News


2024


> 18th December. NADA NOVO give a talk ‘Reutilização de componentes de construção: O papel social e ambiental’ @ DOMUS SOCIAL (state housing provider), Municipality of Porto. 

> 3rd December. NADA NOVO ​​MASTERCLASS for 1+2nd year students of Gabriela Vaz Pinheiro @ Master of Art & Design for the Public Space, Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Porto (FBAUP).

> 30th November. NADA NOVO present the work of the association at the event ‘The next step is circular’, at the MatterPieces brand launch, Espaço Mitra, Lisbon.

> 22nd November. NADA NOVO present ‘Reutilização na construção: mapear as “minas” para o nosso futuro’ at the 31st edition of CONCRETA, Exponor, Porto.

> November. NADA NOVO joins the national initiative Circular Economy Portugal as one of their growing network of ‘Circular Pioneers’.

> 18th October. OPEN TALK: THE ETHICAL CITY. Co-organisation and participation in event at FAUP, Porto with students and staff of the Mackintosh School of Architecture, Glasgow.

> 11th October. ‘TORRE ABERTA’, organised by Paredes Meias. NADA NOVO presentation and participation with Fernando Almeida of PELE in conversation with artistic residents at LABTORRE, Quebrantões, Porto.

> 11th September. NADA NOVO are exhibition designers within a team shortlisted to represent Portugal at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025. Proposal title: ‘What are we doing?’, Curated by Joana Pestana Lages, Paulo Moreira, Gonçalo Folgado.  

> 20th - 26th July. Inauguration and conversation, RE-EXHIBITION | Peças Desgarradas: a origem dos materiais (Stray Pieces: the origin of materials), and  EXHIBITION | Peças Resgatadas: práticas conceptuais e construtivas (Rescued Pieces: conceptual and constructive practices), ADEGA - PELE, Azevedo, Porto.

> 20th July. FÓRUM NADA NOVO FINAL EVENT, ADEGA - PELE, Azevedo, Porto. Conversations, exhibitions and mini-workshops marking the end of the FÓRUM NADA NOVO Project.

> 17th - 20th July. MINI WORKSHOPS, ADEGA - PELE, Azevedo, Porto.

> 4th - 17th July. WORKSHOP | Peças Resgatadas: práticas conceptuais e construtivas (Rescued Pieces: conceptual and constructive practices). ADEGA - PELE, Azevedo, Porto.

> 4th June. INTERMÉDIOS contract with Direção-Geral das Artes (Portugal) within the scope of support for Creation - Architecture.

> June. ‘Deep Re-use’ is published within the book 'The Pedagogies of Re-Use' by Routledge (UK). Co-authored by Jonny Pugh, co-founder NADA NOVO, the chapter shares a number of the conceptual themes being explored by the association.

> 31st May - 1st June. Participation and lecture ‘Reuse in construction: mapping the “mines” for our future’ in the festival ‘Gentler Futures’, Lisbon. Coordination: By The End of May

> 3rd May. Parallel activity of the FORÚM NADA NOVO project at Garagem Avenida, Guimarães: O percurso do Namalet: Mapear para a urgência de reutilização no contexto de ruínas da guerra (The path of Namalet: Mapping for the urgency of reuse in the context of war ruins). Sarah Shrbaji.

> May. NADA NOVO joins the European organization for circular construction: Circular[x]Change, and participates online in the annual event of 2024 ‘How will the circular transition transform architectural practice’.

> 19th April. Inauguration and conversation, RE-EXHIBITION | Peças Desgarradas: a origem dos materiais (Stray Pieces: the origin of materials), Gallery of Garagem Avenida, Guimarães.

> March - May. Workshop to support the production of NEROVNOST-ACE, ACE-Escola de Artes, Porto.

> 22nd March. Inauguration and conversation, EXHIBITION | Peças Desgarradas: a origem dos materiais (Stray Pieces: the origin of materials), INSTITUTO, Porto.

> 11th March. Organization and moderation of the lecture by Victor Meesters (ROTOR): From Spolia to Opalis, Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto (FAUP).

> 22nd February. Video conference for the Faculty of Architecture, University of Lisbon [PRAXIS] 7.º Ciclo de Vídeoconferências. (video recording here ).

> 24th January - 1st February. WORKSHOP | Peças Desgarradas: a origem dos materiais (Stray Pieces: the origin of materials). Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto (FAUP), Porto | School of Architecture, Art and Design of the University of Minho (EAAD), Guimarães.

2023


> 10th November. FÓRUM NADA NOVO contract with Direção-Geral das Artes (Portugal) within the scope of support for Creation - Architecture.

> 29th September. Participation + moderation (Cláudia Escaleira), in the 1st edition of the International Seminar Shift – Arquitetura e Sustentabilidade, under the theme ‘Arquitetura Material’ (Material Architecture). Casa da Arquitectura, Matosinhos, curated by architect Paulo Moreira.

> July. ‘No Original’ proposal developed for ‘open call’ by the CIRCULAR BUILDINGS COALITION (Europe).

> 5th June. Foundation of the NADA NOVO association, on World Environment Day.