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Orlando Vieira Francisco is a visual artist and researcher affiliated with i2ADS (Research Institute in Art, Design and Society). Since 2024, he has been teaching in the Master in Art and Design for Public Space, and since 2025, in the PhD Program in Fine Arts at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto (FBAUP). Although formally contracted as a postdoctoral researcher, he actively takes on teaching responsibilities in both programs. He is also a co-editor of HUB – Journal of Research in Art, Design and Society. He completed a PhD in Art and Design at FBAUP in 2018, focusing on the presence of authoritarian policies in urban infrastructure, symbolic monumentalities, and institutional frameworks. In 2014, he earned an MA in Art and Design for the Public Space with a dissertation on political expressions of multitudes in the public realm. Orlando has participated in international conferences and has worked as a curator in global contexts. His artistic work includes solo exhibitions and participation in group shows and collections across different countries. Since 2023, he has led the research project "From the top of mountains we can see invisible monuments", a transnational artistic investigation into landscape environmental changes caused by infrastructural spaces. His artistic practice engages multiple media, including installation, sculpture, and drawing, while also developing transdisciplinary pedagogical tools and participatory performances based on walking as an artistic activity. He works within the themes of the production of social space between art and politics, the landscape as a concept of constant change, and practices of environmental and social activism. His research and artistic interests lie at the intersection of contemporary art, anthropology, infrastructural critique, and sustainable mobility systems.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Orlando José Vieira Francisco

Citation names

  • Vieira Francisco, Orlando

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
1615-0F77-8373

Email addresses

  • orlando.vieirafrancisco@gmail.com (Professional)

Addresses

  • Avenida Rodrigues de Freitas, 265, 4049-021, Porto, Porto, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Humanities - Arts - Arts
  • Engineering and Technology - Civil Engineering
  • Humanities - Other Humanities
  • Humanities - Arts - Architectural design

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian Upper intermediate (B2) Advanced (C1) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Advanced (C1)
Italian Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
German Elementary (A2) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
Education
Degree Classification
2014/11/20 - 2018/12/06
Concluded
 Art and Design (Doutoramento)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Belas Artes, Portugal
"Cave Canem: uma cartografia da produção de espaço entre representações de poder e opressão" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Unanimous Approval
2012/09/15 - 2014/11/25
Concluded
 Art and Design for the Public Space (Mestrado)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Belas Artes, Portugal
"Nós somos 99%: a arte e a ação ativista no espaço público" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 16
2011/08/24
Concluded
 Civil Engineering (Bachelor (1st cycle))
Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná, Brazil
"Mobilidade Urbana, Segurança Pública e Ambiente" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 86 values (Brazil)
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2023/03/01 - Current Contracted Researcher (Research) Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação em Arte Design e Sociedade, Portugal
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação em Arte Design e Sociedade, Portugal
2022/02/22 - 2023/02/28 Researcher (Research) Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação em Arte Design e Sociedade, Portugal
Universidade do Porto, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2024/02/05 - Current Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Belas Artes, Portugal
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Belas Artes, Portugal
Projects

