Desenhos, Táticas e Sinais, Uma Arqueologia Urbana

'Desenhos, Táticas e Sinais, Uma Arqueologia Urbana' proposes an analysis of the inscriptions of urban graphics as archaeological traces, which are regularly renewed and reveal different aesthetic meanings, with variations in style and types of representation, while inscribing messages, symbols and images which, although utopian or apparently contradictory and disruptive of order in the public space, often seek a pacifying meaning, in a perpetual movement of intervention and challenge to the exercise of collective memory. In this photographic and sound archive, we sought to provide a possible framework within the urban imaginary for various expressions in the context of Porto, in the various iconographic elements, ephemeral manifestations and graphics limited to the area where the different projects of the Galeria Digital do Porto can be accessed. Through this photographic survey of graphisms, graffiti, fragmentary and partial portraits of the urban space in the city centre, associated with sound fragments, it is possible to imagine a pedestrian route to access expressions of diverse origins. This visual mapping could suggest to the pedestrian a sense of search and discovery through images and symbols, resulting in a process of navigation and discovery through tactile surfaces.