<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="5" color="#001177" style="font: 19.0px Verdana; color: #001177"><b> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; "><img src="cid:55518F8B-D9CE-43E8-9345-C68DDABBCB7A@lan"></span></b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="5" style="font: 19.0px Verdana"><b>TRANSFORMA THINK TANK (TTT) TOURING</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="5" style="font: 19.0px Verdana"><b>PORTO</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Verdana"><b><i>Think Tank Internacional</i></b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Verdana"><b>Participantes: Mik Flood (uk);</b></font><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Verdana"> </font><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Verdana"><b>Luis Firmo (pt); Luis Serpa (pt); Liz Lydiate</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Verdana"><b>(uk); Daniel Pires (pt); Bronac Ferran (uk); Luis Tavares Pereira (pt);</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Verdana"><b>Nuno Grande (pt); Renata Catambas (pt); Michael DaCosta (uk); entre outros</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Verdana"><b>Organização: Transforma e Architects of Communication</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Verdana"><b>14 e 15 de Março, Casa da Música, Porto - Portugal</b></font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Verdana" size="3" color="#3c7c23" style="font: 11.0px Verdana; color: #3c7c23"> </font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Verdana" size="3" color="#3c7c23" style="font: 11.0px Verdana; color: #3c7c23"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Verdana">De 14 a 15 de Março de 2008 a cidade do Porto receberá o Transforma Think Tank.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Verdana">Este <i>think tank</i> internacional tem como participantes Mik Flood, antigo director do Institute</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Verdana">of Contemporary Arts em Londres; Luís Serpa, galerista e crítico; Liz Lydiate, directora</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Verdana">na University Arts London; Luis Firmo, presidente da Transforma; Bronac Ferran, antiga</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Verdana">directora do Arts Council England; Luís Tavares Pereira, da Ordem Portuguesa dos</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Verdana">Arquitectos; Daniel Pires, director do Maus Hábitos, associação cultural sedeada no Porto;</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Verdana">Nuno Grande, arquitecto e investigador; Renata Catambas, artista; entre outros. O anfitrião</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Verdana">é Michael DaCosta, o director-fundador do Architects of Communication.</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Verdana"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Verdana">Esta sessão do TTT no Porto terá lugar na Casa da Música. Será uma intensa discussão com</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Verdana">a duração de dois dias sobre o papel da criatividade na cidade. O tema da sessão será:</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Verdana">“Como podemos ligar os espaços criativos às cidades criativas e seus habitantes criativos?”</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Verdana"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Verdana">O Transforma Think Tank baseia-se na troca de ideias, no pensar e no agir sobre o ‘espaço</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Verdana">criativo’, em conjunto com os seus outros parceiros – criativos, políticos, académicos,</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Verdana">membros das comunidades locais, proprietários de media, proprietários de marcas comerciais</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Verdana">e figuras públicas – mas <i>da perspectiva da comunidade criativa</i>. O TTT também promove a</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Verdana">criação de conteúdos para a programação da Transforma. O TTT tem como co-produtores e</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Verdana">anfitriães a Transforma e Michael da Costa, o director-fundador do Architects of Communication.</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Verdana"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Verdana">Em Outubro de 2006, teve lugar em Torres Vedras o primeiro Transforma Think Tank (TTT).</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Verdana">O tema foi <i>Quem faz o que nós fazemos? Ou </i>Modus Personae<i>?</i> O segundo aconteceu em</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Verdana">Novembro de 2007. O tema foi <i>Onde fazemos o que fazemos? Ou </i>Locus Operandi. É possível</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Verdana">solicitar documentação sobre estes eventos.</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Verdana"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Verdana">Estes eventos TTT são apenas parte do programa de actividades da Transforma que se</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Verdana">desenrola ao longo de todo o ano. A Transforma é uma organização cultural sedeada em</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Verdana">Torres Vedras, uma pequena cidade da periferia de Lisboa, em Portugal. Foi fundada em 2001</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Verdana">por Luís Firmo e opera no ‘espaço’ criativo entre a cidade, os seus cidadãos ou comunidade</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Verdana">local, e os espaços culturais convencionais de qualquer cidade. A Transforma interessa-se</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Verdana">por uma criatividade híbrida ou transdisciplinar.</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Verdana"> </font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Verdana"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Verdana"><i>“Transforma e Torres Vedras podem liderar a nova tendência das indústrias culturais no País”</i></font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Verdana"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 188px; "><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Verdana"> in Jornal de Negócios, 20 de Outubro de 2006</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Verdana"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Verdana"><i>“…It requires thousands of changes in mindset, creating the conditions for people to become</i></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Verdana"><i>agents of change rather than victims of change, seeing transformation as a lived experience</i></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Verdana"><i>not a one off event...”</i></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Verdana"><i> </i></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 188px; "><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Verdana"><i>Lineages of the Creative City</i>, Charles Landry, 2005</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 188.0px"><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Verdana"> </font></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify"><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Verdana"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Verdana"><b>Para mais informação sobre o TTT: <a href="http://www.transformathinktank.blogspot.com">www.transformathinktank.blogspot.com</a></b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Tahoma" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Tahoma">______________________________________________________________________________________</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#001177" style="font: 13.0px Arial; letter-spacing: -1.0px color: #001177"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Verdana; letter-spacing: -1.0px">Para mais informações contacte / </font><font face="Verdana" size="2" color="#999999" style="font: 10.0px Verdana; letter-spacing: -1.0px color: #999999">For more information, please contact:</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Verdana"><b>Transforma</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Verdana">Praça do Município, 8, 2560-289 Torres Vedras, Portugal</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Verdana">Tel (+351) 261 336 320 . 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