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Portuguese to English: Text for an exhibition in the Schist Villages General field: Art/Literary Detailed field: Tourism & Travel
Source text - Portuguese Encontrar novos caminhos para o desenvolvimento dos territórios exige criatividade, estratégia e planeamento assentes num conhecimento holístico e pluridisciplinar. Depende do estabelecimento de um modus operandi baseado no respeito pelas pessoas que ainda aí vivem e pela sua memória. Só o recurso a um amplo quadro de relacionamentos entre as aldeias, os seus habitantes e os novos atores, pode gerar uma dinâmica de construção de projeto baseada nos valores da responsabilidade e do saber fazer, do saber estar e do saber ser.
As Aldeias do Xisto convocaram o conhecimento e o potencial criativo das escolas superiores de design possibilitando aos estudantes uma imersão na realidade das aldeias. Este relacionamento direto com as pessoas, as paisagens e a cultura, esteve no centro do pensamento sobre a identidade dos lugares e foi a fonte de inspiração material dos artefactos aqui apresentados.
Num mundo de múltiplas opções é fundamental despertar nos jovens as suas mentes elásticas capazes de operar a mudança. Aproximá-los de um território que aposta no design como forma diferenciadora para a sua evolução, posiciona as Aldeias do Xisto como entidade de acolhimento, de espaço de vida e de realização.
A agricultura transporta um potencial antropológico, sociológico, ecológico e económico para interpretar a ligação das comunidades aos lugares que habitam. Dela decorre o desenvolvimento da matriz cultural, material e imaterial, na qual está inscrita grande parte da nossa identidade.
As Aldeias do Xisto são um laboratório vivo que chama a si o papel de agente experimentador para atuar a partir de três vertentes:
Estratégica, Social, Produto
Três vertentes de atuação:
Estratégica
Posicionar a marca Aldeias do Xisto como uma referência de atuação coletiva no território.
Social
Chamar novos atores para o território.
Produto
Criar bens e serviços representativos da identidade local.
Reinventar a cultura dos lugares com as pessoas que neles habitam é a linha de atuação das Aldeias do Xisto para criar valor social e económico no seu território de missão.
Para tal, convidámos 9 escolas superiores de design e 22 ateliers de craft a juntar o seu conhecimento e capacidades à realidade concreta das nossas aldeias e, em conjunto, abrir caminho a uma nova economia, capaz de produzir bens e serviços significantes com memória e identidade.
O projeto Agricultura Lusitana continua o posicionamento da cultura colaborativa entre a gestão e o design, um poderoso catalisador dentro das organizações que estimula o pensamento criativo, o desenvolvimento das iniciativas e o trabalho das equipas, que geram valor no contexto social.
Agricultura Lusitana representa e nutre-se daquilo que a cultura rural portuguesa melhor produziu. É sobre os traços da memória e do engenho deste povo que o projeto se desenvolve, baseando-se na ligação Craft+Design+Identidade.
O que ficará sedimentado como memória em cada uma das pessoas que participaram neste projeto é a emoção do relacionamento vivencial nas aldeias.
“Este trabalho fez-nos aproximar mais da nossa cultura através das pessoas e, por isso, tornou-o mais humano.”
Daniela Lopes, aluna do curso de design do Departamento de Comunicação e Arte da Universidade de Aveiro
“A maior vantagem deste projeto é a liberdade que nos dá para colocar as questões fundamentais do design e também a liberdade para lhes responder.”
Fábio Pereira, aluno do curso de design da UBI- Universidade da Beira interior (Covilhã)
“Este projeto não se resumiu só a uma utilização das minhas competências. O contato com as pessoas nas Aldeias do Xisto e com o seu estilo de vida fez algo por mim também, transformou-me eticamente e fez-me pensar nos meus valores e opções.”
Mário Roda, professor de design ARCA EUAC- Escola Universitária das Artes de Coimbra
“Os objetos têm de incorporar uma vertente emocional, tornar o objecto pessoal, provocando uma reação nas pessoas, ativando memórias, estimulando e cruzando referências.”
