#study phd in portugal

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Hello, Pauline! Hope you're well. I'm currently finishing my Masters in Architecture [in Portugal], and through the course of the past couple of years, I've realized that I'd love to pursue a carreer in Academia/Research. I'd appreciate it if you could share a bit of your own experience, even if it's very different from mine. It's all very daunting: how to build relationships with Professors, avoid Impostor Syndrome, etc. Thank you x

Hi! I think there's heaps of differences depending on the academic culture in which you're studying. The dynamics and expectations are very different in the UK and in France, for example, and they even vary wildly between fields (my brother is in Engineering, I'm in Humanities, and while our feelings about the matter are close, our contexts are worlds apart.)

All that to say: I can give you general advice, but what matters is you talking to your advisor and your direct colleagues about it; they'll know how your university / department / national expectations work much better than me.

Regarding building relationships with professors, if you decide to do your PhD in the same university you've done your masters in, you're golden: you already have a relationship with them, as a student. It's something I lacked and regretted, so I would definitely vote in favour of staying in the same institution: you start your PhD with the rules / network already in place.

If you're talking specifically about finding an advisor, I don't have much to offer... I don't know how it works in Architecture. In my field you create your topic from scratch and when you present it to the experts in your field, they'll accept to work with you if they believe in your project. You're free, but you're mostly on your own. But in most fields (and I'd guess Architecture is one of them), there are projects already framed by labs and research units, and you apply for them. It's much better supervised, and your advisor will come with it.

If your programme has a lab life (people in your research unit working together, or working next to each other), this should also be good for building relationships. Professors are important, but as a PhD student you won't be just a student; you'll be a beginner researcher. Professors won't baby you anymore (and if they do, it's your responsibility to show them you don't need to be babied.) Other researchers, other PhD students are just as important for your research development and your grasping what's happening in your field; I recommend going to conferences, in the audience and, as soon as possible, as a presenter, and engaging with those who gravitate around the same subjects. It will make your own thinking grow enormously.

As for Impostor Syndrome, huh... There's no remedy. Research work will teach you that you're an idiot and you will never know anything. Not only that, but what you almost-know just slips through your fingers constantly. It will give you tools to handle that ignorance better, and that's what's important here. Of course everyone around seems much cleverer than you, which must mean that you gotta fake it 'till you make it, though "making it" just means "being able to share the very small parcel of knowledge you've got well enough that people understand what you think" and maybe it will nourish them like others have nourished you. In the niche little corner in which you've done your work, you do have something to bring to the table, some richness that will make others connect and think with you, and that matters more than feeling down on yourself.

If you have specific questions, don't hesitate to ask! I hope this doesn't sound too sulky; I'm just out of my PhD, so we're still a bit cold-shouldery, it and I; still, going into research is VERY exciting, and I wish you all the best ♡

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sorry I’ve been meaning to update the armandaniel rec list but I’ve been living a pretty cool life recently so it’s on the back burner

fr tho I’m a PhD student co-directing a study abroad program in Portugal for the next few weeks (one week down!) and it’s a lot of work as a teacher but also very fun and cool. I’m so blessed to have this opportunity and to have many amazing site partners in the cultural heritage industry (galleries, museums, libraries, and archives) helping my students learn about innovation, history, democracy, and decolonization in these spaces and how Portugal’s cultural heritage space are (and also…aren’t) working to reckon with their colonial identity and domination.

be back soon!

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Two from MIT awarded 2024 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans

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Two from MIT awarded 2024 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans

MIT graduate student Riyam Al Msari and alumna Francisca Vasconcelos ’20 are among the 30 recipients of this year’s Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans. In addition, two Soros winners will begin PhD studies at MIT in the fall: Zijian (William) Niu in computational and systems biology and Russel Ly in economics.

The P.D. Soros Fellowships for New Americans program recognizes the potential of immigrants to make significant contributions to U.S. society, culture, and academia by providing $90,000 in graduate school financial support over two years.

Riyam Al Msari

Riyam Al Msari, born in Baghdad, Iraq, faced a turbulent childhood shaped by the 2003 war. At age 8, her life took a traumatic turn when her home was bombed in 2006, leading to her family’s displacement to Iraqi Kurdistan. Despite experiencing educational and ethnic discriminatory challenges, Al Msari remained undeterred, wholeheartedly embracing her education.

Soon after her father immigrated to the United States to seek political asylum in 2016, Al Msari’s mother was diagnosed with head and neck cancer, leaving Al Msari, at just 18, as her mother’s primary caregiver. Despite her mother’s survival, Al Msari witnessed the limitations and collateral damage caused by standardized cancer therapies, which left her mother in a compromised state. This realization invigorated her determination to pioneer translational cancer-targeted therapies.

In 2018, when Al Msari was 20, she came to the United States and reunited with her father and the rest of her family, who arrived later with significant help from then-senator Kamala Harris’s office. Despite her Iraqi university credits not transferring, Al Msari persevered and continued her education at Houston Community College as a Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP) scholar, and then graduated magna cum laude as a Regents Scholar from the University of California at San Diego’s bioengineering program, where she focused on lymphatic-preserving neoadjuvant immunotherapies for head and neck cancers.

As a PhD student in the MIT Department of Biological Engineering, Al Masri conducts research in the Irvine and Wittrup labs to employ engineering strategies for localized immune targeting of cancers. She aspires to establish a startup that bridges preclinical and clinical oncology research, specializing in the development of innovative protein and biomaterial-based translational cancer immunotherapies.

Francisca Vasconcelos ’20

In the early 1990s, Francisca Vasconcelos’s parents emigrated from Portugal to the United States in pursuit of world-class scientific research opportunities. Vasconcelos was born in Boston while her parents were PhD students at MIT and Harvard University. When she was 5, her family relocated to San Diego, when her parents began working at the University of California at San Diego.

Vasconcelos graduated from MIT in 2020 with a BS in electrical engineering, computer science, and physics. As an undergraduate, she performed substantial research involving machine learning and data analysis for quantum computers in the MIT Engineering Quantum Systems Group, under the guidance of Professor William Oliver. Drawing upon her teaching and research experience at MIT, Vasconcelos became the founding academic director of The Coding School nonprofit’s Qubit x Qubit initiative, where she taught thousands of students from different backgrounds about the fundamentals of quantum computation.