Contract

Designation Funders
2023/03/01 - 2029/02/28 From the Top of the Mountains We Can See Invisible Monuments
2022.05800.CEECIND
Principal investigator
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação em Arte Design e Sociedade, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2021/01/01 - 2023/12/31 Ateliers Municipais
025/020 AM
Researcher
Câmara Municipal do Porto, Portugal
 Câmara Municipal do Porto
Concluded
2021/08/31 - 2021/10/31 It is already night / no light above the horizon
ST 026/21
Researcher
Câmara Municipal do Porto, Portugal
 Câmara Municipal do Porto
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Vieira Francisco, Orlando. "Reflexões cartográficas sobre desastres ambientais e humanitários: desenhando sobre o caso da barragem de Mariana, Minas Gerais". In Curating Territorial Conundrums. Porto, Portugal: Parábola Crítica, 2022.
    Published
  2. Vieira Francisco, Orlando; Ícaro Lira. "Primeiro Fascículo 14 (Orlando Vieira Francisco com texto de Ícaro Lira)". In Primeiro Fascículo, 1-10. Porto, Portugal: Paralaxe e Erro Universal - Núcleo de Investigação, 2022.
    Published
  3. Vieira Francisco, Orlando. "The basic principles of the organization of agricultural co-operatives (Valise Carton version)". In Valise en Carton: Exposição Viajante. Porto, Portugal: Parábola Crítica, 2021.
    Published
Conference abstract
  1. Vieira Francisco, Orlando. "O planalto dos observadores: uma análise sobre o conceito de overview e dos ecossistemas submetidos à produção capitalista". Paper presented in Montanha Mágica* Arte e Paisagem, Covilhã, 2023.
    Published
  2. Vieira Francisco, Orlando. "Descolonizando a cartografia nas Artes Visuais através do Ativismo Ambiental". Paper presented in A imaginação do futuro. Saberes, experiências, alternativas, Coimbra, 2018.
    Published
  3. Vieira Francisco, Orlando. "Descolonizando a Cartografia através do Desenho e do Ativismo Ambiental". Paper presented in II Redes Digitais e Culturas Ativistas do Centro de Linguagem e Comunicação, Campinas, 2018.
    Published
  4. Vieira Francisco, Orlando. "Além do Arquivo: uma análise decolonial do arquivo através da prática artística". Paper presented in Colóquio Arte Pública na Era da Criatividade Digital, Porto, 2017.
    Published
Journal article
  1. Vieira Francisco, Orlando; Amado, Pedro; Cruz, Filipa; Fava, Fabrício; Bronze, Manuela. "Editorial (Distance Issue)". HUB — Journal of Research in Art, Design and Society 1 (2023): https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/2450080/2450081.
Journal issue
  1. Fava, Fabrício; Cruz, Filipa; Amado, Pedro; Bronze, Manuela. "Autumn 2023 — Distance". HUB — Journal of Research in Art, Design and Society 1 1 (2023): https://i2ads.up.pt/hub/issue-1.html.
    Published • Coeditor
  2. Vieira Francisco, Orlando; Cruz, Filipa; Bronze, Manuela; Fava, Fabrício; Amado, Pedro. "Spring 2023 — Inaugural Issue". HUB — Journal of Research in Art, Design and Society 1 0 (2023): https://i2ads.up.pt/hub/issue-0.html.
    Published • Coeditor
  3. Vieira Francisco, Orlando; Fava, Fabrício; Cruz, Filipa; BRONZE, MANUELA; Amado, P.. "HUB Issue #1 / Autumn 2023 / Distance". HUB 1 1 (2023): https://www.researchcatalogue.net/portals/issue?issue=2450065.
    Published
Magazine article
  1. Vieira Francisco, Orlando. "Coalizão (para sobreviver) das práticas e resistências: ensaio crítico da prática artística diante do declínio das instituições", ePerformatus, 2020, https://performatus.com.br/estudos/praticas-e-resistencias/.
Newspaper article
  1. Vieira Francisco, Orlando. "The Mockingbirds", O Bomfim, 2019
  2. Vieira Francisco, Orlando. "Urgente!", O Bomfim, 2018
Online resource
  1. Vieira Francisco, Orlando; Rainho, Rita. Saídas de Emergência [EN] Emergency Exits .. 2024. https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/835089/2686626..
  2. Vieira Francisco, Orlando. It is already night / no light above the horizon. 2021. https://thespatialcluster.wordpress.com/2021/07/29/orlando-vieira-francisco-muhka/.
Website
  1. Vieira Francisco, Orlando. Ecologias Imaginadas: as cracas como Arúspice do presente. 2023. https://www.humusidades.com/fundao.

