PLAY(THE)GROUND:
(In)visible territories
SEMINARUNIVERSIDADE LUSÓFONA
— seminar duration
OCTOBER 20th & 21ST 2025
Universidade Lusófona
Campo Grande 376, 1749-024 Lisboa, Portugal
OCTOBER 20th & 21ST 2025
Universidade Lusófona
Campo Grande 376, 1749-024 Lisboa, Portugal
DETAIL PROGRAMME
AUDITÓRIO ESPAÇO KUADROS 20 OCTOBER
| 9h00-9h30 | Welcoming in to the two day seminar - overview agenda - housekeeping |
| 9h30-10h00 | mais uno +1 presentation on the collective's work and practices |
| 10h00-10h30 | mais uno +1 PLAY(THE)GROUND multidisciplinary residency programme overview |
| 10h30 - 10h45 | coffee break |
| 10h45-11h30 | mais uno +1 PLAY(THE)GROUND residency programme at the daycare centre for adults and the spychiatric hospital |
| 11h30-12h15 | Open discussion with staff from both territories, moderated by mais uno +1 and radio aurora |
| 12h30-14h00 | lunch break |
| 14h00-14h15 | gathering for afternoon activities |
| 14h15-16h00 | An invitation for an artistic activity around the concept of waiting in mental institution with Adriana Lopes. |
| 16H00-16H30 | coffee break |
| 16h30-17h30 | Screening of Laura Liventaal short film On Being Human, created during her residency programme, open discussion around the film and the topic it depicts. |
| 17H30-18H00 | Wrapping up - networking coffee. |
AUDITÓRIO ANTÓNIO ARAÚJO 21 OCTOBER
| 9h00-9h30 | Welcoming in to the two day seminar - overview agenda - housekeeping |
| 9h30-10h00 | Seminar introduction within the context of the master's in social gereontology. |
| 10h00-10h30 | mais uno +1 short presentation on the collective work and PLAY(THE)GROUND residency programme within communities of elderly people. Social engaged art practices. |
| 10h30 - 10h45 | coffee break |
| 10h45-11h30 | Presentation of works by artists in residency at Centro de Dia Nossa Senhora dos Anjos - Sara & Leize |
| 11h30-12h15 | Discussion about mental health and ageing with Centro de Dia staff and some people that use the centre and participated in the resdiency art projects with residents. |
| 12h30-14h00 | lunch break |
| AUDITÓRIO ESPAÇO KUADROS |
| 14h00-14h15 | gathering for afternoon activities |
| 14h15-16h00 | Presentation of artists works from the residency programme at the psychiatric hospital - Henrique Andrade + Joana Nunes |
| 16H00-16H30 | coffee break |
| 16h30-17h30 | Presentation of artist work from the residency programme at the day care centre for adults by Filipa Batista |
| 17H30-18H00 | Wrapping up - networking coffee. |
SUPPORT
PLAY(THE)GROUND residencies have the support of Ministério da Cultura / Direcção Geral das Artes.
Partners: Universidade Lusófona, Rádio Aurora, aRTISTAS aNÓNIMOS, Lisbon Drawing Club, HortasLX, GERADOR, Santa Casa de Lisboa, Centro Hospitalar Psiquiátrico de Lisboa.
PLAY(THE)GROUND residencies have the support of Ministério da Cultura / Direcção Geral das Artes.
Partners: Universidade Lusófona, Rádio Aurora, aRTISTAS aNÓNIMOS, Lisbon Drawing Club, HortasLX, GERADOR, Santa Casa de Lisboa, Centro Hospitalar Psiquiátrico de Lisboa.
BIOS:
mais uno +1
mais uno +1 is a curatorial, project, and research collective that acts in search of the transformative power of art through the creation of incremental relationships/ecosystems between artists, communities, and territories. Based in lisbon, the collective has been hosting a residency programme PLAY(THE)GROUND that brings contemporary art practices in to play with communities and territories excluded from these cultural offeres in the city of lisbon and its surrounding outskirts.
