Commonplace is a scientific research line at Centro de Estudos Arnaldo Araújo. It builds upon the CEAA's long experience of multidisciplinary knowledge production — that bridges the fields of Architecture, Visual Arts, Cinema, Photography and Performative Arts — as well as on the purpose to offer a laboratorial space to discuss, rethink and formulate new practices of researching and communicating both scientific and creative contents. Under a cross-disciplinary and exploratory view, it targets:
Crucial to this research line are the twice a year’s Yards of Criticism, a moment of critical exchange including all the CEAA’s members, and the series of workshops Toolbox, that will start in the Autumn of 2023, in which distinct research tools, rhetorical approaches, modes of representation will be explored and presented.