Journal
In our blog, we tell stories about what we’re up to at the studio, our clients and the projects we are involved in.
Here you can find complete case studies, photo reports or simply accounts of the beautiful things made by the creatives we work with.
A small preview of our new Future Ecologies zine
Here is a small preview of an editorial piece we’re cooking up following the conversation we had at Saber Fazer about food, agroecology, local resources, and many other appetising things.
Future Ecologies is a new zine and a direct result from the TY-CO project , which is closing these days. Over the upcoming year we will launch a crowdfunding campaign to print three editions, but free digital copies will be available on our website.
A (visual) account of my trip to Athens for BAUTOPIA
I’ve recently returned from Athens, after spending 5 days in the city for the most recent Bautopia, the European Creative Hubs Network (ECHN) annual conference. This year's edition, held in ECHN’s hometown, was spiced up by the addition of SONOTOPIA, the Bautopia soundtrack delivering different music events. In this post I will recount my experience and share a few of the photos I took there. It will have a personal tone, this is a blog, anyway.
Independent music festivals, resilience and SPF 50: two days at the TY-CO conference at the steaming Arroz Estúdios
As September drew to a close, I was in Lisbon for another TY-CO: Typologies of Community event, a two-day conversation with independent festival organisers from Portugal, the UK and Italy.
It took place in Arroz Estúdios’ new space, in a makeshift conference room set up in the shade, over two of those late-summer days with the thermometer hitting 36°C.
Where does your food come from? - full roundtable now on Youtube
In April we brought our community together at Saber Fazer for one conversation around food politics, agro-ecology and education. Organised for the TY-CO project and in line with the ABR Festival's focus on sustainability and local culture, the afternoon traced the journey of food from local producers to the table, and asked a simple but uncomfortable question: what do our food choices really cost?
Interview with Hugo Branco for the second episode of the Ossos do Ofício Podcast
In the new episode of Ossos do Ofício, Miguel Barbot talks to Hugo Branco, musician and producer, artistic director of VIC // Aveiro Arts House.
We talked about how you take on a family house that had been closed for twelve years and was at risk of being sold, and turn it into a creative ecosystem spread across five floors. Who pays the bills at the start, how long it takes before there is any room to do anything else, and how you sustain a cultural project without continuous funding.
Where does your food come from?
Barbot Bernardo and Saber Fazer hosted a roundtable and vegan lunch by Venn Canteen (photo gallery)
We brought our community together at Saber Fazer for one conversation around food politics, agro-ecology, and education.
Organised for the TY-CO project and in line with the ABR Festival's focus on sustainability and local culture, the afternoon traced the journey of food from local producers to the table, and asked a simple but uncomfortable question: what do our food choices really cost?
A visual journey of our trip to Nicosia for the ABR Festival
We were in the early days of the too-hot-for-Atlantic-folks eastern Mediterranean Summer, when two of our team members, Miguel and Antonio, travelled to Nicosia for the 2025 edition of the bi-annual ABR Fest, FKA the Afrobanana Festival.
The motif for such a steamy endeavour? Our participation in TY-CO, an initiative that focuses on the ABR Festival's audience and community, featuring activities and events happening year-round in Cyprus and beyond, including in Porto and Lisbon.