Carmen Portinho
Editorial, Exhibition Design, Identity
An engineer, urban planner, feminist, and decisive figure in the history of MAM Rio, Carmen Portinho dedicated her life to designing a fairer country through culture, technology, and social emancipation. The exhibition brings together works that reflect her involvement in social housing, the feminist movement, and arts education, while also revealing her fundamental role in building the museum itself. In dialogue with the exhibition design by Juliana Sicuro and Gávea Arquitetura, the show presents a trajectory that pushed against professional and political boundaries, reaffirming the continued relevance of a woman who made the act of designing both a cause and an effect of transformation.
Planetary Embassy imagines a form of diplomacy between humans, nature, and other living forces. In Belém, New York, Tokyo, and other territories, art, science, technology, and Indigenous knowledge came together in a space for listening, guided by patterns generated from natural sounds.
Leston investigates the relationships between sound, image, code, and permanence. In dialogue with his research, we developed a visual identity and website that bring the system to the foreground. There is an interval in the gap between error, the blue screen, and code, and it is within this unstable space, between control and failure, that the project comes to life.
FORMS brings culture, science, education, and activism together to co-create experiences and rehearse possible futures. Collaboration and collective intelligence generate sounds, colors, materials, and forms for an identity in continuous construction, capable of evolving in dialogue with each experience.
Led by IMPA, Impa Tech is a college dedicated to applied mathematics. Its identity balances two temporalities: the solidity of an institution born with a classical vocation and the openness of a future-facing digital modernism.
