Tiago Patatas is a spatial practitioner and researcher whose work supports environmental struggles and examines their articulation with spatial politics. His most recent inquiry concerns modalities of green extractivism, in particular the irruption of lithium mining frontiers.
Currently, he is a doctoral candidate in Architecture at the Royal College of Art, London and a member of UDCB (Unidos em Defesa de Covas do Barroso), a grassroots organisation resisting lithium mining in northern Portugal. Tiago also holds a MA in Research Architecture with distinction from Goldsmiths, University of London.
His individual and collaborative work has been presented in exhibition spaces like the Nieuwe Instituut (NL), academic contexts including the Bard Architecture Public Lecture Series (US), and international forums such as the Council of Europe (FR). He is based between London and Porto.
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Barroso: Groundtruths
Council of Europe, Strasbourg
June 2026
Guardar com a Terra
Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon
October 2025
Echoes of Barroso
Royal College of Art, London
May 2025
On Traces
Bard College, New York
September 2024
Panel Discussion
Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam
May 2023
In the Blind Distance
Cornell University, Ithaca
April 2023
Acting Juxtapositionally
IASPIS, Stockholm
French Nuclearization from a Ruin in Azores
Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon
January 2023
Unearthing Lifeworlds of Dissent
MAC/CCB, Lisbon
October 2025
Telemetrics
Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam
May 2023
Galeria Municipal do Porto, Porto
March 2023
Müze Gazhane, Instanbul
September 2022
Telemetrics
Centre of Culture, Ponta Delgada
June 2022
Relational Infrastructures
Reitoria U. Minho, Guimarães
May 2022
Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen
August 2021
Visiting Lecturer
Lisbon, Portugal
2021 / 2022
Teaching Assistant
Porto, Portugal
2013 / 2014
Stockholm, Sweden
March 2023
Azores, Portugal
March 2022
PhD in Architecture
Royal College of Art, London
2023 / 2027 expected
MA in Research Architecture distinction
Goldsmiths, University of London
2018 / 2019
