Lígia Oliveira

This project aligns with my ongoing exploration of the relationship between humans and nature, serving as a critical step in expanding future imaginaries and fostering flourishing possibilities for humans, ecosystems, and planetary health. It reflects my vision of redefining the role of art and design as mediators of a healthier connection with the...

In the spirit of Juhani Pallasmaa’s exploration of “Animal Architecture”, in these works I revisit the concept of learning from nature and our more-than-human counterparts. By studying and appreciating other species’ local practices and adaptive skills, we can expand beyond our human-centric perspectives and strive for a more planetary-centric appr...

This poster synthesises how urban cultural and innovation policies can lead sustainability and regenerative practices through a focus on human-nature connection, on its inherent symbolic and relational significance. This approach holds particular promise for coastal cities like Barcelona, rich in historical ties to the sea and with a strong framewo...

In this chapter, I write about the relationship about the body and landscape. My intention is to approach the intersection of disciplines (arts, design, architecture), through a reflexive discourse on: - How a significant part, if not most, of the climate challenge we’re facing depends on us to change our relationship with Earth; this idea follows...

In this essay, I approach the Deep Sea as a concrete example and metaphor of “the other”, the unknown, and to expand on notions of engagement and kinship from there. The Deep Sea, as more than humans, by their differences and mysterious nature, can be challenging to relate to; yet bonding with them is an essential part in climate action. But how ca...

Innovation and culture have determined industrial cities neighbourhood’s recent urban regeneration projects, with new public spaces emerging from its past industrial vocation. New flagship projects lead the transformation into new productive, mixed-use areas, where innovation conducts the new industrial production of an economy based on culture, cr...

Changes in the economic base of old industrial cities have been characterised by urban regeneration processes, transforming their industrial districts into new innovative, technological and creative territories. While maintaining the industrial vocation, this shift promotes the reinterpretation of industrial production and of the territory’s histor...

This Ph.D. Dissertation examines how the transformation of the economic base of the city of Barcelona had a transformative impact on its physical configuration, and therefore on its public space. This phenomenon is linked to urban regeneration processes, common to the dynamics that occur in other cities. We believe it is important to analyse such p...

In recent years, the urban competitiveness model has boosted the insight of historic centres as a value-added asset, where the symbolic features related to culture and heritage could be exploited accordingly to the global market aims. This historic centres' perception epitomizes the general European policy course to knowledge and innovation, where...

O modelo de competitividade urbana impulsionou, em anos recentes, a percepção dos centros históricos das cidades enquanto uma mais-valia diferenciadora, onde os aspectos simbólicos relacionados com a cultura e o património poderiam ser explorados de uma forma conivente com os desafios do mercado global. Por outro lado, a orientação das economias ur...

Several indicators allude to a generalized regarding of design as essential to the industrial production economic performance, namely in terms of the development of product innovation, of the productive structures and of the businesses' communication and identity. The adoption of business tools for the municipal management of urban spaces, propagat...

The texts that we’ve gathered in "The Economy of the Artist" present critical analyses of culture policies, of institutions and of the very thought structure of the cultural agents of the environment in which the artist is the living centre. Sometimes the form of questioning of the precarity of the artist milieu is presented as an individual action...

Uma das problemáticas comuns a diversas cidades contemporâneas tem sido a sua relação com os seus centros históricos. Nas urbes sul-americanas, como é o caso de Puebla, a aceleração do seu crescimento urbano, associados à transferência do investimento municipal para as suas periferias e para as áreas das cidades mais propensas a gerarem um retorno...