StreetArtCEI

Since 2017, StreetArtCEI has recorded and mapped more than 8000 images of street art works, distributed along 19 geographic routes, organized into +467 Points of Interest, and 27 archives in permanent update.

Porto’s street art plays a significant role in shaping the city’s collective memory, by transforming public spaces into platforms for artistic expression, by reflecting narratives that resonate with local communities. Street art preserves marginalized voices, causes and stories that might otherwise be forgotten. Its accessibility allows for an inclusive engagement with memory, offering alternative perspectives to official historical accounts. Street art evolves with the city, continually adapting and responding to contemporary issues, embedded as it is in the urban fabric, within a timeline that works as a slow but steady memory of the community’s informal history.

Street art provides an organic understanding of the city’s tangible and intangible heritage, tells the stories that actually matter for the community, and renews the aesthetics and dignity of peripheral areas. Street art is part of the city’s simultaneous resistance and adaptation to the crises, challenges and transformations of history.

The impact of StreetArtCEI in the media: https://streetartcei.com/on-the-news-teste/