‘LUGAR(es) a Desenhar’ in the 2026/27 school year
Throughout the 2026/27 school year, around 160 pupils from six Year 3 and Year 4 classes at Escola Básica Mestre Querubim Lapa, part of the Marquesa de Alorna school cluster in Lisbon, will explore the connections between art, nature, mathematics and citizenship. They will do so through the shared space of education, with the support of the school and the museum, as a way of questioning the world we live in.
Through artistic practice and opportunities to share ideas, this school year’s LUGAR project proposes exploring ways to repair, rebuild and reimagine, guided by a co-creation map that expands, seeks out and creates forms and places for encounters.
For the first time, the project welcomes a guest artist whose work is part of the CAM Collection and features in both exhibitions accompanying this edition: Scheherazade, the Never-ending Collection of CAM and On Drawing Places, which opens in November 2026.
Cecília Costa studied Mathematics at the University of Aveiro, Visual Arts at ESAD (Escola Superior de Arte e Design) in Caldas da Rainha, and Media Art at Universidade Lusófona in Lisbon. Her artistic research is shaped by mathematics, particularly her exploration of symmetry, the brain’s left-right division, and the ways this shapes language and the perception of space. A multidisciplinary artist working across photography, video and sound, she favours drawing and sculpture above all, drawing as if sculpting, giving charcoal, oil stick and line the properties of physical matter.
LUGAR [PLACE] is a CAM participatory education and artistic creation project which, since 2022, has brought schools and museums closer together, with equity, interculturalism and social justice as its values and active citizenship as its horizon.
With mediation by Denise Xavier, Mariana Faria and Samuel Rosa, and coordination by Andreia Dias.
