"The Casa da Memória of Guimarães is a center of interpretation and knowledge that exposes, through the exhibition Territory and Community, various perspectives of the memory of a place.
Casa da Memória brings together a set of stories, documents, facts and objects enabling us to get to know different aspects of the community from Prehistory to the Dawn of Portugal’s Nationhood, from Rural Societies and Festivities to the Industrialization of the Ave River Valley and Contemporary Times."
Casa da Memória brings together a set of stories, documents, facts and objects enabling us to get to know different aspects of the community from Prehistory to the Dawn of Portugal’s Nationhood, from Rural Societies and Festivities to the Industrialization of the Ave River Valley and Contemporary Times."
This permanent exhibition was commissioned to Studio Andrew Howard, and it consisted of two wings that tell the story of the city from through various angles. I joined Andrew to work on the design of the biggest section of one of the wings, the community wing.
This project was quite challenging and exciting because it gathered a mix of objects, texts and imagery from different eras that needed to be displayed in a way that respected the individual nature of each piece but also showed them as parts of whole, a visual history of Guimarães and it's people.
This project was quite challenging and exciting because it gathered a mix of objects, texts and imagery from different eras that needed to be displayed in a way that respected the individual nature of each piece but also showed them as parts of whole, a visual history of Guimarães and it's people.
The process
