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.
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.
The conversation covers the guest house that finances everything else, the relationship with Aveiro's cultural fabric, because a project like this does not survive in isolation, and the question that never gets settled in these structures: whether to grow or not, and with what team.
At the end of the episode, Hugo talks about VIC NIC, the house's record label, about the work of conserving the legacy of his grandfather, Vasco Branco, and of the rest of the family, including his mother, the poet Rosa Alice Branco. And about his own musical projects, such as Piurso.
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.