Curating Territorial Conundrums
Editor: Inês Moreira
Editorial coordination: Beatriz Duarte
Published by: Parábola Crítica
Authors: Aneta Szylak, Beatriz Duarte, Bernardo Jefferson de Oliveira, Bianca Stanea, Carmen Estima, Daniela Brasil, Edwin Bendyk, Elena Lacruz, Flora Paim, Inês Moreira, Joana Rafael, Jorge Ricardo Pinto, Juliana Prochnow dos Anjos, Luís Santiago Baptista, Luís Seixas, Maria da Luz Sampaio, Maria Rita Pais, Mário Caeiro, Miguel Costa,
Orlando Vieira Francisco, Patrícia Azevedo Santos, Patrícia Coelho, Pedro Figueiredo, Teresa Alves,Verona Campos Segantini.
Graphic Design: Joana & Mariana
ISBN: 978-989-33-3204-7
2022
publishing researching; editorial coordination
Curadoria de Enigmas Territoriais (Curating Territorial Conundrums) is a book that presents a collective research exercise on rugged territories, focusing on complex phenomena and, as such, challenging inventive approaches and interpretations that navigate convoluted terrains. Consider settlements and sites of industrial production waste, mining, or nuclear energy: keeping them active involves demanding and risky activities of material extraction, spatial expansion, and long-term sustainability. Maintaining their integrity after catastrophic accidents or simply ensuring stability and inertness when deactivated can be an enigma. The physical, cultural, and economic contexts determine the specificities of the presented territories, with unpredictability, instability, or brutality of events defining them as case studies.
How can we reveal the processes that transform the productive into the unproductive? And how can we make productive the condition of this very unproductiveness? What can knowledge access and unveil?