In 2020, Vasconcelos was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to the University of Oxford, where she pursued an MSc in statistical sciences and an MSt in philosophy of physics. At Oxford, she performed substantial research on uncertainty quantification of machine learning models for medical imaging in the OxCSML group. She also played for Oxford’s Women’s Blues Football team. 

Now a computer science PhD student and NSF Graduate Research Fellow at the University of California at Berkeley, Vasconcelos is a member of both the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Lab and CS Theory Group. Her research interests lie at the intersection of quantum computation and machine learning. She is especially interested in developing efficient classical algorithms to learn about quantum systems, as well as quantum algorithms to improve simulations of quantum processes. In doing so, she hopes to find meaningful ways in which quantum computers can outperform classical computers.

The P.D. Soros Fellowship attracts more than 1,800 applicants annually. MIT students interested in applying may contact Kim Benard, associate dean of distinguished fellowships in Career Advising and Professional Development.

[evoldir]

Fwd: Job: Lisbon.MultipleLevels.GenomicEvolution

Begin forwarded message: > From: evoldir@evol.biology.mcmaster.ca > Subject: Job: Lisbon.MultipleLevels.GenomicEvolution > Date: 8 March 2024 at 05:12:23 GMT > To: rdmpage@gmail.com > > > > The Genome Maintenance and Evolution lab at IGC(Oeiras, Lisbon, Portugal) > is recruiting at multiple levels. > > WHO WE ARE: > We are biologists, biophysicists and bioengineers broadly interested in > the evolution of cell and molecular mechanisms. > > WHAT WE DO: > We study the interplay between genome maintenance mechanisms and > evolutionary forces in shaping organismal features. > > HOW WE DO IT: > We use a multidisciplinary methodology that entails molecular, cellular, > evolutionary, and synthetic biology. When possible, we take advantage > of quantitative approaches to discriminate amongst different classes > of models. > > At this stage, we welcome applications for the following positions: > > Postdoc: PhD holders eager to lead a scientific project in the lab > (Start date: ASAP). > > Lab Manager: > Master/PhD holders who can provide administrative, technical and > scientific support to lab members (Start date: ASAP). > > Technician: > Bachelor/Master holders who can provide technical assistance to lab > members (Start date: ASAP). > > PhD student: > Master holders eager to join the IBB > PhD program(Beginning 9/2024, joining labs in 3/2025). > > Master student: > Students enrolled in universities or ERASMUS training programs, who > want to take part in one of the current lab projects for their thesis > (Start date: 10/2024). > > Eligibility: PhD holders must have received their degree within the > past 3 years.  Prospective candidates are encouraged to apply or inquire > further information at: mfumasoni@igc.gulbenkian.pt > > Additional details: > https://ift.tt/X6x2Djz > https://ift.tt/r1Tfl2e > > Ana Garo�a Delgado > Genome Maintenance and Evolution Group > Instituto Gulbenkian de Ci�ncia (IGC) > Rua da Quinta Grande, 6, 2780-156 Oeiras, PT > > > > Ana Garo�a

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Study in Portugal

Portugal is an outstanding study destination, boasting quality higher education that adheres to the Bologna Process and offers top-tier Bachelor, Masters and PhD programmes. An education from one of Europe’s premier universities is highly regarded by employers and can give your career a significant boost. Studying there also allows you to broaden your network internationally, giving access to…

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Qs, Ukrainian Speakers Needed for an In-person Study (Lisbon, Portugal)

Hello, My name is Yolanda Xavier and I am a PhD candidate in Psycholinguistics at NOVA University of Lisbon (Portugal), Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities (NOVA FCSH), affiliated with the Linguistic Research Center of the same university. As a part of my research, I am currently focused on the pronunciation of foreign learners who learn Portuguese as a foreign or second language. The main languages I am working with are Ukrainian and European Portuguese. Within the scope of my PhD fello http://dlvr.it/Sm1CSC

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Urban Regeneration and Adaptive Reuse are essential for uplifting cities, communities, and neighbourhoods and utilizing the potential of existing buildings and built environments. Last week, I gave a talk on "Urban Regeneration and Adaptive Reuse: Understanding through Case Studies". I presented case studies of urban regeneration in Ahmedabad, India, and Marina Bay, Singapore. Moreover, the adaptive reuse of the LX Factory in Lisbon, Portugal, was discussed in detail. I also added the names of a few more case studies that students can look up and learn from it. Such as Shanghai, China; Shenzhen, China; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Santiago, Chile; and Seoul, South Korea. Freetown Christiania, Copenhagen, Denmark; University of Luxembourg, Belval Campus, Luxembourg; Connectra, Belgium; Maasmechelen Village, Belgium; Book Store Dominicanen Maastricht, Netherlands; and Park Spoor Nord, Belgium. Thanks to Prof. Dr. Saima Gulzar and the faculty of the School of Architecture and Planning (SAP), UMT Lahore, for the invitation. In the picture, receiving a token of appreciation from Sana Malik, PhD, Chairperson, Department of Architecture, UMT Lahore. #Urban #urbanregeneration #urbanrenewal #adaptivereuse #reuse #sustainabledevelopment #BUITEMS #BUITEMSQuetta #DoABUITEMS #UMT #UMTLahore #architecture #urbandesign #urbanplanning #urbanism #Lahore #Punjab #Pakistan #university (at UMT SAP - School of Architecture and Planning) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpfAFZxN5eP/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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GVL / Holding Pattern

Holding Pattern  Tiger Strikes Asteroid Greenville, Greenville, SC + KMAC Museum, Louisville, KY

Exhibition Dates

KMAC: March 3 - April 9 Reception: March 3 Artist talk: April Dauscha March 18 Artist talk: Nneka Kai March 30

TSA GVL: April 21 - May 20 Reception: May 5

Tiger Strikes Asteroid Greenville (TSA GVL) artist collective and KMAC Museum are excited to present Holding Pattern, a 6-artist exhibition that investigates fiber arts as a form of modern technology in Louisville, KY and Greenville, SC.

Over the past decade, the value of what we call “technology" became largely correlated with its ability to gather and hold information — data. Today — in algorithms and AI, science and social media — the highest value is assigned to technologies that hold data and the stories that can be derived from it to give it meaning.

