LIVING CIRCLE
In its 2018 edition the Andanças festival’s theme was “living circle,” the continuous movement of dance. We were asked to conceive various interventions that could define the festival’s grounds, signage and its overall ambiance. In a month we conceived, organized and constructed the festival’s entrance, main bathroom area, main bar, three leisure spaces and the festival’s signage.
The materials used came mostly from previous festival editions, the city’s warehouses and from a lot of scavenging for raw materials in the surrounding landscape. The design and building process was guided from these reconfiguring, recycling and reuse processes.
We focused in reorganizing the existing space with the minimum of means possible, while enhancing its existing environmental qualities, namely its urban location, topography and geographical position.
At the same time we introduced a number of new and important elements to the site, such as various areas of shade, the entrance, bar and reorganization of bathroom area.
Beyond the more functional structures and spaces we conceived four windmills of large scale.These windmills appropriated the site’s main open and highpoint, and projected the festival’s yearly theme into a moving form.
Project type: Installation/Construction and decoration/way-finding (open call)
Site: Castelo de Vide
Date: August, 2018
Duration: 3 weeks
Main project: Festival Andanças
Promotor: Associação Pé de Xumbo
Design/Construction: Colectivo Til
Photography: Colectivo Til
Collaborations: Márcio Pereira, Joana Ricardo, Tiago Domingues, Sergio Pérez, Ilia Rebocho, Lígia Nunes, Maria Serzedelo, Luís Valentim, Marta Moreira, Rita Fernandes, Barbara Fernandes, Eliana Piovesana, Mario Prados, Jorge Quito.