In 2017, during the Lumina Light Festival in Cascais, I conducted a large-scale survey as part of my ethnographic research on light festivals and nighttime urban experiences. This work would later become a central component of my doctoral thesis in sociology. Recently, Ocubo, the artistic studio and main organizer of Lumina, produced a short video that documents theContinueContinue reading “Documenting the Night: Survey Research at Lumina Light Festival 2017”
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My Research on Light Festivals Featured by ISCTE
I’m delighted to share that ISCTE – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa has published an article on its official website spotlighting my research on light festivals. The piece, titled “Festivais de luz, muito mais que evento de luz”, presents light festivals not merely as entertainment but as powerful tools for urban, cultural, and territorial transformation. The article draws fromContinueContinue reading “My Research on Light Festivals Featured by ISCTE”
TICYUrb’18
The TICYUrb (Third International Conference of Young Urban Researchers) is an international event that aims to echo frontier research, artistic works and professional practice related to different urban contexts around the world, under an environment of vibrant dialog between academia and society. The conference is split in ten tracks: Collectivecity (the right to the city: 50 years later), Productcity (the cityContinueContinue reading “TICYUrb’18”
Manuel Garcia-Ruiz 