vadi.agem is live: a cultural agenda with ground
vadi.agem.pt is now live as a public prototype: a cultural agenda by city and region, still using mock data and not yet connected to the backend.
vadi.agem.pt is live. It is not yet the backend-connected version: events, counts, gem prices and city details are still mocked. Even so, the product intention is already legible: a cultural agenda for Portugal that begins in the territory, not in a table.
The goal is to join cities, regions and happenings with the texture of each place. Concerts, theatre, exhibitions, pilgrimages and festivals can share one surface without losing their ground. An entry for Barcelos should feel like Barcelos: Cavado, fair, clay, rooster, Senhor da Cruz, night by the river and a calendar lived by those who pass through.
Agenda, region and city
The first page opens the country by region. North, Centre, Lisbon and Tagus, Alentejo, Algarve and Islands work as entrances; then the agenda filters by type, month, region or word. The service is not meant to be only an event search engine: it is a cultural map where the visit begins before the ticket.
For now, the real database is not integrated. That matters and should be said plainly. The live version tests language, hierarchy, navigation, filters and the visual relation between city and event. When the backend arrives, the same grammar should receive real sources, updated events, editable cities and purchase or booking integration.
Barcelos as example
Barcelos is the clearest example of this direction because it condenses what vadi.agem is looking for: a city with a weekly fair, strong pilgrimage, recognisable craft, river, legend and cultural life. The city screen is not a neutral record; it is a small scene where the agenda gains regional character.
Visual comparison: vadi.agem and mega inside out
two screens, one thesisregion as scene
The North appears as territory, not as a list: landscape, character, capitals, rivers, main festival and counts for cities and events in one first glance.
The North screen opens culture as an environment: region, cities, rivers, main festival and events in the same first look. The Barcelos screen tightens the lens: we are no longer choosing a category, we are facing a city with a voice. That change of scale is what the agenda needs to solve well.
Wandering is one of the forms of poetry.
after Agostinho da Silva
What still needs connecting
The next layer is less visual and more decisive: backend, event ingestion, curation, publication states, detail pages and truthful city data. The live interface already shows the path; now the mocked scene has to become an agenda that breathes with the real calendar.
The public address is https://vadi.agem.pt/. The door is open; now the work is to bring the city through it with live data.