Borders, buffer zones, exclusion areas, check points, choke points, log-in passwords, check-in desks, security zones, barbed wire, firewalls, gateways. Contemporary space is rugged by the proliferation of borders and delimitations, shaping fluxes of people, information, materials and energy. Their materiality is a reflection of changing codes and legislations, economies and climates, with the ensuing migrations and dislocations associated with the often violent spatial rearrangements of the technosphere. One of the major expressions of how humanity on the move is shaped by this dense filigree of borders are camps. Their apparently fleeting presence is only inverted by their capacity of lasting as capturing devices, as spaces that produce more distinctions and separations, more differences: xeno-spaces.
Quantum Sensing Infrastructures. Deep Underground Architectures for spectral matter
Maria Neto, Jorge Marum, Pedro Leão
Maria Neto is an architect, university professor, and researcher with a PhD in Architecture on refugee camps in protracted situations, awarded by UAH+ICHaB-ETSAM (2022). With international experience in humanitarian action, she has collaborated with UNHCR and the British Red Cross in supporting refugees in Kenya and the UK. A recipient of the Fernando Távora Prize, she has been an invited speaker at the Venice Architecture Biennale, the 6th anniversary of Casa da Arquitectura, and was selected for the Lisbon Triennale Millennium bcp Universities Award, 2022. She is currently coordinating housing projects for the reception and integration of refugees and migrants in Fundão, one of which was selected in the Promove competition by the La Caixa Foundation/FCT.
Pedro Leão Neto is currently a Professor and Researcher at FAUP, where he leads the courses Photography and Communication in Architectural Design (FCPA I & II) and Photography of Architecture, City, and Territory (FACT). He also serves as the coordinator of the research group Architecture, Art and Image (AAI). He oversees the scopio publications, acting as Editor-in-Chief of the scientific journals Sophia Journal of Architecture, Art and Image. He is involved in several research projects funded through competitive grants both as a researcher and a Principal Investigator (PI). Within this field, he has published around 40 books, is the author and co-author of over 100 scientific articles.
Jorge Marum is an architect and photographer, currently Assistant Professor at the University of Beira Interior, where he teaches and coordinates courses in Architectural Design at both Master’s and Doctoral levels. His pedagogical practice is rooted in design studio teaching, bridging research and professional work through an action-research methodology. He actively engages students in real-life design processes within several competitively funded R&D projects focused on territorial and social impact. His recent work addresses housing programs, construction systems, and social inclusion. He has received awards in public competitions, collaborating in private practice with Maria Neto and Rogério Galante.