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Image: a building at Olivais. Lisboa

• material description: structure, lines, volume, materials
vertical/ horizontal; concrete; glass;

• functional description: function, purpose
• buildings for habitation;
• usual description: uses, users, visitor traffic
dormitory : for inhabitants use and their visitors,

Now describe it by looking at it differently or “sideways”:
a beautiful pattern of rectangles , the windows can be open to daily lifes, dreams- story tellers

• as a remnant: of a story, an era, an event
the buildings were made in the late seventies in Olivais, Lisboa, the firsts inhabitants came for from Angola and Mozambique, ex-colons what have to run because of the decolonization
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• as a symptom: of a social, political or other reality
• colonial war; displacements
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• as a symbol: of power, education, health, etc.
, citizenship rights, capitalism ,

Now write a five-line summary of a story that draws meaning from the building or viewpoint.

She lived there for the last 40 years, since she run from the war in Africa, the country gave her a house , a new life, but she still complains , for white supremacy , she was rich before the war , after she is just someone like any other, she hates this democratic society , she watches TV soaps , in the next window another story, an immigrant from Angola, she works hard to have money to pay the rent , she misses her family in Africa, her husband is aggressive, she watches the TV soap , another window, a man from Pakistan praying; another window… the kids outside , in the yard, talking in cell phones, motorcycles; in the horizon the river. Sounds of boats
at any moment people can open the windows and start to sing or dance or just being there looking to the river

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Hello , I am Teresa , from Portugal . I work in visual art education. And I belong to a collective of art educators and researchers called C3, we explore art as a way of learning and connecting people.
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