Despite all major difficulties we are living, 2012 is giving us a chance: it is absolutely plain and clear, and we know what to expect.
For many of us will be a year to hold, for others to fight, for some to reinvent themselves: why not to reflect upon?
This cycle of conversations is an open letter to Portugal.
Sinais de Fumo is a challenge and consequent lack of solutions. To understand how we are and why.
The world has turn around to fast for us to be able to understand it and the only solution now is is trying to understand the past in order to rethink a model for the future.
These debates include a remarkable group of thinkers from several areas of portuguese society, in order to gather a stimulating intellectual production.
We know that there is no smoke without fire; it is time to ask again (as Sá de Miranda did) "what will I do when everything is burning?" It is time to promote Sinais de Fumo stating to the future that we still stand here, alive, wiling to reinvent it.
