Papers by Maria da Luz Sampaio
D ans son article Textility of Making (2010) 1 l'anthropologue Tim Ingold, faisait sienne l'idée ... more D ans son article Textility of Making (2010) 1 l'anthropologue Tim Ingold, faisait sienne l'idée de l'architecte contemporain Alvaro Siza selon laquelle : « Outre les constructeurs et les réparateurs issus de différents corps de métier -maçons, menuisiers, plâtriers, plombiers, etc. -, les véritables héros de la construction de maison […] sont les personnes qui y vivent et qui, par des efforts incessants, les consolident et préservent leur intégrité face au soleil, au vent et à la pluie, face à l'usure naturelle que lui inflige l'occupation humaine, et face aux invasions d'oiseaux, de rongeurs, d'insectes, d'arachnides et de champignons. » 2 S'appuyant sur les réflexions des philosophes Gilles Deleuze et Félix Guattari, il soulignait que la matière toujours « en mouvement, en flux, en variation » obligeait les hommes à la suivre. Partant de là, il invitait ses lecteurs à la considérer comme un agent actif et adopter une nouvelle règle générale : « suivre les matériaux ». Ailleurs, il engageait ses étudiants à examiner « celui qui fait comme quelqu'un qui agit dans un monde de matières actives » 3 . Cette manière de voir trouve en partie son origine dans la critique du système hylémorphique formulée au milieu des
Vegueta, Jan 27, 2024
El presente artículo ofrece un análisis comparativo de las empresas del gas existentes en la Pení... more El presente artículo ofrece un análisis comparativo de las empresas del gas existentes en la Península Ibérica a lo largo de la segunda mitad del siglo xix. Para ello, se ha buscado información sobre esta materia en archivos, bibliotecas y hemerotecas. Concretamente, el trabajo estudia el origen de este sector en España y Portugal en la década de los cuarenta y el proceso de consolidación de esta industria hasta finales de la centuria decimonónica, analizando las principales características del mismo, las empresas dedicadas a este negocio y el proceso de introducción de la iluminación por gas en dichos territorios.
Revista de História da Sociedade e da Cultura, 2020
At the beginning of the 20th century the contributors to the renewal and innovation of technical ... more At the beginning of the 20th century the contributors to the renewal and innovation of technical education in Portugal were, on one side, foreigners who studied in the main universities and engineering schools in Europe, and on another, Portuguese engineers who were trained in foreign schools, prestigious at an international level. In national schools,
foreign teachers started being recruited and they joined the first group of docents of the
Instituto Superior Técnico, to which some teachers of the previously Instituto Comercial
de Lisboa became associated, as well as other docents, selected by their technical and scientifical knowledge and achievements in professional practice.
One of the main contributions of this analysis resides in verifying, through the reference of the individual processes of foreign teachers in IST, how decisive this national and European network of engineers was in the choice to hire those teachers, and how Portugal was framed in a supranational network of mobility of specialists and of circulation of knowledge.
Entrepreneurial Initiatives, Foreign Investment and Marketing in the Implementation of Gas Services in the Portuguese Cities of Lisbon and Porto During the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century
Frontiers in economic history, Dec 31, 2022
Boletim da Sociedade Portuguesa de Química, 2020
Políticas Energéticas do Estado Novo e a Renovação Técnica na Indústria Alimentar no Pós-II Guerra Mundial: O Caso Específico da Moagem e da Confeitaria
A case study: The chemist and researcher Joaquim de Santa Clara Sousa Pinto (1803-1876)
HoST, Jun 1, 2023
Portugal is more than an exhibition catalog: it records the research developed during the project... more Portugal is more than an exhibition catalog: it records the research developed during the project "The Triumph of Bakelite: Contribution to the History of Plastics in Portugal," coordinated by Elvira Callapez, financed by the Portuguese national science foundation (FCT) between 2016 and 2018. The work presents an interdisciplinary analysis and a synthesis about the theme of plastics combining different approaches. The texts are signed by a vast team of researchers and consultants who participated in the project and entrepreneurs of the sector. Among them are the specialists Elvira Callapez, Paulina Mata, Ana Maria Ramos and Teresa Salomé Mota. Together the essays allow us to learn about the hitherto untold history of plastics in Portugal, beginning with the success of Bakelite, and presenting various manufacturing processes, evolution and industrialization of polymers throughout the decades of the twentieth century.
