CRIA

Fragmented Cities - Peripheries and the Reconstruction of the Vernacular as Strategies of Resistance

Principal researcher: Paulo Raposo

External principal researcher: Gabriela Salazar e Agapi Dimitriadou (Frame Colectivo)

Research group: Practices and Politics of Culture

Keywords

Vernacular Architecture and art | Resistance | Coloniality | Urban space

Funding Institution

Direção-Geral da Artes

Partners

O INSTITUTO, Arquiteturas Film Festival, AOPIC, Associação de moradores do 2o Torrão , Associação Cavaleiros de São Brás , Colectivo Tributo aos Ancestrais, Antena 2, Hangar, Contemporânea , Polo Gaivotas (residências), DINAMIA CET, VAS2, MAGAZIN, Cooperativa Casa Branca, Atelier Cru, Livraria Greta

State

Open

Start date

01-11-2025

End date

31-12-2026

Abstract

Fragmented Cities, an interdisciplinary program/constellation based at the independent architecture, research, and art space c/arpa, connects the center and the peripheries of Lisbon with the aim of critically addressing the hierarchies established in contemporary urban space.
Integrating collaborative networks of analogous national and international spaces, it hosts both emerging and established professionals. Its activities explore the relationship between expanded architecture, art, performance, and subalternized vernacular practices, in dialogue with artists from the Global South and diasporas.