Carnival!

Our last week ended with the perfect field trip..

On saturdaymorning we took the train to Tua where awaited us besides hills, olives and some low temperatures, the most warm welcome by José's family. His grandparents were so nice to invite us into their home at Carrazeda de Ansiães to celebrate the Carnival weekend there and we had the most wonderfull time. 

On Sunday even our engineers Rita and Daniel joined us, as did our architect Pilar, to go end get to know a little bit more of Portugese culture by visiting the carnival in tras os montes. The “entrudo chocalheiro” was quite an experience, to say the least… 

Many thanks to everybody who joined us!

 

the swiss knife

Shoot!!
A new CABA drawing coming your way!

Arrebita! on air

Once a drop reaches water, waves follow in larger and larger circles. 

Arrebita!Porto is nothing but that. At least this seems what the media have been thinking, since the very first stages of the project. Video interviews and promo video are now collected in our Arrebita!Porto YouTube channel. 

check out Arrebita!Porto videodiaries on our YouTube channel

José has been explaining Arrebita!Porto in a number of venues, like TEDxO'Porto, making interviews and promo videos the core of Arrebita!Porto video channel. 

Talking about expanding waves, the international community is getting more and more interested on the project and the virtuous mechanism framing it. We already had interested journalists contacting Arrebita! from Belgium, France, Germany and Italy. 

A few days ago we actually had one architect of international team 4 interviewed by Radio24, a national Italian broadcast service. Flavio, waking up quite early on a Saturday morning, had an interesting talk with Federico Taddia, host of L'Altra Europa - The Other Europe. 

Bearing in mind to make Arrebita!Porto accessible on the web, and to spread the message, we thought it was worth it to have English subtitles explaining the audio tracks. Just make sure the "cc" button is selected, and English text will appear. 

Talk to you soon.

Bienvenu dans la CA(s)BA

See here the result of our CABA-concept-workshop! Some interesting ideas popped up. Now:  let’s work it out!

first concept "open and close your main block"

2nd concept "one big cabinet of curiosities"

3rd concept: "put it in a drawer"

4th concept: "organize your space"

5th concept: "A!box"

Meeting the architects

To get inspired, we gathered with the team of architects at the recently refurbished apartment of Rita in downtown Porto. On the table/floor was again our beloved CABA. What to do with this crucial element - infamous for its myriad of metamorphoses it has known during the design process? By passing through so many different hands it had become an assembly of multiple concepts, ideas and solutions in danger of becoming some kind of “Frankenstein”.  Therefore - after some fine discussing - we agreed on a tabula rasa that would grant us the liberty to take CABA fully into our hand and to mold it into a clear and strong concept. And so we were send into the night each with the task to develop a concept for CABA “from scratch” with the essential remark that CABA isn’t to be OURS but EVERYBODIES.