The public event For the Record: The Politics of Design in Music Video will invite artists, designers, filmmakers and the audience to reflect upon recent music videos by Portuguese artists Vasco Mendes (music video and film director), Maria Reis (artist, musician) and Sara Graça (artist, designer) from Cafetra Records, and Sreya (artist, musician).

These videos will form the basis for a discussion on design strategies for staging realities; urban imaginaries and forms of representation, and how various music video formats engage audiences across platforms.

The workshop discuss the role of design in music video productions through thematic lenses – staging realities, urban imaginaries, technologies of circulation – and to contribute to the online research platform. Participants are then invited to develop video playlists, or make annotations to existing ones.