PROCESSING
COMMUNITY
DAY

MARCH 2026

TECHFOLK

The Processing Community Day initiative is supported by the Processing Foundation and has the goal of celebrating art, code and diversity while promoting creative coding and computational thinking as tools for creative students, researchers and professionals.

PCD@Coimbra aims at being a showcase for what is currently being developed in Portugal, especially in Coimbra, and also a place for stimulating discussion and initiating future collaborations.

In 2026, PCD@Coimbra includes workshops, exhibitions and talk sessions. We warmly welcome all people who are interested in creative coding, both from the local and the external community. Be free to join us.

This year’s edition embraces the theme Techfolk, a hybrid space where contemporary programming practices and digital technologies are reinterpreted through the lens of traditional, regional, or ancestral folk cultures. It invites creators to express how coding and computation can carry, remix, or revive cultural heritage, storytelling, rituals, and communal knowledge systems.