Artistic / Performance

Artistic exhibition
  1. GRAMMAR. 2024.
  2. The Observers' Plateau for the exhibition Compulsive Desires — The Extraction of Lithium and Rebellious Mountains. 2023.
  3. The basic principles of the organization of agricultural co-operatives (Valise Carton exhibition). 2020.
Program / Show
  1. Jo Caimo; Vieira Francisco, Orlando. 2021. "Portico I: Watu woke up amid the booms of mining. ...". Radioactief: Portico Reading. Radio Centraal.
  2. Jo Caimo; Vieira Francisco, Orlando. 2021. "It is already night / no light above the horizon: Ineo Will Fall interview". Radioactief. Radio Centraal.
Visual artwork
  1. Vieira Francisco, Orlando. Ecologias Imaginadas for project installation "E lá no fundo, o que é que tem?". Organized by Zoy Anastassakis, Äline Besourö and Ísis Daou during the Alkantar Festivala, Lisbon, Portugal.
  2. Vieira Francisco, Orlando. Palácio do Freixo, for the essay "Dégradés pós-industriais no Porto Oriental - upgrades, degradações, reconversões, demolições e outras soluções" by Inês Moreira.
  3. Vieira Francisco, Orlando. The Observers' Plateaus for "Grijze tijd" essay by Lucie Fortuin.
  4. Vieira Francisco, Orlando; Rainho, Rita. Saídas de Emergência.
  5. Rainho, Rita; Vieira Francisco, Orlando. Saídas de Emergência / Exit Emergency.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2025/06/23 Let’s see what was unseen / Ver o que não foi visto. 9º Encontro Internacional sobre Educação Artística
Universidade do Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2024/12/05 Walking on the Plateau. Towards the artistic-based research when inserted in the Infrastructural Critique and the climate crisis context. Hurricanes and Scaffoldings: Symposium on Artistic Research
Umeå Universitet (Umeå, Sweden)
2024/11/21 The Observers’ Plateaus. Introducing the impasses of Ecology and Geology through Artistic Research. 8th International Conference on Artistic Research and Arts-Based Research
Facultar d’Educació i Psicologia, University of Girona (Girona, Spain)
2024/10/04 Tracing the Mountain. Reflexões gráficas no contexto da Crítica Infraestrutural e a crise climática. Seminário Desperfilar as Artes Visuais, o Objeto Enlouquecedor e o Movimento das Coisas
i2ADS - Instituto de Investiação em Arte, Design e Sociedade (Porto, Portugal)
2024/03/11 Arte e Ativismo: poderíamos encontrar (em conjunto) um título melhor para esta aula? Introdução à Arte e Cultura Contemporâneas da Licenciatura em Artes Plásticas
Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2023/11/16 O planalto dos observadores: uma análise sobre o conceito de overview e dos ecossistemas submetidos à produção capitalista Montanha Mágica* Arte e Paisagem
Universidade da Beira Interior (Covilhã, Portugal)
2023/07/19 Presentation of the research project "From the Top of the Mountains We Can See Invisible Monuments" as part of the Saídas de Emergência event. Saídas de Emergência: oficina de investigação artística para despistar modelos estabelecidos de economia e ecologia
Ateliers Municipais (Porto, Portugal)
2021/07/16 Seeds and Multitude — Genova 2001 20 years after. Seeds and Multitude (Window Installation)
Fisga Space (Porto, Portugal)
2019/04/29 Arte e ação ativista: transformação de realidade através da ação direta. Estudos de Arte Moderna e Contemporânea, Licenciatura em Artes Plásticas
Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2018/11/07 Descolonizando a cartografia nas Artes Visuais através do Ativismo Ambiental A imaginação do futuro. Saberes, experiências, alternativas
Centro de Estudos Sociais da Universidade de Coimbra (Portugal)
2017 Além do Arquivo: uma análise decolonial do arquivo através da prática artística Colóquio Arte Pública na Era da Criatividade Digital
Universidade Católica Portuguesa no Porto (Porto, Portugal)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2024/07/01 - Current Critique and care, critique of care. Artistic practice as a space for fragility and infection: a transformative tool in the society of productivity.
Supervisor of Paola D’andrea
Mestrado em Arte e Design para o Espaço Público (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Belas Artes, Portugal
2024/04/01 - Current Como supervigiar seres invisíveis?
Supervisor of Felipe Argiles
 Doutoramento em Artes Plásticas (PhD)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Belas Artes, Portugal
2023/11/22 - Current As contradições das fronteiras: a prática artística como ensaio de pertença.
Co-supervisor of Davide Manuel Fernandes Almeida
 Mestrado em Artes Plásticas (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Belas Artes, Portugal

