In response to this year's central theme, Porto/Post/Doc will carry out another edition of its usual conversation space: Fórum do Real. The forum will again feature three panels of guest speakers who will debate Ideas to Postpone the End of the World, divided into three major themes: Earth, Community and Freedom. The sessions will take place between the 23rd and 25th of November, at 6 pm at Casa Comum. Access to all conversations is free.
Panel 1: Land
23 TUE, 6 PM, CASA COMUM
Moderator: Raquel Ribeiro, journalist, writer and professor
With: Álvaro Domingues and Marta Rodriguez
A meeting between the Colombian director and documentary filmmaker Marta Rodriguez and the Portuguese geographer Álvaro Domingues, where the land is discussed as a space for dispute and for resistance, but also between cinema, documentary, human geography, landscape, economy and culture. What instruments do we use to read and understand the land? What tools do we have to work with it? Between Colombia and Portugal, a dialogue about identity and belonging.
Panel 2: Community
24 WED, 6PM, CASA COMUM
Moderation: Abel Coentrão,journalist
With: Laura Sobral, José Carlos Mota e and Rob Hopkins
Community life is one of the oldest expressions of the sociability that characterizes the human species. Over thousands of years, in caves, or in cities, we have developed bonds of affection that have supported our personal and collective development, expressed in other words such as friendship, neighbourhood, citizenship. We could discuss to what extent the loosening of these ties has brought about the crisis of civilisation we now find ourselves, but instead, it is perhaps more important to look to the future, and discuss to what extent we can use such an "archaic" tool as the 'Community', to face the challenges that lie ahead. This is what we will try to do in this session of the Forúm do Real, with Rob Hopkins, co-founder of the Movement for Transition and author of, among other works, From What is to What If - unleashing the power of imagination to create the future We want - and Laura Sobral, urban planner, founder of the Instituto A Cidade Precisa de Você and author of the book Fazer Juntos, or Doing it Together - cooperation tools for city co-governance, and José Carlos Mota, professor at Aveiro University, researcher and facilitator for participated projects, as well as coordinator for the first Portuguese civic lab, Lab Santiago, in Aveiro.
Panel 3: Freedom
25 THU, 6PM, CASA COMUM
Moderation: Ricardo Alexandre, journalist
With: João Pina, Pedro Matos and Selma Uamusse
Do we only know how to value a dark night, retroactively as a memory, when we didn't have it and hardly dared to dream of it? Are we giving it up when we take it for granted in a present saturated with images that, not long ago, would have seemed to us pure fiction? What value do we give to the memory of the struggles for love of freedom? Why do we need it for a cosmopolitan and inclusive culture, where identity is built on a palette of colours and not on monochrome territories of the self? And can there be freedom without bread? What does the food emergency in the world say about the way we live?
These and other questions are discussed by Pedro Matos, a geographer who became a humanitarian worker at the UN; João Pina, a photojournalist who works on memory (from Operation Condor to Tarrafal, through wars between peoples, and between people from the same city); and Selma Uamusse, an engineer who in music embraces the freedom of art.
