House of Echoes
Alameda das Fontainhas, Porto
(Happisodes)
With House of Echoes, artist and architect Didier Fiúza Faustino reinterprets the typical northern espigueiro (granary), a familiar landmark of the Portuguese landscape and an example of an architecture without architect. Faustino enhances its naive shape — a box with six feet and a roof — and uses recycled materials to propose a sound capsule that works as a venue for music education, a public recording studio, and a stage for concerts and DJ sets.
Designed specifically for the Alameda das Fontaínhas, one of the city’s oldest and most distinctive neighbourhoods overlooking the Douro, House of Echoes is a piece of micro-architecture dedicated to sonic exploration in public space. Here, listening to, making, and recording music are activities open to the community, fostering creativity, knowledge exchange, and urban renewal.
The programme is brought to life through collaborations with faculties of the Polytechnic Institute of Porto and through events under the artistic direction of Lovers & Lollypops.
OPEN HOUSE OF ECHOES
Every Wednesday
10h - 12h
12h - 16h
Open House of Echoes is the Porto Design Biennale's public activation programme, inviting everyone to explore sound freely and participatively in public spaces.
Every Wednesday between November and December, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., the House of Echoes space, fully equipped for recording, sound production and DJ sets, can be booked and used free of charge.
Designed to encourage meetings and experimentation, the Open House of Echoes programme promotes shared creation, informal learning and collective discovery of sound.
Consult the list of equipment and available dates: Here
To make a reservation, please use the following link: Here
After submitting, our team will contact you to confirm your booking.
RIF: RÁDIO INTERMITENTE DAS FONTAINHAS
Lovers & Lollypops
30.10.2025 – 18.12.2025
Tuesdays and Thursdays
RIF: Rádio Intermitente das Fontaínhas (Intermittent Radio of Fontaínhas) runs from October to December at House of Echoes, on the avenue of the same name — an iconic location in the Bonfim neighbourhood, located above Horta da Bananeira, a temporary autonomous zone that emerged during the pandemic and brought to the city a new way of looking at the “non-places” that emerge from it.
Specifically, RIF invites independent structures and artists from Porto's cultural fabric — with varying degrees of proximity to the proposed territory — to use online radio to experimentally and necessarily incompletely map, over several sessions, a certain artistic movement that has been developing around this neighbourhood over the last decade.
The programme will include DJ sets and music selections, interviews and conversations, spoken word and fictional narrative creations, sound documentaries, archives and collages of found footage, radio performance, radio art and other practices that question and expand the language of radio.
- Zamaan زمان
Zamaan (from the Arabic زمان, meaning ‘time’ or ‘era’) is a collective and artistic platform, originated in Portugal and with roots in Palestine, dedicated to amplifying multidisciplinary Arab, BIPOC, queer and migrant artists from the SWANA region, the diaspora and beyond. Created by DJ, curator and activist Saya Mohamed, the project has featured artists and DJs in cultural programming spaces in Galicia, Porto and Lisbon.
Zamaan Soundscapes with Saya and the Collective for the Liberation of Palestine
On Rádio Intermitente das Fontainhas, she presents Zamaan Soundscapes, four broadcasts that explore soundscapes, sound collages with field recordings, live sets and spoken word interventions, between fictional narratives, personal experiences and activism, with readings in Arabic, English and Portuguese.
Zamaan Soundscapes with Saya and Eazuka Khazrik
Eazuka Khazrik is a sound artist and multidisciplinary researcher who links art, technology, ecology and social justice in her projects. Her career combines teaching, artistic creation, technology and activism for collective liberation and for Palestine.
- Coletivo Epifania
Coletivo Epifania is a platform for creation, communication, and social action founded in Porto, formed by Afro-diasporic artists, communicators, and cultural producers. Since 2020, it has been developing collaborative projects that cross languages—through conversations, residencies, training cycles, and actions in public spaces—that broaden the debate on belonging and community in the contemporary context.
