As part of the Open Day, on January 12th, the director of the School of Arts, Luís Lima, invites the director of the Architecture course at the Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa, Ricardo Carvalho, for a conversation around the possibilities of aesthetics for the future , seeking to answer the questions what aesthetic? It is what future?. Another issue at stake will be that of teaching the arts, seeking to understand its relevance today and the preponderance of an interdisciplinary approach.

In addition to being director of the School of Arts and professor at the Autonomous University of Lisbon, Luís Lima has a doctorate in Philosophy (Aesthetics) from FCSH/UNL, a master's degree and a degree in Communication Sciences. Parallel to his academic activity, he works as a translator for some of the greatest contemporary thinkers and collaborates with the Porto/Post/Doc film festival.

Ricardo Carvalho is an architect, with a PhD in Architecture from the Instituto Superior Técnico of the University of Lisbon (2012). He writes regularly in several international architectural magazines and in the newspaper Público. He was director of JA – Jornal Arquitectos between 2005 and 2008. He was a professor at the University of Brandenburg BTU Cottbus, in Germany (2009-2013), at the University of Navarra, in Spain (2013), and currently teaches at Carleton University, in Canada . He directs the Department of Architecture at the Autonomous University of Lisbon and recently won the AICA Prize, awarded by the Portuguese Section of the International Association of Art Critics.

The conversation will take place at Escola das Artes, in Campo de Ourique, moderated by Alexandra Martins.

Free entry.