The “From where and whence we come” route offers a walk between the neighborhoods of Costa Cabral and Contumil—areas of public housing, fields, and open spaces—passing by the old public water tanks and the former home of Vitorino Ribeiro, an artist from Porto. As we walk, we explore how the body shapes the city and how the urban fabric is reshaped when we move together. 

This route invites a sensitive reading of the territory: that which we do not see at first glance and which remains invisible in the routines of daily life. Through tools of observation, listening, and attention to detail, we seek to expand our reading of the landscape beyond what it appears to make evident. 

Amid fragments of urban history and signs of its own (dis)organization—voids, boundaries, memories, and transformations—we traverse a territory that reveals multiple layers. Just like the city, the body too organizes and reconfigures itself in the act of walking and looking together. The journey thus becomes a collective exercise in attention, imagination, and rethinking the place from which we set out.