LIACOM researchers Ricardo Pereira Rodrigues, Nuno Palma, and Joana Souza were part of the team that organized the new online exhibition “Collective Atlas – Inventory of a Landscape”, a project by the Museu da Paisagem that brings together research and artistic practice.

The initiative takes the form of an artistic residency grounded in an ongoing research process, aiming to foster reflection on landscape and territory while encouraging participatory artistic creation. The project is structured around the route of the Tejo-Sado Fluvial Canal – an infrastructure planned over approximately 250 years but never realized – establishing a unique relationship between historical archives and contemporary territory.

Based on existing documentation, the exhibition proposes the superimposition of two maps: one of a historical and documentary nature, and another emerging from artistic and experimental research. This second map takes shape as an “atlas of memories of the future,” where symbolic, metaphorical, and sensory dimensions engage with – and challenge – the notion of objectivity.

Supported by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, the project also includes a series of six public events along the route between Alcochete and Setúbal, promoting collective engagement and the development of new perspectives on the region’s (sub)urban and rural territories, their history, and their possible futures.