PROGRAM

Friday, June 5

Time Type Activity Artist ROOM
15:00 Open doors
15:00 Workshop Designing with a tree: from fruit to object Andrea Bandoni Garden 01
15:00 Workshop Beyond the recipe: writing food and memory The Gramounce Atelier
15:00 Workshop Invisible creatures: create and care for your own micro-ecosystem Mónica Esteves Garden 02
15:00 Workshop Create biotextiles from human by-product: hair Laura Oliveira Bio Lab Lisboa
18:00 Talk session
Towards Ecosystem Regeneration: an introduction BY THE END OF MAY Garden 01
Voicing the Tagus River ecosystem through human and technological assemblages Eden X Main Room
Fauna: abiotic architecture for the biotic world Phyta Biodesign Main Room
Interspecies Internet: connecting, imagining, co-creating Interspecies Internet Main Room
19:00 Music DJ sets curated by kennino Beanslut, Man of Many Garden 01
20:00 Sharing Circle tba tba Main Room
20:30 Performance NEXUS: Eating as a shared act Francisca Paiva Garden 02
ongoing Exhibit Exhibition and Installations Various artists MCH / JAM Lisbon
ongoing Entertainment Food, drinks, and music Garden 01

Saturday, June 1

Time Type Activity Artist ROOM
10:00 Open doors
10:00 Workshop Carbon-negative soup: soil regeneration meets cooking Grounds of Care x Studio Method Garden 03
10:00 Workshop Biomaterials from place: exploring local ecologies through bioplastics Felipe Shibuya, Tiago Torres-Campos Bio Lab Lisboa
10:00 Workshop Colour and matter: exploring natural dyes and biomaterials Agnese Raimondi Main Room
10:00 Workshop From fiber to form: local plant residues as materials for making Bagaceira Garden 02
10:00 Experience Listen to the city: a more-than-human soundwalk for regenerative design Anna Bertmark Garden 01
10:00 Experience Under the morning light: practices for witnessing and writing the ephemeral Sympoietic Society Garden 01
13:00 Music DJ set DJ TĀSKA Garden 01
14:00 Talk session
Towards Ecosystem Regeneration: an(other) introduction BY THE END OF MAY Garden 01
Practices of repair: working between territory, matter and time Andreia Garcia Main Room
The intelligences we forgot: designing from the origins in the age of AI Originate Institute Main Room
Designing Sustainable Futures: reflections on contemporary design Ana Mestre Main Room
From waste to Matter: a decade pursuing bio-based materials MATTER Main Room
16:30 Workshop Magical materiality: natural materials, relational practices and symbolic transformation Julee Garden 02
16:30 Workshop Reinterpreting terrazzo with construction and demolition waste Mayra Deberg Bio Lab Lisboa
16:30 Workshop Foraging questions: thinking with wild edible plants Fede Fantini Garden 02
16:30 Sharing circle Futurecasting: a closing conversation on Gentler Futures BY THE END OF MAY Garden 01
18:00 Music Live concert SOLUNA Garden 01
19:00 Music Live concert tba Garden 01
19:00 Performance Unearthing petroglyphs: towards a new semiotics of Alentejo’s cup-marks Pousio Main Room
20:00 Performance Skincare routine La cuarta piel Main Room
20:00 Music DJ sets curated by kennino DJ RITKA, MYSS LETA Garden 01
ongoing Exhibit Exhibition and Installations Various artists MCH / JAM Lisbon
ongoing Entertainment Food, drinks, and music Garden 01

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Gentler Futures Festival is a not-for-profit initiative by BY THE END OF MAY, a research and design studio exploring the roles of manufacturing and crafts in creating a (non-linear), (post-consumerism) and (anti-alienation) economy. If you are into open source design, distributed manufacturing, local making and regenerative materials, get in touch with us.
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