Pedro Machado Dos Santos
Pedro Santos has a Degree in Psychology and is part of the Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences, University of Lisbon. Master in Social Gerontology: Quality of Gerontological Services, Psychology Faculty of the Autonomous University of Madrid. Doctorate in Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Biomedical Sciences Abel Salazar of the University of Porto (ICBAS-UP). Specialist in Clinical Psychology with advanced specialties in Psychogerontology, Neuropsychology, and Community Psychology. Researcher at CISIS and CINTESIS – Center for Health Technology and Services Research. Professor at the Lusófona University.
Centro de Dia Nossa Senhora do Anjos
This is a social facility that provides daycare to the adults and elderly living in Lisbon. Very close to downtown area, the center hosts a large community that travels a few kilometers to spend a meal or a morning or an afternoon in company, playing games, crocheting, enjoying walks and going out. It is by definition a place to entertain, but this in particular turns the engagement with the inside community and the outside community rather more fluid, and constantly creating innumerable artistic and cultural activities that defy paradigms, preconceptions and stereotypes. While in some places they are referred to as places where you go to die, here people relive, are active and stimulated while respected for their limitations and backgrounds.
Centro Hospitalar Psiquiátrico de Lisboa - Pavilhão 29
The psychiatric hospital of Lisbon is a fertile ground, placed on the border of the center of Lisbon, 2 feet away from the airport. Desired for decades, this plot of land hosts several pavilions dedicated and focused on bringing better strength for those suffering from metal health conditions. Pavilion 29 is the last place where people are still within hospital care but are also free to perform their everyday lives, with open doors, counselors for their integration in society, and vice versa. As well. as the Pavilion, this team is responsible for those who live inside the hospital at the houses of Tilias, and Platanos, which host a small community of mainly elderly people whose state provides for lifetime support due to mental health conditions.
ARTISTS BIOS
Adriana Santos Lopes was born in Viseu in 1999 and lives in Lisbon. She found a perch in anthropology for her ethical and aesthetic concerns. Since then, in order to deal with the imminent, beloved, and abysmal mystery of being alive in the world, she has appropriated the ethnographic method in multimodal efforts – written, visual, sound, and sculptural. Her diary-like, reflective, and (multi-)situated practice (re)enacts thought-in-motion, body-archive in routine, found objects, and gestures engaged in the act of becoming. Playfulness – or playful sociability or alternative, erratic and wandering doing – often emerges as a focus of study, a subject of floating attention, a tool of production, or a grammar for the real and its fiction. It lands in logics of composition, arrangement, and sensitive, relational, and even choreographic disposition of objects, in a continuous play of affections, absence-presence, and visibility-invisibility. Before and beyond that: a collection of work deviations, accompanied by performances in the theatre of life, liquid, neoliberal, and simultaneous, or in a black box.
Laura Liventaal
Laura Liventaal is a multidisciplinary artist and documentary film director from Estonia whose work centers on the complexities of the human experience. Driven by a deep curiosity about the individual, her practice explores themes of trauma, intimacy, authenticity, and love. Her preferred mediums are sculpture, photography, video, painting, performance, and film. Liventaal has participated in exhibitions and film festivals across Europe. With a background in philosophy, filmmaking, and contemporary art, she weaves intellectual inquiry with visual storytelling, creating emotionally resonant works that open up new perspectives and invite deeper self-reflection. Her artistic process is both a means of exploration and a personal pursuit of growth.
Henrique Andrade & Joana Nunes
Henrique and Joana are architects and visual artists working respectively in the fields of drawing and photography. They have collaborated on projects that intersect visual arts, urban space, and experimental pedagogical processes. They are both researchers at DINÂMIA’CET-Iscte, where they are part of creative labs focused on artistic experimentation in visual arts education and spatial literacy. Their interests lie in collaborative forms of spatial representation and in mediating relationships between marginal spaces and communities. They approach artistic research as a gesture of connection between the city’s non-dominant narratives. The project 29.5 brings this vision to life through the anonymous exchange of letters between users of a psychiatric hospital and the city, opening a sensitive channel of communication between often isolated realities.
Filipa Batista
Filipa is a multidisciplinary artist with a master's degree in Sculpture from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon. She develops multidisciplinary research in various areas of sculpture, installation, medals, and participatory art. In her participatory art projects, she uses community mediation as a central tool to generate dialogue and collective reflection, where she investigates the transdisciplinary potential of artistic processes as a form of intervention and transformation.
