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 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 youngsters on the corner, 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 23 155 952
studio & visiting address:
Keilestraat 5A
3029 BP Rotterdam
Holland
EU VAT: NL225017441B01
Registered Dutch Chamber of Commerce under nr: 67920918
selected current projects:
DAMAGE PLAYGROUND – acting managing director, co-founder
VERS BETON – head of advertising
GEMAAL OP ZUID – curator
STUDIO NARRATIVE – strategic consultancy & creative production
SOUNDCLOUD – audio narratives
RUN AFRICA ETHIOPIA – photography & online production for Q1-2018
TUMO STUDIOS ARMENIA
selected visual/personal work:
selected collaborators, people and organisations:
Mathijs Labadie, photographic collaborations
Alei Verspoor, art direction
Afrikaanderwijk Cooperatie, initiated library Leeszaal op Zuid
IMC Weekendschool Rotterdam-Zuid, guest lecture
Fang-Jui Chang, 2017 What’s the Point? expo
Jeanne van Heeswijk, workshop assistance
Christien Meindertsma, 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 University GSD, 2016 representation of GSD magazine publications during Countryside Explorations with OMA 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, 2013 – “Niet Hier” exhibition
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”