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2024/09/03 - 2024/10/04 Organização do seminário Desperfilar as Artes Visuais, o Objeto Enlouquecedor e o Movimento das Coisas. (2024/10/03 - 2024/10/04)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
 Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação em Arte Design e Sociedade, Portugal
2024/02/14 - 2024/03/15 Organization of the third edition of "Saídas de Emergência: oficina de investigação artística para despistar modelos estabelecidos de economia e ecologia" and production of film "Saídas de emergência". (2024/03/14 - 2024/03/15)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação em Arte Design e Sociedade, Portugal
2023/11/01 - 2023/12/05 Uma conversa com Jonathas de Andrade. Open Class promoted by the PhD in Art and Design and the Master in Art and Design for Public Space (2023/12/05 - 2023/12/05)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
 Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Belas Artes, Portugal
2023/10/01 - 2023/11/30 Open Class with Zoy Anastassakis, an activity promoted for the Master in Art and Design for Public Space. (2023/11/30 - 2023/11/30)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
 Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Belas Artes, Portugal
2023/11/14 - 2023/11/21 Editing and publishing on the Research Catalog platform for the Master in Art and Design for Public Space. (2023/11/21 - 2023/11/21)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Belas Artes, Portugal
2023/09/28 - 2023/10/20 Organization of the second edition of "Saídas de Emergência #2: oficina de investigação artística para despistar modelos estabelecidos de economia e ecologia", based on Melina Scheuermann's work proposal. (2023/10/19 - 2023/10/20)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação em Arte Design e Sociedade, Portugal
2023/07/01 - 2023/07/20 Event organization "Saídas de Emergência #1: oficina de investigação artística para despistar modelos estabelecidos de economia e ecologia". (2023/07/19 - 2023/07/20)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação em Arte Design e Sociedade, Portugal
2023/06/10 - 2023/06/14 Launch of the inaugural issue #0 (Spring) of HUB — Journal of Research in Art, Design and Society. (2023/06/14 - 2023/06/14)
Round table (Co-organisor)
 Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação em Arte Design e Sociedade, Portugal
2019/03/06 - 2019/03/07 The Oblique Think Tank #1 TOTT: focuses on fieldwork and artistic research conducted in Mariana (Minas Gerais, Brazil) following the bursting of the tailings dam in 2018. (2019/03/06 - 2019/03/07)
Other (Co-organisor)
 Ateneu Comercial do Poro, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2025/06/19 - 2025/06/23 Participação como mediador e comunicador em evento. Presente também para o lançamento de publicações Edições i2ADS.
Meeting
 9º Encontro Internacional sobre Educação Artística
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2025/01/13 - 2025/01/17 Participação na exposição de projetos de investigação Research to Transform — Forms of Research in Art, Design and Society, com a participação dos investigadores colaboradores do projeto From the Top of the Mountains We Can See Invisible Monuments.
Exhibition
 Research to Transform — Forms of Research in Art, Design and Society
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação em Arte Design e Sociedade, Portugal
2024/06/17 - 2024/06/18 Supervision / Peer Review Workflows / Assessment Criteria: with the HUB - Journal of Research in Art, Design and Society.
Meeting
 Portal Partner Meeting
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação em Arte Design e Sociedade, Portugal
2023/10/14 - 2023/10/14 Participation in the "Roda de Conversa: Experiência e Gestos a partir de Coletivos Impossíveis" in an event organized by members of Movimento Intercultural Identidades which took place at Mira Forum, Porto.
Round table
 Coletivos Impossíveis - Esforços persistentes de ação anti-colonial
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação em Arte Design e Sociedade, Portugal
2023/05/08 - 2023/08/14 Participation in the research and collective creation cycle "E lá no fundo, o que é que tem?", carried out in partnership between the humusidades independent studies program and the Terra Batida project.
Workshop
 E lá no fundo, o que é que tem?
2023/07/20 - 2023/07/20 Workshop within the scope of the "Saídas de Emergência" event, carrying out the activity around the collective drawing exercise called "Jogo das 3 casas".
Workshop
 Saídas de Emergência: oficina de investigação artística para despistar modelos estabelecidos de economia e ecologia
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação em Arte Design e Sociedade, Portugal
2023/06/14 - 2023/06/14 Participation in the launch roundtable of the inaugural issue #0 of HUB — Journal of Research in Art, Design and Society.
Round table
 HUB — Journal of Research in Art, Design and Society. Lançamento da Edição Inaugural
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação em Arte Design e Sociedade, Portugal
2022/05/07 - 2022/05/11 Organized by the architect Marina Otero Verzier, the Pláka Collectives Spring 2022 course — Compulsive Desires: Lithium Extraction, Unlimited Growth and Self-Optimization — proposes an alternative understanding of the notions of energy, progress and full life.
Workshop
 Compulsive Desires: Lithium Extraction, Unlimited Growth and Self-Optimization
Câmara Municipal do Porto, Portugal
2021/05/21 - 2021/05/21 Participation in the critical reading of the book "Matchundadi: gender, performance and political violence in Guinea Bissau" by Joacine Katar Moreira, during the public session of Feminist Lectures 04, organized by the Institute of Research in Art Design and Society of the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University from Porto.
Conference
 Feminist Lectures 04: with Joacine Katar Moreira, book launch "Matchundadi: género, performance e violência política na Guiné Bissau"
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação em Arte Design e Sociedade, Portugal
2020/03/25 - 2020/06/30 Participation in the virtual format of the Malta Summer School 2020 (organized by Adnan Hadzi and Catherine Willems), joining the working group “Governance: Documents & Monuments”, led by Jamie Allen which for a three months I was part of an international team responsible for gathering documents relating the “Road & Belt” global project with the local (and strategic) consequences in Mediterranean territory.
Workshop
 Malta Summer School
University of Malta, Malta
2019/11/23 - 2019/11/24 "From the Top of the Mountain We Can See Invisible Monuments" for the Porto Design Bienniale Satellite program.
Festival
 Porto Design Biennale
Câmara Municipal do Porto, Portugal

