We invite everyone who wishes to become a material explorer of the Portuguese territory, but especially the citizens of Porto, Matosinhos and their hinterlands to submit materials, artefacts, materials, living things, matter and transforming practices by completing the form following here. Start by opening an account. For each item you wish to submit, start a new form. To complete an entry you will be asked to answer all the questions in the Basic Data part of the form (takes 5 minutes) and upload one image. Other entry fields in the form are optional but allow you to customise the description of your item according to the fields you choose to answer. Once you have created a record, thanks to your login credentials, you will be able to re-enter the record later to edit it

01

Basic Data

Please answer the questions you can. Leave questions blank if you don't think they are relevant.

Upload an image of the item (.jpg, .png up to 3MB)

Typology?

Origin, Location and Movement?

Item class?

Item Relation?

State of abundance?

02

Socio-cultural Data

Please answer the questions you can. Leave questions blank if you don't think they are relevant.

Historical Uses · Image / Video / Audio (.jpg, .png, .mp4, .mp3 up to 30MB)
Present Uses · Image / Video / Audio (.jpg, .png, .mp4, .mp3 up to 30MB)
Future Uses · Image / Video / Audio (.jpg, .png, .mp4, .mp3 up to 30MB)
in_situ · Image / Video / Audio (.jpg, .png, .mp4, .mp3 up to 30MB)

Point of Preservation?

03

Technical Data

Please answer the questions you can. Leave questions blank if you don't think they are relevant.

Class of Material?

Processing methods · Image / Video / Audio (.jpg, .png, .mp4, .mp3 up to 30MB)

Transforming raw materials into usable materials

04

Bio-temporal-geographical Data

Please answer the questions you can. Leave questions blank if you don't think they are relevant.

Place of Origin · Image / Video / Audio (.jpg, .png, .mp4, .mp3 up to 30MB)

Residence time (How long does the matter/material/artefact stay in an unaltered state in the location/context/system before it decay?)

How does the item affect the environment in which it exists?

05

Ontological-cosmological Data

Please answer the questions you can. Leave questions blank if you don't think they are relevant.