Projects
Over the years, we have supported many clients and managed education, research, strategy and design projects in varied creative fields.
A common denominator across all of our projects, is our passion to create value through deep dedication to art, creativity, sustainability and responsible production.
ERC Scarlet
Barbot Bernardo and Ofício were contracted to lead the visual and communication strategy for ERC SCARLET, a European Research Council project led by Heritage Scientist Prof. Paula Nabais at the Departamento de Conservação e Restauro, NOVA FCT (Lisbon). SCARLET will reconstruct historical dyeing recipes, characterise them and make that knowledge accessible — integrating chemistry, history, and heritage science. Between 2026 and 2029, we'll be responsible for the project's visual identity, communication strategy, graphic and editorial design. Read more about this case in our Journal
From Soil to Story with The Lissome Magazine
"Reclaiming clothing culture, artistic craft and print publishing as sensual and sense-making practices, The Lissome offers a gentle space for reflection and dialogue." Following up on Dörte de Jesus last visit to Saber Fazer in 2024, the 2026 ECHN P2P was an initiative to explore joint opportunities. During one week, we explored Porto’s creative and editorial ecosystem and hosted the round table "From Soil to Story". Read more about this subject in our journal
Where does your food come from?
We brought our community together at Saber Fazer for one conversation around food politics, agro-ecology and education. This event was part of TY-CO, an initiative built around the ABR Festival community, with activities and events running year-round in Nicosia (Cyprus), Porto and Lisbon. TY-CO is funded by the Creative Europe Programme from the European Commission. Read more about this subject in our journal
The Heritex Toolbox
Visual identity, website and learning tools for a platform showcasing a living archive of 10.000 years of textile heritage. The Heritex Toolbox is a platform for entrepreneurs, researchers, and fibre enthusiasts, built as part of Heritex-Hub , a networked knowledge hub to empower the green transition in textiles and fashion by harnessing the wealth of data and insights provided by the study of Textile Heritage. This project is a part of the COST action IG19131. Read more about this case in our Journal
TransparencyChain - Tech and digital skills for the crafts sector.
The TransparencyChain Erasmus+ project, coordinated by Barbot Bernardo, aims to make blockchain-based provenance tracking accessible to craftspeople from different backgrounds. By developing a scalable platform and providing training, the project will enhance transparency in the craft sector, ensuring ethical sourcing and sustainable production. The project will also foster digital skills, helping craftspeople improve their market competitiveness through digital marketing strategies. Read more about this subject in our journal
Adventurous Music Plateaux (AMP) 2025
We are supporting our friends at VIC NIC / Navalha with the promotion of the Portuguese chapter of the Adventurous Music Plateaux (AMP), a LIVEMX project by the Plateau Foundation (Poland). Read more about the festival in our Journal .
Vic Nic 2025 / 2026
We are back at Aveiro's "secret cinema" for a new collaboration with Vic Aveiro Arts House and its in-house book publisher and record label, VIC NIC. After designing a communication strategy and engaging in fruitful cooperation at the BREAK festival, we will be responsible for the weekly communication of the house, encompassing concerts, retail, hospitality, and projects. Read more about our collaborations with Vic Nic in our journal
ECHN P2P Programme with the Textile Prototyping Lab (GER).
This P2P was an initiative of our friends at the Textile Prototyping Lab from Germany, to explore joint opportunities, share experiences, and get to know each other's hubs and communities. During one week, we explored Porto’s textile ecosystem, with plenty of visits to factories and meetings with fellow creative hubs. On the last day, we hosted an event at Saber Fazer, where other hubs and community members had the opportunity to get to know each other and present their projects and organizations. Read more about the event in our Journal
Typologies of Community - The Afrobanana Solarpunk Collectivity
This project, funded by the Creative Europe Programme, aims to redefine community building through a sustainable lens using the platform of the Afrobanana Festival in Cyprus. As the festival approaches its 12th edition, the focus is not just on celebrating the arts but on evolving into a year-round platform that actively engages and influences communities. The consortium includes partners from Cyprus, Greece and Portugal.
