Publications de Letícia Cabeçadas Do Carmo

Counterculture as a Financial Asset: The Commodification of LX Factory in Lisbon

Luca Giovanni Pattaroni, Mischa-Sébastien Piraud, Letícia Cabeçadas Do Carmo

In recent decades, European cultural policies have become inseparable from urban policies, with culture becoming both the new promotional tool for cities aiming to be ‘creative’ (Vanolo, 2008; Vivant, 2009) and the source of unprecedented real estate profi ...

2023

Porosités, mutations et déplacements. Des logiques de résistance spatiale

Yves Pedrazzini, Letícia Cabeçadas Do Carmo

Dans ce chapitre, nous explorons la relation critique que les "résistants" contre-culturels entretiennent avec la ville et les autres usagers qui y habitent. Cette critique se joue en particulier dans des formes de résistance spatiale, que l’on aborder au ...

MétisPresses2020

The commodification of alternative cultural spaces

Luca Giovanni Pattaroni, Letícia Cabeçadas Do Carmo

The commodification of "alternative" cultural spaces is a process that started to take place in several European cities, like Lisbon, for instance. This has happened due to the pressure of the real estate market, tourism trends or the austerity measures im ...

2018

Resistance & Compromise : Spatial & Aesthetic Approaches of Alternative Cultural Spaces in Lisbon, Ljubljana & Geneva

Letícia Cabeçadas Do Carmo

Contemporary architecture and urbanism concern everyday life in multiple contradictory ways. Floating between alienation and hope, post-industrial and other interstices often hold beautiful and poetic aesthetics of decay, attracting people driven by curios ...

EPFL2016

Creativity without critique: An inquiry into the aesthetization of alternative culture

Luca Giovanni Pattaroni, Yves Pedrazzini, Mischa-Sébastien Piraud, Letícia Cabeçadas Do Carmo

Based on a research in Lisbon, Geneva and Ljubljana, this paper aim to analyse the uses of the term “alternative” (along its formal and aesthetic registers) in order to tackle the question of the aesthetization of creativity, away from its critical dimensi ...

2014