Shifting Grounds
The River Between Us: Almada Between Memory and Masterplan
What exactly is at stake for Almada? And what does this say about the future of urban Portugal?
Shifting Grounds
Terrains in transit, truths in tension.
Shifting Grounds
Reclaiming the Tracks: Transpraia’s Second Life
On a forgotten beach line, Portugal reimagines a future of collective movement.
Shifting Grounds
The Soft Violence of Discovery
From admiration to erasure: reflections on being a foreign creative in a country slowly pricing out its own.
Shifting Grounds
Ginjal, From Rubble to Renewal: A Riverfront at a Crossroads
As Almada transforms its shoreline, the battle for public space, cultural memory, and inclusive urban futures begins anew.
Shifting Grounds
Tourists Welcome, Tenants Evicted: The Cartography of Displacement
How Airbnb transforms neighborhoods into tourist zones, creating “dead zones” where locals can’t afford to live but tourists cluster.