Marisa Ferreira MRSS

Drawing from childhood memories of being born in a context of loss and industrial decline that characterized the 1980s in the north of Portugal, my work focuses on industrial ruins and processes of deindustrialization that took place in the aftermath of the end of the Portuguese empire. 

Through practice-led and interdisciplinary methodologies, recent works investigate the intersection between colonialism and the Anthropocene to discuss themes of materiality-memory, colonialism and urban regeneration. Often blurring reality and fiction, the works explore the ways memory, place and cultural identity intersect to research how abandoned architectural structures can be used to understand a collective past and how they can be imbued into narrative identities to rethink and reimagine a more inclusive and sustainable future.