BIROn (Birkbeck, University of London), 2016
When the first oil crisis hit Japan in 1973, the country was highly dependent on imported oil as ... more When the first oil crisis hit Japan in 1973, the country was highly dependent on imported oil as the source of electric power. The dire prospect of an oil cutoff gave sufficient and immediate impetus for Japan to begin searching frantically for alternative energy sources. Starting in 1974, the state-sponsored Sunshine Project, which originated from concern about the country's excessive oil dependency-rather than being a direct response to the oil crisis-mobilised the technological and financial resources for finding viable energy alternatives and implemented a number of state-funded projects. One of the most successful enterprises was the development of solar photovoltaic (PV) power generation, and, as a consequence, the household solar PV panel penetrated into the consumer market in the 1990s, comparatively earlier than most of the developed nations. The existing literature tends to focus on the economic incentive provided by state subsidy. However, the diffusion of the solar panel in Japan calls for a more nuanced explanation. A certain degree of social acceptance was needed before a large number of consumers embraced a new energy technology to the extent that they were willing to pay for the initial cost. The social acceptance for using a new technology was, in turn, based on pre-existing knowledge about the technology. This paper aims at shedding light on the pathways through which the knowledge about solar energy proliferated in the Japanese society, by focusing on solar energy demonstration and exhibitions-these forms of knowledge circulation had their roots in the penetration of the solar water heater in rural areas of Japan in the immediate post-WWII period.
Da Fábrica ao Museu: Identificação, Patrimonialização e Difusão da Cultura Técnico-Industrial
Alfredo Bensaúde: A “revolutionary” in the training of engineers
CRC Press eBooks, Sep 25, 2018
Alfredo Bensaúde was a revolutionary of his time in the training in engineering. He was a visiona... more Alfredo Bensaúde was a revolutionary of his time in the training in engineering. He was a visionary of progress and was aware of the need to connect the education with technological innovation, institutional reforms, and economic growth. The establishment of the Republic in 1910 created a favourable context to reform and innovate the previous education structures. In 25 of May of 1911, the new government established a new Decree-law where it states the need to reorganise all public instruction highlighting that our delay comes only from the insufficiency of our technical teaching industrial schools are flawed in their installations, equipment and pedagogical standards. In 1911, when the Instituto Superior Técnico (Technical Institute) was created Alfredo Bensaúde was chosen as director. The new project was based on an essential premise: the existence of administrative autonomy, giving the Director the necessary power to implement the pedagogical program without intermediaries or constraints. The new school invested in theoretical-practical teaching where workshops and laboratories, as well as the library, played an essential role in the educational project. The Instituto Superior Técnico intends to establish a frontier between the former Industrial Institutes and Polytechnic Schools and new teaching of engineering, believing that education and science should be the basis of the growth of the economy in the 20thcentury.
1. Prolegomenos a uma (breve) incursao na historia da pneumonica Entre 1918 e 1919, a humanidade ... more 1. Prolegomenos a uma (breve) incursao na historia da pneumonica Entre 1918 e 1919, a humanidade foi vitima de uma epidemia conhecida internacionalmente por Spanish Influenza ou Spanish Flu e, em Portugal, por Pneumonica (ou Gripe Pneumonica). Em maio de 1918, e declarada em Espanha, espalhando-se pela europa e em poucas semanas estende-se a todos os continentes. No mesmo mes, a epidemia chegou a Portugal, atingindo em primeiro lugar as regioes fronteiricas, mas em poucos meses difunde-se nos...