But is this really new? Holding Pattern examines how fiber arts helped create the template for our current understanding of what makes a technology valuable, and how contemporary works deserve consideration as technologies that hold both data and story. And, while fiber artwork that employs contemporary digital is usually framed as doing something “new,” it actually reveals a relationship that already existed.

Artists Danielle Burke, April Dauscha, Nneka Kai, Elysia Mann, Keysha Rivera, Skye Tafoya

Co-curated by Tiffany Calvert, Jennifer Oladipo & Kelsey Shaeffer, members of Tiger Strikes Asteroid Greenville

Artist Bios

Danielle Burke Danielle (Dani) Burke is an artist and folklorist. She studies textiles, craft pedagogy, and artist communities; her studio practice focuses primarily on the structure and storytelling potential of woven cloth. She is currently a PhD student in Design Studies (history) within the School of Human Ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

April Dauscha Born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky, April Dauscha received her BFA in fashion design at the International Academy of Design and Technology and her MFA in fiber from Virginia Commonwealth University. April has served on the board of directors for the Surface Design Association (SDA) and is one of the founding members of Tiger Strikes Asteroid Greenville (TSA GVL). She has been represented by Page Bond Gallery in Richmond, Virginia and her work has been featured in Vogue Portugal. She has exhibited her work nationally, at the Fuller Craft Museum, MANA Contemporary, and Tracey Morgan Gallery, and internationally in Berlin, Cape Town, Jerusalem, and Belgrade. She is currently heading the fiber arts program at the Fine Arts Center, a performing and visual arts high school, in Greenville, South Carolina. Her work can be seen here at www.aprildauscha.com .

Nneka Kai Nneka Kai is an interdisciplinary artist from Atlanta, GA, whose practice is rooted in the exploration of personal and archival narratives through the material of hair. She received her MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago, where she was a research assistant at the Textile Resource Center. There she explored the history and conservation aspects of textiles within the Fiber & Material Studies collection. Not seeing herself represented in the objects, she decided to research the peripherals of textiles, in hopes of uncovering Black women’s material sensibilities throughout the diaspora. She also received her BFA from Georgia State University, where her material studies sparked her curiosity for hair. Currently, Nneka’s studio practice explores these findings through fiber, sculpture, and performance works, emphasizing methods of abstraction and opacity. She has performed her works in Chicago, Atlanta, and North Carolina. In 2021, Nneka exhibited in the Hair Stories Exhibition at The Newport Art Museum in Rhode Island. She is currently working as an art teacher while exploring her home in Atlanta, Georgia as a site of Black presence and preservation.

Elysia Mann Elysia Mann is a studio technician at the University of Tennessee and is a member of Knoxville’s Relay Ridge community studios and printshop. She was the co-founder of a collaborative print shop in St. Louis called All Along Press where she published fine art prints and letterpress editions. She holds a BFA in Printmaking from Washington University in St. Louis and an MFA in Studio Art from the University of Tennessee. Her work combines print, textile, and poetry and has been shown nationally including upcoming exhibitions at the KMAC Museum in Louisville and Tiger Strikes Asteroid in Greenville. Website: elysiaaileenmann.com.

Keysha Rivera Keysha Rivera is a textile and media artist of Afro-Indigenous ancestry. Rivera combines traditional craft and contemporary digital technologies. Her work revolves around cultural preservation and the configuration of displaced histories.

Her work being rooted in the connection of material and process, she creates soft sculptures, paintings, and installations that point to the conversation around the vulnerability of home, Caribbean identity and the tenderness of memory and remembrance.

Her familial research acts as a guide for the creation of works. By centering Puerto Rican liberation, her art functions as a contemporary form of resistance to the present-day realities.

Skye Tafoya skye tafoya is an indigenous artist from the eastern band cherokee and santa clara pueblo tribes. her tribal heritage and lineage are significant components continuously present within her artwork. skye comes from a lineage of basket-weavers, both paternal and maternal, and also used to make red willow baskets with her dad. skye continues to use paper-weaving processes to honor her loved ones and ancestors. her meticulously crafted designs, patterns, prints, and weavings are influenced by basketry and contains themes of cultural teachings, cherokee language preservation, motherhood and personal & family narratives. skye creates with the intention of archiving, preserving and sharing stories, language, culture, and experiences.  

skye has worked in both two-dimensional and three-dimensional forms ranging in sizes from hand-held to life-size. the methods of her art practice include serigraph (screen-printing), relief and letterpress printmaking, digital design, paper-weaving, and book-making.

skye published her first artist book, ul’nigid’, in the spring of 2020 and has exhibited work nationally and internationally in russia. her work is also housed in many special collections including the u.s. library of congress, kohler art library, and the bainbridge museum of art. she received her b.f.a. from the institute of american indian arts in santa fe, nm and her m.f.a. from the pacific northwest college of art in portland, or.

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First Nations Fine Press Friday

Roberta Hill

In association with our post this week on Roberta Hill, we present the fine press printing of an excerpt from Hill’s 1993 poem, Your Fierce Resistance. Printed in an edition of 150 copies at the Minnesota Center For Book Arts (MCBA) in conjunction with literary center The Loft for the Inroads: Writers of Color series,Your Fierce Resistance is an excerpt of a longer poem of the same title. The full-length poem can be found in Roberta J. Hill’s (then, Roberta Hill Whiteman) second poetry book collection, Philadelphia Flowers: Poems, published by the Holy Cow! Press in 1996. The edition was was printed by Robert Johnson of the Melia Press and wood engraver, printer, designer, poet, and illustrator Gaylord Schanilec using Bembo type on Mohawk Superfine paper, with Fabriano Italia endsheets and Moriki Over Arches covers, supported in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. 

Hill completed her PhD with a biographical study of her paternal grandmother, Dr. Lillie Rosa Minoka-Hill⁠—the second American Indian woman to earn an M.D. in the United States. Minoka was of Mohawk descent, but had moved with her husband to the Wisconsin Oneida Reservation where she opened a “kitchen clinic” to serve the Oneida peoples. She’s said to have been adopted by the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin—the only person in the 20th century to be officially adopted by them—and was given the name Yo-da-gent, meaning “she who saves” or “she who carries help”.

