05031979 Frederico Duarte

Curriculum Vitæ

Frederico Duarte

Design critic, curator and researcher · Lisboa · Updated June 2026

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F21E-FE73-6469
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Selected works

  1. Duarte, F.; Sacchetti, V. (2025). Novos modos de falar de design: Caminhos biorregionais e práticas situadas/New ways of talking about design: Biorregional paths and situated practices, in Milão, S.; Pereira, R.G. (Eds.), Trienal Design Covilhã. Câmara Municipal da Covilhã. pp. 13–115.
  2. Duarte, F. (2025). Efficiency is not the point: situated experiences and questions on design practice and justice. in Hallimäe, T.; Lopp, N. (Eds.), Leida Reader: Fifteen Selected Articles. EKA Faculty of Design. pp. 17–41.
  3. Duarte, F. (2025). The Carcaça, in Heller, S.; Heintz, M. (Eds.), The Education of a Design Writer, Allworth Press. pp. 122–123.
  4. Duarte, F.; Sacchetti, V. (2024). Fazer #1. Futuro Sustentável.
  5. Duarte, F.; Sacchetti, V. (2024). Fazer #2. Futuro Sustentável.
  6. Duarte, F. (2023). Nostalgia is futile – our future starts now. in Penin, L. (Ed.), The Disobedience of Design. Bloomsbury Visual Arts. pp. 3–10.
  7. Torretta, N.B.; Pestana, M.; Duarte, F. et al. (2023). Navigating Problematic Bauhaus Inheritances: Critiques, Implications and Questions from the Bauhaus of the Seas NEB Lighthouse. Design Issues. MIT Press. pp. 105–117. doi.org/10.1162/desi_a_00770
  8. Baptista Costa, J.; Duarte, F. (2021). O design como exercício. A identidade gráfica do Rivoli., in Costa, T. B. (Ed.), Cadernos do Rivoli 08-09. Teatro Municipal do Porto, Porto. pp. 437–516.
  9. Duarte, F. (2019). What is Not Mine is Yours: Meliponiculture as design humanism. in Antonelli, P.; Tannir, A. (Eds.), Broken Nature: XII Triennale di Milano. Electa. pp. 224–231.
  10. Coutinho, B.; Duarte, F.; (Eds.) (2018). Como se Pronuncia Design em Português: Brasil Hoje. Câmara Municipal de Lisboa.

Education

  1. PhD, Iberian and Latin American Studies. Birkbeck, University of London, 2021. Thesis: The Contemporary Challenge of Curating Brazilian Design. doi.org/10.18743/PUB.00047367. Funded by AHRC and FCT.
  2. MFA, Design Criticism. School of Visual Arts, New York, 2010. Thesis: Alvorada: How Social Change is Shaping Brazilian Design and Creating Brazil's Own Design Model. Funded by Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian/FLAD.
  3. Licenciatura (BA), Design de Comunicação. Faculdade de Belas-Artes, Universidade de Lisboa (FBAUL), 2002.

Professional experience

  1. Editor-in-Chief, Fazer magazine – (with Vera Sacchetti), 2023–
  2. Communication Coordinator of Bauhaus of the Seas Sails, Interactive Technologies Institute, Universidade de Lisboa, 2023–
  3. Cover editor, Daylife, San Francisco, Boston, Lisbon, Bangkok, 2007-08
  4. Freelance journalist, critic, curator 2006-
  5. Production, communication, curation (Experimentadesign – Lisbon Biennial and other projects), Experimenta Association, Lisboa, 2003–06
  6. Scholarship holder, Fabrica, Treviso, 2004–2005
  7. Intern (Graphic design department), Leo Burnett Kuala Lumpur, 2003

Publications

Peer-reviewed journal articles 3

  1. Torretta, N.B.; Pestana, M.; Duarte, F. et al. (2023). Navigating Problematic Bauhaus Inheritances: Critiques, Implications and Questions from the Bauhaus of the Seas NEB Lighthouse. Design Issues. MIT Press. pp. 105–117. DOI 10.1162/desi_a_00770
  2. Nunes, N.J.; Pestana, M.; Duarte, F. et al. (2023). The Bauhaus of the Seas: A Manifesto for the New European Bauhaus. Design Issues. MIT Press. pp. 90–97. DOI 10.1162/desi_a_00758
  3. Duarte, F. (2012). A marvelous history. Estudos Avançados. Universidade de São Paulo. Vol. 26(76), pp. 407–410

