University of Minho, Portugal
A research group on walking practices seeking to transfer and share experiences and knowledge resulting from artistic practices, within and artistic higher education school in architecture, visual arts and design, and a research center with an international dimension dedicated to the study of territory, landscape and heritage Lab2PT. Its fundamental concern is based on the awareness of artists and young artists to carry out artistic practices related to walking, as well as their dissemination through events, namely conferences and workshops. Their expertise and contribution to the project situates itself in the relation between art and education in an outdoors environment, in relation with the landscape and in an ecological/rural perspective.
Next to this Lab2PT have integrated and integrate in their activities a close collaboration with the local community and municipality. Since its foundation in 2018 walking has been included in the curriculum of the art and architecture school as an educational and artistic instrument. UMinho’s main role will be the organization of 4 events/workshops/residencies “The Walking Body” in Guimaraes and work package leading of dissemination and evaluation.
Natacha Antão has a PhD in Fine Arts – Drawing specialty, at FBA Lisbon University. She is a painter, an integrated researcher at Lab2PT (Landscape, Heritage and Territory Laboratory) and an Assistant Professor at the School of Architecture, Art and Design of the University of Minho (UM), Portugal, where she teaches since 2006. Her most recent interests focus on the research practices through walking, developing research, artistic projects and teaching methodologies. She co-founded the research project WALC, and the artistic encounter “The Walking Body”.
She is a representative and researcher from the side of the University of Minho as well as member of the steering committee at WALC.
He is an Assistant Professor at the School of Architecture, Art and Design at the University of Minho and a researcher at Lab2PT – Landscape, Heritage, and Territory Laboratory, where he coordinates the DeTech research group. He holds a degree in Communication Design and a PhD in Fine Arts with a focus on Drawing. He is currently pursuing a postdoctoral research in Media Arts at the University of Beira Interior (UBI). As a researcher and artist specializing in Walking Art, he co-organized the conference Drifting Bodies Fluent Spaces (2020) and has facilitated the workshops The Walking Body (walk.lab2pt.net).
He co-founded the research project WALC where is a researcher from the partner University of Minho.