The book, however is dedicated to another family member, Josephine Coté, Hull’s matrilineal aunt. Nonconformity must run in the women of this family, as Hill’s writing honors her aunt’s outward resistance to all pressures of assimilatory expectations, both inside and outside the Oneida reservation. Hill recalls a conversation with Coté, in Your Fierce Resistance,

Then you asked me, “What passes from a mother to her child?” You shifted your thin body closer and put your elbows on your knees. “Its mother’s blood. The blood remembers,” you said, straightening up to look me in the eyes, snapping them in your teasing way. “Whatever’s lost can often be found.”

Roberta Hill’s three poetry collections revolve around the communal feeling of disconnection within the Oneida Nation’s people, where she utilizes nature-centric Native American/First Nations ideals to take a firm stance against the capitalistic consumption polluting our environment. Hill has read her poems throughout the United States and at International Poetry Festivals in Medellin, Columbia and Poesia Do Mundo in Coimbra, Portugal, as well as in China, Australia, and New Zealand. Hill has retired from her position as a Professor of English and American Indian Studies, affiliated with the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, in May of 2020, and now lives in the Driftless area of Wisconsin.

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–Isabelle, Special Collections Undergraduate Writing Intern

We acknowledge that in Milwaukee we live and work on traditional Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk, and Menominee homelands along the southwest shores of Michigami, part of North America’s largest system of freshwater lakes, where the Milwaukee, Menominee, and Kinnickinnic rivers meet and the people of Wisconsin’s sovereign Anishinaabe, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Oneida, and Mohican nations remain present.

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Hi, I’m Catarina, a long time studyblr lurker that never had the motivation to run her own blog.

I’m a 23 yo biologist from Portugal and I’m currently finishing up my master’s thesis in a research lab that studies neurodegeneration in fruit flies. I’m passionate about anything cellular and molecular biology, neuroscience, immunity, cancer and development biology related and I hope to pursue a PhD in biomedical research eventually.

2020 has been hard for all of us and I have really taken a beating this year, both academically and personally, so I though making this blog might be a good idea to give me a bit more motivation to finish my Masters in the best way possible and to keep a log of this time in my life. (🤞hoping I’ll stick with it for more than a week)

I’ll leave you with a picture of my cat since she is far more photogenic than me.

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“MIT can give you ‘superpowers’”

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“MIT can give you ‘superpowers’”

Speaking at the virtual MITx MicroMasters Program Joint Completion Celebration last summer, Diogo da Silva Branco Magalhães described watching a Spider-Man movie with his 8-year-old son and realizing that his son thought MIT was a fictional entity that existed only in the Marvel universe.

“I had to tell him that MIT also exists in the real world, and that some of the programs are available online for everyone,” says da Silva Branco Magalhães, who earned his credential in the MicroMasters in Statistics and Data Science program. “You don’t need to be a superhero to participate in an MIT program, but MIT can give you ‘superpowers.’ In my case, the superpower that I was looking to acquire was a better understanding of the key technologies that are shaping the future of transportation.

Part of MIT Open Learning, the MicroMasters programs have drawn in almost 1.4 million learners, spanning nearly every country in the world. More than 7,500 people have earned their credentials across the MicroMasters programs, including: Statistics and Data Science; Supply Chain Management; Data, Economics, and Design of Policy; Principles of Manufacturing; and Finance. 

Earning his MicroMasters credential not only gave da Silva Branco Magalhães a strong foundation to tackle more complex transportation problems, but it also opened the door to pursuing an accelerated graduate degree via a Northwestern University online program.

Learners who earn their MicroMasters credentials gain the opportunity to apply to and continue their studies at a pathway school. The MicroMasters in Statistics and Data Science credential can be applied as credit for a master’s program at more than 30 universities, as well as MIT’s PhD Program in Social and Engineering Systems. Da Silva Branco Magalhães, originally from Portugal and now based in Australia, seized this opportunity and enrolled in Northwestern University’s Master’s in Data Science for MIT MicroMasters Credential Holders. 

The pathway to an enhanced career

The pathway model launched in 2016 with the MicroMasters in Supply Chain Management. Now, there are over 50 pathway institutions that offer more than 100 different programs for master’s degrees. With pathway institutions located around the world, MicroMasters credential holders can obtain master’s degrees from local residential or virtual programs, at a location convenient to them. They can receive credit for their MicroMasters courses upon acceptance, providing flexibility for online programs and also shortening the time needed on site for residential programs.

“The pathways expand opportunities for learners, and also help universities attract a broader range of potential students, which can enrich their programs,” says Dana Doyle, senior director for the MicroMasters Program at MIT Open Learning. “This is a tangible way we can achieve our mission of expanding education access.”

Da Silva Branco Magalhães began the MicroMasters in Statistics and Data Science program in 2020, ultimately completing the program in 2022.

“After having worked for 20 years in the transportation sector in various roles, I realized I was no longer equipped as a professional to deal with the new technologies that were set to disrupt the mobility sector,” says da Silva Branco Magalhães. “It became clear to me that data and AI were the driving forces behind new products and services such as autonomous vehicles, on-demand transport, or mobility as a service, but I didn’t really understand how data was being used to achieve these outcomes, so I needed to improve my knowledge.”

July 2023 MicroMasters Program Joint Completion Celebration for SCM, DEDP, PoM, SDS, and Fin Video: MIT Open Learning

The MicroMasters in Statistics and Data Science was developed by the MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society and MITx. Credential holders are required to complete four courses equivalent to graduate-level courses in statistics and data science at MIT and a capstone exam comprising four two-hour proctored exams.

“The content is world-class,” da Silva Branco Magalhães says of the program. “Even the most complex concepts were explained in a very intuitive way. The exercises and the capstone exam are challenging and stimulating — and MIT-level — which makes this credential highly valuable in the market.”

Da Silva Branco Magalhães also found the discussion forum very useful, and valued conversations with his colleagues, noting that many of these discussions later continued after completion of the program.

Gaining analysis and leadership skills

Now in the Northwestern pathway program, da Silva Branco Magalhães finds that the MicroMasters in Statistics and Data Science program prepared him well for this next step in his studies. The nine-course, accelerated, online master’s program is designed to offer the same depth and rigor of Northwestern’s 12-course MS in Data Science program, aiming to help students build essential analysis and leadership skills that can be directly implemented into the professional realm. Students learn how to make reliable predictions using traditional statistics and machine learning methods.

