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The 5th International Conference ON THE SURFACE: Photography on Architecture - Visual Spaces of Change: Unveiling the Publicness of Urban Space through Photography and Image, which took place on the 31st of May 2019 on occasion of MAAT’s Fiction and Fabrication exhibition offered a forum for an interdisciplinary debate on photography and architecture, with a strong editorial component devoted to the publication of original works and ideas at the intersection of these two fields. Aiming to promote the awareness and reflection upon Architecture and Art, namely documentary photography in regard to its conception as an instrument to question the universes of Architecture, City and Territory, the theme chosen for this edition of On the Surface focused on the contemporary transformations of the public space: “Visual Spaces of Change: unveiling the publicness of urban space”. Proposing to debate and explore the potential of Image and Photography as resourceful tools to research and to reflect upon and render visible the emergence of new collective experiences in the social space, the focus was on Documentary and Artistic Photography for addressing crosscutting issues that are shaping contemporary changes in cosmopolitan territories. is conference wanted in this way to contribute for greater social interaction among artistic and cultural institutions and academia, extending the action of museums, universities and art venues beyond their traditionally circumscribed spaces of action, stimulating the agents and institutions involved to be more active and open to debate in their approaches to public space. The intention was to render visible aspects of urban change, as well as how architectures, places and spaces are used and lived, crossing and shifting traditional boundaries for expanding the capacity of institutions to participate in the public domain. In this sense, we aim to contribute for critically thinking architecture as an integrative field of knowledge with historical, cultural, social, economic and political dimensions, and explore photography as a dynamic process of discovery, documentation and reflection that incorporates interpretive, artistic and even fictional aspects of these multiple dimensions. On the Surface 2019 challenged authors and researchers from the fields of photography and architecture to discuss and use image and photography to better understand the city as a living organism, a rich multifaceted space characterized by a variety of experiences and programs, which are a reflection of the knowledge, beliefs, values and customs that characterize different societies. us, a central objective of the conference was to discuss in what way image and photography can be used to unveil how architecture expresses the cultural values and identity of our cities, being these critical research instruments for understanding and perceiving architecture in meaningful ways, as well as for understanding the past in order to better grasp the transformations that are increasingly influencing our social practices and place experiences, affecting the modes of citizen participation and cultural interaction. By overlapping and crisscrossing the disciplinary boundaries of Image, Art and Architecture, the borders of these disciplinary fields are challenged for critically thinking through contemporary changes occurring in between physical and virtual dimensions of everyday life. Through the realization of these debates, it was intended to contribute to the creation of a space of exploration, discussion and reflection towards new ideas and research paths about the use of photography as an instrument of visual research and communication, as well as about architecture and the public space, with a focus on emerging dynamics of urban transformation. Lastly it is important to refer the significant connection of this conference to the project Visual Spaces of Change that the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto (FAUP) is coordinating, which integrates a significant component of Contemporary Photography in its research, together with the participation of other national and international academic bodies and research institutions that are involved. In fact, by bringing some of the themes of the VSC research project to this 5th edition of ON THE SURFACE: Photography on Architecture, we aim to contribute for opening academia to society, fostering collaboration among a wide range of cultural and artistic institutions towards common interests and goals. Intertwining the research group CCRE-CEAU-FAUP and Cityscopio Cultural Association, scopio Editions will be again the official publisher of this conference. Thus this 4th number of Sophia, Visual Spaces of Change: Unveiling the Publicness of Urban Space through Photography and Image is dedicated to this International Conference ON THE SURFACE: Photography and Architecture - Visual Spaces of Change: Unveiling the Publicness of Urban Space, publishing the papers based on the works that were presented at the conference. These papers constitute a significant example of investigation on how contemporary photography can be explored as a meaningful instrument of research about contemporary processes of urban change, producing visual synthesis about how architectures, places and spaces are used and lived, rendering visible aspects which are difficult to perceive without the purposeful use of image and photography. This means, besides other things, to inquire and study the possibilities offered by photography in various dimensions, oscillating between reality, poetry and utopia, creatively introducing new links between realistic representations, fictional worlds and symbolic meanings, articulated in conceptual discourses and visual narratives that are communicated through the specific grammar and syntax of photographic image. The conference was organized by the Center of Communication and Spatial Representation (CCRE), integrated in R&D Center of the Architecture School of the University of Porto (FAUP), in partnership with the Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (MAAT) and scopio Editions. ON THE SURFACE: Photography on Architecture Visual Spaces of Change: unveiling the publicness of urban space SCOPIO EDITIONS SOPHIA COLLECTION Porto, 2020 Publisher Cityscopio – Associação Cultural Rua da Cidreira 291, 4465-076 Porto (Matosinhos), Portugal info@cityscopio.com www.cityscopio.com Editorial and Advisory Board Research group CCRE integrated in R&D of the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto (FAUP) called Centro de Estudos de Arquitectura e Urbanismo (CEAU) Via Panorâmica S/N, 4150-755 Porto, Portugal ccre.arq.up@gmail.com tel: +351 226057100 | fax: +351 226057199 Scientific and Editorial Commission (CEAU-FAUP) Fátima Pombo (UA / DECA / ID+) Iñaki Bergera (Arquitectura / Unizar) José Miguel Rodrigues (FAUP) Marco Iuliano (LSA/CAVA) Pedro Leão Neto (FAUP) Susana Ventura (FAUP) Wilfried Wang (UTSoA) Editorial Coordinator Pedro Leão Neto Editors Pedro Leão Neto Iñaki Bergera - Invited Editor Editorial Collaborators Eduardo Silva Maria Neto ISBN 978-989-54318-8-5 ISSN 2183-8976 Dep. 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Reviewers of Sophia 4th Number Álvaro Domingues (FAUP / CEAU) Ana Francisca de Azevedo (DeGeoUM/Lab2PT) David Viana (CEAU / VSC) Fátima Pombo (UA / DECA / ID+) Francisco Ferreira (EAUM - Lab2PT) Isa Clara Neves (CES) Jorge Marum (UB I/ CCRE) José Barbedo (FAUP / CEAU) Margarida Medeiros (FCSH) Olívia da Silva (IPP – ESMAD) Pedro Leão Neto (FAUP / CEAU) Susana Ventura (FAUP / CEAU) Teresa Ferreira (FAUP/ CEAU) Authors Panel #1 Pedro Leão Neto Beate Gütschow Katarina Andjelkovic Klauss Borges Panel #2 Iñaki Bergera Bas Princen Ana Miriam Sebastiano Raimondo Apostolos Kyriazis Cristina Gastón Guirao Panel #3 Pedro Gadanho Ana Amado & Andrés Patiño Mariana Von Hartenthal Haode Sun Creative Director Né Santelmo Design Collaborator Edu Silva Impresssão / Printing Printy Apoio / Support UP, FAUP, FCT December, 2019