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Article by Isabel Maria
Portugal Faz Bem celebrates Lisbon Design Week with over 1000m2 of exhibition space and highlights design in Portuguese production
Come discover the transforming force of design in production, in know-how and industrial tourism during at Lisbon Design Week 2025, from may 28 to june 1 , from Unicorn Factory Lisboa, no Beato Innovation District, and at the National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC).
Unicorn Factory Lisboa | Beato Innovation District
Just like with biscuit making,, it all starts with the selection and grinding of the right ingredients. No industrial world, this process is reflected in the transformation of the raw material: From wood to furniture, from ore to metal, from wire to fabric, from clay to ceramic. Each step requires knowledge, accuracy and innovation to transform ideas and traces into products that come to life in each destination
The Portugal Faz Bem® brand was born in 2021 with the certainty that each stage of the creative and productive process is unique in a universal context — and with the clear desire to give them greater visibility. Em 2025, states like collaborative platform and active bridge Between those who create, who produces and who seeks to know the territory better, through your material culture. Values the story of each piece, from design to production, from industry to contemporary manufacturing, recognizing the work and dedication of those who truly put their hands in the dough. We turn on brands, factories, studio and professionals, and we promote design as a common language and know-how as living heritage. We take on the role of mediators between the industry and the public — between what is being done and those who want to discover it — through experiences, meetings and content that makes it visible, current and accessible the best that Portugal has to offer.
With a partnership network and collective curatorship [Le Brimet, Openbook Studio, Gencork] and a deeply innovative gesture, we will be 28 from May 28th and throughout the month of June, giving life to a set of immersive exhibitions, artistic facilities and industrial tourism visits that reveal - and invite to know - the creative and productive talent of the country.
It is with immense pride, and in an invitation open to everyone - from the curious visitor to the demanding professional - who challenged to discover the “productive knowledge” Portuguese contemporary na living and inspiring route that connects brands, studios, Factories and Cultural Spaces of Reference, where yesterday's manuality dialogues with today's robotics and artificial intelligence. Everything with one purpose: show how Portugal knows how to do it well, From design to destination, and with soul.
Like this, in the second participation in Lisbon Design Week, Portugal Faz Bem We celebrate the best of national production with connections to three exhibitions and experiences in two symbolic locations in Lisbon: o Beato, former industrial pole, and the Chiado, historic district and Arts Quarter. In more than 1.000 m² of programming, We invite you all - national and international, professionals and curious – to discover the reinvention of Portuguese industrial legacy, where creativity, art and know-how they intersect to project the future, in a joint initiative that we have to develop with institutional and creative partnerships, since there 1 year to this part.
PFB Initiatives | Lisbon Design Week 2025
The c(ai)rcle’s pentagon by GENCORK, designed by le_brimet
An exploitation between artificial intelligence, Generative design and sustainability.
Authorship and Artistic Directorate: Le Brimet | Gencork by sofalca
Local – National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC )
Curator: Joana Beirão, Portugal Faz Bem
Inauguration – 28 May – 18h
Calendar – 28 to june 22
MNAC presents The C(ai)rcle Pentagon, A GENCORK INSTALLATION, Concept Por Le_brimet Para to Gencork from Sofalca, curated by Joana Beirão - Portugal does well. Produced in expanded black cork, This work explores the fusion between nature and technology through artificial intelligence and design (re)generative. Inspired by biomimetic principles, The piece reflects an innovative view in the creation of new sustainable experiences in art, Architecture and Design.
Not being the first time Joana Beirão intersects with the gencork in her projects and concepts, it is with great satisfaction and a huge thank you that we thank Paulo Estrada and his entire team, for having adhered to this initiative and invitation.
LDW – Participant Page
The Power of 10 and everything in between by Le Brimet
Retrospective Exhibition ( 2015-2025 ), of the designer and creative director Le_brimet.
Authorship: Le Brimet
Local – Grinding factory, Unicorn Factory Lisboa | Beato Innovation District
Strategic partnership: Portugal Faz Bem
With the support of: Lisbon Culture. EGEAC | Lisbon Museum – Grinding factory
Inauguration – 30 May – 18h
Calendar – 30 to june 20
“The grinding factory of the former military maintenance (1897) was the first to function within the vast food industry complex, together with the pasta, cracker or bread. For over a hundred years, the grinding fulfilled its function of producing flour to supply the set of factories, bakeries, Messes or even supermarkets of the extinct military maintenance (2015-2017). “Deolinda Folgado
After a careful work of conservation and restoration of the various machines and integrated mechanisms, This factory, memorial, becomes a versatile space, where the industrial atmosphere, natural luminosity and space organization create a singular environment. When you go through your four floors, we discover the successive changes that occur over time, with rooms of different dimensions that reveal the richness of its architecture, in a narrow dialogue with the machines, tubes and transmission systems. Currently under the scope of the Lisbon Museum, the grinding factory assumes a new cultural life, Welcoming visits, events and exhibitions that value its industrial and museum.