Da Silva Branco Magalhães says he has appreciated the remote nature of the Northwestern program, as he started it in France and then completed the first three courses in Australia. He also values the high number of elective courses, allowing students to design the master’s program according to personal preferences and interests.

“I want to be prepared to meet the challenges and seize the opportunities that AI and data science technologies will bring to the professional realm,” he says. “With this credential, there are no limits to what you can achieve in the field of data science.”

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Fwd: Graduate position: Montpellier.PlantSexChromosomes

Begin forwarded message: > From: evoldir@evol.biology.mcmaster.ca > Subject: Graduate position: Montpellier.PlantSexChromosomes > Date: 17 August 2023 at 06:02:45 BST > To: rdmpage@gmail.com > > > Dear colleagues, > > We have a three-year PhD position in a collaborative project between the > University of Montpellier (France), Biopolis (Porto, Portugal) and the ETH > Zurich (Switzerland). > > Title: Genomics of sexual systems and adaptation in an alpine plant, Silene acaulis > > Description: > The thesis will be focused on the Silene acaulis species complex, consisting of > several subspecies adapted to life at high altitudes and latitudes. While most > flowering plants have hermaphroditic flowers (with both pistils and stamens), > Silene acaulis is particular in that several subspecies have different sexual > systems, including dioecy (separate female and male plants) and gynodioecy > (separate female and hermaphroditic plants). In dioecious plants, sex can be > determined by sex chromosomes, as in many animals, but currently only few sex > chromosomes have been identified in plants, and the conditions for the evolution > of such chromosomes are currently debated. Furthermore, as dioecy imposes > outcrossing, the sexual system could have an impact on the efficacy of selection > and the capacity of a species to adapt. The existence of several sexual systems > within the S. acaulis complex offers an exciting possibility to address these > questions, using a newly assembled genome as well as DNA and RNA sequencing data > from individuals of several populations. > > Skills/requirements: > A Master degree in evolutionary biology or related fields. A first experience in > genomics and bioinformatics is required. The candidate should be able to work > independently, to organize her/his work efficiently, and should have the > capacity to communicate clearly and synthetically (oral and written > communication). The candidate should be fluent in English, and comfortable > working in an international environment. Some knowledge of French, in > particular, is helpful for extra-professional life in France. > > Thesis organization: > The thesis will be officially hosted at the GAIA Doctoral School of the > University of Montpellier and based at ISEM (Institute of Evolutionary Science > of Montpellier), and supervised by Sandrine Maurice and Jos Käfer. The thesis > will be co-supervised by Gabriel Marais at CIBIO (Porto, Portugal) and Alex > Widmer and Martin Fischer at ETH Zurich (Switzerland), and the candidate will > spend up to one year in each of these institutions. At ISEM, Sandrine Maurice > and Jos Käfer in the “Evolution and Demography” team focus on the study of rare > plants and plant reproductive systems. At CIBIO, Gabriel Marais is a specialist > in the genomics of sex chromosomes, and at ETH Zurich, Alex Widmer and Martin > Fischer of the Plant Ecological Genetics group work on sex determination and > speciation in plants. > > How to apply: > Send a motivation letter, a CV, and two contacts for reference to > jos.kafer@cnrs.fr before 31 August 2023. Selected applicants will be invited for > an online interview in September. The thesis will start between 15 October 2023 > and 1 January 2024. > > > > Jos Käfer > CNRS Research associate in evolutionary plant biology > Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution de Montpellier (ISEM) > > > Jos Käfer

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It is important to remember that to-date the only Nobel Prize Venezuela has received was awarded to  a Jew of Moroccan origin, Baruch Ben Asraf. Dr. Sarah (Rosa) Bendahan was the first woman in Venezuela to graduate in medical studies. Bendahan was born in 1906 to a couple of immigrants from Morocco. At that time, remember, women couldn't even vote in the vast majority of countries of the world. Academic studies for women looked like a distant fantasy. Bendahan started studying in 1924  at the Central University of Venezuela. Due to health and family issues, she had to stop her studies after the third year. Bendahan, determined to continue, did not give up and returned to the school bench to complete medical studies. In 1939, she graduated, receiving a PhD degree in medicine, thereby becoming the first woman in the country to be a doctor. Moreover, Dr. Ben Dahan's schoolmates appointed her to be the spokesperson for the graduation ceremony. There she gave a great speech to the  adoring crowd. Dr. Bendahan broke the glass ceiling, and paved the way for thousands more doctors women in Venezuela. See Wikipedia link. Another Venezuelan Jew of Moroccan origin, Prof. Baruch Ben Asraf, won the Nobel Prize in medicine for 1980. His brother is the philosopher Prof. Paul Ben Asraf And as far as I know, the rest of the family continues until today to make an impact  in the academy, medicine, science and more. Dr. Sarah Benoliel  was  the first paediatrician in Portugal. Benoliel was born in Brazil in 1898. At the time of her birth her family migrated to Portugal. At the age of 7 she contracted polio, from which she never recovered. Her illness was apparently her motive to be a paediatrician. In 1925 Benoliel graduated in medical studies at the University of Lisbon and received a PhD degree in medicine. Later, she took courses in Germany, Austria and France. Not only was Dr. Benoliel  the first paediatrician in Portugal, but she was also among the specialists in the field in her time. Her most important studies in the field contributed much to the development of paediatric medicine when infant mortality was rather high in Portugal. See Wikipedia link Prof. Mathilde Bensaude  was the world's leading researcher in her time in the field of plant diseases. Ben Saouda was born in 1890 in Lisbon, Portugal. She was the daughter of Dr. Alfredo Bensaude, and granddaughter of Prof. Juza Bensaude (Note: a whole book can be written on him). Bensaude graduated with a  PhD from the  Sorbonne, Paris in 1916, and then studied at Lausanne University in Switzerland. In 1918, her work  began to be published in herbal medicine. And with the passing of the years she became a world pioneer in the field. One cannot begin to appreciate the contribution of Professor Bensaude. Prof. Bensaude is now defined as ′ one of the founders of biological  sciences in Portugal' and she won the above degree with great diligence. Wikipedia link

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Stop the aggressions against the Zapatistas! - Manifesto signed by Noam Chomsky, Boaventura De Sousa, Raúl Zibechi, Enzo Traverso, Gilberto López y Rivas and more.

