The unit “Fishing Architecture Workshop,” running under the title “Underwater Landscape” will take place at FAUP and in the fishing community of Angeiras, Matosinhos It is part of the Fishing Architecture research project, funded by the European Research Council.

This Continuing Education Unit will provide students with conceptual and technical tools for representing ecological systems, integrating architecture and marine biology. These dynamic representation capabilities complement the foundational tools acquired in architecture courses. For students from other scientific areas, this understanding will expand the disciplinary boundaries of their studies. Therefore, this unit is an exercise in interdisciplinarity, aiming to connect the humanities and sciences in an applied context.

Objectives

1. Data collection and processing in fieldwork
2. Experimentation with data representation and visualization tools
3. Integration of scientific and artistic research methods in different phases of the work
4. Interaction with the local community for knowledge transfer and communication of results
5. Exploration of collaborative and interdisciplinary processes and methods

Fields of Specialization

This Continuing Education Unit aims to explore the complex relationships between marine ecosystems and coastal architecture, having the fishing community of Angeiras as a case study. As an example of small-scale fisheries, Angeiras is dependent on the local ecosystem, highly sensitive to fluctuations in environmental quality, while playing an active role in its maintenance and preservation. Fishing practices are characterized by non-intensive methods and the use of various seasonal and multi-species techniques, resulting in a low ecological footprint. Among species such as pouting, seabass, and shrimp, octopus is one of the most significant and profitable, caught throughout much of the year.

In this unit, marine ecosystems and their species will be considered. The unit will last one week, with a total of 27 hours distributed among theoretical sessions, fieldwork, collective discussions, and the presentation and debate of results.

The learning process will be based on the transfer and acquisition of knowledge, alongside critical discussion of the content covered, and the development of practical work where the imparted skills will be applied.

For the fieldwork, participants will be organized into groups composed of students and researchers from the Fishing Architecture project, assigned specific tasks complementary to the general objective of the unit. The process and results of the work will be discussed daily in collective sessions, with the participation of specialists and guest researchers from partner institutions of the project.

Participants in this unit will develop skills in interpreting scientific texts and handling representation tools, particularly Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Emphasis will be placed on methods for visualizing and representing urban and ecological phenomena. The unit aims to develop ecological sensitivity and knowledge to integrate architecture within the broader disciplinary field of the environment.

Professional Abilities

Completion of this Continuing Education Unit corresponds to 1 ECTS and the issuance of a certificate of participation.

Employment Prospects

Completion of this Continuing Education Unit corresponds to 1 ECTS and the issuance of a certificate of participation.

Information

Duration: 27 hours

Format: In-person

Language: English

Comments

Applications

— Personal motivation expressed through a motivation letter (50%)

— Specific skills according to the call, assessed through the submission of a representative example of the candidate’s work (50%)

Selection will be based on the quality of responses and the guarantee of diversity and representativity among participants. In the event of a tie, the cadidate’s work will be used as the tiebreaker.

 

Target Audience

The training is intended for master’s students and doctoral candidates in all scientific areas, with particular emphasis on architecture, marine biology, geography, oceanography, history, and related fields.

Bibliography

— W. Jeffrey Bolster, The Mortal Sea: Fishing the Atlantic in the Age of Sail (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2014)-

—  Lawrence C. Hamilton, Steingrímur Jónsson, Helga Ögmundardóttir and Igor M. Belkin, “Sea Changes Ashore: The Ocean and Iceland’s Herring Capital” in Artic, December 2004, vol. 57, no. 4, pp. 325-335.

— Poul Holm et al., “The North Atlantic Fish Revolution (ca. AD 1500)” in Quaternary Research, no.108, 2022, pp. 92-106. Doi: 10.1017/qua.2018.153

— Callum Roberts, The Unnatural History of the Sea (Washington: Island Press/ Shearwater Books, 2007).

— André Tavares, Diego Inglez de Souza, Arquitectura do Bacalhau e Outras Espécies (Porto: Dafne Editora, 2022).

Contacts

Academic and International Cooperation Services

Continuing Education

Drª Marta Lourenço/ Drª Catarina Martins

E-mail: faup.continua@arq.up.pt 

T: 220425417

Fishing Architecture 
Doctor Cláudia Soares
E-mail: fish@arq.up.pt

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