PAPER ARCHIVE CONSTRUCTION | workshop

CONSTRUÇÃO DE ARQUIVO EM PAPEL | oficina

Other 20€

Sunday 11 October · 10:00

In this workshop, participants learn to build a foldable paper archive, inspired by the Japanese concept of Mottainai, reusing materials and exploring folds and fittings.

Brief Introduction MOTTAINAI: A CONCEPT FOR SUSTAINABILITY *With CATARINA PRETO Schedule: 10:00 am to 1:00 pm Target Audience: Ages 12 and up Maximum participants: 18 Minimum participants: 5 which, after their initial use, we tend to consider useless. However, when carefully selected and properly prepared, they can become raw material for creating new objects, capable of assuming different functions. The idea of not wasting leads us to the Japanese concept Mottainai, which reminds us that nothing should be discarded without consideration, much less disrespected. According to this perspective rooted in Buddhist and Shinto thought, all things possess kami, a kind of spirit or essence, and it is up to us to care for them and pay them due homage, even when they no longer fulfill their initial function. Taking as a starting point some examples from the exhibition Japan: Festivals and Rituals, in this workshop we propose to: 1. Facilitate participants' encounter with a way of thinking and living based on sustainability principles - Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, and Respect; Demonstrate, in a practical way, how we can reuse materials; Teach how to build a foldable archive, without sewing, based on folds and fittings. This archive will include lined front and back covers, as well as a closure sleeve. At the end, each participant will take home a guide with the measurements and all the necessary steps for construction. In case of cancellation: A full refund of the registration fee will be made if cancellation is communicated up to 8 business days before the activity. After that date, a refund can only be considered if the spot is filled or in situations of illness, accident, or other duly proven force majeure. If the activity does not take place due to lack of participants or for another reason, the registration fee will be fully refunded. For more information contact Catarina Preto Graduated in Painting with professional training in photography, she works as an illustrator and cultural mediator, but likes to call herself a creative, who from all the materials that come to her, all that she can cut and glue, make her what she is, someone who likes to take one thing and transform it into something else. Her relationship with paper changed forever with a Pop Up training, models of paper folds that, by tradition, are inside a book and open when we want. But in what other contexts would these folds work? And with this question and many mistakes, she built mechanisms with pulleys and parts that open, like in books, but in a different way. The workshop with children has been the ideal place where paper experimentation happens in a freer and more honest way. It is through mediation that she brings these ways of doing to others, and in sharing, she brings new perspectives that merge into her personal exploration. Prices Entry - 20€