Opening moment of the exhibition Gestures of Abundance in Convento dos Franciscanos.

Knowledge lives beyond books and institutions. It also persists in bodies and everyday practices — in the food we share, in gestures and voices that carry memory. These informal or marginal transmissions circulate outside official circuits, surviving as practices of care, imagination, and collective remembrance. At the Convent — once a place of enclosure and discipline — a field now opens to experiment with these non-normative modes of knowledge. Here, abundance is measured not by accumulation but by bonds: what moves between species, what is preserved and transformed with time, what resists domestication, what lingers in detail and memory.

Such practices remind us that to learn and to teach is not only to reproduce institutional gestures, but to take part in collective, ecological, and imaginative movements. This station invites us to tune into knowledges that flow along the edges and to recognise in them the possibility of rehearsing other ways of living in common.