Encontros / Meetings LXNIGHTS

After the first LXNIGHTS Fieldtrips, we are also launching this month one of our main initiatives: The LXNIGHTS Meetings (Encontros LXNIGHTS). They are conceived as  a space of interactive and reciprocal interchange between scholars, city government representatives, cultural entrepreneurs, and a variety of stakeholders related to the promotion, making and management of the urban night, including the citizenship. The aim of the Encontros  is to share experiences and knowledge, to discuss and propose new policies on nightlife in Lisbon, and to support the creation of new management tools for the City Council policymakers.

The first LXNIGHTS Meeting: “Lazer nocturno, gentrificação, estudantificação e turistificação nos bairros históricos de Lisboa” will take place on May 27 at Centro de Informação Urbana de Lisboa (CIUL), located  in Picoas Plaza (Rua Viriato, 13) at 18:00h. The debates are free and open to the general public.

PORTUGUESE PRESENTATION:

EnCalendari en jpgcontros LXNIGHTS procura oferecer momentos de debate e mediação entre todos os atores envolvidos na noite de Lisboa avaliando, entre outros, alguns dos diferentes conflitos surgidos neste campo ao longo destes últimos anos. Com uma periodicidade mensal, os Encontros LXNIGHTS pretendem ser um espaço de intercâmbio interactivo e recíproco entre académicos, representantes autárquicos, empreendedores culturais, diversos agentes relacionados com a promoção, a execução e a gestão da vida nocturna, e cidadãos, permitindo a partilha de experiências e conhecimento. Os participantes irão discutir e propor novas políticas sobre a vida nocturna em Lisboa para patrocinar a criação de novas ferramentas de gestão para os agentes políticos da cidade. O 1er Encontro LXNIGHTS dará a conhecer o projecto e a pesquisa realizada pela equipa sobre lazer nocturno, gentrificação, estudentificação e turistificação em Lisboa; conhecer actores da noite e os seus posicionamentos sobre a inter-relação entre gentrificação, turistificação, estudentificação e lazer nocturno em Lisboa para contextualizar melhor os debates temáticos que terão lugar ao longo dos próximos meses.

Os debates são de acesso livre e gratuito

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Prof. Dr. Jordi Nofre
LXNIGHTS – Investigador Principal
Centro Interdisciplinar de Ciências Sociais-CICSNOVA
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Universidade Nova de Lisboa

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Prof. Dr. Íñigo Sánchez Fuarros
Encontros LXNIGHTS – Coordenador
Instituto de Etnomusicologia – Centro de Estudos em Música e Dança
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Universidade Nova de Lisboa

 

 

Some photos of our First LXNIGHTS Fieldtrip

foto4We started our fieldtrip in one of the famous unregulated Chinese restaurants that populate Mouraria, sharing space with many Portuguese and international students attracted by the cheap prices. After crossing Rua Benformoso (called “diversity passage” by the Municipal Government) we arrived to Intendente. There, Íñigo Sánchez offered us a wide explanation of Mouraria and Intendente’s transformations, related with a state-led gentrification policy by the Municipal Government.

Isabel Soares expounded politicians foto3prospective about the neighborhood and the strategies taken to favor the aperture of this central area to the tourists and Portuguese middle-classes.

After that, we went to Bairro Alto where Jordi Nofre explained to the group the role of the district as a party area both for young middle-class Portuguese and worldwide tourists. In the “Erasmus Corner” Daniel Malet described the foto2growing role of exchange students in the transformation of Bairro Alto and other parts of the city. Finally, in Cais do Sodré, Jordi Nofre explain thoroughly the concept of “vintage” applied to the aesthetic transformations of Lisbon’s nightlife.

 

On May 12, 2015, fieldtrip participants are kindly invited to join an open debate on trends and challenges of Lisbon’s nightlife:

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First LXNIGHTS fieldtrip

fieldtripMAY7_1It’s already confirmed!!! Next May 7, 2015. LXNIGHTS, in partnership with Sociology’s Alumni Association (NASNOVA), are very pleased to organize the first Fieldtrip on Lisbon’s Nightlife: from Martim Moniz-Intendente, along Bairro Alto and Bica and finishing in Cais do Sodré.

The aim of this sociological fieldtrip through Lisbon’s nightlife is discussing in loco several notions about our research topic: from the “night of Erasmus” to the Bairro Alto’s “touristification”, the politics of gentrification in historical neighbourhoods, socio-spatial segregation and public order.

Please, feel free to join us at the Facebook Event

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On May 12, 2015, fieldtrip participants are kindly invited to join an open debate on trends and challenges of Lisbon’s nightlife.

Both events will be attended by the entire LXNIGHTS team:
Iñigo Sánchez Fuarros (INET-md, FCSH/UNL)
João Carlos Martins (CICSNOVA, FCSH/UNL
Patrícia Pereira (CICSNOVA-md, FCSH/UNL)
Daniel Malet (CIES-ISCTE/IUL)
Isabel Soares (CML, CICSNOVA, FCSH/UNL)
Jordi Nofre (CICSNOVA, FCSH/UNL)

 

For further informations please contact with Jordi Nofre (jnofre@fcsh.unl.pt)