SHOPYARD

Tour around Braga’s shopping centres
with Lucas Carneiro

9 November 2024 
10:00 - 13:00
Several shopping centres
Free / General Public


Over the past few decades, first-generation shopping centres in Braga, Portugal, have served as spaces of opportunity for small businesses, services, and independent cultural projects. Between cafés, antique shops, nightclubs, haberdasheries, beauty salons, and rehearsal rooms for bands, these spaces absorbed and contributed to the development of a parallel urban history that the city's traditional streets and squares were unable to accommodate.


Photographs by Lais Pereira / Braga25
In order to uncover these layers of Braga, we have organised a day of programming for 9 November 2024, beginning with a tour designed and led by Braga-based architect Lucas Carneiro. This tour will traverse the first-generation shopping centres of Braga, where unique stories and personal memories will be revealed.





Lucas Carneiro (Braga, 1988) is an architect and researcher, currently a doctoral candidate at the School of Architecture, Art, and Design at the University of Minho (EAAD-UM) in Guimarães, Portugal, where he is part of the research unit Lab2PT. His research focuses on the relationship between archaeological findings, landscape/territory analysis, and mythological, folkloric, and historical narratives on the Iberian Peninsula. He has participated in projects related to landscape archaeology, heritage, and the history of architecture, contributing to publications in these fields.