workshops & projects

• contemporary arts
• design and activism
• transdisciplinarity and collective creativity

2022

• O avesso da página: Livros de artista/artist books, teaching, Ines Linke and Lia Krucken, grad course at Federal University of Bahia, Brazil (in progress)
• Imagens que nos habitam – Fluxos do Atlântico Sul/ Images that inhabit us – workshop  Lia Krucken and Adriano Machado, art center Nowhere, Lisbon, Portugal – @nowhere_lisboa
• Experiências de/na natureza por meio de processos artísticos com natureza / Experiences of/in the nature by means of artistic processes, teaching, Ines Linke and Lia Krucken, grad course at Federal University of Bahia, Brazil
• Imagem rainha/Queen image – workshop with Afrobrazilian references, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil
• Exhibition Fri(c)ções: experimentos de/nas fronteiras / Fricctions: experiments of/in frontiers, curators Ines Linke, Lia Krucken, assistance Laura Benevides, Cañizares Gallery, Salvador, Bahia

2021

• project of collective book Verbetes moventes
• Arte & política / Art & Politics. Curator/mediation of a talk series with Paulo Nazareth, Clarissa Diniz, Diane Lima, Cristina, Rubens Mano, Paulo Nazareth, Raphael Fonseca, Laís Machado, Diego Arauja, Iago Barreto e Maurício Lima. With Ines Linke at Intervalo Fórum de Arte, Goethe Institute Salvador, 2021
• Do que é feito o encontro? / From what a meeting is made?, participation in collective processes and exhibition at Duna. Project supported by Prêmio das Artes Jorge Portugal 2020. Salvador, Bahia
• Densidade, visual arts and dance workshop with Lia Krucken and Morena Nascimento
• International dialogues about insurgences. Insurgencias. Curators: Ines Linke, Lia Krucken and Paz Ponce, with Intervalo Forum de Arte (Salvador). Project supported by Culture Mobility Program, Berlin
• Fri(c)ções: experimentos de/nas fronteiras / Fricctions: experiments of/in frontiers, artistic residence, Intervalo Forum de Arte/UFBA/Goethe Institute, Brazil. Curators: Ines Linke, Lia Krucken. Participants: Augusto Leal (Simões Filho/BA). Dayane Ribeiro (Santo Amaro/BA), Duo FURTACOR (Vitória/ES, São Paulo/SP, Belém/PA) Ella Franz Rafa (Rio de Janeiro/RJ), JeisiEkê de Lundu (Salvador/BA), Marlon de Paula (Belo Horizonte/MG), Padmateo (Jequié/BA), Potira (João Pessoa/PB), Zahra Alencar (São Paulo/SP). Assistência de curadoria: Laura Benevides. Guests: Pêdra Costa, Tiago Sant’Ana e Gabriela Leirias. Assistance: Laura Benevides. https://intervaloforumdearte.wixsite.com/fronteiraseficcoes

2020

• project of collective book Gestos artísticos em tempos de crise
• Gestos artísticos em tempos de crise / Artistic Gestures in times of crises, teaching, Ines Linke and Lia Krucken, grad course at Federal University of Bahia, Brazil
• Fri(c)ções: cartografias em tempos de crise / Fricctions: cartographies in times of crises, artistic residence, Intervalo Forum de Arte/UFBA/Goethe Institute, Brazil. Curators: Ines Linke, Lia Krucken. Participants: Edson Macallini (SC), Henrique Reis (BA), Julia Milward (DF), Lanussi  Pasquali (BA), Lara Perl (BA), Laryssa Machada (BA), Morani Ààrô (RJ), Rafael Ramos (BA), Sarah Hallelujah (RS), Victor Mota (BA), assistance Laura Benevides. https://friccoesecartografias.wordpress.com 
• Diário de objetos / Diary of objects, artistic residence, curators Cinara Araújo and Lia Krucken, Federal University of South of Bahia- UFSB, Brazil
• O livro e suas potências / The book and its potentialities, teaching, Cynthia Cy Barra and Lia Krucken, grad course at Federal University of South of Bahia- UFSB, Brazil
• Imagens migrantes / Migrant images, round-table with Lia Krucken (Salvador), Aline Bemfica (Paris), Dunya Azevedo, Intervalo Forum de Arte/UFBA (BH), https://forumdearteintervalo.wordpress.com/2020/10/01/imagens-migrantes-3-cortes/
• Livros diásporos / Diasporic books, round-table with Lia Krucken, Cynthia Cy Barra, Marcela Bomfim. UFBA – https://youtu.be/KeaK7CbCX3g
• Fluxos do Atlântico Sul – investigações artísticas / Atlantic South flows – artistic investigations, round-table with Lia Krucken, Ines Linke e Uriel Bezerra. UFBA – https://youtu.be/Gt6CKtdmX1k
• Gestos artísticos em tempos de crise/ Artistic Gestures in times of crises, 29/05/2020, round-table with Lia Krucken, Ines Linke, Marcelo Terça-Nada, Lucas Feres, Lucas Lago. UFBA – https://youtu.be/mLE3JLYxdaM
• Curatorship team of Miolo, Editions of Arts: Lia Cunha, Arissana Pataxó, Manoela Barbosa, Lia Krucken, Lara Britto, Cynthia Cy Barra. Duna/Tiragem – UFBA – http://www.tiragem.ufba.br
• IV Forum Negro de Arte e Cultura, coordination team, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil

2019

• Nkaringana: objetos e histórias em trânsito / Nkaringana: objects and histories in trânsito, curators Ines Linke, Lia Krucken and Uriel Bezerra, Casa do Benin and Museu Afrobrasileiro (MAFRO), Brazil – exhibition and publication – https://dunaeditora.myportfolio.com/nkaringana
• O artista em deslocamento: textual idades afrobrasileiras / The artist in movement: Afro-Brazilian textualities, grad course at Federal University of Bahia, Brazil
• Processos colaborativos na Arte e no Design/Collaborative processes in Art and Design, grad course at Federal University of Bahia, Brazil
• FLUXOS – ACERVOS DO ATLÂNTICO SUL – processes of artistic investigation connected to the South Atlantic and African diaspora, curators Ines Linke, Lia Krucken and Uriel Bezerra, at Federal University of Bahia, with Casa do Benin and Museu Afrobrasileiro (MAFRO), Brazil – https://fluxosdoatlanticosul.wordpress.com
• III Forum Negro de Arte e Cultura, coordination team, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil
• Workshop of curatorship  and Afro-Brazilian art, with Yves Abdallah (Congo) at Forum Negro de Arte e Cultura, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil

2018

• A (poetic) word to change the discourse, at Frei University Berlin, December, Berlin, Germany

• Body, city & micropolitcs, guest professor from Elena Agudio at Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin, October, Berlin, Germany
• Letting words free, at Agora Collective of Contemporary Practices / Insurgences Program, Berlin, Germany (photos: Bea)

• One word to change the discourse, at Cas’a’screver, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
• Letters from the place, at Cas’a’screver, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

• In collaborative resistance: context and memory in design and artistic processes – workshop during the International Symposium on Migration, Displacement and Cultural Bonds, in collaboration with Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and the Design School / ESDI, Brazil

2017

• Other lives of objects – workshop about art in migration contexts. Collage and ‘sobreimpressions’ are the main techniques explored in this work. Museu de Arte Moderna do MAM, Salvador, Brazil (photos: MAM Bahia)

• Other lives of objects – workshop about art in migration contexts. Coletivo Elza, Florianópolis, Brazil

• From places to images – workshop about creative processes based on the ideas of “spirit of place” and “immaterial geography”. November/2016, with Fátima Pena, Iara Mol and Lucia Castello Branco. Collective exhibition in Abril/2017 at Cas’a’screver, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

2016

• Poetic image – workshop focused on the image of words, as guest of the research project ‘Palavra em Ponto de Dicionário – word in point of dictionary’, coordinated by Lucia Castello Branco, Vania Baeta e Janaína De Paula. Funding: CNPq/ Federal University of Minas Gerais, Cas’a’screver, Brazil, 2014-2016
• The value is local: collaborative design and projects for the territory – workshop on strategic design with designers and artisans focused in traditional products and know-how from Amazon. November/2016, with Fernanda Martins and Samia Batista at Mapinguari Design Studio, Belém, Brazil
• Creative ideas for urban development in Brasilia – workshop on transformative research for decision-making. November/2016, with Cristiano Cagnin, Peter Moll, and Niki Frantzeskaki at Center for Strategic Studies and Management in Science, Technology and Innovation (CGEE), Brasília, Brazil
• D4T – Design for Territory – guest-expert in the international focus group on tangible and intangible aspects of the territory. October/2016, at Politecnico di Milano, Italy
• Co-curating the city – guest at the interdisciplinary lab focussing on co-curating the city as well as the transformations of the role of the curator, developed by Hybrid Space Lab- October/2016 at the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Berlin.

