Mid-term review and quarterly meeting take place in Lisbon

On 18 September, the Bauhaus of the Seas Sails consortium held a successful mid-term review meeting at the Beato Innovation District in Lisbon in the presence of the project’s officer at CINEA (the European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency). The meeting brought together our work package and pilot leaders and was also a great opportunity to not only assess and present our progress to the European Commission but also discuss the next big steps towards achieving our goals as we sail into the second half of the project. The physical meeting continued on 19 September at Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation where the seven pilots and a few partners met for a quarterly meeting to discuss next pilot actions.

New storytelling by TBA21

A special guest to the quarterly meeting was Andrea Molina Cuadro, an architect and researcher in the fields of art and ecology, who introduced us to the storytelling narrative activity with an interactive workshop in the gardens of the Gulbenkian where participants had to engage in two “missions”. The activities focused around imagining a different world from the one we are used to and fostering empathy with the natural environment that surrounds us. The workshop was a fun way to reset and kick off the new storytelling activity in the project, which is of key importance to all the pilot demonstrators.

“Eating Between Tides” residency programme

During lunchtime, we had the great opportunity to meet the artists behind the artistic residency “Eating Between Tides.” developed by Gulbenkian CAM and Municipality of Lisbon and taste the sorbets created as part of the project called “Lisbon Spice Rack”.  The artists Rain Wu and Mariana Sanchez Salvador prepared the ice-lollies fully realised by foraging local spices within the Gulbenkian gardens. The sorbets were flavoured with foraged ingredients- eucalyptus, wild fennel, pink pepper and fig leaves. Besides the sorbets, Rain also presented other edible plants and flowers coming from the gardens and the participants had the chance to taste and discuss them with the artists. With this true zero-kilometer taster presentation called “Taking the Sorbet on a Walk”, the artists wish to inspire a shift in perceptions and contribute to an ecological transition rooted in the richness of wild, local resources.

The meeting concluded with a pilot workshop lead by University of Venice, with a clear planning for the upcoming months of the project, confirming that the pilots are in full swing with their activities.