Today those who defend the environment are slaughtered every day. At a time like the one that the planet lives in which the protection of those who defend it is required, the opposite happens. Those who have resisted this destruction by the powerful have not stopped saying NO, they have always done so, although the current administration does not want to have memory.

The murder in the community of Amilcingo, Morelos of Samir Flores, a member of the resistance against the Comprehensive Plan Morelos, its gas pipeline and thermoelectric plants that put the life and territory of Nahua communities in Puebla and Morelos at risk; the massacre of 15 Ikoot indigenous people in San Mateo del Mar, Oaxaca, one of the regions that has opposed the Trans-isthmian Corridor projects; the growing paramilitary violence in Chiapas, with 56 attacks in the municipality of Aldama alone, and the kidnapping in February of members of the National Indigenous Council (CNI) of the municipality of Chenalhó are proof that the war continues.

Now the violence is becoming more and more explicit against the Zapatista communities. The growth of the activity of paramilitary groups such as “Los Chinchulines” or the Regional Organization of Coffee Growers of Ocosingo (ORCAO), as well as the appearance of new groups, is exacerbating tension in the region. The theft and burning of warehouses and houses of the Moisés Ghandi community, of the Autonomous Rebel Zapatista Municipality “Lucio Cabañas”, (in the official municipality of Ocosingo), show the increase in the intensity of the aggressions and provocations against the Zapatista Army of National Liberation. The EZLN has respected the ceasefire for years and has focused on strengthening its autonomous organizational processes with schools, clinics, and justice systems. It is serious that one of the ethical references of resistance and construction of concrete and viable alternatives for the planet continues to be under siege, and it is even more serious that the response of those who seek to “transform Mexico” is complicity or oblivion in the face of these extermination attempts. .

It is extremely worrying that this occurs in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, that there are those who seek to take advantage of the vulnerability in which everyone finds themselves to fuel their ambitions for money and power. It is more worrisome when those who are supposedly in charge of preventing such abuses allow and therefore favor them.

Beyond the erroneous or successful changes of the executive power, which shows this escalation of violence in indigenous areas, and the worsening of paramilitary attacks in the Zapatista territory in Chiapas, is the continuity of the racist, colonial and paternalistic vision of the governments. liberals and conservatives, left and right. Projects such as the Mayan Train show the idea of ​​bringing "development" to indigenous peoples by turning them into cheap labor and contributing only the folkloric image of the Mexican indigenous.

The violence and dispossession of indigenous territories that megaprojects such as the Trans-isthmian Corridor or the Mayan Train imply and require are the ethical breaking point of the current Mexican government, it is where the moral stature that President López Obrador has awarded in front of its predecessors begins to collapse.

Those of us who signed this letter are watching carefully what is happening in Mexico, what is happening in the Zapatista communities that for decades have been a benchmark for other ways of living, health, education, justice, politics. We will not allow the extermination of indigenous peoples with the recurring excuse of development.

International firms

Noam Chomsky (USA)

Saskia Sassen (USA)

Raúl Zibechi (Uruguay)

Marcos Roitman (Spanish State)

Oscar Olivera (Bolivia)

Hugo Blanco Galdos (Peru)

Boaventura De Sousa Santos (Portugal)

Michael Hardt (USA)

Yvon Le Bot (France)

Philippe Corcuff (France)

Jaime Pastor (Spanish State)

Manuel Garí Ramos. Economist. Member of Anticapitalistas (Spanish State)

Juan Wahren (Argentina)

Sabrina Melenotte (France)

Daniel Mato (Argentina)

John Gibler (USA)

José Angel Quintero Weir - Wainjirawa Indigenous Organization (Venezuela)

Roberto Ojeda Escalante (Cusco, Peru)

Pepe Mejía, journalist, social activist, Correspondent for Indigenous Struggle in Europe

Pierluigi Sullo (Italy)

Enzo Traverso (Italy)

Derly Constanza Cuetia Dagua (Nasa People, Colombia)

Vilma Rocío Almendra (Colombia)

Manuel Rozental (Colombia)

Raúl Camargo. Former deputy of Madrid. Spokesperson for Anticapitalistas (Spanish State)

Genaro Raboso Saelices. Unionist of Workers' Commissions (Spanish State)

Ana María Gordaliza Fernández. Psychoanalyst. (Spanish state)

Ana Barba. Pharmaceutical (Spanish State)

Marià Delás Briefcase. Journalist (Spanish State)

Lurdes Lucia. Editor Feminist. (Spanish state)

José Vicente Barcia. Ecologist (Spanish State)

Rocío Van Der Heide García. Anti-capitalists. Social worker (Spanish State)

Patri Amaya. Feminist. LGTBI Movement (Spanish State)

Fernando Cabrerizo. Multimedia Technician (Spanish State)

Pablo Pérez Garfonina. Member of Adelante Andalucía (Spanish State)

Ramon Gorriz Vitalla, union member of Workers' Commissions (Spanish State)

Roberto Montoya Batiz. Journalist (Spanish State)

Laura Lucía Pérez Ruano. Jurist. Teacher. Former deputy of Navarra (Spanish State)

Carmen San José Pérez. Family doctor. Unionist of the Assembly Movement of Health Workers (MATS) (Spanish State)

Juan Hernández Zubizarreta. College professor. Member of the Observatory of Multinationals of Latin America. (Spanish state)

Lorena Garrón Rincón. Councilor of the Cádiz City Council. (Spanish state)

Alicia López Hernando. Feminist Movement (Spanish State)

Ángela Aguilera Clavijo, deputy spokesperson of the Adelante Andalucía group in the Andalusian Parliament (Spanish State)

Demetrio Quirós. Councilor of the Cádiz City Council (Spanish State)

Jorge Riechmann Fernández. Professor at the Autonomous University of

Madrid and writer (Spanish State)

Mónica Rocha Medina, Bolivian Center for Popular Studies (Bolivia)

Huáscar Salazar Lohman, Bolivian Center for Popular Studies (Bolivia)

Patrick Silberstein (France)

Tomas Astelarra, journalist (Argentina)

Mexican firms

Paul Hersch Martinez

Alicia Castellanos Guerrero, UAM-I

Gilberto López y Rivas, INAH- Morelos

Juan Carlos Rulfo. Filmmaker. Mexico City.

