Porto: a cidade em tempos de Covid-19

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Between March and September 2020, the architect Mário Mesquita, researcher and Professor at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto, systematically made a series of daily photographic reports that portray the city of Porto during the period of the pandemic. This iconographic material, produced in digital format, has been posted on Facebook and has aroused the interest of many who follow urban dynamics, in this case, in times of health contingency, in an exceptional reality since the State of Emergency was declared to the “new normal” current situation.

This diary record explores the potential of the visual representation of a situation on which there is thought to be room for critical reflection based on it, enabling, within the scope of an educational service of an institution (Centro Português de Fotografia-CPF) that privileges the image as a language, discuss the city and its representations in a perspective of analysis of the present, but above all in an attempt to equate what may mean the adaptation of the city to an absolutely uncertain future.

Therefore, a visual installation with 3 portable projectors displaying in loop the theme selection (city, territory and society) on the 3 walls of the room connected to CPF’s Extensão Cultural e Educativa.