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Conversations with Energy

'Conversas com Energia' (Conversations with Energy) is a programme aimed at promoting knowledge and dialogue around the challenges of the climate emergency, energy, and sustainability. This initiative aspires to be comprehensive and includes both private and public schools, and schools forming part of the TEIP initiative (Priority Intervention Educational Territories), with students ranging from 5th grade up all the way up to university level.

Each session is a unique experience that promotes debate between a group of young people and a different speaker about the past, present and future of our planet.

The first cycle of "Conversas com Energia" took  place in 2022 at the maat as part of the exhibition Visual Nature - The Politics and Culture of Environmentalism in the 20th and 21st Centuries and included as speakers Carlos Moedas, Mayor of Lisbon; Vera Pinto Pereira, President of the EDP Foundation; Júlia Seixas, Pro-Rector of the University of Lisbon; and Joana Vasconcelos, Artist.

 

Sessions:

28 April
Carlos Moedas, Mayor of Lisbon, with students from the Filipa de Lencastre School Group (Lisbon). 

10 May
Júlia Seixas, pro-rector of Universidade Nova de Lisboa, with students from the Marquês de Pombal Secondary School (Lisbon)

25 maio
José Eduardo Martins, fex-secretário de Estado do Ambiente, com alunos do Agrupamento de Escolas D. Pedro I (Vila Nova de Gaia)

1 June
Joana Vasconcelos, artist, with Arts and Humanities students from the Poeta Al Berto Secondary School (Sines). 

7 jJune
Duarte Cordeiro, Minister of Environment and Climate Action, with students from the Escolas das Olaias Group (Lisboa).

The 2nd cycle of Conversations with Energy took place in November and December 2022, as part of the "Retroactivar/Retroactivate" exhibition, a co-production between maat and the Lisbon Architecture Triennale 2022 which aims to draw attention to the problem of deteriorated or marginalised cities, and the possibility of intervening in them with projects that restore the dignity of spaces and a sense of belonging among communities.

Sessions:

3 November
José Mateus, president of the Lisbon Architecture Triennale, with 9th grade students from Pintor Almada Negreiros School (Alta de Lisboa)

11 November
José Sá Fernandes, former Lisbon City Councillor for the Environment, Climate and Energy, Green Structure and Urban Services, with 11th and 12th year architecture and design students from the Escola Básica e Secundária de Ermesinde

21 November
Ricardo Neto, CEO of Novo Verde and ERP Portugal, with students from the Emídio Navarro School Group, Almada.

25 November
Tiago Sá Gomes and Margarida Villas-Boas, founders of Upfarming, with 5th and 6th grade students from EB Pedro D'Orey da Cunha, Damaia School Group.

5 December
Bernardo Corrêa de Barros, president of Cascais Tourism and of the NGO Sailors for the Sea, with 11th grade students from Azambuja Secondary School.

The third round of Energy Talks took place between April and June 2023, around the exhibition "Plastic: Remaking Our World", a co-production between maat, Vitra Design Museum and V&A Dundee. This exhibition explores the 150-year-old history of this artificial material, as well as the narrative, at once amazing and worrying, of its invention and dissemination, while keeping its eyes on the future.

 

Session:

20 April
Bordalo II, visual artist, with Master’s students from the Escola Superior de Educação de Lisboa.

11 May
Francisco Lufinha, kite surfer, with students from the Agrupamento de Escolas da Baixa da Banheira

18 May
Filipe Botton, entrepreneur, with students from Escola EB 2,3 da Trafaria

22 May
Carolina Piteira, visual artist, with students from Escola EB 2,3 Maria Keil do Agrupamento de Escolas da Apelação

5 June
Luís Marques Mendes, with students from Colégio Nuno Álvares – Casa Pia and from Escola Secundária Marquês de Pombal