Recently, I’ve been researching about the Oporto slums (Ilhas), theme that I previously approached in my degree. Ilhas are industrial workers residential areas created in the end of 19th century with only a few improvements to this day. A social project that I started in 2017 as part of a critical consideration in some serious precarious residential areas of the city that haven’t been able to keep following the continuous urban and touristic growing of the city. Collecting a series of multimedia sources, using tools like GIS (Geographic Information Systems), cartography and code in addiction to analyze environments and geodata. I pretend (de)construct Ilhas as a social object - an object made for a certain time and a certain place made with certain references, techniques, materials and functions - who plays its role in society and its influence in the urban space of the city, but also how these urban space influences this object.

In parallel with this, it is expanded in me the interest in the squatting movement developed in several big cities, some of them also in the Netherlands, like Amsterdam.  In my optic, these cases have common problematics such as the Housing Rights (Direito à Habitação in Portuguese), eviction and the lake of Housing First initiatives, brought up by the overpopulation in these cities, colligated with the density of tourism and the uprising inflation of propriety’s prices and a lot more. Through my analysis of this problematics, I hope to research possible solutions and develop my own view of these problems through design and, to the greatest extent possible, enhancing the social-political components.