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The Open Day, hosted annually by the Istituto Europeo di Design (IED), invites eyewear retail giant Luxottica to this year's edition to teach the public how to prototype eyewear models as if they were for a new brand within the group. The experience will take place this Saturday, May 4, from 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM at the IED-SP campus, located at 617 Maranhão Street. The event is free and open to everyone upon registration on the website: https://ied.edu.br/eventos/open-day-o-futuro-pelas-lentes-do-design.

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In celebration of Book Month, the Instituto Cervantes in São Paulo will open the exhibition "Anaqronías" by award-winning photographer Juan Cerón on April 25. Following an extensive conceptualization process and various projects that allowed for artistic growth, "Anaqronías" is the photographer's second personal project, a journey that has led to exhibitions in several countries across three continents—including Spain, Italy, the United Kingdom, Germany, China, Mexico, and the Dominican Republic—before finally arriving in Brazil.

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2024 Edition of Real Estate of the Art to Feature Artwork in a Building Under Construction
The platform by developer Helbor, this time in partnership with MPD Engenharia, brings an exhibition to a construction site in Itaim Bibi, São Paulo.

The Escola da Cidade Open Courses are extension programs, extracurricular in nature and open to the entire community. They are aimed at anyone interested in expanding dialogues on topics such as history, anthropology, technology, economics, photography, literature, design, music, and more, through a cross-disciplinary lens on architecture and the city. Registration is open from March 4th until the start date of the chosen course.

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The Surface Design course, taught by Celso Lima, explores perspective, volume, surfaces, and color through exercises focused on creating projects across various grids, such as direct rapport, scar, circular, and counter-exchange for tiles, reliefs, textiles, and diverse standardized structures like openwork and cobogós, flooring for hospital, urban, and transport areas, biome research, and other segments. The course will also cover the history of surface design from the 18th century onward and include the creation of prototypes and models.
Celso Lima is a visual artist, researcher, and professor of the history of design and textile technology. He was a co-curator of the 2018 exhibition "Vkhutemas: The Future in Construction" at Sesc Pompeia, co-author of the book "Vkhutemas: Drawing a Revolution," and author of the biography of Aleksei Gan in the book Constructivism. He currently works on the creation and production of textile art using various techniques and researches the history of Russian and Soviet design.