ESAP hosts the colloquium and workshop “Projected Archive: Research, Methodology, Creation”

On 19 October 2026, the Porto School of Art (ESAP) will host the colloquium and workshop “Projected Archive: Research, Methodology, Creation”, a joint initiative of the Lugar Comum Research Line and the Architecture Studies Group of the Arnaldo Araújo Research Centre (CEAA), in collaboration with Casa da Imagem – Fundação Manuel Leão.

The event aims to critically reflect on the projects developed over the past 14 years by CEAA and Casa da Imagem, taking the Teófilo Rego Commercial Photography Archive as its starting point. The initiative is particularly relevant to ESAP’s current location, a building that formerly housed a textile spinning factory, revisiting archival photographs of the textile industry, its factories, machinery, workers and production processes.

Throughout the day, different approaches to research, artistic creation and public engagement will be explored. The morning colloquium will bring together researchers to discuss case studies and methodologies for working with archives. In the afternoon, the workshop will extend this collaboration by exploring new lines of research and experimenting with the creation and reinterpretation of images, methods and processes.

Programme — Colloquium

10:15 — Rui Lourosa
Time as a Functional Dimension: Reconfigurations from the Teófilo Rego Photographic Archive

10:45 — Alexandra Trevisan
CEAA | Casa da Imagem – Designing a Collaboration through the Teófilo Rego Archive

11:15 — Inês Azevedo, Inês Moreira and Joana Mateus
Living Archive with/on European Industries: Collaborative Research-Creation Methodologies in Museology, Art and Education

12:00 — Tiago Assis
ParVOices in ecHoimages: A ParVA Methodology for the Archive of Image Ecology

12:45 — Closing remarks

Workshop

14:00–17:00

Date: 19 October 2026
Venue: Porto School of Art (ESAP), Rua dos Navegantes, 51, Porto

Organised by: Alexandra Trevisan, Inês Azevedo, Joana Mateus, Rui Lourosa and Rute Figueiredo.

Registration: geral@esap.pt

This activity is co-funded by national funds through FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P., under project UID/04041/2025 – Arnaldo Araújo Research Centre.