Abstract
This paper aims to contextualise the educational legacy of Architect Carlos Ramos among the rise of an avant-garde school of thought, over the 20 yrs that preceded the Carnation Revolution, in the midst of a cultural, social and political turmoil. It is argued that these were the circumstances that enabled the subsequent groundwork for the curricular formulation of the Design degree in 1975. The conducted research acknowledges a need to consolidate the understanding of the circumstances surrounding a particular school model in the 1960s, confirming Architect Carlos Ramos as a central figure for an innovative template to have emerged, as a single occurrence among national Schools of Fine Arts, at a time of political unrest in which censorship represented a powerful State policy tool.
A set of ethnographic interviews were conducted with artists and teachers from this time span, articulating testimonies, direct and indirect observation, and existing documentation. From a total of 44 interviews, 8 interviewees stand out, given their close contact with Carlos Ramos, either as a student, assistant or even as a close friend.
Through the contribution to knowledge by this generation of Artists and Designers from ESBAP we aim to recover and disseminate methodologies and pedagogical practices developed under this period and thus mapping the framework that favoured the rise of the model currently known as the “School of Porto”, as an important milestone in the history of Portuguese Art and Design.
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Penedos-Santiago, E., Barreto, S., Lima, C., Martins, N., Santiago, P. (2021). The School of Carlos Ramos: A Lasting Legacy of a Revolution. In: Martins, N., Brandão, D., Moreira da Silva, F. (eds) Perspectives on Design and Digital Communication II. Springer Series in Design and Innovation , vol 14. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-75867-7_24
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