The Power of IO, and Everything in Between It is an exhibition that celebrates ten years of exploratory creative practice of Artcretech le_brimet, holistic and interdisciplinary creative director who explores the symbiotic relationship between the materialware (genesis of materials), software (Regenerative Computer Science), hardware (Digital Manufacturing Processes) , humanware (human experiences).
The anthological exposure that witnesses the author's first creative cycle, draw a retrospective of Le_Brimet's work, exploring the relationships between man and machine, physical and digital, through more than 80 PARTS THAT CROSS ART, Design and Technology. From traditional Portuguese materials such as cork, recycled plastic and and new innovative and sustainable materials, The show presents a path that culminates in design (re)Generative and Artificial Intelligence, challenging aesthetic and ethical paradigms. With curated site-specific, occupies four floors and offers an immersion in the creative process, From the concept to the final work.
The Power of IO, and Everything in Between will undoubtedly be a unique experience of sharing ideas and procedural manifests, where creativity, curiosity, resilience and technology converge to question conventions and challenge the boundaries of contemporary design, in a creative loop focused on exploring the unknown to reach the unexpected.
Thanks to Brimet and all his partners for joining the challenging invitation of Portugal is good, And in a strategic partnership so coordinatedly well assembled, raise what Portugal is good for a higher level in the sector, So well aligned with the best thing is done by the world.
LDW – Participant Page
COOKIE MONSTER - COLLECTIVE INSTALLATION
A website-specific intervention that occupies the cookie oven room, and invites reflection and knowledge about the transformation of matter and the role of design in the industry.
Local – Cookie Room 1 – Factory Lisboa, Beato Innovation District
Promoter: Portugal Faz Bem
Authorship: Diana Noronha Ugly – Openbook Studio
Opening – 28 May – 12h with
Inauguration party: 30 May, 20H-22h with formal presentation of Openbook Studio
Calendar – 30 to june 22
Factory Lisbon It is one of the main innovation hubs of Beato Innovation District, One of Europe's largest innovation centers. Occupies two buildings of 7 renewed of the former military maintenance, where it welcomes 12 Technological Sector Companies, affirming itself as a pole of entrepreneurship and digital development in the city, in a scenario that honors the factory inheritance of Lisbon.
No floor 1, Cookie Room 1, a historical testimony of the industrial activity of this space is preserved: a machine and continuous production line dated the mid -years 50. Originally installed in another building, this line was relocated in the years 70, accompanying the construction of the last cookie factory of the complex, that operated between 1976 , 2008.
Cookie Monster part of a direct analogy between the industrial processes of the old factories of military maintenance - grinding, bread, Massa and Biscuit - and the design methods of design. When occupying the old cookie production room, The exhibition transforms the space into a site-specific installation, where the place is an essential part of the curatorial narrative, symbolically reflecting the whole process of transforming matter.
The show builds a symbolic assembly line that crosses real stories of Portuguese designers and industrialists, Revealing creative processes, prototypes, parts, packaging and production models.
It's a close look, critic and celebratory on the role of good design in industry and manufacturing, in a living dialogue between tradition and innovation. The exhibition has the collaboration of 10 Portuguese brands - from industry to manuality, Where there will be no missing monsters and cookies!
Thanks to Diana and your tireless team, for the will demonstrated in collaborating from the beginning with Portugal is good and for creating such a responsive concept, Solid and Fun, who responds so well to the bridge that we launch him and invite to create between uniting design, industry and tourism in a single project of appreciation of Portuguese knowledge. Thank you Diana! Thanks Openbook!
LDW – Participant Page
Focus No Industrial Tourism
INDUSTRIAL TOURISM VISITS
Open Factory Day
Organization: Portugal is good and Lisboa Cultura
Strategic partnership: Lisbon Culture | Museu de Lisboa and ERT-RL
Local: GROUNDING FACTORY AND ROOM COOKIE 1
With the support of: Lisbon Culture | Lisbon Museum, EGEAC, ERT-RLisboa
Calendar: 6, 13 , 19 of June, 17h
Website: openfactoryday.pt (under construction)
Free with registration to take place briefly in Portugal Faz Bem
FOCO NO DESIGN THINKING
DESIGN THINKING DYNAMIC
“Looking for (AID)entity It is good ”With design and innovation
Workshop Design Thinking
Organization: Portugal Faz Bem, Design Thinkers Agency, Deslink
Authorship: Joana Beirão, Pedro Janeiro, Ana Lia Santos
Site: Website (in development)
Local: Square, Unicorn Factory Lisboa – Beato Innovation District
Data: advertising
Enrollment: to take place briefly in Portugal Faz Bem
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