The Degree in Art and Design of the School of Education in the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança (IPB) in Portugal is already a 40-year reference training over time, developing projects of cultural and artistic scope that involve the continuous participation of students and teachers, endorsing a proximal and continuous interconnection as a strategy of cultural development. These structural actions intersect territorial aspects of Trás-os-Montes region with its natural and ethnographic unique dimension and the sustainable emphasis on inclusion, multicultural values and citizen participation. The textiles study is available in different formative dimensions and has been an incessant connection structure between cultures and territorial geographies for its universality creating dynamic and interdisciplinary laboratory spaces where different working approaches are connected. Thus, proposing multiple dialogues between Design, Visual Arts and textile culture, the exercises proposed to the students focus on the exploration of textile languages and their symbolic, material and expressive potential where memories (individual and collective identities) are embodied and materialised in inner and outer identity projects.
This initiative was supported through the Multiannual Funding of the Landscape,
Heritage and Territory Laboratory (Lab2PT), Ref. UID/04509/2020,
financed by national funds (PIDDAC) through the FCT/MCTES.
