Starting from a film previously selected the participating artists will choose an object that is central to the narrative and reinterpret it according to their views.

promoter
Experimenta

curator
Guta Moura Guedes

participating artists
António Lagarto, João Botelho, João Brites, João Garcia Miguel, João Mendes Ribeiro, Manuel Graça Dias & Egas José Vieira, Vera Castro

Project coordinated by CPD - Portuguese Design Centre, that challenged professional Designers, students and stylists to present their work under the theme “Work, Objects and Attitudes”.

promoter
Centro Português de Design

curators
Pedro Brandão, Raul Cunca, Miguel Rios

participating professionals
Ana Thudichum Vasconcelos, Jorge Moita, Luís Buchinho, Maria Gambina, Miguel Flor, Osvaldo Martins, Plácido Afonso, José Luís Ferreira, José Oliveira Simões & Rui Freire, Teresa Santa Maria

participating schools
Cooperativa de Ensino Universidade Lusíada, Escola Superior de Tecnologia, Gestão, Arte e Design das Caldas da Rainha, Escola Superior de Artes e Design de Matosinhos, Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão Viana do Castelo, IADE - Instituto de Artes Visuais, Design e Marketing

Six artists were challenged to create works using the process principles beyond industrial design, such as mechanical reproduction or mass production.

promoter
Experimenta

curators
Marina Gomes Alexandre, Marco Sousa Santos

participating artists
Charles Worthen (Germany), Joana Vasconcelos (Portugal), Julian Laverdiere (USA), Miguel Palma (Portugal), Miguel Soares (Portugal), Pedro Pportugal (Portugal) with Pedro Rogado, Sancho Silva and Frederico Brotas

This exhibition showcased the past and present of the “Young Designer” competition in Portugal.

promoters
ICEP - Investimentos, Comércio e Turismo de Portugal, CENCAL and Experimenta

curators
Vanni Pasca and Madalena Figueiredo

Eight designers and studios, from eight different countries, presented exhibitions/installations reflecting their critical and creative view of the design used or produced in their own countries.

promoters
Experimenta and Centro Cultural de Belém

curator
Marco Sousa Santos

participating designers and studios
Alfredo Häberli (Switzerland), Christophe Pillet (France), Ed Annink - Ontwerpwerk (The Netherlands) Konstantin Grcic (Germany), Marco Sousa Santos and José Viana - proto design (Portugal), Mats Theselius (Sweden), Ross Lovegrove (UK), Timo Salli and Ilkka Suppanen - Snowcrash (Finland)

This exhibition presented the work developed by the Italian Archizoom group during the Sixties and Seventies, and also more recent work done by some of its members.

promoters
Museu do Design, Centro Cultural de Belém, Experimenta

curator
Cristina Morozzi

participants
Andrea Branzi, Gilberto Corretti, Massimo Morozzi, Paolo Deganello

According to a briefing developed by Experimenta, “Intersections of and in Design” presented three generations of designers and 34 original projects.

promoter
ICEP - Investimentos, Comércio e Turismo de Portugal

curator
Madalena Figueiredo

participants
Adalberto Dias, Ana Thudichum Vasconcelos, Carlos Bártolo, Ana Rainha & Ricardo Vieira de Melo, Daciano Costa, Elder Monteiro, Eliane Marques, Fernando Brízio, Fernando Salvador, Filipe Alarcão, Francisco Providência, Guta Moura Guedes, Henrique Ralheta, Isabel Dâmaso, João Félix, Jorge Alves, José Manuel Carvalho de Araújo, José Viana, Leonor & António Sena da Silva, Luis Pessanha, Luisa Coder & José Russel, Manuel Francisco Duque, Marco Sousa Santos, Margarida Grácio Nunes, Miguel Vieira Baptista, Nuno Lourinho, Paulo Parra, Paulo Vale, Pedro Silva Dias, Plácido Afonso, José Luís Ferreira & Rui Freire, Raul Cunca, Ricardo Custódio, Rita Filipe, Robin Fior, Salette Brandão

This event showcased the development of projects on product and furniture design for children.

promoter
Experimenta

curators
Cristóvão Pereira, José Viana

participanting designers
Cristóvão Pereira, Henrique Ralheta, José Viana