Margara Millán, professor, UNAM

Fernanda Navarro

Paul Leduc

Magdalena Gomez

Francisco Barrios "El Cress"

Eduardo Almeida Acosta

Maria Eugenia Sánchez Díaz de Rivera

Graciela Mijares López

Alexander Varas

Volga De Pina, defender of Human Rights.

Marta De Cea. Cultural Promoter. Mexico

Mariana Mora, CIESAS CDMX and Red de Feminismos Descoloniales

Bruno Baronnet, Universidad Veracruzana

Isidoro Moreno. Emeritus Professor of Anthropology. Sevilla University. Andalusia

Francisco Morfin Otero. Instituto Superior Intercultural Ayuuk ISIA

Kathia Núñez Patiño Faculty of Social Sciences C-III. A CH

Richard Stahler-Sholk Eastern Michigan University, USA

Jean Robert Architect, Professor at La Salle University

Sylvia Marcos, Network of decolonial Feminisms, Professor at the Ibero-American University

Servando Gaja, Cinematographer

Inés Durán Matute, sociologist.

Mariana favela

Barbara Zamora

Susana Vázquez Vidal, PhD at CIESAS Occidente.

Orb Larisa

Antonio Sarmiento

Hector Zetina

Raúl Romero, sociologist, Mexico.

Raúl Gutiérrez Narváez, Intercultural Inductive Education Network and CIESAS, Chiapas

Sergio Tischler

Fernando Matamoros Ponce, Research Professor, Postgraduate in Sociology (ICSyH-BUAP)

Joaquín Osorio G. ITESO

Rubén Martin, freelance journalist, Guadalajara

Lucia Linsalata

Ana Maria Vera

Isis Samaniego-Poet

Bertha Melendez «Yuhcatla»

Maria Luisa Arroyo Rodriguez

Epifanio Flores and Manzola

Amparo Seville

J. Jesus Maria Serna Moreno

Sergio Hernández / Uci, Zautla, Puebla

Paulino Alvarado

Erika Sánchez Cruz, professor at BUAP

Irma Zentle Colotl, Social Economist

Wullfrano Ramírez, Dr. Artificial Intelligence

Mirna Valdés, Poet

Horacio Torres de Ita

Alejandra Jiménez, Rural Teacher

Ana Melissa Valenzuela, Educator

Zitlalli López Mendoza, Educator

Cristian Añorve, Student

Roxana Bolio

Jose Meza Rosas

Luis Saracho de María y Campos

Florina Mendoza Jimenez

Leonel Lopez

María de Lourdes Mejía, Mother of Carlos Sinuhé Cuevas Mejía

Angel Benhumea Salazar

Roberto Rodríguez Contreras "Cat"

Isabel Maldonado Hernandez

Omar Abrego Torres

Alfredo Velarde Saracho, professor at the Faculty of Economics

Ana Laura Suarez Lima

Azael Soriano Sanchez

Cecilia Zeledon

Diana Patricia González Ferreira, ICSYH Sociology Teacher

Organizations

Colectivo La Resistencia (Los Angeles, USA)

Solidarity with the Mexican people - Málaga (Spanish State)

Union Communiste libertaire (Marseille, France)

Union syndicale Solidaires, (France)

Vocesenlucha - Popular Communication (Spanish State)

Collectif Paris-Ayotzinapa (France)

Towns in Camino (Colombia)

Éditions Syllepse (France)

Network of Brotherhood and Solidarity with Colombia (Colombia)

International Commission of the People's Congress (Colombia)

Network Against Repression and for Solidarity (RvsR)

Human Rights Node (NODHO)

Errant Etcetera

Labor and Socialist Unity (UníoS!)

Union of Neighbors and Victims "September 19" (UVyd-19)

Community Communication Research Center A.C. (CICC A.C.)

Popular Indigenous Council of Oaxaca Ricardo Flores Magón (CIPO-RFM)

Indigenous and Popular Council of Guerrero - Emiliano Zapata (CIPOG-EZ)

Guardians and Guardians of the Metlapanapa River

Otomí Indigenous Community residing in CDMX

Support network for the CNI-CIG Ibero Puebla

Xalapa Resistance and Rebellion Network

2140/5000 Resistance and Rebellion Network in support of the CNI-CIG of the Port of Veracruz

La Otra Tuxtla Resistance and Rebellion Network

Network of Rebellion and Resistrenzas-Puebla

Metropolitan, Anticapitalist and Antipatriarchal Coordination with the CIG

Network of decolonial feminisms

Paper picnic area

Compas Arriba !, Xalapa, Veracruz.

Mexicali Resists

Binational Network of Women Who Fight

Nativitas Zacapan for the Defense of the Land and Water.

Radio Tlanixco

The Collective Against Torture and Impunity

Colectivo Feminista Cihuatlahtolli A.C.

The Voice of the Anahuac.

Autonomous Student Renovation Collective

Coordinator of Students and Collectives of the FD-UNAM

Zapatista Neza Collective, Café "Zapata Vive"

Radio Regeneration

UPREZ Benito Juárez

Collective Aequus.- Promotion and defense of Human Rights

Coordination of Relatives of Students Victims of Violence

Voices of the Wind

Poetry and Singing

Collective Las Sureñas in resistance and rebellion

Popular Free Media Laboratory

Stomping Free Media

Plantón for 43

La Ceiba Collective

Zapatista Pantitlán Health Brigade

Sector of Workers Adhering to the Sixth Declaration

Front of Workers for the Right to Health and Social Security

Women who Fight, Resist and Organize

Rebel Bazaar

Community Dentistry Collective Sowing Smiles

Otomí Autonomous School

Residents of the Honorable National Student House.

Community Radio Totopo de Juchitán, Istmo de Tehuantepec, Oaxaca

Green Tide High Mountains

Circle of Marxist Studies, Mexico City

The Other Juaritox

Collective ADA

Karuzo Cultural Forum

They are from the Máiz

Sixth Theater

El Torito Collective

Collective of Profes in the Sixth

Xochitlanezi Community

Tlanezi Calli Community

Compass Red

Zapatista Coffee Table of the UAM-Iztapalapa Below and to the Left of Building E

Gavilanas Collective

Collective Common Notebook

Iztapalapa Sexta Support Network

Colectivos del Sur Adherent to the Sixth

University of the Earth in Puebla (UnitierraPuebla)

Collective Utopia Puebla

The Zenzontle

House of the Peoples-Mexico

Autonomous Brigades of Mutual Support

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I’m not sure why I’m writing this post. Probably the whole ‘process your emotions in writing’ kind of thing really stuck with me but anyways...

