


Window into the city
- By
- Lucas F. Oliveira
- Location
- Lisbon
Made for the Design Methodology class, with João Paulo Queiroz, FBAUL, 2025–26.
Window Piece
Choose a person who is walking and carrying something under their arms. Follow that person until:
- That person enters a building (you must stay still and wait until another person leaves a building, and then follow that person)
- That person boards a means of transport (you must look for the oldest person if it is before 12:00 or the youngest person if it is after 12:00, and follow that person)
- That person confronts you about the fact that you are following them (you must admit it, make a passing remark about the weather and ask them whether they would like to choose the next person you will follow)
- You pass a building where someone is watching the street from a window (forget the person you were following and take photographs of the window behind which someone stands. Then leave that street and follow the shortest person if it is sunny or the tallest if it is cloudy)
Spend your days following people according to these instructions until you have photographs of 14 windows. Build a new window with those 14 photographs and tell people it is your window into the city.