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The 2nd "Art, Cities, and Urbanities" Meeting is a project organized by the URBANIDADES Research Group (PPGAV-UFBA) that aims to bring together researchers and artists in Salvador, Bahia, to discuss and explore artistic practices within urban contexts.

Organized by Bencke Arquitetura (www.benckearquitetura.com.br) and Qualidade Corporativa Smart Workplaces (www.qualidadecorporativa.com.br), in partnership with Germany’s Mensch&Büro Akademie (www.menschundbueroakademie.de), this course aims to prepare architects and industry professionals to create intelligent workplace designs that boost productivity through quality of life and employee well-being.

The Lugar Comum research group, affiliated with the Graduate Program in Architecture and Urbanism at FAUFBA, announces the 15th Urbanism in Bahia Seminar, urbBA[25], to be held on November 3, 4, and 5, 2025, at the Faculty of Architecture of UFBA in Salvador, Bahia.

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SALVADOR PREPARES TO HOST THE CASAS CONCEITO EXHIBITION ON SEPTEMBER 3 AT 4 PM

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ArquiMemória 6 – International Meeting on the Preservation of Built Heritage is undoubtedly the largest and most significant forum for debate on the preservation of built heritage held in Brazil. The event will bring together approximately 800 professionals from a wide range of fields, including faculty, students, and researchers from renowned Brazilian and international universities; directors and technical staff from IPHAN and state and municipal cultural heritage and urban planning agencies from across Brazil and abroad; and independent practitioners working in restoration projects and construction, among others.

International Meeting: Thinking and Making the City in Latin America

The Ontario Professional Planners Institute (OPPI), the Black Planning Project, and the Faculty of Architecture at UFBA invite you to the webinar "Experiences, Learnings, and Exchanges: Anti-Racist Planning Practices in Brazil and Canada," to be held on February 16 (Friday), from 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM (Salvador/Brazil time).

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After a three-year hiatus, Galeria Paulo Branquinho has returned to the art scene in full force, opening a new collective exhibition on Saturday, August 12. "Sem Barreiras" (Without Barriers), the new exhibition hosted in the 18th-century Lapa house, features 16 artists who present works across a variety of media, styles, techniques, and materials. Alessandro Caròla, Ana Pose, Analu Nabuco, Eda Miranda, Edna Kauss, Gustavo Alves, Ira Etz, Istefânia Rubino, Jacqueline Dalsenter, José Senna, Laura Bonfá Burnier, Marcia Rommes, Maria Cecília Leão, Maria Eugênia Baptista, Maria Lúcia Maluf, and Teresinha Mazzei share a common goal: to capture the visitor's attention and evoke a range of emotions.

América Cupello, Andréa Facchini, Antônia Philippsen, Carlota Philippsen, Clarisse Tarran, Claudia Watkins, Ecila Huste, Edineusa Bezerril, Esther Barki, Grasi Fernasky, Lia do Rio, Maria Pitú, Monica Barki, and Pérola Bonfanti make up the "team" assembled by Paulo Branquinho for the group exhibition "Elas" (Them/Women). The show marks the July 8th reopening of the gallery bearing the producer's name, which had been closed since the pandemic. The feminine universe is represented by these 14 artists, who will present their work through a variety of styles and techniques. Drawing from distinct visual languages, they initiate a dialogue on diversity through paintings, photographs, objects, and installations.

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The 4th Art, City, and Urbanities Meeting proposes a dialogue with the concepts of "borders" and "confluences" to foster reflection on the current urgencies and emergencies of art within urban space and the context of the geopolitical dynamics involving Brazil's North and Northeast regions. In doing so, we ask: what can we learn about urban contexts when we bring such diverse regions together? We know that, despite their diversity, cities face similar challenges. Political, economic, and environmental divisions increasingly reinforce separations, privileges, and dynamics of marginalization. Such conditions delineate and reinforce borders beyond the geographical, affecting the quality of life for humans and more-than-humans, as well as prospects for a collective future.

During the first three decades of the last century, the landscape of Salvador was indelibly transformed by a group of Italian immigrants: engineers, architects, builders, decorators, painters, and sculptors hailing from diverse regions of Italy, from Calabria to Tuscany, Basilicata to Lazio, and Piedmont to Sicily.

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The 1st Colloquium: Woman, City, and Architecture was held on October 17–18, 2019, in Salvador, Bahia, organized by the LAB20 research group of PPGAU/UFBA and ELAS of FAU/UnB. The event was established with a dual objective: to discuss architecture and urbanism through the experience and contributions of women in the city, and to foster collaboration among researchers who have been exploring this theme from multiple and diverse perspectives.

The UNEB Urbanism Week is an annual event organized by the students and faculty of the Bachelor’s degree program in Urbanism—the only one of its kind in Brazil—offering participants the opportunity to attend, engage in dialogue, and debate topics relevant to contemporary urban issues. Its objective is to provide students, social movements, and experts in the fields of urbanism and urban-territorial planning, as well as scholars from cross-disciplinary areas, with a space to deepen and systematize their understanding of the urban phenomenon. In this year’s edition, we will take an introspective look at the 20 years since the enactment of the City Statute, examining its benefits and legal contradictions through the lens of the structural inequalities in Brazilian society regarding race, gender, class, sexual diversity, and more.