FLUP - The Midnight Rotating Tree: keytalks, drawing classes and workshops about Trees

26 & 27 July 2024 | 10h00 | Sala do Departamento de Filosofia & Online

This event is part of a seminar series about trees and circles called The Midnight Rotating Tree. It is inspired by the short tale “The Midnight Library”, written by Matt Haig and affiliated with the research project “Hacking the Good Life”, which investigates a diagrammatic book-game that is half a millennium old.

There will be two activities (in July and September) of an essentially critical and creative nature, where participants will have the opportunity to recreate and explore concepts, combining them under different visual formulas (trees and rotating circles).

KEYTALKS, DRAWING CLASSES AND WORKSHOPS ABOUT TREES

The first seminar’s session of “keytalks” will cover over one thousand years of the history of trees in art, science and faith as tools to communicate and transmit different forms of knowledge. There will also be two practical components (a drawing class and a workshop) involving the manipulation and redesign of this visual archetype - in physical and digital media - applying other themes to them, from logic, visual arts, or even literature.

For more details: DOWNLOAD FLYER HERE

Register until the 20th July 2024

Due to the practical nature of this seminar, we will have 10 spots available for participants who want to attend in person. The talks and the workshop will also be transmitted via Zoom, so please let us know in what modality you wish to attend when you register.

Contact: cpedro@letras.up.pt

PROGRAM:

Sala do Departamento de Filosofia (Torre B - Piso 1)

Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto

26th July

TALKS in-person/virtual

10:00 INTRO Celeste PEDRO - IF/UP

10:30 TALK 1 Maria José GOULÃO - FBAUP

11:00 TALK 2 Manuel RAMOS - IF/FLUP

11:30 TALK 3 Agostinho ANTUNES - CIIMAR

12:00 Q&A

DRAWING CLASS in-person

14:00 INTRO Sofia SANTOS - FBAUP

14:30 CLASS Sílvia PATRÍCIO - ARTIST

27th July

WORKSHOP in-person/virtual

10:00 INTRO Celeste PEDRO & Sílvia PATRÍCIO

10:30 MENTOR Terhi MARTILLA - ITI

12:00 DISCUSSION

Cartaz

Organizers: Celeste Pedro & Michel Kabalan (IF.Proj.01.2024)

RG Reason, Politics and Society in Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy
Instituto de Filosofia da Universidade do Porto - UIDB/00502/2020 and UIDP/00502/2020
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT)