PROJECTS

Projects as cultural chapters.

NODA’s work moves through contemporary art, artist residencies, large-scale cultural collaborations, founder communities, and contemplative gatherings. Each project is a chapter in a broader cultural platform - supporting artistic production, public imagination, shared inquiry, and new forms of encounter.

01 / NODA ART TRAIL

NODA Art Trail

The NODA Art Trail is a long-term public art project beginning at DOMA in Portugal and conceived as an expandable framework for site-specific commissions, landscape, technology, and collective encounter. The project investigates how contemporary art can engage with regenerative thinking and more-than-human perspectives, creating new forms of dialogue between people, place, ecology, and technology. Visitors move through the trail on foot, encountering works that respond to the site, its materials, ecology, atmosphere, and cultural context. The trail is developed in phases, with each phase bringing new commissions from invited artists and works produced through the residency program. Phase 1, 2026: Curated by Daria Kravchuk, Phase 1 focuses on different ways of entering and experiencing the landscape. Planned commissions include works by Clara Imbert, Scenocosme, Francisco Trêpa, and Will Beckers, alongside a community-developed entrance piece to be created through an open call.

FORMAT / LONG-TERM PUBLIC ART FRAMEWORK · FIRST SITE / DOMA, PORTUGAL · FIELDS / COMMISSIONS, LANDSCAPE, TECHNOLOGY, ECOLOGY · STATUS / PHASE 1 IN DEVELOPMENT

FORMAT / LONG-TERM PUBLIC ART FRAMEWORK · FIRST SITE / DOMA, PORTUGAL · FIELDS / COMMISSIONS, LANDSCAPE, TECHNOLOGY, ECOLOGY · STATUS / PHASE 1 IN DEVELOPMENT

02 / NODA ARTIST RESIDENCY

NODA Artist Residency

The NODA Artist Residency supports Portuguese and international artists working across materials, place, research, and contemporary practice. The residency invites artists to live and work in close dialogue with the environments that host NODA’s projects. Residencies focus on research, site-based development, material exploration, and the creation of new work. Some works produced during the residency may become part of the Art Trail; others remain as research outputs, exhibitions, publications, or future collaborations. January 2026, Pilot Edition: Hosted in collaboration with DOMA Portugal, the pilot edition welcomes Portuguese artists Manuel Tainha and Vasco Futscher for a two-week residency at DOMA’s Winter Garden, alongside their preparation for ARCO Madrid 2026. August 2025, Landscape Research Residency: A territorial research residency hosted landscape architects Lucio Lorenzo Pettine, Lorenzo Nofroni from the University of Florence, DiDA, and Serena Savelli. Their work mapped the site’s ecological systems, spatial morphology, and cultural heritage, producing the spatial framework that informs the Art Trail.

FORMAT / ARTIST RESIDENCY · FIELDS / MATERIAL RESEARCH, SITE-BASED PRACTICE, CONTEMPORARY ART · PARTNER SITE / DOMA PORTUGAL · STATUS / PILOT EDITION AND RESEARCH RESIDENCY

03 / LUNA THE ARTCRANE

Luna the Artcrane

Luna the Artcrane is a partner project developed by the s16 community. A large-scale mobile artwork built atop a working construction crane, Luna was imagined by artist Android Jones and realised by an international community of makers. First presented at Burning Man in 2022, Luna serves as a platform for artistic collaboration, performance, and community-led cultural programming. NODA collaborates with the Luna the Artcrane team on cultural programming and partner initiatives, connecting large-scale art, technology, performance, and collective production.

FORMAT / PARTNER PROJECT · FIELDS / LARGE-SCALE ART, PERFORMANCE, TECHNOLOGY, COMMUNITY · ORIGIN / BURNING MAN 2022 · LINK / lunacrane.org

Luna the Artcrane close structural detail

Luna the Artcrane vertical site documentation

Luna the Artcrane square detail documentation

FORMAT / PARTNER PROJECT · FIELDS / LARGE-SCALE ART, PERFORMANCE, TECHNOLOGY, COMMUNITY · ORIGIN / BURNING MAN 2022 · LINK / LUNACRANE.ORG

Founders for Founders gathering documentation

Founders for Founders conversation documentation

Founders for Founders session documentation

04 / FOUNDERS FOR FOUNDERS

Founders for Founders

Founders for Founders is a gathering format bringing together founders, builders, artists, and creative practitioners for shared conversation, learning, and exchange. The program is developed with partner communities and runs as a series of curated events in Portugal and internationally. It creates space for people building companies, cultural projects, technologies, and communities to meet beyond transactional networking - through dialogue, attention, and shared inquiry.

FORMAT / CURATED GATHERINGS · FIELDS / FOUNDERS, BUILDERS, ARTISTS, CREATIVE COMMUNITIES · LOCATION / PORTUGAL AND INTERNATIONAL CHAPTERS · STATUS / ONGOING

05 / RETREATS

Retreats

NODA supports retreat programs for practitioners working with attention, presence, and contemplative practice. Hosted in Portugal in partnership with DOMA and supported through donations, these gatherings create carefully held spaces for inner work, community, and cultural exchange. Retreats bring together teachers, facilitators, artists, founders, and practitioners around shared questions of presence, creativity, and human experience.

FORMAT / PRACTICE-BASED GATHERINGS · FIELDS / ATTENTION, PRESENCE, COMMUNITY, CONTEMPLATIVE PRACTICE · PARTNER SITE / DOMA PORTUGAL · STATUS / PROGRAMMATIC GATHERINGS

Retreat interior gathering documentation

FORMAT / PRACTICE-BASED GATHERINGS · FIELDS / ATTENTION, PRESENCE, COMMUNITY, CONTEMPLATIVE PRACTICE · PARTNER SITE / DOMA PORTUGAL · STATUS / PROGRAMMATIC GATHERINGS