The serious housing crisis has led people to protest for the right to an affordable home, not only in Portugal, but also across Europe. This and other issues, such as social inequality, migration, and the ecological crisis, are on the agenda of contemporary society, in constant change. Between September 25th and October 6th, the Uma Revolução Assim (A Revolution Like This) — Struggle and Fiction: the Housing Question festival invites to a collective dialogue about what kind of society we want to build and promotes thinking about other ways of living and inhabiting. With artistic interventions in private homes, a series of podcasts, a vídeo essay, talks over lunch, debates and round tables on a mobile stage that transforms itself into a parliament, radio station, open-air cinema, kitchen or living room, and which will travel to various areas of Greater Lisbon. The first day, taking place at Culturgest, is dedicated to the themes #1 — Struggle, Courage, Experimentation, Empathy, Violence.

Radio on Stage

10:00am–12:00am
Foyer of Emílio Rui Vilar Auditorium*
Free entry (subject to space capacity)
In Portuguese and English, with simultaneous translation

Open interviews and conversations to share practices and approaches to the housing question. The conversations will be broadcast live on Rádio Antecâmara and are part of an oral history project and of the podcast Uma Revolução Assim (A Revolution Like This).

Table Talks

12:30am–2:30pm
Foyer of Emílio Rui Vilar Auditorium*
Free entry (subject to space capacity)
In Portuguese and English, with simultaneous translation
Moderation: Julia Albani

It’s often said that you don’t discuss politics, soccer, or religion at the table, but at this lunch we’re going against tradition. We’ll prepare the food, and you will bring your ideas. Informal, straight, urgent, and fun conversations, with toasts to new ideas, constellations, and ways of living together.

Struggle, Courage, Experimentation, Empathy, Violence

Open discussion

3pm–6pm
Foyer of Emílio Rui Vilar Auditorium*
Free entry (subject to space capacity)
In Portuguese and English, with simultaneous translation

Roundtable to fight against the housing crisis with the participation of Jesko Fezer (designer and author), Judit Morello (Rede Cohabitar / Coletivo-Cooperativa Aldrava, Lisbon), Paula Cardoso (journalist, author, and founder of Afrolink, Lisbon), Pierre Cr.tois (philosopher and writer), Tiago Mota Saraiva (critic and architect, ateliermob / trabalhar com os 99%), and representatives of the Movimento Referendo pela Habitação.

Nuno Cera, Tiago Mota Saraiva

A revolution like this

7pm–9pm
Small Auditorium
Free entry*
*with ticket pickup 30 min. before the session starts (subject to room capacity)

Premiere of the video essay Uma Revolução Assim (A Revolution Like This) (2024, 40 min., Portuguese V.O., with subtitles in English), by artist Nuno Cera in collaboration with critic and architect Tiago Mota Saraiva (ateliermob / trabalhar com os 99%), which outlines in a poetic way, the recent events of urban cooperatives, struggles, and negotiations around the housing question. The work is the result of a year of observation and reflection in the Greater Lisbon, followed by a debate with the protagonists and participants of the festival.