Public Programme

Exhibition Raw Earth

◾ Conversation aroun earth: earth in projection
Saturday, 26 September at 3:00pm at the Architecture Centre 

What is the future of earth-based construction? This conversation explores how the training of new generations, technological development, legislation, and standardisation intersect in the transformation of the sector. Panel to be announced. 

Free entry, subject to prior registration 

◾ Conversation aroun earth: earth continuity
Saturday, 10 October at 3:00pm at the Architecture Centre 

What legacies do we inherit from earth-based architecture and construction, and how do they shape the way we build and think about this material today? This conversation revisits the technical, cultural, and community-based legacies that have enabled the persistence and renewal of earth-building knowledge. Panel to be announced.

Free entry, subject to prior registration 

Exhibition Frida Orupabo

Reading and Listening Room
cadavre exquis / cadáver esquisito / exquisite corpse
Departing from the idea that the museum is inhabited by many bodies, experiences, and forms of knowledge, this project gives voice to people who rarely form part of its institutional discourse: CCB workers and visitors who do not always recognise themselves in artistic languages or have opportunities to be heard. Conceived by the collective FACA and Ícaro Lira, with guidance from Andreia C. Coutinho, Ícaro Lira, and Maribel Mendes Sobreira, the project invites us to look at the exhibition far beyond the artworks themselves, as a living archive in constant transformation. A table—a place of encounter, conversation, and collective construction—serves as the central device, inspired by the Surrealists’ cadavre exquis. Starting from simple questions, emotions, memories, and interpretations are explored. Developed over four moments, this project creates a space for listening, sharing, and collective creation, grounded in the exhibition and its multiple layers of meaning.

Cartonera workshop for handmade books – The Name That Carries Us
18 July at 2:00pm

A workshop on handmade book production using recycled materials, with content connected to the work of Frida Orupabo.
Duration: 4 hours / Maximum 10 participants (adults)
Led by EVA Cartonera

Public Talk Manas at CCB 
19 September at 4:00pm

A public conversation dedicated to the relationship between artistic pradices, inclusion, participation, and lhe production of counter-archives within cultural institutions.

Duration: 1 hour and 30 minutes

MANAS colletive – Mutual Support Group

Free participation subject to prior booking