It’s officially a week since I’ve arrived in Portugal. I’m here to get my PhD in cultural studies. From the first classes, it seems like it’s gonna be pretty awesome. I’m very curious about everything and I’m anxious to get to work. 

It hasn’t fully register to me that I actually moved abroad. I’ve been dreaming about this for so long that it didn’t actually sunk in yet. Probably because I’m doing this in the middle of a pandemic and Portugal is in lockdown. I don’t get go out much and see the city, which sucks, but I get it. I’m just hoping this will be over soon.

Also I wanted to come with my partner, but circunstances didn’t allow it to happen. He’s going to come in a few months (or so I hope) but it’s hard not to having him around. Or my cats. It feels like a piece of me is missing (cliche, I know). We’ve spent almost everyday together last year and suddenly we’re not together anymore so it’s just weird and I miss him.

Ok, I’m gonna stop this sob, whiny post right now. It’s gonna be alright. I know that!

And I’m gonna try to go back to writing. Hopefully that will help.

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Studio Visit: JQTS

The visit to JQTS studio took place towards the end of 2020, and in a true 2020 fashion: via Zoom. Cautious because of the COVID-19 pandemic and eager to keep the conversation going despite the distance, João Quintela and Tim Simon – founders of the JQTS studio – and I sat down to talk about their joint architectural practice, which was set up to work well at a long-distance format long before the special circumstances of 2020 kicked in.

Project VERTIGO, Lisbon, 2014 | Photo © Diana Quintela

JQTS is an architecture studio working between Lisbon and Hamburg. It was established about a decade ago, when its founders reconvened in Lisbon after originally meeting in Chile, during an internship at the office of Pezo von Ellrichshausen. Tim arrived in Lisbon for an Erasmus exchange at the Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa, which is also João’s alma mater; from their first jointly developed projects, the new studio emerged.

Project KAIROS, Lisbon, 2012 | Photo ©  Diana Quintela

The first project of JQTS came about as a reaction to the lack of opportunity for young architects, which was a consequence of the economic crisis Portugal struggled with during the early 2010s. In an effort to combine research with space and community activation through design, JQTS studio partnered up with a producer of pre-cast concrete, got a place for an intervention in the post-industrial, up-and-coming cultural scene of the LX Factory, and got to work. “We created these series of lectures and events, interventions and inventions, all of them completely done by ourselves but involving everyone: building in place, making the posters, writing texts, giving lectures”, João recalls. “It was a big process involving lots of people who were joining us as the project unfolded. That’s how we started, that’s the context.” Things changed in the meantime, with the tourism boom and sudden increase in demand for renovations and tourist houses. “We didn’t do many things connected to tourism – there is one particular project, ULISSEIA house in Marvila, but that space is also intended to be multifunctional,” João explains, noting that the coincidence, along with their personal preferences and interests, has led the JQTS practice away from working more on apartments and residential projects in general.

Project ULISSEIA, Lisbon, 2018-19  | Photo ©  Diana Quintela

Both João and Tim are currently doing their PhDs and teaching, which influences their joint practice in a myriad of ways. “If you take a look at our portfolio, you’ll see a lot of small-scale projects that we built either by ourselves or with students,” Tim says. Their workshops are grounded in theory and start with theoretical considerations but require students to pick the material up and start building. “Designing while doing, figuring it out in the process, testing the idea and the material – that’s what we enjoy doing in our workshops”, Tim explains. He is teaching architectural design at HafenCity Universität Hamburg, while João teaches drawing and painting at Lisbon’s Autónoma, along with a theoretical course in which architecture is considered in relation to art, cinema, and literature.

Expressive drawings as an architectural tool: from the projects ULISSEIA, VERTIGO and UNTITLED (Cascais, Portugal, 2019).

Teaching and research are vitally important for the JQTS practice. Tim’s Ph.D. project is practice-based, and he uses the studio’s designed and built projects as case studies in tectonics. “It’s about understanding that tectonics is the poetics of construction. So, we’re trying to use the construction to define the spatial structure of the architecture, but also to give expression to the architecture,” Tim says. He uses the projects as frameworks within which the ideas emerging from his research can be explored. The fact that many of these projects are set within the cultural context of theater or dance festivals helps, as such context encourages freedom of form and expression. “For this kind of project, we came up with the term commonstructures”, Tim explains. “We also understan these projects as places where it is possible to engage society with art. Bringing the people together is also something that I’m very much interested in – how people relate to the project, to the architecture, how they use the architecture, experience the architecture – and how all this relates to the idea of tectonics.” João is developing his Ph.D. project at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid. “It’s also related to the idea of structure,” he says. “Focused on two concepts developed by Gottfried Semper and Karl Bötticher, it’s connected with the idea of the structure and its esthetic potential, but also engages the idea of creating space, and specifically – creating common space.” Tim’s academic engagement with self-built and one-to-one built projects and João’s practice of drawing and painting with his students shine through their joint practice. They employ these techniques in their process, and, by building the projects, work towards understanding both the technique and the process better.

Project ALBERTO, Festival Materiais Diversos, Minde, Portugal, 2019 | Photo © João Barata

Project VIATICUS,  Lisbon, 2018  | Photo ©  Diana Quintela

At the time of our conversation, JQTS practice was in the process of moving their office to a different Lisbon location, while overseeing several projects currently in development in Portugal and Germany. Although the pandemic did not change their long-distance work process much, they are curious to see how this global experience will influence the use and the design of public space. As João puts it: “We can observe the rise in the people’s tendency to look for detached houses, with private yard, private open spaces… Still, I think the common space is in the public space of the city, and it still is the most important – but, unfortunately, now completely turned upside down.” Tim finds the idea of bringing urban qualities to the countryside interesting and anticipates a rise in architectural projects focused on the topic. “We will all need some distance from this experience to take stock and evaluate the change,” João says, as Tim adds: “But it’s going to be interesting to see what comes out of it”.

Project GALLERY PAVILION, Walk&Talk Festival, Ponta Delgada, Azores, 2017. Curated by KWY Studio  | Photo ©  Diana Quintela

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by Sonja Dragović