I’m Portuguese media artist and design researcher based in Rotterdam, with a particular interest on cities and urban space.
My research work has been published in the Participatory Design Conference (PDC22) and my work as been showcased at Zagreb Contemporary Art Museum (MSU), WIP Festival, V2_ Lab for the Unstable Media, Treehouse NDSM, MozFest and Garage Rotterdam. I’ve collaborated with, among others, Humankind, Municipality of Rotterdam and Amsterdam, With Company, Extinction Rebellion Netherlands, Baltan Laboratories, Technical University Munich and EIT (European Institute of Technology).
1/2 of the artist duo WHAT A MESS, alongside Hugo Pilate. Occasionally you might also find me screenprinting at Mesh Print Club or pasting a posters in a wall near you as (de)conceptualise.
AUG 2024 | Radio Brutus @ Brutus | Rotterdam, NL
OCT 2023 | Group exhibhition “Extended Worlds” @ Zagreb Museum of Contemporary Art (MSU) organised by KONTEJNER | Zagreb, CR
OCT 2023 | WIP Festival @ CYENS | Nicosia, CY
AUG 2023 | “On Repetition” Group Exhibition @ Garage Rotterdam | Rotterdam, NL
MAY 2023 | “Realities in Transition” Test Lab @ V2_Lab | Rotterdam, NL
MAR 2023 | ‘In the process of Making’ Group exhibition @ Treehouse NDSM | Amsterdam, NL
APR 2023 | ‘War for breakfast’ group exhibition @ Neck of the Woods III | Rotterdam, NL
FEB 2021 | Haul Earth Ledger, Virtual Exhibition @ Mozilla Festival 2021
RESIDENCIES & GRANTS
JUN 2024 | CBK Practical funding
AUG 2023 | CBK Practical funding
MAR – MAY 2023 | Resident @ V2_Lab for Unstable Media | Rotterdam, NL
PUBLICATIONS, WORKSHOPS & TALKS
JUN 2023 | “The Skatable City” workshop @ Rotterdam Architecture Month, NL
MAY 2023 | The World as it is @ ZIP Space | Rotterdam, NL
APR 2023 | AI in the Hood @ Baltan Laboratories | Eindhoven, NL
APR 2023 | What a Mess workshops @ V2_ | Rotterdam, NL
PUBLICATIONS
P.G Farias., R. Bendor, B.F. van Eekelen (2022) Social dreaming together: A critical exploration of participatory speculative design. In Participatory Design Conference 2022: Volume 2 (PDC 2022 Vol. 2),. ACM, New York, NY, USA. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3537797.3537826