Porto Design Biennale 2023, Open Call for Satellite Projects

We invite designers and cultural agents to submit projects for the satellite programme of the Porto Design Biennale under the theme of the third edition, Being Water: How we flow together and shape each other. 

For this edition, is proposed a transdisciplinary laboratory platform of observation, reflection, creativity, and learning, which will act simultaneously in the visible and invisible, organic and inorganic, and ephemeral spectra of water. This platform-laboratory is “hydrated” through six proposals:

— Promethean Beasts: Shapes of the human;
— Magical Reality: Living with the un/known;
— Bodies of Water: Where water becomes common — vegetable matter, meat, mineral;
— Dynamic Landscapes: Dancing margins, borders that don't exist; 
— Flying Rivers: Rethinking the sources, uses, and representations of water; 
— Affective Geologies: The living history of a recipe.

More than categorising, the goal is to encourage participants to explore different forms of action that can be expressed in a variety of formats, including debates/colloquiums, workshops/trainings, exhibitions/installations, publications/editions, interventions/events, and collaborations/coproductions. In order to integrate the biennale's parallel programme, we value projects that propose critical interpretations of the general theme of this edition, that can rethink the traditional formats of public presentation, and that broaden the range of audiences reached and the ways of interacting with them.