Movimenta 2024

On April 18th 2024 the Intermittent City Project and its ongoing collaborations with students, both master’s and doctoral, were presented at the MOVIMENT.A 2024 Conference Cycle (Celebrating 20 years of Architecture at UBI: Past, Present, Future), held at UBI.

Abstract:

The interdisciplinary funded project, Intermittent Cities, led by FCT and CIAUD.ULisboa, explores transformation processes that empower temporary and sharing practices in urban spaces. Specifically, for Trienal Universidades 2022, a study was carried out by three Portuguese universities—FA_ULisboa, ISA_ULisboa, and DECA_UBI—promoting each of their different specialisations (Urbanism, Landscape Architecture, Architecture), yet keeping a common line on the set of practices and inventive imaginaries that explore the city through an intermittent perspective. Acknowledging that intermittent approaches can lead to new disciplinary paradigms which are fundamentally flexible, students were invited to focus on: (i) everyday needs or effervescent collective experiments in public spaces; (ii) small initiatives or self-organised reclaim-the-city green spaces; and (iii) regeneration programmes for vacant and obsolete spaces.