Date
04/02/2025

Two second-year students from ESART’s Interior Design and Equipment degree – Joana Correia and Mariana Neto – had their projects selected among the 10 finalists in the first phase of the ArchiRevi Challenge 2023-24: Re-Defining Spaces, promoted by Revigrés and the Archi Summit. The projects they submitted to the competition were developed as part of the Interior Design II curricular unit, taught by Professor Rita Vasco and Professor Liliana Neves, with the support of the Computer-Aided Design II curricular unit, taught by Professor Nelson Antunes, during the second semester of the 2023/2024 academic year.

Among the 10 finalists selected for the second phase of the Challenge, which took place between October 2024 and January 2025, were the works of 9 students from ESART’s Master’s in Interior and Furniture Design: Beatriz Silva, Bruna Monteiro, Camila Antunes, Daniela Brandão, Francisco Mata, Inês Silva, Jéssica Martins, Marcelo Silva and Martyna Peliksza. The projects selected in this second phase were developed as part of the Interior Design Project I course, taught by Professors Rita Vasco and Liliana Neves, with the support of the Production Laboratory I course, taught by Professor Nelson Antunes, during the first semester of the 2024/2025 academic year.

The theme of the Challenge was Sustainability applied to Minimal Space Design, and participants were asked to develop an innovative intervention aimed at optimizing smaller spaces, considering that conscious and affirmative innovation emerges from the insight and creativity of a project, as well as from the search for a balance between the pillars of sustainability. Sustainability and “minimal space design” should be the guidelines for the conception of the projects, as well as the guide for the choice of products and finishes, being the starting and finishing point for all decisions.

The projects selected in the first and second phases of the Challenge were published in a feed on the Revigrés and Archi Summit LinkedIn, Instagram and Facebook pages on July 1, 2024 and February 1, 2025 (https://www.revigres.pt/p/archirevi).

The 20 finalist projects, 11 of which were presented by ESART – IPCB students, will be published on Revigrés’ and the Archi Summit’s social networks and exhibited during the Archi Summit 2025 event, to be held in Lisbon, in the Beato Innovation District, on July 9, 10 and 11, 2025, where the winning project will also be announced.