| June 16 2025 | |
| 08h30 | registration desk opens |
| opening | |
| 09h00 | Paula Reaes Pinto, António Gorgel & Sérgio Vicente |
| XMA25 Coordination | |
| 09h05 | Paulo Simões Rodrigues |
| CHAIA, Universidade de Évora | |
| 09h10 | Ana Thudichum Vasconcelos |
| CIEBA, Universidade de Lisboa | |
| 09h15 | Emília Duarte |
| UNIDCOM, Universidade Europeia | |
| keynote session | |
| 09h30 | Reflections on the open workshop Habibi.Works |
| Or, how can our collective design lead to critical transformative practices? | |
| Mimi Hapig & Michael Wittmann | |
| 10h10 | Coffee break |
| 10h30 | Resonar Lab |
| Participatory art and decolonial music for ecosocial activism and epistemic justice |
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| Ivan Txaparro | |
| 11h10 | A synergy between art and science with interventions in public space |
| Interbeings: a performative ecology for posthuman cities | |
| Hans Kalliwoda | |
| 11h50 | Roundtable discussion moderated by Alastair Fuad-Luke, followed by Q&A |
| 12h40 | Lunchtime (in the Faculty canteen, not funded by XMA25) |
| session 1 — education, inclusion and creative empowerment | |
| Chair — Joana Ramalho | |
| 14h00 | Acknowloging gentrification through media art |
| A bibliometric review and research agenda | |
| Susana Azevedo Cardal & Roberto Vaz | |
| 14h20 | Bonds in motion |
| Performing arts intergenerational family at Raval, Barcelona | |
| Ana Moya Pellitero | |
| 14h40 | Students photograph, seagulls fly |
| A comparison between "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" and photography used as a pedagogical design research methodology in the Cri_Lab workshop | |
| Henrique Andrade & Joana Nunes | |
| 15h00 | Printing with natural pigments |
| Embracing eco-friendly analog practices in design education | |
| Beatriz Muñoz Fonseca & Filipa Alves | |
| 15h20 | Coffee break |
| 15h40 | Materials for participation |
| How to overcome barriers with tangible designerly means | |
| Jennifer Schubert | |
| 16h00 | It’s time to act |
| Empowering ageing, sisterhood identity, and legacy transmission through intergenerational community performance methods | |
| Ana Moya Pellitero, Isabel Bezelga & Daniela Salazar | |
| 16h20 | Inclusive modularity |
| A case study in a multicultural typography classroom | |
| Juliana F. Duque & Ana Luísa Marques | |
| 16h40 | Design ethnography for educational systems |
| An automated tool for mapping adult learners' sociocultural profiles through self-published photographic narratives on social media | |
| Aurélia Hubner Peixouto & António Gorgel | |
| 17h00 | Q&A |
| June 17 2025 | |
| session 2 — sustainability, agency and material care | |
| Chair — Ana Moya Pellitero | |
| 09h30 | Counting to a thousand is tiring |
| Participatory action to understand an olive tree | |
| María Vidagañ & Pedro Zarzoso | |
| 09h50 | An eco-feminist design collective crafting empowerment |
| Witches of the East | |
| Şölen Kipöz & Derya Irkdaş Doğu | |
| 10h10 | For the love of wool |
| A review of activists shifting the wool paradigm through crafts, design and sustainability |
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| Dalia Sendra Rodriguez & Ana Margarida Ferreira | |
| 10h30 | Weaving Resistance |
| Art, agroecology and community collaboration in Neve Insular | |
| Ana Nolasco | |
| 10h50 | Coffee break |
| 11h10 | Mycelial score |
| Decomposing artistic research methods of repetition | |
| Ana Isa Araújo | |
| 11h30 | Strange strangers at play |
| Crafting transitional design assemblages for more-than-human future-making |
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| Craig Jeffcott, António Gorgel, Ana Margarida Ferreira & Daniel Buzzo | |
| 11h50 | The aesthetic impacts of solar farms with the contributions of plants and spiders |
| Rui Carvalho, Anna Suuronen & Raúl Cunca | |
| 12h10 | Q&A |
| 12h30 | Lunchtime (in the Faculty canteen, not funded by XMA25) |
| session 3 — participation, place and creative intervention | |
| Chair — Pedro Soares Neves | |
| 14h00 | Arrenda-se T0 |
| Artistic activism and Portugal's housing crisis | |
| Ticiano Rottenstein Nemer | |
| 14h20 | Mesa Para o Cuidar |
| Reflections on human-discarded material assemblages trough a participatory sculpture project |
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| Diogo M.M. Nunes | |
| 14h40 | Sculpture with the community |
| Visible and invisible layers of participation in the era of (inner)sustainability | |
| Sara Cardoso Inácio | |
| 15h00 | Unidos Venceremos! |
| A transdisciplinary approach to participatory public sculpture in Canal Caveira, Portugal |
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| Filipa Baptista, Margarida Alves, Filipa Ramalhete & Assunção Gato | |
| 15h20 | Coffee break |
| 15h40 | Reimagining community through living assemblage |
| The Nova SBE community garden | |
| Beatriz Bento & Anne-Laure Fayard | |
| 16h00 | My bed sheet is blue |
| Textile cartographies within prison walls | |
| Filipa Rodrigues | |
| 16h20 | The Blob |
| A critical design artefact to provoke discourse on gender differentiation | |
| Alakesh Dhibar, António Gorgel & Eduardo Gonçalves | |
| 16h40 | Q&A |
| June 18 2025 | |
| session 4 — technology, inclusion and situated innovation | |
| Chair — Mónica Mendes | |
| 09h30 | Museum of augmented urban art in Italy |
| A transdisciplinary phygital urban paste-up collab | |
| Marcos Barbato & António Gorgel | |
| 09h50 | Shaping relational engagement with augmented reality |
| A posthumanist and trauma-sensitive approach to violence reduction inspired by Boal's dramaturgy | |
| John Morrison & Fern Gillon | |
| 10h10 | The design assemblage |
| Co-designing events with humans, things and earth others | |
| Inês Veiga | |
| 10h30 | Cultivating synergy |
| Studying concepts and design practices for human and more-than-human coexistence |
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| Carla Paoliello | |
| 10h50 | Coffee break |
| 11h10 | Who gets to fidget? |
| Towards a future where fidget devices are accessible for adults with limited hand mobility | |
| Nico Lima & João Bernarda | |
| 11h30 | Community-centred design for social innovation |
| Bottom-up and government initiatives in Shanghai | |
| Aoni Zhang, António Gorgel & Inês Veiga | |
| 11h50 | Undulation |
| A case study of participative sculpture | |
| Ana Mena | |
| 12h10 | Capturing time |
| The role of polaroid photography in shaping collective memory | |
| Cezar Rossi & António Gorgel | |
| 12h30 | Q&A |
| 12h50 | Conference closing by the XMA25 Coordination |