TransFemina
The Invisible City – Cartography(ies) of Daily Routes
TransFemina: Soundwalk at Campanhã Station
June 29, 2025
Porto, Portugal
On June 29 at Campanhã Station in Porto, we invite the public to an immersive and performative sound experience, the result of a creative process activated at the Porto Local Lab. This work was developed from the mapping of “daily routes,” a real, emotional, and imaginary record of what we see, hear, and feel in public space — as well as what we do not see, do not hear, and do not feel — as we inhabit the city in our everyday lives.
This inquiry was explored creatively throughout the sessions, researching and challenging the ways our bodies occupy public space: through presence, movement, care, disruption... We experimented with vulnerability and empathy as poetic and transformative forces of spaces and the relationships between human and more-than-human communities, creating new narratives and imaginaries — new ways of being, existing, resisting, and desiring collectively.
How does my perception of space change when walking at night or during the day? What do I carry along the way? How do I encounter others? In what ways? How do I feel when I stop, when I move? What catches my attention? What do I miss?
On June 29, there will be two presentations: one at 6:00 PM and another at 8:00 PM. Access is free, but requires registration due to limited capacity, considering audience movement through the Campanhã Station and Intermodal Terminal spaces. The experience will be held in Portuguese and is recommended for ages 12 and up.
Registrations sold out.
The TransFemina Soundwalk is a PELE creation supported by IP – Infraestruturas de Portugal, STCP – Porto Public Transport Company, and the Bonfim Parish Council.
TransFemina aims to actively contribute to fostering social cohesion & inclusion by involving normally underrepresented groups (women, non-binary, other identities and statuses) in spaces of participation and decision-making, in an intersectional perspective convening different collectives, artists, activists, researchers, urban planners and/or people with political decision-making power.
The project consists of participatory artistic action in public spaces, by involving local communities of each city in the co-creation process of artistic interventions and urban sound walks. The project will also deepen the research about urban development through a feminist & intersectional lens and it will disseminate its results through handy toolkits. In addition to this, there will also be international exchanges and workshops open to all interested citizens. The involved participants and the audience will experience a unique process of collective reappropriation and resignification of the public space of the city/neighbourhood they live in, fostering their right to the city & contributing to the opening up of the city’s tangible & symbolic transformation.
Col·lectiu Punt 6
A non-profit cooperative of urban planning and architecture with over 17 years of local, national and international experience. They work from an intersectional feminist perspective through community participation and action. They’re committed to rethinking domestic, community and public spaces from a feminist perspective, with more than 400 projects carried out in different spheres. Col·lectiu Punt 6 develops their own methodologies (quantitative, qualitative and participatory) which are adapted to the context and the people they work with. They also work on research, teaching and training for both public administration and non-profit organisations.
Collettivo Amigdala
The work of Amigdala activates different levels: original artistic creations, public history and anthropology, active citizenship education, urban crossings and landscape. The collective makes multidisciplinary art productions, with a definite vocation for site-specific and community-specific creation methodologies. Amigdala's productions take the form of performances, public art projects, installations, soundscapes and always have a strong connection to the place that hosts them. These works are presented in Italy and abroad in festivals, reviews and cultural initiatives. The Periferico festival is one of their main projects and it's dedicated to the connections between performing arts, local communities and the urban fabric.