Três percursos e um desvio para um mesmo fim

propostas para experienciar a cidade

Abstract

This article is about the performative project “Three routes and a detour towards the same end”, realized out in 2019 as part of the research “Dramaturgies of the Everyday. Speculations on the fictional dimension of the real” developed at the Master of Art and Design for the Public Space of the University of Porto. The project is based on the daily routes I used to catch, through the streets of Porto, to take my son to his nursery. The proposal consists of four “experience-walk” for a small group of spectator-participants. For each walking, I used different procedures to explore ideas, such as: the coexistence of distinct time frames, the path as a narrative, the multiplicity of views about the same path and the idea of deviation as a field of possibilities. Against the automatism of everyday life “Three routes and a detour towards the same end” intends to connect participants to the dimension of experience, imagination and subjective time. In the article I discuss the questions of each “experience-walk” and I invite the reader to a “derive” about the transit spaces that I propose.