MONUMENTUM - Celebrate
During the final residency period in Porto, gravitating around the neighbourhood of St. Pedro of Azevedo, marked the culmination of MONUMENTUM’s year-long journey. During our stay, we were challenged to apply our practices on a much larger scale, addressing more complex social and geopolitical dynamics. Implementing the approach developed in Mieres within a different socioeconomic context, we were surprised by the recurring patterns and archetypes that emerged from interviews, walk-and-talk sessions with local residents, and workshops with elementary and high school students. Throughout the residency, the recurring cycle—from monument to ruin and ruin to monument—became a central theme, with new extensions and possibilities beginning to take shape.