Interviews with Liliana Soares

Shatron is an iconographic element from the early 14th century, widely used in religious architecture in Northern Russia. It is a geometric hipped roof with sharply pitched incline rising to the top to cover churches. Shatron's pyramidal geometry develops sound quality, reflecting and improving its uniformity. The structure is filled with 10 wooden panels. As Pitagoras states having reached 10 revert again to the unity. In addition, 10 refers to the Commandments of God representing harmony.

Our goal was the sound quality, for a muted sound it's very important!

this whole project lasted almost two yearsT

This is a research project and begins with the need to use the remains of the mibili industries to create products with quality.

We have a company interested in marketing the product, we will see in the future ....

The choice to create something different but with objective qualities

We are four and each of us carries his influences ...

In the case of Shatron it is the musicians, in particular those who seek a different and personal sound but always of quality

The concept of Shatron is unique because it allows each muting to be personalized, which is why I don't think it has direct competitors.

Shatron is this tent-shaped roof system which characterizes the religious buildings of Russia and which gives rise to the concept of our product.

Computers, 3d printers, laser cutting machines, carbon fiber but also cutters, scissors, glue and many pieces of wood

During the experimentation phase Shatron was tried by about 20 trumpeters and everyone helped us a lot. At the end of the process everyone said it was an incredible product.

During this project we collaborated with 2 furniture industries, a luthier, a graphics industry, two 3dprinting companies, a video production company and clear our Polytechnic of Viana do Castelo!

Technology is important in building bridges, therefore linking creative thinking to production.

Research has developed into experimentation with musicians and the search for quality sound.

Designing with music and for music is a great challenge, always!

When we realized that Shatron was and is a great project!

Each of us learned a lot from this project, it was a fantastic process and ends with an incredible prize!

Wait for the next Altempo Design Research group project!

Altempo is a team of two teachers and two alumni, creators of new configurations and interpreters of fundamental concepts such as innovation, changing and sustainability. What made Altempo to become a designer is the opportunity to improve people's lives and that is why Altempo have always wanted to be a designer!

Design is a neverending chalenge.

We are designers by choise.

Altempo likes designing all kind of works, having the sphere of the past as a light to design human tomorrow.

Young designers should work hard.

The answer to this question must be related with time, place, circunstantes and persons. Sometimes we are great designers, because we act just in the right moment.

The good design message has changed all over the years. Today, good design is much more related to social and environmental responsibility.

It is something much more oriented to the process and to the connections between entities and persons, and disconnected from the origin and the end.

It's not about time as we answer before, but about time, space and circunstancies.

It is the one we're doing now.

Work, energy and believing.

Daciano da Costa, Dante Donegani, Giovanni Lauda, Enzo Mari.

We like all the products we get to know.

Shatron mute, because it is a product that solve sustainable, ecological, historical and symbolic issues.

Work, energy and believing.

I would have done everything to become a designer

Design is about connections between all the elements that participate in the process, having the power to establish singularity products to society.

Ourselves.

Ourselves.

We suggest that companies look for designers who already have a course and qualifications and not those who either have not finished their studies or do not have the experience and, therefore, are abused.

It depends on the context, the company culture. The designer must consider everything that exist in the reality he/she is interpreting.

Our current project is focus on creating experiences and meaning into persons lives, relating different fields, entities and factors.

The designer has a responsibility to contribute – with his/her knowledge and methodology - to the transformation of reality, refusing to be a result of that.

Very important.

Low technology and hight technology.

It depends of the situation.

Philosophy and literature.

I look in the mirror and see my opponent.

Creating was a dream.

Altempo is a team of two teachers and two alumni, creators of new configurations and interpreters of fundamental concepts such as innovation, changing and sustainability. What made Altempo to become a designer is the opportunity to improve people's lives and that is why Altempo have always wanted to be a designer.

Altempo is based on the hermeneutic methodology and comes from the Italian expression to introduce a correction or clarify an idea. Altempo Research Design Group makes use of a strategy that requires to constantly diagnose the situations, helping companies to develop singular products and services carriers of meaning, with the spirit of a place, considering time, space, circumstances, and human nature. Altempo is based in the North of Portugal, thinking local and acting global.

Design is about connections between all the elements that participate in the process, having the power to establish singularity products to society.

Altempo likes designing all kind of works, having the sphere of the past as a light to design human tomorrow.

Our favorite design is the one that provokes sensations, transmits emotions and calls for reflection, concern and inquiry.

As Altempo team this is our first project.

Altempo's favorite material, platform or technology is the one that gives more opportunities, depending on the project.

We fell the most creative when we join everything (and the opposite of it) that exist, working about something from the beginning to the end.

During designing, we focus on satisfying all the starting points of the briefing, transforming constraints that arise during the process in project opportunities.

When we project we feel all possible emotions and none.

When our design are realized we feel the power.

The will to power and the public acceptance.

We look at the relationship that the product establishes with the environment and the human being.

The designer has a responsibility to contribute – with his/her knowledge and methodology - to the transformation of reality, refusing to be a result of that.

The future is design.

ADESIGN Award 2019.

Our design inspiration come from hard work. We feed our creativity by creating connections with everything (persons, companies, materials, technologies, techniques). We believe design as the competence to incorporate something from outside into something else, as a deterritorialized and reterritorialized process.

In our approach to design we argue in favor of a complex connection process free from preferential or marginalized elements.

We live in Europe, in the North of Portugal. The Genius Loci of our country affects everything we produce. It is a place with a strong relationship with tradition and with the productive activities of an artisanal nature. For this reason, the relationship with artisans is very strong. Since the craftsman has the ability to invent technology, the relationship between designers and craftsmen allows for continuous experimentation and verification.

Our work with companies is based in a holist and continuous experimentation and verification of design process.

We suggest that companies look for designers who already have a course and qualifications and not those who either have not finished their studies or do not have the experience and, therefore, are abused.

In our design process we use a methodology founded on meta-design exercise as a tool for experimentation, reflection and dialectic between all elements.

Lighting, seats, bathroom and kitchen accessories and picture frames.

It is difficult to answer, because we are a team of 4 people. And then, each day is unique and distinct.

Always read and study. Work with persistence and love. And when you start a project, do it from start to finish.

If you love what you do, there can be no negative points.

Always think that a project is a never ending story.

Be the first user of the objects you create.

During design we use and connect low technology with high tech. Our sources of inspiration are architecture, craft objects and history.

When you produce what you like, you find time for everything.

It depends on the nature, the causalities and the circumstances of each project.

The most important professional experience of the Altempo group is the Shatron project.

All companies that decide to innovate, using and believing in research and development projects.

The type of design we like the most is one that everyone else finds difficult or impossible.

Continue this project, demonstrating that research in higher education can be useful for companies and people.

Always as a team.

Yes, we have. Our new work is focus on the relationship between fields, companies and persons, knowing that culture and memory exist to light our future.

Contacting one of the members of the Altempo team, via Instagram: @lilianaaparo, @almada_trumpet, @jorgepassos82, @joaoao.txr.