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In this session, “materialities”, “heritage” and “memory” are understood in a wide sense, comprising narratives, knowledge, aesthetic objects and other common goods of humanity. By crossing disciplines and study objects, we intend to think about the work being developed in Portugal focused on our responsibility towards the understanding of the past and concern for the future. Rock, body, word or water, these are heritages from the past, which roles do they play on the “concern for the future” project?
Susana Durão (ICS – Lisbon, Portugal)
Urban territories remerge today as fundamental matrices of economic, political and social life organization. Contemporary discourses on cities, while stating them as places of economic, social and cultural opportunities, also emphasize the risks they pose, as places of insecurity, violence, rupture and tensions of different kinds, giving rise to securitarian and vigilant practices and imaginaries. With Portugal and the territories of its international integration as privileged reference contexts, this session attempts to question the ways through which public authorities, institutions, communities and citizens have been designing and facing the cities of risks and opportunities.
Crossing disciplines and epistemological positions, this session aims at producing a cartography – necessarily incomplete – of diverse knowledge sets which are being developed in Portugal and in the Post-Empire space. Fighting exclusions and silences, pasts and presents, we intend to promote a dialogue between voices, in order to create a transnational and intercultural culture and a truly inclusive citizenship.
A market-based economy does not meet adequately everyone’s needs, nor does it generally promote a good life, except for an overwhelming minority. On the other hand, the dominant techno-economic paradigm threatens social and environmental sustainability at the global scale. Thus, we now face the need to reinvent economy, retaking its ethical and political features, restoring human needs at the centre of concerns, attending to conditions of sustainability and redefining the concept of well-being in order to also consider the real value of human work in its productive and reproductive dimensions. This session’s debate will focus on these lines of questioning, addressing the way how Portugal has been facing the challenges currently existing within this domain.