Travel, Places, Time and Presence
More than an activity: interpreting the territory
Há lugares que não precisam de mais uma atividade. Precisam de alguém que conheça o território. É aqui que começa o trabalho de We Want Green. Trabalhamos no Alto Minho a partir da relação entre pessoa, território e tempo. Em vez de acrescentar simplesmente...
Alvarinho / Albariño Territory — Borderland & Atlantic
Travelling isn’t always about moving from one place to another. Sometimes, it’s about adjusting your pace. In the Alvarinho / Albariño region, time is not merely a backdrop — it is the element that shapes the experience. It defines one’s focus, guides one’s gaze and allows the region to reveal itself in a way….
Porto and Minho — Another Rhythm
There are journeys that don't begin when you set off. They begin when the rhythm changes. That's what we have to propose here: a natural continuity. In Porto, everything still belongs to the city - the movement, the density, the gaze that wanders endlessly. But there is a moment, almost...
Green — Cycle and Time
We do not begin with time. We begin with green. Not as a colour, nor as a discourse on sustainability, but as a way of understanding the territory. Green is growth, but it is also waiting. It is renewal, but never immediate. It embodies cycles that cannot be...
A Viscountess from Sistelo in the Paris Salons
Between origins and geographies At the beginning of the 20th century, when Paris was asserting itself as the main European artistic centre, a painter born in Rio de Janeiro - the daughter of a Portuguese man from Sistelo and a French mother - was discreetly but...
Places To Travel With Time
Inhabiting the Rhythm of Place Travelling today is often synonymous with haste. We accumulate destinations, photos and experiences like we collect objects, forgetting the essential: the time we spend in a place and the way it changes us. We Want Green (WWG) proposes the opposite....
When place is no longer a product, but a living presence
We live in a time when travelling has become synonymous with accumulating. Accumulating destinations. Accumulating images. Accumulating experiences. Days are filled with intense agendas, tight schedules and “must-see” lists. The result is often paradoxical: the more...
Living the time of the place
Rediscovering the rhythm that inhabits us We live in a time that runs faster than we can inhabit. We move, we consume, we react, we record - but we rarely stay. The world has become a sequence of stimuli rather than a place for relationships....
Inhabiting the territory, not just visiting it
Travelling with time means accepting a different rhythm. It means slowing down. Staying longer. Learning to observe better. Allowing places, stories and people to reveal themselves little by little, without haste or artifice. We Want Green isn't about visiting places - it's about inhabiting a territory...
A Border That Unites: Alto Minho and Galicia as a Shared Cultural Landscape
Between Alto Minho and Galicia: a living cultural border Between Alto Minho and Galicia there is a clear political border, but a surprisingly permeable cultural border. Anyone who travels around this territory carefully will quickly realise that the River Miño doesn't...
Another way of travelling in Alto Minho
More than tourism: creating a relationship with the place We Want Green is not a conventional tourist product. It's a way of working with the territory, time and lived cultures. Rooted in Alto Minho, in the far north-west of Portugal, the project looks at landscapes...
Inhabited territories: landscape, time and ways of life
Places that require time and permanence There are territories that reveal themselves immediately, and others that require time - not because they are hidden, but because they are made up of layers. They are places shaped not by a single moment or event, but by the accumulation of gestures,...
