Architect and researcher Marta Setúbal, from Vila Real de Santo António, will head the list of the Free party for the district of Faro in the Legislative Elections of January 30th.
In the Algarve, there were six pre-candidates, who, in the Free Party's open primary elections, which took place throughout the country, were ranked as follows: Marta Setúbal: 1156.0 points; Carla Sofia do Carmo: 942.1 points; Ana Sofia Marcelino: 775.6 points; Maria João Bernardo: 695.1 points; Manuel Mariano: 548.1 points and David Marques: 309.6 points. There were 259 voters.
Marta Setúbal was part of the list of the coalition that joined Livre and PS, in the Municipal Elections of September, to Vila Real de Santo António City Council, which came to be the winner.
The candidate has been a member of Livre since 2014, being a member of the party's Assembly this past January and a member of the GCL Algarve for a year. Co-coordinated CT Left and GT Communication; co-organized the April 25 FREEs of 2020 and 2021; and, daily, at Ponto LIVRE, I try to «activate the participation of M&As and streamline the internal collaborative work, through the free guides».
Marta Setúbal studied in Lisbon and lived for 11 years in Berlin, where she worked as an architect and where she returned to school, «with the objective of developing a project for VRSA, which would serve to activate the population of my land, the only possible way to rescue their memory and hold responsible those who have destroyed it», explains the candidate in her presentation.
For that, «I made a documentary about the state of the city, researched the population to understand their relationship with this place and started the Vila Archive, an archive made entirely of contributions from the inhabitants – and where the city is thought , starting from the past and always making the bridge to the present and the future. For this, I developed a series of walks, workshops, games, etc., where observation and imagination of the city is trained, based on material (historical, from histories and not from History) collected and shared».
This project, adds Marta Setúbal, ended up giving rise to the dissertation “Arquivo da Vila – an archive as a device for reactivating the link to a place”. At this moment, the candidate is in the first year of the doctoral program in Architecture of Contemporary Metropolitan Territories, at ISCTE, to deepen this investigation.
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