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Lisbon (Portugal)
Maria Irene Aparício (Ph.D. in Cinema, New University of Lisbon, 2011) is a researcher of CineLab – Laboratory of Cinema and Philosophy, and an Assistant Professor at Communication Sciences Department, NOVA FCSH – New University of Lisbon. At present she is the PI, in Lisbon, of the Project A-PLACE Linking places through networked artistic practices (607457-CREA-1-2019-1-ES-CULT-COOP2) | EACEA – Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency | Creative Europe | European Commission, Coordinated by Professor Leandro Madrazo (La Salle School of Architecture, Ramon Llull University, Barcelona). She is also a member of the Project “Integration of Refugees in Portugal: Assessing Moral Duties and Integration Policies in the Context of European Values and Policies” (2018-2021) PTDC/FER-ETC/30378/2017, Coordinated by Gabriele De Angelis, in the context of EPLab – Ethics and Political Philosophy Laboratory, Ifilnova / FCT – The Portuguese National Funding Agency for Science, Research and Technology (URL: http://www.eplab.ifilnova.pt/projects/SEIRP). Between 2008 and 2013, she was a researcher on the project Film and Philosophy: Mapping an Encounter (URL: ttp://filmphilosophy.squarespace.com/). Currently, her research interests are focused on social and epistemological questions of contemporary arts and cinema, as well as their ethical and aesthetical dimensions. Her research interests include Cinema, Arts, Space and Philosophy (e.g. Film Perception and Cognition, Landscape and Soundscape, etc.); and Film and Memory: History, Ethics, and Aesthetics (e.g. Forms, Space, Time, Social Impact and Emotions, etc.), particularly in relation to both the Other Arts and European Cinema. She is the Book editor of Cinema: Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image, and the editor and founder of artciencia.com, Journal of Art, Science and Communication Sciences, an independent project online since 2005.
Participated in:
Madrazo, L., Zupančič, T., Pak, B. and Aparício, M. I. (2022) “Creating a Network of Places with Participatory Actions across Cities and Cultures”, The Journal of Public Space, 7(3)
The aim of the A-Place project is to address the problem of placelessness in our multicultural, and
Posted on April 04, 2023
A Reconnecting Place at the New European Bauhaus Festival
A Reconnecting Place (Lisbon) will be present at the New European Bauhaus Festival, presenting two-p
Posted on June 07, 2022
Ferreira, I., Aparício, M. I., Madrazo, L., Fonseca, N., Pereira, P., Pinto, R. An Empty Space, A Virtual Place: Cultural Life and Creative Solutions In Besieged Cities. Proceediings of the AMPS Conference “Cities in a Changing World: Questions of Culture, Climate and Design”, Series 24.1, 16-18 June, 2021
A-Place activities were planned to be carried out in the sociophysical territory, emb
Posted on February 21, 2022
Rapanta, C., Madrazo, L., Aparício, M. I., Fonseca, N., Pinto, R., & Verovšek, Š. (2021). "Assessing the Quality and Social Impact of Creative Placemaking Practices". Annales Series Historia et Sociologia, 31(3), 427-440.
Placemaking and creative placemaking aim at transforming public spaces by fostering new bonds betwee
Posted on January 17, 2022
Soiree "My Neighbourhood... my Place”: Poetry and Fado in A Future Place
NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Nova University Lisbon, the Nova Institute of Philoso
Posted on September 25, 2021
A (Memory) Future Place Contest: "My Neighbourhood... my place"
NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Nova University Lisbon, the Nova Institute of Philoso
Posted on July 31, 2021
Poetry / Prose Poetry Contest “My neighbourhood… my place”
The Poetry and Prose Poetry Contest “My neighbourhood… my place” aims to poetical
Posted on July 12, 2021
Quality assessment report / Evaluation materials 2019-20
This document contains the quality assessment report on the placemaking activities carried out durin
Posted on June 30, 2021
AMPS Conference
A-Place will be present in the AMPS conference “Cities in a changing world”, which will
Posted on June 16, 2021
Activating public space
On June 4th, Nova University of Lisbon, Portugal, organized a debate on the activation of public spa
Read in
Posted on June 04, 2021
Creation and communication in times of lockdown
In this session, organized by NOVA on April 28, 2021, we presented the work done in the three s
Posted on April 28, 2021
Open session: Creation and communication in times of lockdown
Presentation an discussion of the work carried out in "A Confined place", hosted by Nova U
Posted on April 27, 2021
A Confined Urban Vision
A short film competition “A Confined Urban Vision” was organised to explore and widen th
Posted on January 22, 2021
A Confined Urban Vision - WINNERS ANNOUNCEMENT
From June 23 to September 30, 2020, the short film competition “A Confined Urban Vision&r
Posted on December 18, 2020
A (travelling) Sound Place from Lisbon across the world
NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Nova University Lisbon, the Nova Institute of Philoso
Posted on October 31, 2020
Madrazo, L., Aparicio, M. I, Pak, B., & Zupančič, T. (2020), A-Place: Linking Places through Networked Artistic Practices. City Street conference 4, University of Ljubljana (online).
The purpose of A-Place “Linking places through networked artistic practices”, a project
Posted on September 24, 2020
Quality Assessment Plan
This document contains the quality assessment plan of the placemaking activities of the A-Place proj
Posted on September 22, 2020
City Street conference
A-Place will present a paper in the City Street conference organized by the Faculty of Architecture,
Posted on September 21, 2020
Perception and representation of space in time of confinement with photographic media
These works were planned and carried out in the period of confinement, during March and April 2020,
Posted on April 26, 2020
