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PLAY(THE)GROUND:
(In)visible territories

SEMINAR

UNIVERSIDADE LUSÓFONA

—  seminar duration
    OCTOBER 20th & 21ST 2025

    Universidade Lusófona
Campo Grande 376, 1749-024 Lisboa, Portugal



DETAIL PROGRAMME


AUDITÓRIO ESPAÇO KUADROS 20th OCTOBER




9h00-9h30Welcoming in to the two day seminar - overview agenda - housekeeping


9h30-10h00mais uno +1 presentation on the collective's work and practices


10h00-10h30mais uno +1 PLAY(THE)GROUND multidisciplinary residency programme overview


10h30 - 10h45coffee break


10h45-11h30mais uno +1 PLAY(THE)GROUND residency programme at the daycare centre for adults and the spychiatric hospital


11h30-12h15Open discussion with Isilda Geraldo, Susana Anjos from Centro de Dia Nossa Senhora dos Anjos, and Alexandre Costa head nurse at pavillion 29 from CHPL, moderated by mais uno +1 and radio aurora


12h30-14h00lunch break


14h00-14h15gathering for afternoon activities


14h15-16h00An invitation for an artistic activity around the concept of waiting in mental institution with Adriana Lopes.


16H00-16H30coffee break


16h30-17h30Screening of Laura Liventaal short film On Being Human, created during her residency programme, open discussion around the film and the topic it depicts.

17H30-18H00Wrapping up - networking coffee.











Auditório (sala S 0.10) 21st OCTOBER




9h00-9h30Welcoming in to the two day seminar - overview agenda - housekeeping

9h30-10h00Seminar introduction within the context of the master's in social gereontology by Pedro Machado dos Santos.

10h00-10h30mais uno +1 short presentation on the collective work and PLAY(THE)GROUND residency programme within communities of elderly people. Social engaged art practices.


10h30 - 10h45coffee break

10h45-11h30Presentation of works by artists in residency at Centro de Dia Nossa Senhora dos Anjos - Sara Lourenço & Leize de Sá

11h30-12h15Discussion about mental health and ageing with Centro de Dia staff and some people from the day care centre that participated in the resdiency art projects with residents.

12h30-14h00lunch break


AUDITÓRIO ESPAÇO KUADROS
21st OCTOBER
 

14h00-14h15gathering for afternoon activities
 

14h15-16h00 Presentation of artists works from the residency programme at the psychiatric hospital - Henrique Andrade + Joana Nunes


16H00-16H30coffee break

16h30-17h30Presentation of artist work from the residency programme at the day care centre for adults by Filipa Batista

17H30-18H00Wrapping up - networking coffee.







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 Lopes
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.

Sara Lourenço
Sara Lourenço was born and raised in Almada, Portugal. She holds a degree in Audiovisual and Multimedia and a postgraduate degree in Storytelling from the School of Social Communication in Lisbon. With a background in media art, Sara has mainly been focusing on making ceramics since 2017 and works with clay since 2019 on a daily basis. After living in Amsterdam for some years, she returned to Portugal, where she founded a small ceramics club that met weekly, aiming to create a community where participants could explore clay as a material and experiment with shaping it through their hands and bodies. Her current interests within ceramics lie in the chemistry process and geology, with the goal of using natural elements to develop glazes and pastes. She is also eager to study the practices of Portuguese artisans and to explore natural and ancestral processes of creation. Since February, Sara has been learning weaving, adapting her body to this new material and set of techniques – an experience she likens to analog programming languages.







—  partner organization
UNIVERSIDADE LUSÓFONA   
CENTRO HOSPITALAR PSIQUIÁTRICO DE LISBOA
   CENTRO DE DIA NOSSA SENHORA DOS ANJOS - SANTA CASA

—  support

    DGARTES
    ARTISTAS ANONIMOS
    LISBON DRAWING CLUB

 
—  support communication
    GERADOR
   RADIO AURORA
based in Lisbon, Portugal
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