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2019/02/25 - Current The Spatial Cluster (linked to the European Forum of Advanced Practices). Reseacher

Committee member

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization
2023/04/01 - Current Member of the editorial board of HUB — Journal of Research in Art, Design and Society. https://i2ads.up.pt/hub/
Member
 Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação em Arte Design e Sociedade, Portugal

Conference scientific committee

Conference name Conference host
2024/12/04 - 2024/12/06 Hurricanes and Scaffolding: Symposium on Artistic Research 2024 Umeå Academy of Fine Arts
2024/10/16 - 2024/10/18 Drawing Across x Along x Between University Borders University of Porto
2023/06/19 - 2023/11/17 8th International Meeting on Art Education Maputo, Moçambique

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2024/02/05 - Current Assistant Professor of the Project course for the Master in Art and Design for Public Space. Mestrado em Arte e Design para o Espaço Público (Mestrado) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Belas Artes, Portugal
2022/10/01 - 2023/03/08 Adult Education and Training Course for the photography project and final exhibition, in the Citizenship Curricular Unit. Curso de Educação e Formação de Adultos (EFA) (Outros) Escola Segunda Oportunidade de Matosinhos, Portugal

Scientific expedition

Activity description Institution / Organization
2023/05/22 - 2023/05/29 Development of the project "From the Top of the Mountains We Can See Invisible Monuments" for the context of artistic residency and the port area of the city of Antwerp. wpZimmer, Belgium
2023/05/10 - 2023/05/12 Expedition in the José Lutzenberger Community of the Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST) in Antonina, Paraná, Brazil. Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação em Arte Design e Sociedade, Portugal
2023/05/08 - 2023/05/09 Visit to recognize the Ecobarreiras project, organized by Diego Saldanha, on the depollution of the Atuba river, in Colombo, Paraná, Brazil. Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação em Arte Design e Sociedade, Portugal