FAST TALKS

OCTOBER 1
MUDE – Design Museum
5 PM — 7 PM
Free admission, with mandatory registration [available soon].

MODALISBOA BASE’s FAST TALKS are conceived as spaces of suspension and critical thinking, designed to balance the time needed for reflection with the urgency of resolution.

In this edition, with our host Rui Maria Pêgo, two main axes guide the debate. The first proposes a focus on heritage and materiality, questioning how ancestral techniques — often tied to regional practices and slower rhythms — can offer responses to the challenges of sustainability, innovation, and permanence. The second centers on building strategies for the autonomy of independent businesses in an industry marked by speed and the pressure of immediate success, in order to rethink models of growth that are consistent, conscious, and long-lasting.

Between design and market, tradition and technology, handcraft and strategic vision, the FAST TALKS convene different perspectives to imagine how Fashion can sustain itself from its BASE, balancing memory and future, experimentation and structure, individual authorship and collective practice.