2015

• “Art, design and collaborative innovation: how people are transforming cities”-  workshop with citizens aimed to develop ideas and sustainable concepts for the city of Florianópolis. November/2015, at ositio, Florianópolis, Brazil

Photo by Silvana Frate

• at HFBK, Hamburg, Germany – participation as guest of Marjetica Potrc and the Design for the Living World at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste – HFBK in Hamburg –  research about soil and water, the essentials elements residents of Prinzessinnengarten neighborhood live with every day but they do not question them. Living with Soil and Water is part of Nachbarschaftsakademie 2015: Stadt – Land – Boden, a Community Academy at the Prinzessinnengarten.

Photo by Marco Clausen, Berlin, Prinzessinnengarten, 2015

• at UNIDEE – University of Ideas, Biella, Italy – participation as guest-artist at “Understanding Territoriality for Creating Territorialities”, a project co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union, and produced in partnership by Fabrica (UK, http://fabrica.org.uk), Netwerk (Belgium, www.netwerk-art.be/en), Otvorena Soba (Macedonia, www.publicroom.org) and Cittadellarte – Fondazione Pistoletto (Italy, www.cittadellarte.it).

2007-2014

• Workshops for creative processes – International School Fundação Dom Cabral – FDC, EMBRAPA, German Agency for Technical Cooperation GIZ Gmbh

2014

• “Reading the city center” (art exhibition) – memory of the project
  Belo Horizonte, Brazil | Funding: Cultural Center of UFMG
  Team: Lia Krucken (org.), Luís Matuto, Márcia Guimarães, Najla Mouchrek
  See photos 

• “Immaterial geography – video” 
  Belo Horizonte, Brazil | Funding: Cultural Center of UFMG
  Workshop and exhibition at the Summer Festival of Federal University of Minas Gerais.
  Team: Lia Krucken  and guests Luís Matuto, Márcia Guimarães, Najla Mouchrek, Peter Moll, Umma Fotografia
  Participants: citizens, professionals and students from several areas
  See workshop photos

2010-2014

• Workshops for sustainable design
  Semestral courses at MSc of Design, Innovation and Sustainability and undergrad at Design School of State University of Minas Gerais, Brazil

2013

• “Genius Loci – the spirit of the place” (workshop and exhibition)
  Belo Horizonte, Brazil | Funding: Cultural Center of UFMG
  Workshop and exhibition at the Summer Festival of Federal University of Minas Gerais.
  Team: Lia Krucken and guests Luís Matuto, Márcia Guimarães, Najla Mouchrek
  Participants: citizens, professionals and students from several areas

• “Alternative maps for the city“ (workshop)
  Belo Horizonte, Brazil | State University of Minas Gerais
  Team: Lia Krucken, Iara Mol
  Participants: Students from Design and Art Courses

2012-2014

• Project and program “From dreams to social innovation projects”
  Part of the international project Dream:in, together with Parsons The New School
  Belo Horizonte, Brazil | State University of Minas Gerais
  Team: Lia Krucken, invited professors Iara Mol, Mario Santiago, Marco Túlio Boschi
  Participants: Students from Design and Art Courses

2012

• Identity and traditions
  Palermo, Italy | Art Academy of Palermo
  Team: Lia Krucken, Marinella Ferrara
  Participants: Students of Ecodesign Course

2011

• “Dialogues about identity”
  Rethinking territorial assets and proposing design solutions
  Aveiro, Portugal |  Universidade de Aveiro
  Team: Rui Roda, Cláudia Albino, Lia Krucken (Guest professor)
  Participants: students of M.Sc. in Design
  Aims: Mapping and investigating local resources and traditional products from the area. Develop opportunities to think these traditions and cultural heritage in contemporary contexts.
• “Social Design”
  Porto Alegre, Brasil | Escola de Design – Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos – UNISINOS
  Team: Lia Krucken (coord.), Ágata de Britto, Carlo Franzato
  Participants: students of M.Sc. in Strategic Design

2010   

• “The identity of the place: a study about São Luís do Maranhão”
  São Luís do Maranhão,  Brasil |  Universidade Federal do Maranhão
  Team: Lia Krucken (coord.), Raquel Noronha
  Participants: students of Specialization Course in Graphic Design

2009

•  Workshop Sustainable value chain of biodiversity products (Rede Juçara)
  Parati,  Brasil |  GIZ | Atlantic Forest
  Participants: small agriculture producers and researchers

2007   

• “Design and sustainability”
  Curitiba,  Brasil |  Federation of Industries of Paraná – FIEP
  Participants: managers/students of Specialization Course in Ecodesign