Industrial or Local? The potter’s dilemma

Project 2LEGACY at the European Researchers’ Night 2024 ‘Industrial or local? The potter’s dilemma’ Taking the importance of endogenous clay to the masses 4/10/2024 For its first outreach activity, project 2LEGACY was at the European Researchers’ Night 2024 in Évora with the motto ‘Industrial or local? The potter’s dilemma’ (‘Industrial ou local? O dilema do […]

(H)OUVE: Listening to what one day ‘was’

Developed during IN2PAST’s 1st Doctoral School (H)OUVE: Listening to what one day ‘was’ An In2Future Boot Camp project 2/10/2024 *'(H)ouve’ is a play on words with the Portuguese terms for listening – ‘ouvir’ – and being – ‘haver’. This video is the result of the collective transdisciplinary work carried out by the team of six […]

Trigo Llentejado Boom: memórias coletivas e afetivas do pão alentejano em Évora

Developed during IN2PAST’s 1st Doctoral School ‘Trigo LLentejado Boom’: collective and affective memories of Alentejo bread in Évora An In2Future Boot Camp project 1/10/2024 *’Trigo lentejado bom’ could be very loosely translated as good moist/slow wheat To explore the collective and affective memory related to bread, integrating the words and testimonies of Évora’s inhabitants to […]

Vagativus: um instrumento para repensar a cidade

Developed during IN2PAST’s 1st Doctoral School ‘Vagativus’: an instrument for rethinking the city An In2Future Boot Camp project 1/10/2024 ‘Walking is the first act of landscape construction and the first movement to think about the city. Over time, the set-foot paths become the floor of the streets – those empty lines on the maps, lines […]

O Património é Teu!

Developed during IN2PAST’s 1st Doctoral School ‘Heritage is yours!’, an app for citizen science An In2Future Boot Camp project 30/09/2024 “O Património é Teu!” (‘Heritage is Yours!’) is a project for an app open to the active participation of the population in the process of reflection regarding the conservation of tangible heritage. It is based […]

NEI 2024 in Evora aftermath

© HERCULES Laboratory – University of Évora / IN2PAST HERCULES – UÉvora / IN2PAST in charge of local organisation Challenging citizens in Évora: the aftermath of NEI 2024 The European Researchers’ Night in the European Capital of Culture 2027 30/09/2024 (updated 1/10/2024) ‘Challenge yourself with us!’ was one of the mottos chosen by the HERCULES […]

‘Decante’: wine as Évora’s transdisciplinary heritage

Developed during IN2PAST’s 1st Doctoral School ‘Decante’: wine as Évora’s transdisciplinary heritage An In2Future Boot Camp project 30/09/2024 *Decante (‘Decant’) is a play on words with the phrases ‘decanting wine’ and ‘cante alentejano’, the polyphonic singing from Alentejo, southern Portugal, declared by UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity This video is the result of the […]

Information systematisation for the Kamayurá collection

Information systematisation for the Kamayurá collection Identifying, organising, digitising images… and adding context InDigit exploratory project kicks off in September 20/09/2024 Systematising the information regarding the Kamayurá collection kept at the Portuguese National Museum of Ethnology (NME), in Lisbon, is one of the first tasks for project ‘InDigit: The indigenous peoples of the South American […]

ERC Advanced Grant awarded to CRIA’s Helena Machado

Sociologist is international reference ERC Advanced Grant awarded to CRIA’s Helena Machado 2.4 million euros to study facial recognition technologies 17/09/2024 The global impacts of facial recognition technologies will be at the heart of CRIA – University of Minho / IN2PAST researcher Helena Machado’s research over the next five years. Her new project, ‘Facial Recognition […]

Project Van Goyen final video

IN2PAST presents… Unlocking the secrets of eight small Van Goyen´s paintings Exploratory project final video available on a screen near you 12/09/2024 Why did a team of six researchers decide to submit Jan van Goyen’s paintings to dendrochronological dating* and X-ray computed tomography? Among other in situ imaging techniques and complementary microanalysis techniques… And how […]