a Rotterdam based but not location dependent practice of aesthetic design thinking and multidisciplinary research and 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 and entrepreneurship 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 photography, art, design thinking, sustainable fashion solutions, urban development and social endeavouring. All this whilst having a seat at the table with the mayor as well as hanging with the kids on the corner, and trying to connect worlds who normally don’t meet, understand or communicate to each other. 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 44 59 02
studio / visiting address:
Keilestraat 5A
3029 BP Rotterdam
Holland
European VAT: NL225017441B01
Registered Dutch Chamber of Commerce: 67920918
selected current projects:
DAMAGE – managing director
VERS BETON – head of advertising
STUDIO NARRATIVE – consultancy & creative production
SOUNDCLOUD – storytelling through audio
RUN AFRICA ETHIOPIA – photography & online production for Q1-2018
TUMO STUDIOS ARMENIA
selected visual/personal work:
selected collaborators, people and organisations:
IMC Weekendschool Rotterdam-Zuid,
Harvard University, Graduate School of Design magazine,
Erasmus University, School of History, Culture and Communication
Utrecht University, advisory for Urban Divercities
Academie Artemis, guest lecture
Hogeschool Rotterdam, WdKA, exam committee Autonomous & guest lecture
Sculpture International, advisory for Rotterdam Triennale
Constança Saraiva / Conversas,
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”