baixa-Chiado Metro Station (gree/blue lines)

- Necessary equipment: Metro ticket, comfortable shoes and water (Metro + walking journey)​​​

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Mobile WS03_ Lisbon porosity

​FormaUrbisLab-FA.ULisboa, with João Leite & Youri Spaninks-Amaro

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Reading the urban fabric of a city like Lisbon is done by decoding the visible and invisible built strata. Lisbon's historic urban layout incorporates a porosity that reconfigures limits and generates invisible flows and routes that transfigure public space and the way we live in the city. The walk from Chiado to Santa Apolónia Terminal, passing through the Castelo neighbourhood, seeks to explore how we can take the limits between buildings and public space as places that catalyse urbanity or create transitions to spaces with alternative urban atmospheres.

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- Meeting time/point: 2:30pm, Portugal Pavilion (IFoU venue)

- Estimated duration: between 2:30pm and 6:00pm

- End point: Santa Apolónia Metro station (blue line)

- Necessary equipment: Metro ticket, comfortable shoes and water (Metro + walking journey)​​

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Mobile WS04_ Housing and Mobility: the two sides of the great challenge

​URBinLAB-FA.ULisboa, with Luis Carvalho & David Vale

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Portugal, like most countries in Europe, is currently facing a ‘perfect storm’ in terms of access to housing. The challenges of facing this ‘storm’, but also those arising in urban mobility, overlap and are decisive in shaping the city/territory of the coming decades. In this context, the proposal is to visit a set of neighborhoods that cross the second half of the 20th century: Parque das Nações, Olivais and Telheiras. These neighborhoods, references in Portuguese urban planning, are seen – both in terms of their concept and their historical trajectory – as lessons for facing the challenges of housing and urban mobility.

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- Meeting time/point: 2:30pm, Portugal Pavilion (IFoU venue)

- Estimated duration: between 2:30pm and 7:00pm

- End point: Telheiras Metro Station (green line)

- Necessary equipment: Metro ticket, comfortable shoes and water (Metro + walking journey)

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Mobile WS05_Sketchwalk in Alfama (a drawing mobile workshop)

Urban Sketchers, with Mário Linhares

 

​In this workshop, we will explore the tiny streets of the Alfama neighbourhood, one of the most anciant areas of Lisbon. Using the sketchbook as a tool to draw and combine different views on the same spread we will start in Santa Apolónia train station (close to the water) and our path will finish in one of the most iconicpanorama views of the city: Portas do Sol Square. Bring your sketchbook, a pen with black ink, and a graphite pencil. That's all we'll need.

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- Meeting time/point: 2:30pm, Portugal Pavilion (IFoU venue)

- Estimated duration: between 2:30pm and 6:00pm

- End point: Baixa-Chiado Metro Station (gree/blue lines)

- Necessary equipment: Sketchbook, a pen with black ink and a graphite pencil. ALSO: Metro ticket, comfortable shoes and water. (Metro + walking journey)

 

 

​​​Mobile WS06_ Belém, the invention of the monumental scape’s

FormaUrbisLab-FA.ULisboa, with José Miguel Silva

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The formation of the Santa Maria de Belém neighbourhood began on the outskirts of the 16th century Lisbon, based on the relationship between the Jerónimos Monastery and the Tagus River and enveloped in mythical stories that marked Portugal's maritime discoveries. Since then, the riverbank line has experienced several urban transformations that sequentially determined the invention of a

monumental landscape as we recognise it today.

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The Mobile Workshop will take place between the Belém Tower and the ancient Tagus Power Plant and will allow the different moments of the urban landscape production to be explored, building systemic relationships between the river, the historic buildings and the definition of the public space.

The visit includes a brief visit to the Jerónimos Monastery church.

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- Meeting time/point: 3:00pm, Portugal Pavilion (IFoU venue)

- Estimated duration: between 3:00pm and 7:00pm

- End point: Portugal Pavilion (IFoU venue)

- Necessary equipment: comfortable shoes and water (BUS + walking journey)

 

 

​​​​​Mobile WS07_ CITY-DIPTYCH. Two pics for your thought (a photography mobile workshop)

FormaUrbisLab-FA.ULisboa, with Stefanos Antoniadis

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The more the complexity and stacking of the uneven co-presences of materials and elements manifest themselves in the contemporary city, the more the architect’s desire to put things in order becomes apparent in a longed-for and chimerical attempt to recompose, to restore unity, to restore sense to spaces and objects. Nowadays, metropolitan conditions make practices that worked better in the past

obsolete and ineffective. While the ‘old vocabulary’ of architecture was legitimately represented and measured through, for example, conventional drawing, predominantly based on Mongian projections,the ‘new vocabulary’ is more effectively intelligible and representable through projective tools such as photography. In a short photo walk, we will try to select two photographs (diptych) describing the city through new measure-abilities: focus, figure-background relationship, analogies and allegories. A brief theoretical-operational introduction will be made in situ before we begin.

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- Meeting time/point: 3pm, Portugal Pavilion (IFoU venue)

- Estimated duration: between 3:00pm and 7:00pm

- End point: Portugal Pavilion (IFoU venue)

- Necessary equipment: Smartphone and/or camera. No professional photographic equipment is required. ALSO: comfortable shoes and water. (BUS + walking journey)

 

 

​​​​Mobile WS08_ Landscape Architecture at Parque das Nações

URBinLAB-FA.ULisboa/ISA.Ulisboa, with Maria Matos Silva e Raquel Carvalho

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This mobile workshop consists of a walking guided tour focused on the landscape architecture projects at Parque das Nações and their significance in the urban transformation and environmental rehabilitation of the eastern coastal zone of Lisbon since EXPO ’98.

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The proposed itinerary, of about 10km, includes stopovers at emblematic places such as Jardins Garcia d’Orta (which is expected to be visited during rehabilitation works accompanied by the project coordinator), Jardins da Água (Water Gardens), Jardim das Ondas (Wave Gardens), Alameda dos Oceanos (Oceans Avenue), and Parque Tejo (Tagus Park).

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The aim is for the activity to last no more than 3 hours, from 3:00pm to 6:00pm. The reception hall of the conference is both the meeting point and the final stop of the tour.

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- Meeting time/point: 3:00pm, Portugal Pavilion (IFoU venue)

- Estimated duration: between 3:00pm and 6:00pm

- End point: Portugal Pavilion (IFoU venue)

- Necessary equipment: comfortable shoes and water (walking journey)