This event brings together Nata Tatunashvili — architect and designer, founder of NWDS studio and Ubani — Tbilisi Cityscape Research Center, and Aea’s founder and programme curator and Andreia Garcia, architect, curator, researcher, professor, and founder of Architectural Affairs studio and Galeria de Arquitectura in Porto to discuss their work across architecture, design, curating, research, and teaching.

Andreia and Nata will speak about a shared concern: what it takes for fragile forms of collectivity and conversation to persist in social, spatial, and cultural contexts that offer little stability. The discussion will move through the following questions: How can a space for culture be built without pre-defined institutional frameworks? What forms of communication hold such spaces together? And who is the city for?

This event marks the unveiling of Aea Space — a new multidisciplinary initiative at TIMS café & padaria in central Lisbon — and introduces its cultural proposition. Grounded in a female-led, horizontal approach, it unfolds through reflection, open conversations, and practices of care. Aea is rooted in lived experiences of migration, rupture, and the loss of homes and systems that once held them, and asks how creative work can be sustained under these conditions.