Visual archives towards the recovery and reactivation of artistic and pedagogical heritage at the School of Fine Arts in Porto

Cláudia Lima; Susana Barreto; Eliana Penedos-Santiago

doi:10.24310/Fotocinema.2022.vi25.14211

Authors

Cláudia Lima Universidade Lusófona do Porto, Portugal; ID+: Institute for Research in Design, Media and Culture, Portugal Portugal https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3279-4808
Susana Barreto Faculdad de Bellas Artes, Universidad Porto, Portugal; ID+: Institute for Research in Design, Media and Culture, Portugal Portugal https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1842-7788
Eliana Penedos-Santiago Escola Superior de Artes e Design, Instituto Politécnico de Leiria, Portugal; ID+: Institute for Research in Design, Media and Culture, Portugal Portugal https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7750-6227

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24310/Fotocinema.2022.vi25.14211

Keywords:

Photographic archive, Image analysis, Photography and Visual History, Life stories, School of Fine Arts of Porto

Abstract

This article reviews the development of a visual archive within the scope of a funded project Wisdom Transfer that was realised at the Faculty of Fine Arts (FBAUP), University of Porto, in Portugal from 2018 to 2021. The project’s directional objective was to research on the pedagogic environment at the faculty during key years preceding the Revolution of 25 April 1974, towards recovering and reactivating the connected historical, empirical, and technical heritage – which had had a pivotal influence on the maturation of the faculty’s now distinctive cultural identity.

The visual archive was based on photographic and audio-visual materials gathered through a series of interview-based sessions with noted artists who were associated with the faculty during the indicated period as either teachers or students.

The photographic materials included both original imageries belonging to the period, and contextual pictures taken during the project period, and became generative resources for both the reconstruction of pedagogic histories, and their reinterpretation in contemporary contexts of creative education. The article, thereby, concatenates the methodological elements that were instrumental in the articulation of the visual archive, alongside a number of key project outputs towards highlighting the efficacy of photographs and photography in conducting social research.

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Author Biography

Cláudia Lima, Universidade Lusófona do Porto, Portugal; ID+: Institute for Research in Design, Media and Culture, Portugal

Design educator at Lusófona University and researcher at ID+ / Unexpected Media Lab – Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto, Cláudia Lima participated in the project Wisdom Transfer: Towards the scientific inscription of individual legacies in contexts of retirement from art and design higher education and research, financed by FCT - Foundation for Science and Technology, in which was studied the career of artists trained at the School of Fine Arts of Porto and pedagogical practices in this school during the period of the revolution of April 25, 1974. Following these studies, she developed a post PhD on the first teaching practices in Design in higher education. Her research interests also include the study of photography as a social document. On these subjects she participated in international conferences and published extensively in international journals and book chapters. She is currently collaborating in Afro-Ibero-America Masks, a Brazil/Portugal project that gathers and disseminates testimonies of artists, organizers, and performers, working in the crafts of sacred and profane rites; and in “Echoing the communal self: Designing the dissemination and replicability of self-initiated practices in underprivileged urban communities” financed by FCT.

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