Acknowledgements
To those who helped me make this work possible,
I thank professors Pedro Leão Neto and Cidália Duarte for their patience, attention to rigor, and rich guidance; professor Lisbeth Funck and architect Stefan Lundi for their curiosity, stimulating conversations, and willingness to help; photographer Andreas Olesen from the SilverLab photo-laboratory and Victor Boye from the Makerspace NV community workshop for their kindness and extraordinary willingness to share their knowledge; architects Jens Axelsson and Cristiana Caira from White Arkitekter for providing graphic elements of their project; Charlotte Hjertton and Pernilla Jansson for their kindness in making an exception for access to the psychiatric clinic; architects Kasper Lorentzen and Kristian Langkilde for their remarkable flexibility and freedom in making it possible to reconcile this project with my work in their studio; Aurelien Lerouge for the camera for the documentation photographs; Rita Almeida and José Pedro Cerdeira for helping me revise the document; Juliano Miguel for our conversations on the Porto - Angeiras bus in 2017; and finally, Dona Manuela for the conversation we had on September 14, 2019, the source of the dream that brought me here.
From what I have become during its process,
I dedicate it to my mother, father, and brother for our blood bond;
to João, Salama, Artur and Ricardo for a deep and boundless friendship;
to my grandmother, Ana Paula, and Frederikke, women who teach me to Be;
til alle de som støttet meg gjennom mitt liv i Oslo og København;
e à saudade de todos os que me guardam no coração do Porto,
Obrigado.
I thank professors Pedro Leão Neto and Cidália Duarte for their patience, attention to rigor, and rich guidance; professor Lisbeth Funck and architect Stefan Lundi for their curiosity, stimulating conversations, and willingness to help; photographer Andreas Olesen from the SilverLab photo-laboratory and Victor Boye from the Makerspace NV community workshop for their kindness and extraordinary willingness to share their knowledge; architects Jens Axelsson and Cristiana Caira from White Arkitekter for providing graphic elements of their project; Charlotte Hjertton and Pernilla Jansson for their kindness in making an exception for access to the psychiatric clinic; architects Kasper Lorentzen and Kristian Langkilde for their remarkable flexibility and freedom in making it possible to reconcile this project with my work in their studio; Aurelien Lerouge for the camera for the documentation photographs; Rita Almeida and José Pedro Cerdeira for helping me revise the document; Juliano Miguel for our conversations on the Porto - Angeiras bus in 2017; and finally, Dona Manuela for the conversation we had on September 14, 2019, the source of the dream that brought me here.
From what I have become during its process,
I dedicate it to my mother, father, and brother for our blood bond;
to João, Salama, Artur and Ricardo for a deep and boundless friendship;
to my grandmother, Ana Paula, and Frederikke, women who teach me to Be;
til alle de som støttet meg gjennom mitt liv i Oslo og København;
e à saudade de todos os que me guardam no coração do Porto,
Obrigado.