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PROJECT'S RESULTS

In this section you’ll find all the outputs produced throughout the project by our artist and partners 

the documentary

seeds publications

THE TOOLKIT

Welcome to the Seeds Toolkit – a comprehensive guide to the culmination of creativity and sustainability. This toolkit presents the innovative, sustainable art techniques used within the Seeds project. The project is a collaboration of four non-profit organisations from Portugal, Spain and Greece and it is implemented within the framework of Creative Europe.
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Means for a Sustainable Art Practice

The only way to peace is for everyone to move away from the gate of the castle of relative perception, descend towards the prairie, and return to the heart of nonactive Nature. (…) Let’s say that the key to peace lies close to the earth.
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Scientific Articles

ALTERNATIVE DRAWING TOOLS: LANDSCAPE AND DOMESTICITY AS TERRITORIES FOR COLLECTING RAW MATERIALS

Jorge Leal
Investigador Colaborador
LIDA – Laboratório de Investigação em Design e Artes
ESAD.CR – Escola Superior de Artes e Design das Caldas da Rainha
Politécnico de Leiria
Rua Isidoro Inácio Alves de Carvalho
2500-321 Caldas da Rainha, Portugal

This text articulates environmental and sustainability concerns, the practice of drawing and the construction of drawing tools from the collection of objects in the rural and urban landscape or in the universe of domesticity. Based on a brief history of some drawing materials and tools, as well as the relationship between some artists and the improvisation of drawing tools, the text makes the connection between the author’s artistic practice and its extension to his work as a drawing teacher. Finally, the various activities carried out with students are described, as well as the project under construction within ESAD.CR’s LIDA research center.
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WITHIN THE (DEAF)SPACE AESTHETIC EXPERIENCE IN CAIRO: POWER TO HEAL


Filipa Machado Rodrigues
Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lisbon, Centro de Investigação e de Estudos em Belas-Artes (CIEBA), Portugal. Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Health, CIIS, Portugal. Higher School of Education and Social Sciences, CI&DEI, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, Portugal.

Deaf individuals have a marked space awareness and an embodied understanding regarding the surrounding world. In this article we seek to understand the Experience of Space starting from the elements of DeafSpace but going beyond the original DeafSpace Project (DSP), the architectural and design study from the practical guide of Bauman (2005) and into the lived experience of the wider urban space. The urban space of the city of Cairo in Egypt became the context that allowed the understanding of the Deaf individual corporeal knowledge, its habits as an agent towards the way the body and mind structures the Space experience and is influenced by it. The urban space is not only the sum of its three-dimensional characteristics in the organization of structural elements but is also an opportunity for a valued I-in-the-word sensed aesthetically. Through the phenomenological approach, visual anthropology methodologies and visual elicitation processes (PEI), this paper offers a greater understanding of the how the Experience of Space can become impactful in dimensions related to the well-being and emotional self-regulation of the Deaf participants in Old Cairo surroundings.
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VITICULTURA PERFORMATIVA PERFORMATIVE WRITING AS RESEARCH METHOD

Lucía Álvarez-Borrajo
Faculty of Fine Arts. University of Sevilla. Spain

Performative writing within an artistic research paradigm and around a case study titled Viticultura Performativa is contributing to safeguard the local intangible viticulture heritage. By grafting contemporary art and traditional viticulture with an eco-art-activist and transdisciplinary character we inquire which kind of narrative could promote a positive collective imaginary which helps us journey together to the cosmopolitan village? We demonstrate that performative writing can be not only a research method but also becoming a way of poetic resistance that enables subaltern voices to be heard within European debates about the rural cultural context.
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BETWEEN ENCHANTMENT AND THE IMAGE-SPIRIT (UTUPË) - THE ESSENCE OF THE IMAGE

Izabelle Louise Monteiro Penha
CIEBA – Centro de Investigação e de Estudos em Belas-Artes da Ulisboa

It presents an unprecedented approach to the relationship between the Enchantment of the Tremembé indigenous people – beings of the forest that are present in the Tremembé cosmogony –, and the Spirit-Image (utupë) of the Yanomani indigenous people – the true interior of forest beings in the Yanomani cosmogony. The central question arises: Is the Spirit-Image (utupë) necessary to see Enchantment? Problematizes indigenous knowledge from these Brazilian indigenous people. The connection between these two concepts is questioned, which share the (in)visibility, the representation of mythical ancestors and the ability to keep images as the essence of life.

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THE VIDEOS

Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.

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