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Anti-Amnesia is a critical set of research activities devoted to the identification, recovery, and archiving of elements and artefacts from Portugal’s industrial heritage. These relay the intrinsic cultural value and
enduring creative potential of the industries involved. The project enquires upon four distinctive traditional practices: manual weaving, letterpress typography, shoemaking, and traditional tilework.
Design research as an agent for narrative and material regeneration and reinvention of vanishing manufacturing cultures and techniques.
Project Anti-Amnesia’s interventions have pursued a shift of perception away from prevalent, utilitarian perspectives: when faced with an invitation to engage aesthetically with the repertoires of the four traditional industrial contexts, the project’s expectations have focused on inhabiting a volatile semantic space, somewhere between the due processes of documentational research and unexpected theoretical and creative outcomes.
Project Anti-Amnesia has considered documentation, design, and dissemination as the cornerstones of its mediation process: each representing a separate but complementary pathway to the realization of the global intention
— to curate and conserve Portuguese industrial heritage prone to irrevocable loss. As such, it has sought to contribute meaningfully by introducing mediums and pathways that can be of mutual benefit to all involved.
The dissemination of the project’s research outcomes is one of the three pillars of making meaningful and sustainable contributions to the contexts and their study.
The project has shared its findings in a number of national and international scientific conferences. We covered a spectrum of thematic discourses, including craft and industrial heritage, design
research, active learning, and specific contexts such as textiles and letterpress typography. The project has also published its outcomes in notable peer-reviewed journals and research books.
Anti-Amnesia is a critical set of research activities devoted to the identification, recovery, and archiving of elements and artefacts from Portugal’s industrial heritage. These relay the intrinsic cultural value and enduring creative potential of the industries involved. The project enquires upon four distinctive traditional practices: manual weaving, letterpress typography, shoemaking, and traditional tilework.
Design research as an agent for narrative and material regeneration and reinvention of vanishing manufacturing cultures and techniques.
Project Anti-Amnesia’s interventions have pursued a shift of perception away from prevalent, utilitarian perspectives: when faced with an invitation to engage aesthetically with the repertoires of the four traditional industrial contexts, the project’s expectations have focused on inhabiting a volatile semantic space, somewhere between the due processes of documentational research and unexpected theoretical and creative outcomes.
Project Anti-Amnesia has considered documentation, design, and dissemination as the cornerstones of its mediation process: each representing a separate but complementary pathway to the realization of the global intention — to curate and conserve Portuguese industrial heritage prone to irrevocable loss. As such, it has sought to contribute meaningfully by introducing mediums and pathways that can be of mutual benefit to all involved.
The dissemination of the project’s research outcomes is one of the three pillars of making meaningful and sustainable contributions to the contexts and their study.
The project has shared its findings in a number of national and international scientific conferences. We covered a spectrum of thematic discourses, including craft and industrial heritage, design research, active learning, and specific contexts such as textiles and letterpress typography. The project has also published its outcomes in notable peer-reviewed journals and research books.
The project “Anti-Amnésia: Investigação em Design como agente para a regeneração e reinvenção, narrativas e materiais, de culturas e técnicas de manufactura portuguesas em desaparecimento” (POCI-01-0145-FEDER-029022) is supported by Competitiveness and Internationalisation Operational Programme (POCI), under the PORTUGAL 2020 Partnership Agreement, through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and through national funds by the FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia.
