Jorge Figueira  |  CES / DARQ, Coimbra

José Luís Saldanha | DINÂMIA'CET-IUL / CIAAM

Luís Urbano | FAUP

Alexandra Areia  |  DINÂMIA'CET-IUL

 

The modern suburban neighbourhoods have constituted from early on a social and iconic reality, a source of attraction to several fields of artistic production. As a problematic centre of action and/or representation or as a present scenario, the modern suburb is present in numerous means of cultural expression such as painting, film production, literature and music, revealing a multiplicity of meanings and perspectives. It is about the diversity of views that the cultural production has developed that it is intended to reflect, favouring crossed perspectives, namely:

 

6.1. In what particular way the artistic means were used as critical vehicles?

6.2. In what ways the arts have contributed to the construction of a certain urban imagery?

6.3. How did the artistic milieu represent these places, contributing to the way the city is now imagined and/or remembered?

6.4. What is the role of artistic production, which mirrors this reality, in the definition of the contemporary architectonic and urban culture?

6.5. How the multiplicity of meanings these artistic environments overlap have contributed to the current idea of middle-class and its aspirations?