Celebration of the project – A House in Your Head

Virgínia Fróis is a sculptor and researcher at Vicarte/FBA.UL. She regularly exhibits in Portugal and internationally, notably with the Ressonâncias project in Brazil (2012). She founded Associação Oficinas do Convento in Montemor-o-Novo (1996), coordinating artistic activities at Telheiro (OC-TEC), and established the Centro de Artes e Ofícios de Trás di munti in Cape Verde (2009), promoting ethnoceramics activities (2006-2014), including the Ar no Mar project (2014). Notable exhibitions include (E)vocações (2003), Mosteiro de Alcobaça; Ressonâncias (2012), Brazil; Mergulhar no Sono (2016), Galeria Municipal de Montemor-o-Novo; Cidadãos (2017), Museu do Azulejo, Lisbon, and Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas, Madrid; Hablando de lo mismo/Falando da mesma coisa (2017), Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas, Madrid; WAH (2018), Fundação Eugénio de Almeida, Évora; participation in the Bienal de Cerâmica Artística de Aveiro (2019) as a guest artist, with the Guizos project; A persistência da matéria: 20 anos VICARTE (2022), Museu do Vidro na Marinha Grande, with the work Pneuma; MATER (2023), Pavilhão Branco do Museu da Cidade, Lisbon.

Nuno Vasconcelos is an architect who graduated from the University of Coimbra. After working in Porto, he moved to Berlin for eight years before returning to Portugal in 2021. He specialises in traditional construction techniques and independent projects focusing on reusing materials like excavation soil and demolition debris, repurposing them as new building materials. His work aims to reduce the environmental and social impacts of the construction industry by creating circular use of materials and promoting sustainable development.

Tamanna Ahmed (b. 1988, Dhaka) is an architect and researcher currently working on the investigation project of “Architecture and Identity upon Portuguese dynamics in Bangladesh” with the University of Coimbra and Orient Foundation. She has collaborated with Marina Tabassum Architects (MTA, 2018) among few other ateliers, both in Bangladesh and Portugal. She attained her B.Arch (BRACU, Bangladesh) with Dean’s list award and M.Arch (University of Évora, Portugal) with Erasmus Mundus scholarship. Vernacular architecture, social inclusion, and justice, faith, and wisdom of land are of her major research interests.