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Tânia Alexandra Cardoso 12/19/23 Tânia Alexandra Cardoso 12/19/23

Sterker Door Strijd

2024

STADSTEKENAAR 010 . 2024

It all started with a feeling. “Sterker door Strijd”, Rotterdam’s official motto, reflects the sense of gaining strength through adversity. This feeling, and the work that it inspired, is deeply rooted in the traumatic collective memory of Rotterdam’s destruction caused by the city’s bombardment during the Second World War. The impact of the war on the city is a poignant reminder of the resilience of its inhabitants.

“Sterker door strijd” is a sentiment frequently evoked in Rotterdam’s everyday life. The recent housing shortage and the growing gap between the inhabitants’ needs and the city hall’s vision for the city have once again brought this feeling to the forefront of discussion. Inhabitants are fighting for their right to the city, invoking the positive outlook that a destructive event left on their collective memories.

These illustrations were exhibited at the Kunsthal Rotterdam from 18 October 2024 to 16 February 2025 and are now part of the permanent collection “Rotterdam” at the Stadsarchief Rotterdam (City Archives).

Available only as a postcard bundle (10 postcards) and individual gliceé fine art prints (printed on demand).

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Tânia Alexandra Cardoso 12/19/23 Tânia Alexandra Cardoso 12/19/23

Drawing in situ (walking and drawing)

ongoing

Step by step, I wander through my surroundings, searching in its crevices for peculiarities and hidden stories.

Photos by Giada Peterle.

Combining praxis and theory in the form of reportage art, I use illustration, especially drawing in situ, to explore the poetics of everyday life, co-produce new imaginaries, and challenge our environments.
Do you want to explore your environment through a fresh perspective? Join me in a drawing *in situ* workshop.

Photos by Tânia A. Cardoso.

This work involves real-time drawing as a documentary process. As such, it can also be used as a form of capturing ideas and moments as a live drawing performance.

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DRAWING IN SITU

I use drawing in situ (walking and drawing) as a mobile visual documentary form that reconciles observation and description. It combines spontaneous drawing methods that are deeply rooted in the senses and flânerie (walking practices). This approach, which values the role of the senses in drawing, can help establish the practice of drawing in situ as a deeply engaging and immersive process. This method of combining walking and drawing considers urban space to be a dynamic entity, constantly filled with diverse mobile experiences through an ever-changing environment.

I walk, sometimes with my sketchbook already in my hand, to capture the moment and discover the stories of my surroundings.

Tânia Alexandra Cardoso 12/19/23 Tânia Alexandra Cardoso 12/19/23

Walking as Research Practice (WARP)

ongoing

And then, a solitary practice became a group.

ASCA's Walking as Research Practice (WARP) research group

University of Amsterdam

Alice Twemlow and I created the WARP research group out of curiosity and motivation to understand and experiment with walking as a form of research.

Whether we are engaged in site-specific or virtual wanderings, feminist flâneries or digital dérives, and whether we prioritize listening or looking, day or night, urban or rural, pre-planning or play, being alone or walking with, through walking practices, we can transform ourselves, what we make and the landscapes/environments we traverse. As a research method, walking can be used to perform and/or document in creative ways the act of walking, the path, the environment, or the events unfolding during this practice.

WARP CONFERENCE 2022

Following the group’s success, we organised an international conference bringing together research and artistic practice and combining theory and praxis in a two-and-a-half-day event that spanned through different disciplines, researchers, practitioners and enthusiasts.

AFTER THE CONFERENCE… A PUBLICATION!

Special Issue WARP x Soapbox Journal

Special Issue WARP x Soapbox Journal results from the Walking as a Research Practice Conference 2022 Proceedings. It is part of the follow-up strategy devised regarding the outcomes of the WARP Conference organised by Alice Twemlow, Francesca Ranally and me.