Fábrica de Sonhos

The Lisbon Architecture Triennale launched in 2013 a competition to universities all around the world (Millenium BCP Universities Award). They invited students to put foward a programmatic intervention in Triennal headquarters in Lisbon (Sinel Palace) that would respond
to the theme “Close, closer”.

We build up a multidisciplinary
team with product designers, architects and graphic designers
to answer to the Triennal theme, ‘Close, closer’, turning it around
and asking: What is far from us? What is far from Lisbon? From Portugal? From the world?
We got to the conclusion that what is far, is the ability to dream. We wanted to create a Fábrica de Sonhos (Dream Factory) and show how dreams are not mere utopias, but a way to imagine more than
what the present political-
-economical situation persists
in showing us.

We started collecting dreams in a digital platform* and in Lisbon’s streets and then transformed them into images which were projected in an installation at the Sinel Palace between 12th – 29th Sep.‘13.

* www.colectivoinventado.com



Collecting Dreams in Lisbon

Based on the idea of viewpoints, close and far, this platform was a marriage between a stepladder and an umbrella: Lisbon’s inhabitants and visitors were invited to climb the stepladder to record a dream underneath the umbrella that screened them from the outside.





Installation in Sinel Palace

Fábrica de Sonhos installation in the Sinel Palace had three different rooms, each representing a different stage of getting closer to our dreams: the first room was the ‘Dream Collector’; the second room was the Working Space, where we worked and interpreted the dreams. The third and last room was the Dreaming Room.




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