UID/HIS/04209/2019 UID/HIS/00057/2013 SFRH/BPD/117829/2016In the 1910’s, with the establishment o... more UID/HIS/04209/2019 UID/HIS/00057/2013 SFRH/BPD/117829/2016In the 1910’s, with the establishment of a Republican Regime, were created two new schools of engineering: The Instituto Superior Técnico (Technical Institute) in Lisbon in 1911, and the Faculdade Técnica (Technical Faculty) in Porto, in 1915. In this paper we want to analyse the new pedagogical projects of Instituto Superior Técnico and Faculdade Técnica of University of Porto, and identify the academic and business networks linked to these schools. For this approach we will try to make a comparison between the creation and teaching of the two schools and the professors of each one.publishersversionpublishe
As coleções e museus industriais: preservação e desafios atuais
Os Museus e a(s) Sociedade(s). Teorias, contextos, histórias, experiências, desafios: textos das comunicaçoes a presentadas no II Fórum Ibérico de Investigação em Museologia, decorrido em Lisboa em 13 e 14 de dezembro de 2018, 2019, ISBN 978-989-54405-2-8, pág. 190, 2019
Políticas Energéticas do Estado Novo e a Renovação Técnica na Indústria Alimentar no Pós-II Guerra Mundial: O Caso Específico da Moagem e da Confeitaria
Antiga Fábrica de Moagens Harmonia - De Fábrica a Museu da Indústria do Porto
Nas últimas décadas temos assistido, por toda a Europa a uma processo de desindustrialização das ... more Nas últimas décadas temos assistido, por toda a Europa a uma processo de desindustrialização das cidades e de reconversão das áreas industriais em projectos de revitalização urbana. Este artigo apresenta as questões e processos associados à musealização e reconversão de uma antiga fábrica de Moagem em Museu da Industria. Aponta-se sumariamente as linhas da sua programação e constituição da sua colecção
O conjunto de entrevistas apresentadas neste livro procura dar uma nova visão acerca do patrimóni... more O conjunto de entrevistas apresentadas neste livro procura dar uma nova visão acerca do património industrial. Com uma abordagem aos estudos e às trajectórias de diversos estudiosos do Brasil e de Portugal, aos percursos de formação de cada autor (a), às suas várias temporalidades e vinculações institucionais distintas, a obra valoriza as narrativas orais de quem viveu o processo de construção e consolidação dessa área de pesquisa nos dois países. O objectivo é contribuir para o debate complexo e contínuo sobre o património e possibilita uma ampliação do nosso entendimento dos modos como esta área se firmou e se vem afirmando em diversos espaços, dentro e fora das universidades
The City, the Travel, the Tourism Perception, Production and Processing
With this paper we want to present the historical connection of three different buildings of the ... more With this paper we want to present the historical connection of three different buildings of the historic center of Porto: Estação de S. Bento (a railway station of S. Bento), Palácio da Bolsa (Palace of the Stock Exchange) and the Shot Tower of lead balls for hunting. We want to present each building and found what they have in common and how way they can be linked: by its date of construction, by its founders, by its function and finally by representing the bourgeoisie power in the city at the end of the XIX century and in the first decades of the twentieth century. These three building are points of an historical and touristic itinerary but they have different impacts and conditions: the railway station of S. Bento is a public space, belonging to the Portuguese Railway Company – Comboios de Portugal – it is a national monument since 1997 and even today it’s full of passengers and tourists. The Palácio of Bolsa (Palace of Stock Exchange) belongs to the Commercial Association of Po...
Da fábrica para o museu: identificação, patrimonialização e difusão da cultura tecnico-industrial
A valorização da cultura técnico-industrial é o tema desta tese e, no seu âmbito, procuramos forn... more A valorização da cultura técnico-industrial é o tema desta tese e, no seu âmbito, procuramos fornecer um quadro metodológico, que desencadeie processos de identificação, patrimonialização e difusão dos objetos técnico-industriais e dos seus múltiplos contextos. Neste processo é fundamental a noção de património industrial móvel, assumido como um valor de identidade pelas populações que viveram, não só, os processos da industrialização, como também, os impactos da desindustrialização e da terciarização no tecido económico. Os acervos ligados ao património sejam eles documentos ou máquinas representam a atividade industrial de diversos períodos históricos e constituem uma memória, nem sempre valorizada, pela dificuldade da sua recolha e manutenção. Os objetos técnico-industriais no seu ciclo de vida passam por diferentes fases: fabrico, distribuição e consumo, e neste percurso muitos são destruídos, outros ficam abandonados, poucos são os que se preservam. Estes ao serem retirados dos...
Reconversão e Musealização de Espaços Industriais: Actas do Colóquio de Museologia Industrial
Actas que apreentam projectos de reconversão e musealização de espaços industriais, em especial n... more Actas que apreentam projectos de reconversão e musealização de espaços industriais, em especial na região norte de Portugal. Apresenta, ainda, questões e experiências neste domínio na Inglaterra e na Catalunha (Espanha)
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Papers by Maria da Luz Sampaio
foreign teachers started being recruited and they joined the first group of docents of the
Instituto Superior Técnico, to which some teachers of the previously Instituto Comercial
de Lisboa became associated, as well as other docents, selected by their technical and scientifical knowledge and achievements in professional practice.
One of the main contributions of this analysis resides in verifying, through the reference of the individual processes of foreign teachers in IST, how decisive this national and European network of engineers was in the choice to hire those teachers, and how Portugal was framed in a supranational network of mobility of specialists and of circulation of knowledge.