a Rotterdam based but not location dependent practice of multidisciplinary consultancy and creative production composing of 1. art direction, 2. photography, 3. consultancy, 4. curation, 5. witty writing, and 6. occasional stints of sound narration, by Alexandre Furtado Melville. My main educational background is in international business administration at RSM Erasmus University. Not being defined by my studies and/or job titles and wanting to broaden my view of the world, I now work with many of them – it’s always a collaborative effort – in between art, commerce, design thinking, people-&-planet-first entrepreneurship, urban development and social engagement. All this whilst having a seat at the table with board of directors as well as engaging with real life, and trying to shift and fuse between rigid layers and connect different worlds and people by common sense. Capitalistic practices with communistic intentions. Sounds confusing? It is not. It’s a never ending research. Some call it being fluid or 21st-century-privileged-possible-realism.
Wu-Tang forever!
email:
alex@furtadomelville.com
telephone:
+31 6 48 445 902
EU VAT: NL225017441B01
Registered Dutch Chamber of Commerce under nr: 67920918
selected current projects:
DAMAGE PLAYGROUND – acting managing director, co-founder
GEMAAL OP ZUID – curator
STUDIO NARRATIVE – creative production & consult
CBK ROTTERDAM – committee member distribution R&D fund for the arts
SOUNDCLOUD – audio pieces
selected visual/personal work:
selected collaborators, people and organisations:
Mathijs Labadie, photographic collaborations
Alei Verspoor, art direction
Vers Beton, advertising, writing
IMC Weekendschool Rotterdam-Zuid, guest lecture
Run Africa Ethiopia – photography & online production
Fang-Jui Chang, What’s the Point?
Jeanne van Heeswijk, workshop assistance
Christien Meindertsma, hosted book presentation Loes Veenstra & various photographic assistance with Mathijs Labadie
Erasmus University, School of History, Culture and Communication
Utrecht University, interview for Urban Divercities
Academie Artemis, guest lecture
Hogeschool Rotterdam, WdKA, exam committee Autonomous & guest lecture
Harvard GSD, representation of GSD magazine publications during Countryside Explorations at Dé Dependance
Sculpture International, external advisory for Rotterdam Triennale
Constança Saraiva / Conversas,
Het Nieuwe Instituut, Temporary Fashion Museum workshop
DE PLAYER, NoordZuidZuidNoord Festival
Jordy van den Nieuwendijk, “Niet Hier”
Minsun Kim & Tanja Busking, documentary Home for a Moment
and more (to come)
awards:
one and counting
2018, 1st prize – Most Pointless Movie Award during Pointless International Film Festival for “Sonata for Kap and Salon No.22 in G Minor”