- Associação de Estudantes da Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Porto
AEFBAUP represents and supports the student community, promoting dialogue, participation and the defence of inclusive, high-quality public arts education. It believes in a faculty that is a space for creation, critical thinking and social transformation, where every student has a voice and the conditions to develop their potential. True to its history of struggle and collective construction, AEFBAUP continues to assert itself as an active agent in the defence of education, culture and freedom in Porto.
In these broadcasts on Rádio Intermitente das Fontainhas, AEFBAUP opens a frequency between the neighbourhood and the school, between sound and silence, between matter and thought. Voices, music and pauses meet in the same space of vibration, where the political becomes poetic and the collective becomes form. Crossings between the right to public arts education, the relationship between art and territory, and resistance as imagination.
- Habitação Hoje!
Habitação Hoje (Housing Today) is a non-partisan political organisation founded in Porto in 2021 as a space for building the fight for the popular conquest of the right to housing and the city. Organised into local brigades and residents' assemblies, such as the Union of Tenants and Homeless People, they work to dismantle current housing policies and provide legal support in urgent situations.
SOUND POEMS AND WHISPERS
IPP (ESE + ESMAD + ESMAE)
Sound Poems and Whispers are a set of actions that aim to inhabit the House of Echoes and permeate the surrounding space with musical and sonic proposals stemming from the artistic and educational practices developed at the School of Education of P. Porto, particularly within the bachelor’s and master’s programs in Music.
These actions will include soundwalks, soundscape recordings, small concerts, sound performances with non-conventional objects, and improvisation sessions. They will be nourished by the collection of local stories and memories, which will later be returned to the space and its people through original musical and sonic interpretations.
House of Echoes Schedule:
- 30.10.2025 | RIF: RÁDIO INTERMITENTE DAS FONTAINHAS
Coletivo Epifania
EPF Talks
18h00 - 20h00 - 04.11.2025 | RIF: RÁDIO INTERMITENTE DAS FONTAINHAS
AEFBAUP
Faina Infinita com/with Carmen Rosera
18h00 - 20h00 - 05.11.2025 | OPEN HOUSE OF ECHOES
10h - 12h
12h - 16h - 06.11.2025 | RIF: RÁDIO INTERMITENTE DAS FONTAINHAS
Rádio Temporária do Bonfim
Weepy Hour com/with Cativo
18h00 - 20h00 - 11.11.2025 | SOUND POEMS AND WHISPERS - IPP: ESE + ESMAD + ESMAE
Nuno Peixoto
17h00 - 11.11.2025 | RIF: RÁDIO INTERMITENTE DAS FONTAINHAS
Zamaan زمان
Zamaan Soundscapes com/with Saya & Coletivo pela Libertação da Palestina
18h00 - 20h00 - 12.11.2025 | OPEN HOUSE OF ECHOES
10h - 12h
12h - 16h - 13.11.2025 | RIF: RÁDIO INTERMITENTE DAS FONTAINHAS
Coletivo Epifania
Simora DJ
18h00 - 20h00 - 18.11.2025 | RIF: RÁDIO INTERMITENTE DAS FONTAINHAS
AEFBAUP
Coisas de Pessoas que Não se Calam - Bruno Silva & Elisa Vieira
18h00 - 20h00 - 19.11.2025 | OPEN HOUSE OF ECHOES
10h - 12h
12h - 16h - 20.11.2025 | RIF: RÁDIO INTERMITENTE DAS FONTAINHAS
Rádio Temporária do Bonfim
DISCOrDANCE com/with Pedro Salgado Lopes
18h00 - 20h00 - 21.11.2025 | SOUND POEMS AND WHISPERS - IPP: ESE + ESMAD + ESMAE
Filipe Lopes
15h00 - 25.11.2025 - RIF: RÁDIO INTERMITENTE DAS FONTAINHAS
Zamaan زمان
Zamaan Soundscapes com/with Saya e Coletivo pela Libertação da Palestina
18h00 - 20h00 - 26.11.2025 | OPEN HOUSE OF ECHOES
10h - 12h
12h - 16h - 27.11.2025 | RIF: RÁDIO INTERMITENTE DAS FONTAINHAS
Coletivo Epifania
Simora DJ
18h00 - 20h00 - 02.12.2025 | SOUND POEMS AND WHISPERS - IPP: ESE + ESMAD + ESMAE
Aoife Hiney
12h00 - 02.12.2025 | RIF: RÁDIO INTERMITENTE DAS FONTAINHAS
AEFBAUP
Luís Lopes + Faina Infinita com/with Carmen Rosera
18h00 - 20h00 - 03.12.2025 | OPEN HOUSE OF ECHOES
10h - 12h
12h - 16h - 04.12.2025 | RIF: RÁDIO INTERMITENTE DAS FONTAINHAS
Habitação Hoje!