Leize de Sá
Leíze de Sá is a visual artist who works with mixed techniques, ranging from photography to embroidery, to talk about her perception of time, memory, and how space can mediate our experience of the world.
mais uno +1
mais uno +1 is a curatorial, project, and research collective that acts in search of the transformative power of art through the creation of incremental relationships/ecosystems between artists, communities, and territories. Based in lisbon, the collective has been hosting a residency programme PLAY(THE)GROUND that brings contemporary art practices in to play with communities and territories excluded from these cultural offeres in the city of lisbon and its surrounding outskirts.
Pedro Machado Dos Santos
Pedro Santos has a Degree in Psychology and is part of the Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences, University of Lisbon. Master in Social Gerontology: Quality of Gerontological Services, Psychology Faculty of the Autonomous University of Madrid. Doctorate in Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Biomedical Sciences Abel Salazar of the University of Porto (ICBAS-UP). Specialist in Clinical Psychology with advanced specialties in Psychogerontology, Neuropsychology, and Community Psychology. Researcher at CISIS and CINTESIS – Center for Health Technology and Services Research. Professor at the Lusófona University.
Centro de Dia Nossa Senhora do Anjos
This is a social facility that provides daycare to the adults and elderly living in Lisbon. Very close to downtown area, the center hosts a large community that travels a few kilometers to spend a meal or a morning or an afternoon in company, playing games, crocheting, enjoying walks and going out. It is by definition a place to entertain, but this in particular turns the engagement with the inside community and the outside community rather more fluid, and constantly creating innumerable artistic and cultural activities that defy paradigms, preconceptions and stereotypes. While in some places they are referred to as places where you go to die, here people relive, are active and stimulated while respected for their limitations and backgrounds.
Centro Hospitalar Psiquiátrico de Lisboa - Pavilhão 29
The psychiatric hospital of Lisbon is a fertile ground, placed on the border of the center of Lisbon, 2 feet away from the airport. Desired for decades, this plot of land hosts several pavilions dedicated and focused on bringing better strength for those suffering from metal health conditions. Pavilion 29 is the last place where people are still within hospital care but are also free to perform their everyday lives, with open doors, counselors for their integration in society, and vice versa. As well. as the Pavilion, this team is responsible for those who live inside the hospital at the houses of Tilias, and Platanos, which host a small community of mainly elderly people whose state provides for lifetime support due to mental health conditions.
ARTISTS BIOS
| Adriana Lopes |
Laura Liventaal
Laura Liventaal is a multidisciplinary artist and documentary film director from Estonia whose work centers on the complexities of the human experience. Driven by a deep curiosity about the individual, her practice explores themes of trauma, intimacy, authenticity, and love. Her preferred mediums are sculpture, photography, video, painting, performance, and film. Liventaal has participated in exhibitions and film festivals across Europe. With a background in philosophy, filmmaking, and contemporary art, she weaves intellectual inquiry with visual storytelling, creating emotionally resonant works that open up new perspectives and invite deeper self-reflection. Her artistic process is both a means of exploration and a personal pursuit of growth.
Henrique Andrade & Joana Nunes
Henrique and Joana are architects and visual artists working respectively in the fields of drawing and photography. They have collaborated on projects that intersect visual arts, urban space, and experimental pedagogical processes. They are both researchers at DINÂMIA’CET-Iscte, where they are part of creative labs focused on artistic experimentation in visual arts education and spatial literacy. Their interests lie in collaborative forms of spatial representation and in mediating relationships between marginal spaces and communities. They approach artistic research as a gesture of connection between the city’s non-dominant narratives. The project 29.5 brings this vision to life through the anonymous exchange of letters between users of a psychiatric hospital and the city, opening a sensitive channel of communication between often isolated realities.
Filipa Batista
Filipa is a multidisciplinary artist with a master's degree in Sculpture from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon. She develops multidisciplinary research in various areas of sculpture, installation, medals, and participatory art. In her participatory art projects, she uses community mediation as a central tool to generate dialogue and collective reflection, where she investigates the transdisciplinary potential of artistic processes as a form of intervention and transformation.
Leize de Sá
Leíze de Sá is a visual artist who works with mixed techniques, ranging from photography to embroidery, to talk about her perception of time, memory, and how space can mediate our experience of the world.