Book launch: Parallaxes: Common Stories

On Friday, October 24, the Porto Design Biennale will host the launch of a special publication developed for this year’s edition, under the theme “Time is Present. Designing the Common.”

Invited by curator Angela Rui, several designers, artists, and architects carried out interventions in specific neighbourhoods and structures, working collaboratively with local associations, residents, and other agents active in those territories.

The publication Parallaxes: Common Stories was curated by Andreia Faria — writer and editorial coordinator at esad idea — who invited a group of writers to tell the stories of these places, their people, and the projects that speak of both, proposing new forms of participation and collective engagement. Each text is accompanied by illustrations by Mariana Barrote, whose work sensitively captures the atmosphere of each contribution. The publication’s graphic design was developed by João Queirós and Diana Amarelo, with the English translation by Rosa Churcher Clarke.

My contribution focuses on Fontainhas and the project “House of Echos” by Didier Fiúza Faustino, with programming by Lovers & Lollypops.

Feel free to join the presentation at 6:30 pm, at Biblioteca Popular de Pedro Ivo (Praça do Marquês, Porto).