Onde mora a luta?
18h00 - 20h00 - 09.12.2025 | RIF: RÁDIO INTERMITENTE DAS FONTAINHAS
Zamaan زمان
Zamaan Soundscapes - Saya & Eazuka Khazrik
18h00 - 20h00 - 10.12.2025 | OPEN HOUSE OF ECHOES
10h - 12h
12h - 16h - 11.12.2025 | RIF: RÁDIO INTERMITENTE DAS FONTAINHAS
Coletivo Epifania
DJ Darcielle
18h00 - 20h00 - 12.12.2025 | SOUND POEMS AND WHISPERS - IPP: ESE + ESMAD + ESMAE
Filipe Lopes
15h00 - 16.12.2025 | RIF: RÁDIO INTERMITENTE DAS FONTAINHAS
AEFBAUP
LVIS
18h00 - 20h00 - 17.12.2025 | OPEN HOUSE OF ECHOES
10h - 12h
12h - 16h - 18.12.2025 | RIF: RÁDIO INTERMITENTE DAS FONTAINHAS
Habitação Hoje!
Arrendatários de todo o mundo, uni-vos
18h00 - 20h00 - 20.01.2026 | SOUND POEMS AND WHISPERS - IPP: ESE + ESMAD + ESMAE
Filipe Lopes
14h30
Designer Didier Fiúza Faustino
Institution Instituto Politécnico do Porto (Filipe Lopes, Jorge Alexandre Costa, Rosa Barros, Nuno Pinho, Aoife Hiney, Luís Castro )
Didier Fiúza Faustino is a conceptual artist and architect whose practice is at the crossroads of art, architecture and design. Operating with Bureau des Mésarchitectures in Paris and Lisbon, Faustino work takes the shape of buildings, installations, sculptures, films, and editorial projects, always to transcend borders of society and creation by exploring the relationship between body and space.
Eleonora Fedi is an interior and spatial designer and educator, based in Porto. She has a degree from the Politecnico of Milan (2012) and a master's degree from the College of Art and Design of Matosinhos (2015), where she teaches subjects related to spatial design and the culture of dwelling.
She collaborates with esad—idea as a researcher and designer responsible for exhibition projects, and has been a member of the Porto Design Biennale team since its first edition in 2019.
Her work includes exhibition designs for Galicia – Processes and Forms (2023) curated by David Barro; Erasing the Line (2023); Portugal Pop – Fashion in Portuguese 1970–2020 (2022-2025), curated by Bárbara Coutinho; Sneakers – From the Estado Novo to the Turn of the Millennium (2022), curated by Pedro Carvalho de Almeida.
She co-curated the exhibition Reusing Furniture (2023) together with Maria Milano and has collaborated as an assistant curator on Frontiere – Contemporary Design Expressions, Abitare Itália – Icons of Italian Design, and Riccardo Dalisi – Perfect Imperfection (2019).
Core Programme
Happisodes
Promoted by the Porto Design Biennale, Happisodes are co-design projects between designers, communities, and municipalities that bring to life, in Porto and Matosinhos, the joy of collectively recognising that the present can be reimagined. They are living, inhabited processes where design gives shape to the common.
Publications
Book publishing is a fundamental part of the Porto Design Bienniale, conveying, through the editing and materiality of the books and catalogues, the concept and curation of the projects.
Constellations
The selected projects are independent and autonomous projects regarding curation, financing and production that engage with the theme of this edition.