CommunityCloth: building capacity for community educators towards sustainable urban transition
CommunityCloth is an Erasmus Plus project (2024) coordinated by Barbot Bernardo, having Alternative Brain Rules from Cyprus and Smuss Studio from Norway as partners. CommunityCloth created tools to promote new training models and provide knowledge for community creation around farm-to-cloth productions. It created a network of educators as a cost-effective way of scaling knowledge transfer. More about this project
LAUDS FACTORIES
Technical Assessment. LAUDS Factories aims at contributing to an open and sustainable European value-based production. 15 partners collaborate to set up local urban factories for scaling up digitally distributed and open innovations. The project will launch 2 open calls for 14+ projects awarding up to a total of 240.000 EURO, and organize exhibitions, events and workshops dedicated to the new paradigm of open and sustainable urban manufacturing in Europe.
Natural Dyeing School for the Revive Project
The Revive Project is part of the Europe Through Textiles: Network for an integrated and interdisciplinary Humanities (EuroWeb - Cost Action 19131), which vision is to re-write European history based on its massive production, trade, consumption and reuse of textiles and dress. During 4 days, Euroweb participants had the opportunity to learn with Alice Bernardo and Guida Fonseca about natural colourants, historical dyeing, dyeing techniques and mordanting, mordant dyes (weld, madder, cochineal & others), vat dyes and direct dyes (indigo, woad, orchil).
GatewayCrafts
GatewayCrafts is an Erasmus Plus which started in 2023 and his coordinated by Barbot Bernardo and has Cru Creative Hub (Por) and Matera Hub (ITA) as partners. The project consists of preparing pilots to facilitate access to technical knowledge in small-scale manufacturing and artisanal work. In addition, it will seek to develop and distribute high-quality educational content, oriented and adapted for contemporary audiences and digital media. The learning strategy combines more conventional elements of distance learning, such as those already found in Saber Fazer's online courses, with others developed and adapted for a social learning logic and more informal learning on social networks.Find out how we created GatewayCrafts’s identity.
Circular Art Marketplace
Strategic Plan and Business Model for a collaborative platform and marketplace for European artists and designers working with sustainable materials. The project was funded by the Creative Europe Programme
Bombarda Porto Art District
Assistance to Associação Quarteirão Criativo in the preparation of different proposals for grants and incentive programs. For over 25 years, the Miguel Bombarda District has established itself as an epicentre of artistic and creative businesses in Porto. The Association, founded in 2022, represents several dozen businesses and aims to boost projects in favour of the broader community of the neighbourhood.
Associação Saber Fazer
Preparation of proposals for cooperation programs for Associação Saber Fazer, a not-for-profit founded in 2021, with the aim of, among others, making Portuguese manufacturing a strategic asset for an inclusive and sustainable development of territories and communities.
Indieworkers
Indieworkers is a project by our partners at Cru Creative Hub dedicated to independent workers in the Creative Industries. In recent years we have been collaborating with the project in training events, in its podcast (as interviewers and interviewees) and in supporting the preparation of applications to grants and cooperation programmes.
Associação de Jovens Agricultores de Moura
Assistance in the preparation of a proposal and creating a consortium for a large project in the area of sustainable production. The project focused on agritourism and ecology in Alentejo's Montado (Natura 2000 Network).
Oficinas do Convento
Preparation of a proposal for a government grant. In 2021, we challenged the Oficinas do Convento to partner with local stakeholders to design a new project to revive the sustainable and energy-efficient construction sector. The project focused on ancient building techniques and local materials like earth (clay, rammed earth) and cork.
Aliados Consulting
Over the last few years, we have supported Aliados Consulting, a strategic partner, in developing their website and preparing proposals for different incentive systems and Government grants in the fields of sustainability and circular economy.