is a non location dependent interdisciplinary practice and a writer, curator, designer. With occasional stints of working as a narrator for audio and film. I go by the name of Alexandre, named after Alexander III of Macedon, also known as Alexander the Great. Named by my father Malaquias and mother Ricardina. 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, film, urban development, social engagement, and people-&-planet-first entrepreneurship. All this whilst having a seat at the table with board of directors as well as engaging with real life on these streets, 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!
work won’t wait:
Looking for a PRODUCER: working with clients and collaborators across selected projects within art, culture and commerce. *POSITION FULFILLED PER 31 MARCH 2020
mail to alex[at]furtadomelville[dot]com
telephone:
+31648445902 (Whatsapp only)
selected current projects:
CONCRETE BLOSSOM, Chief Communications Officer & strategic consultancy
sub projects under Concrete Blossom: Agenda 1st Half 2020
Onsite programme & research for The Hoodie exhibition at Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, The Netherlands from 1 Dec 2019 – June 2020: Part of deliberate Disruptive Partnership strategy with HNI
A collaborative public research platform, investigating the role of The Hoodie in modern society. Because “who has the right to wear one?”
Short film as part of GD/Thyself _ in pre-production
première June 2020
Earth’s Most Radical Website
www.concreteblossom.com
online Spring 2020
About Concrete Blossom
We’re a design practice and publishing collective. We imagine and speculate on past, present and future Funk. Synthesising culture through narratives, places and spaces.
We develop strategies for a more equitable and playful city by harnessing the Sauce one can find in multi ethnic working-class neighbourhoods.
Catch us designing digital and physical spaces, mixed media storytelling platforms, researching novel design languages and methods that suit the Hood, its people and the culture we produce.
Our aim is to become the Wu-Tang Clan of design and publishing, so best to protect ya neck.
ARTICLES+BOOKS 2020 [to be published]: Vogue Ukraine, Season Zine, The Skirt Chronicles, KITLV/Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies
2018-2021 CBK ROTTERDAM – committee arts R&D fund
CORRESPONDENT – independent; critical writing; main focus is on Geopolitics, Economics, Arts, Fashion, African diaspora, and Global Southern histories & futures – currently in process of starting research on new languages of what it means to be an “correspondent” in the 21st century
DESIGNING – creative direction and strategic services in print publications, fashion, and film
selected visual/personal work:
selected collaborators, people and organisations:
Mathijs Labadie, photographic collaborations
Alei Verspoor, art direction
Damage Playground – co-founder
Gemaal op Zuid, Afrikaanderwijk Cooperatie – curatorial practices
Het Nieuwe Instituut, Customer Archive at Temporary Fashion Museum & talks
Vers Beton, writing, Chief Advertising,
Christien Meindertsma, book presentation Loes Veenstra,
Harvard GSD, representation of GSD magazine publications during Countryside Explorations at Dé Dependance
Utrecht University, interview for Urban Divercities
Academie Artemis, guest lecture
Hogeschool Rotterdam, WdKA, exam committee Autonomous & guest lecture
IMC Weekendschool Rotterdam-Zuid, guest lecture,
Erasmus University, School of History, Culture and Communication
Sculpture International, external advisory for Rotterdam Triennale, PALEIS 2020
Run Africa Ethiopia, photography & online production,
Fang-Jui Chang, What’s the Point? exhibition,
Constança Saraiva / Conversas,
Biblioteca Roterdao, 2020 reading
DE PLAYER, NoordZuidZuidNoord Festival
Jordy van den Nieuwendijk, “Niet Hier”
Minsun Kim & Tanja Busking, advisory 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”
