Sorry, this entry is only available in Português. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in the alternative language. You may click the link to switch the active language. A Academia Cidadã convida todxs xs cidadãxs a participar num debate informal, aberto e dinâmico sobre a democracia direta, seguido de jantar vegano e de projeção de um filme (a anunciar em breve). O evento terá lugar no dia 14 de maio, pelas 18h30, na Fábrica de Alternativas (Rua Margarida Palla, 19A – Algés) O objetivo é discutir o tema da democracia, principalmente a direta, em Portugal, dando a conhecer a experiência dxs convidadxs e a tua. Presenças confirmadas: -Isabel Pires- deputada pelo Bloco de Esquerda -Paulo Muacho- membro do Livre -Rodrigo Morais- estudante de Ciência Politica (ISCTE) -Leonor Duarte- ativista da Right2Water e STOP TTIP -Marcelo Yamada- ativista da Academia Cidadã Junta-te a nós! O jantar tem […]

(Português) Democracia hoje: Participativa ou Decorativa? | 14 Maio – Algés

The film will be screaned with the support of Center for Responsible Travel.     The environmental impact of tourism is the main discussion topic, of our 4th session of Cine Café Turistificação (Cine Café Touristification), to take place in May 17 at 21h30, at the bar Lisboa Vadia, in Lisbon. The Goose With the Golden Eggs, a film produced by the Center for Responsible Travel, examines the environmental impact that resort and cruise tourism brings to the communities living in the Pacific Coast, Costa Rica. With an increasing number of private investments in these areas, as it is the case of the privatization of beaches or the construction of big multinational hotels and gated communities, this documentary’s main goal is to portray the difficulties the population of the Pacific Coast face in order to have access to resources like water (used mainly to “feed” pools and golf courts), access to the […]

FREE CINEMA: “The Goose with the Golden Eggs” I Touristification Cine Café

Sorry, this entry is only available in Português. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in the alternative language. You may click the link to switch the active language. No dia 6 de abril, no Renovar a Mouraria, a Academia Cidadã promoveu um encontro para falar acerca dos efeitos do turismo em massa na cidade de Lisboa. Com a participação activa das pessoas presentes, procuramos soluções práticas, tendo em vista a promoção de um equilíbrio entre o turismo e a vida local. A hora tardia e o forte vento não demoveram as pessoas de participar e de permanecer, até altas horas, na esplanada do Beco do Rosendo! Conceitos, tais como, turistificação, gentrificação, direito à habitação, direito à cidade, espaço público, reabilitação urbana ou turismo sustentável, foram questionados, clarificados, discutidos, redefinidos.     Começámos a conversa pelo caso do Bairro Alto, discutindo as consequências da falta de […]

(Português) Como promover turismo sustentável em Lisboa?

Sorry, this entry is only available in Português. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in the alternative language. You may click the link to switch the active language. O programa Perdidos e Achados convidou-nos, pelos 5 anos do Protesto da Geração à Rasca, a mostrar o que somos e o que fazemos. Assiste aqui:

(Português) Estivemos na SIC. Vê aqui a reportagem.

April 15 – 22 I Mouraria, Lisbon The project “Tourism Gentrification and City-making” is promoted by Stadslab (Fontys – University of Applied Sciences, Tilburg, NL), in partnership with Academia Cidadã. The objectives of the Master Class are to provide insight into the impact of mass tourism on public space, urban development and the daily urban life of the citizens in Lisbon and to develop alternative scenarios for a more balanced urban development to avoid excessive real estate speculation, social and economic segregation, lack of accessible urban services and public space and disappearance of affordable housing. The intervention area of the Master Class will be the district of Mouraria.   April 18 I 12h00 I Centro de Inovação da Mouraria Lecture: Placemaking and Sustainable Urban Development, by Igor Marko, Marko&Placemakers London FREE ENTRY Relationship to a place is often disrupted through social, political or economic forces with direct impact on the […]

Master Class “City Making and Tourism Gentrification”

“Barcelona? A theme park. “ This is how the documentary that will pass in the next session of Cine-Café touristification starts, on April 19, at 21h30, in Lisboa Vadia. Bye bye Barcelona is the documentary outburst of Eduardo Chibás on mass tourism, where it is debated the relationship between the local life and tourists. Borned in Caracas, Venuzuela, Chibás assumes that he never met the Ramblas of people from Barcelona. He lives, however, long enough to feel the negative impacts of touristification of which is the 4th most visited city in Europe, after London, Rome and Paris, and the leader in the number of cruises that receives from the continent and the Mediterranean. This phenomenon has greatly affected the dwindling number of residents of the center of a city increasingly expensive. Many of the approximately 30,000 tourists who arrive daily in cruises in the city of Barcelona do not see how […]

Free Cinema: “Bye bye Barcelona” I Cine Café Touristification

 [article written by Leonor Duarte, Sara Aranha and Joana Dias] In the past 15th march, at Lisboa Vadia, there was an other debate about touristification in Lisbon, after the film Cidade Guiada (Guided City), a documentary produced by Catarina Leal. It was a night full of ideas, with the presence of the producer Catarina Leal, the researcher and professor Joãp Seixas and Joana Jacinto, founder of the Lisbon Sustainable Tourism project. With them, we protest, we discuss ideas and concerns, but we also sought solutions to a phenomenon that has affected all of us.   How do we pay 2€ for a glass of wine that is not even a big deal?   There were many questions and criticism. It was a powerful moment, where we heard people of all ages, from traders to students and artists, portuguese and foreigners. Many were the criticisms and questions. It was a powerful moment_ […]

Is there life after tourism?