Porto Design Biennale — promoted by esad–idea, Research in Design and Art, together with Porto and Matosinhos City Councils — invites designers and cultural agents to present projects within the Satellites programme, under the theme of the first edition, Post Millennium Tension. This edition understands design as a mediating discipline in the face of emerging social challenges and seeks to find new alternatives, concrete utopias that have the potential to be materialised.

In this regard, applicants are invited to think about the tensions, mutations and urgencies of the new millennium from the following perspectives:
· Designer as author, where the creation of an own language fosters a critical outlook into the designer’s own role of agent in context;
· Designer as producer who uses the means of production and technology to think meaningful processes and objects in the context of a rapidly shifting production market;
· Designer as collaborator within a wide disciplinary framework in which the intersections between authors and fields of knowledge points out new proposals for the future;
· Designer as curator, creator of selected narratives, combining historical and contemporary materials and proposing innovative readings of the worlds.

Rather than categorizing, applicants are expected to explore different forms of action, single or joint, that can present a wide range of formats, such as:
· Debate / Colloquium
· Workshop / Training
· Exhibition / Installation
· Publishing / Edition

Integrating the biennale’s parallel programme, priority is given to projects that propose critical approaches to the general theme of this edition and are capable of rethinking the traditional formats of public presentation, broadening the reach of audiences and the ways of interacting with them.

Monetary support is granted to the projects selected by the Jury, depending on their type, relevance and size/dimension. Monetary support may cover the full or partial implementation of the projects. The total sum of € 60,000.00 [sixty thousand euros] is available in this call for projects and shall be allocated according to the specific budget of each project, in grants limited to the following levels:
— 9.000,00€ [nine thousand euros]
— 6.000,00€ [six thousand euros]
— 3.000,00€ [three thousand mil euros]

Depending on the quality and suitability of the applications submitted to this Open Call for Projects, in addition to the planned selection, the Jury may also recommend the inclusion of some projects in the parallel programme of PDB’19, without, however, granting them monetary support.

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— SATELLITES | OPEN CALL FOR PROJECTS
09.04–03.06.2019

— SUBMISSION FORM
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— REGULATION
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— REQUESTS FOR CLARIFICATION
Requests for clarifications [deadline] — 24 MAY
Answers to requests for clarifications [deadline]: — 31 MAY
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