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O objetivo geral deste projeto é criar uma rede transnacional de investigação e formação interdisciplinar entre universidades e centros de investigação europeus e latino-americanos, a fim de promover a transferência de conhecimento e produzir investigações inovadoras no campo da governança multinível da diversidade cultural numa perspetiva comparativa.

Musical Morphogenesis (2014-2017) The interactive installation “Musical Morphogenesis” is a multidisciplinary project based on 5 main disciplines: computational biology, music, architecture, robotics, and science communication. The implementation of all components of the installation had to take into consideration the specificities of each discipline, turning this into an extremely challenging project. The main objective of “Musical Morphogenesis” was to take the visitors in a sensorial journey to explore the dynamic interactions of genes and proteins during the development of an organ. Such biological processes are highly complex, and the same set of genes can originate different organs depending on when they are activated. Taking advantage of a mathematical model that address the genetic network of the Arabidopsis thaliana flowers, a team of computational biologists, musicians, architects, engineers and science communicators joined hands to create an installation that could explore the development of flowers. The installation was composed of a robotic wood-made flower, which kinetics reflected the progression of the genetic network, and of an interface to interact with the installation. Visitors could turn on or off one or more genes, and eventually switch the network towards the formation of a different organ originating a mutant. To facilitate the comprehension of the network, each gene had a specific sound.

Long-Term Evolution (LTE), the dominant system for fourth generation (4G) networks, has introduced state-of-the-art fountain coding to support wireless content streaming and downloading. Even though fountain coding can be combined with collaborative network coding to reduce network overhead and improve bandwidth efficiency, there is great scope for tailoring transceiver designs to the requirements of content distribution and for developing radically new paradigms capable of supporting high quality media in next generation systems. The R2D2 project aims to:- Develop a mathematical framework to identify key relationships between various network parameters, contribute to the understanding of network dynamics and assist in the system-level optimisation of network-coded architectures. - Leverage the benefits of joint channel coding and network coding and propose joint transceiver designs for content delivery. - Delve into the emerging research field of network error correction and develop practical implementations of unified channel codes and network codes that can offer high reliability, low decoding complexity and increased security from malicious users.

Carnismo é um termo definido por Joy (2010), como um invisível sistema de crenças que regulamenta que consumidores/as consumam determinados animais e criem laços afetivos com outros (eg. ato de comer porcos mas cuidar de cães). Enquanto massivamente produzido e interiorizado, o carnismo tem implicações diretas nas perceções humanas em relação aos animais não humanos explorados; surge como neutro, aparentemente “natural” e indispensável. É, também, uma ideologia organizada em torno da produção intensiva e extensiva dos designados animais para consumo que, à semelhança de outras ideologias necessita de mitificar, esconder, ocultar, disfarçar, e amenizar os seus nefastos impactos de forma a garantir a adesão dos/as consumidores/as. É, precisamente, o sistema cultural carnista, integrado no contexto português, que este trabalho pretende analisar: as representações mediáticas dos animais para consumo, circunscritas a um marco temporal entre 2014-2015: na publicidade, cinema, materiais publicados (jornais, revistas, livros infantis) e sistema linguístico.