Joana Silva Moreira, aluna do curso de design da ESAD- Escola Superior de Artes e Design de Matosinhos
A ligação Craft+Design+Identidade é uma força transformadora que reposiciona os ofícios artísticos e estimula a reestruturação do tecido social no sentido da renovação e permanência da cultura dos lugares.
Translation - English Finding new avenues for the development of territories requires creativity, strategy and planning based on holistic and multidisciplinary knowledge. It depends on the establishment of a modus operandi based on respect for the people who still live there, as well as their memory. Only by making use of a broad framework of relationships between villages, their inhabitants and new actors, can we generate a project-building dynamic based on responsibility and the skills of doing, existing, and being.
The Schist Villages have summoned the knowledge and creative potential of Design schools, enabling students to immerse themselves in the reality of these villages. This direct relationship with people, landscapes and culture was at the center of the thought process regarding the identity of these places, becoming the main source of material inspiration for the artifacts presented here.
In a world full of so many options, it is fundamental to awaken the pliable minds of young people, in order to shape change. By bringing them closer to a place that bets on design as its main differentiating factor for progress, The Schist Villages are positioned as an entity for hosting, for living, and for fulfillment.
Agriculture carries an anthropological, sociological, ecological and economic potential to inspire a connection between the communities and the places they inhabit. From it, the development of the cultural, material and immaterial matrix takes place, in which a great part of our identity is inscribed.
The Schist Villages are a living laboratory that instills in itself an experimental role, from which actions take place based on three components:
Strategic, Social, Product
Three acting components:
Strategic
To position the "Aldeias do Xisto" (Schist Villages) brand as a benchmark of collective action in the territory.
Social
Call for new actors to the region.
Product
Create goods and services that are representative of the local identity.
Reinventing local culture, alongside its inhabitants - that is the Schist Villages' course of action, in order to create social and economic value in their territorial mission.
To this end, we invited 9 design schools and 22 craft workshops to bring their knowledge and skills to the actual reality of our villages and, collectively, pave the way for a new economy capable of producing meaningful goods and services, with memory and identity.
The "Agricultura Lusitana" (Lusitanian Agriculture) project continues the positioning of the collaborative culture between management and design, a powerful catalyst within organizations that stimulates creative thinking, the development of initiatives and the work of teams that generate value in a social context.
Lusitanian agriculture represents and nourishes itself from the best of Portuguese rural culture. It is from the population's memory and ingenuity footprint that this project develops, based on the link Craft+Design+Identity.
The memory that will forever remain etched in each and every participant of this project is that of a plethora of emotions experienced from socializing and bonding in these villages.
"This project has brought us closer to our culture through the people and, therefore, has made it more human."
Daniela Lopes, student of the Design degree at Departamento de Comunicação e Arte of Universidade de Aveiro
"The biggest advantage of this project is the freedom it grants us for questioning the fundamentals of design and also the freedom to seek those answers."
Fábio Pereira, student of the Design degree at UBI - Universidade da Beira interior (Covilhã)
"This project was not just about the employment of my skills. The contact I had with the people from the Schist Villages and their way of life has sparked something inside me, it has transformed me ethically and made me think about my values and options."
Mário Roda, professor of Design in ARCA EUAC- Escola Universitária das Artes de Coimbra
"Objects must incorporate an emotional component, make the object personal, triggering a reaction in people, rekindling memories, stimulating and crossing references."
Joana Silva Moreira, student of the Design degree at ESAD - Escola Superior de Artes e Design de Matosinhos
The Craft+Design+Identity link is a transforming force that repositions artistic crafts and stimulates the restructuring of the social fabric towards the renewal and permanence of the culture of places.
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Welcome to my bio page! I'm Bernardo, a native Portuguese (European) speaker, who's also fluent in English and plans to add Japanese to his working language pair in the not-so-distant future.
I have a Master's degree in Engineering and Industrial Management, and have worked at Portugal's biggest retail and distribution company, SONAE (2016).
My foray into the translation industry began soon after a gap year in Australia, in 2016/2017, where I developed a love for linguistics while learning Japanese.
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