Conference papers and pictorials 5

  1. Soares da Costa, F.; Duarte, F.; Nisi, V. (2026). BioFabulations: Embodied sense making for planetary care. [Pictorial] Proceedings of the 2026 ACM Creativity & Cognition Conference (C&C 2026). ACM, London . doi.org/10.1145/3803784.3809288
  2. Simões, M.; Pestana, M.; Duarte, F.; Nisi, V. (2026). Tagus estuary colour swatch: Materials as affective mediators in more-than-human temporalities. [Paper] Proceedings of the 2026 DRS Design Research Society Conference (DRS26). Simeone, L. et al. (Eds.). Design Research Society, Edinburgh doi.org/10.21606/drs.2026.2121
  3. Soares da Costa, F.; Simões, M.; Duarte, F.; Nisi, V. (2025). Making Seafoam: An Autobiographical Design Journey Engaging Local Ecologies Through Making. [Pictorial] Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS 2025). ACM, Funchal . doi.org/10.1145/3715336.3735413
  4. Pedroso-Roussado, C.; B. Torretta, N.; Duarte, F.; Seixas, L.; Pestana, M.; Labs Lda, Y.; Lda, R.; Light, A.; Nunes, N. (2024). Co-design under the Bauhaus of the Seas Light-house Project: a New European Bauhaus case study in Lisbon and Oeiras. [Paper]. DRS2024: Boston. Gray, C. et al. (Eds.). Design Research Society, Boston doi.org/10.21606/drs.2024.60410.21606/drs.202…
  5. Frutuoso Oliveira, R.; Parreira, S.; Duarte, F. (2026). Clay and Portuguese Sweet Pastry: Design as a Mediator in a Visual, Sensorial and Gastronomic Experimental Process. [Paper]. RUN-EU Doctoral Symposium. Instituto Politécnico do Cávado, Barcelos doi.org/10.1201/9781003386858-4

Conference posters and abstracts 4

  1. Frutuoso Oliveira, R.; Parreira, S.; Duarte, F.; Lobo, C. (2025). Entre barro e doce. Ao provar o bolo lêvedo… [Poster]. NINE – 1ª Conferência Internacional em Investigação Artística e Metodologias de Design. Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Mirandela
  2. Duarte, F.; Faria, N.; Cardoso, C. (2013). Intervalo Para o Conhecimento. SciComPt – Comunicação de Ciência para o Desenvolvimento. [Poster]. Rede SciComPt
  3. Duarte, F. (2022). El Monocultivo del Pastel de Nata. [Abstract]. IV Simposio de la Fundación Historia del Diseño: Turismo y diseño. FHD. pp. 28–29
  4. Duarte, F. (2011). Sombreros de frutas o innovación frugal? Los desafíos contemporáneos del diseño brasileño. [Abstract]. Simposio Internacional Los BRICs: Brasil, potencia emergente. Instituto de Iberoamérica/Centro de Estudios Brasileños, Universidad de Salamanca, 7–8 April 2011

Edited books 7

  1. Duarte, F.; João, R. (Eds.) (2025). Comer com os Olhos. Córtex Frontal.
  2. Coutinho, B.; Duarte, F. (Ed.) (2018). Como se Pronuncia Design em Português: Brasil Hoje. Câmara Municipal de Lisboa. ISBN 9789898772138
  3. Duarte, F.; Nicolas, A.; Almeida, V.M. (Eds.) (2013). Design: FBAUL'13 Diálogos sem Margem, Margem em Diálogo. FBAUL. ISBN 9789898300799
  4. Bruinsma, M. & Duarte, F. (Eds.) (2012). Sem Uso. Centauro. ISBN 9789896900175
  5. Bruinsma, M. & Duarte, F. (Eds.) (2012). Useless. Centauro. ISBN 9789896900182
  6. Duarte, F.; Ferreira, P.; João, R. (2008). Fabrico Próprio: O Design da Pastelaria Semi-Industrial Portuguesa. Futuro Sustentável. ISBN 9789892010939. [2nd ed. 2012, ISBN 9789892031972]
  7. Duarte, F. (Ed.) (2008). European Design Awards 2008. European Design Ltd.. ISBN 9789609828406

Book chapters 17

  1. Duarte, F. (2025). O tempo da cortiça. in Rodrigues, A. (Ed.), Ponte de Sor: Criar no Tempo da Cortiça. DGArtes/Programa Nacional Saber Fazer Portugal. pp. 104–108. ISBN 9789898518101
  2. Duarte, F. (2024). Rendez-vous avec… Frederico Duarte. in Collectif (Ed.), Voyages Gallimard Coups de Coeur: Lisbonne. Gallimard-Loisirs. pp. 42–43. ISBN 9782742467860
  3. Duarte, F. (2023). Nostalgia is futile – our future starts now. in Penin, L. (Ed.), The Disobedience of Design. Bloomsbury Visual Arts. ISBN 9781350162440.
  4. Duarte, F. (2023). Efficiency is not the point: situated experiences and questions on design practice and justice. in Hallimäe, T.; Lopp, N. (Eds.), Leida Reader: Fifteen Selected Articles. EKA Faculty of Design. pp. 17–41. ISBN 9789916740460
  5. Oliveira, R.; Parreira, S.; Duarte, F. (2023). Ceramics in Portuguese sweet pastry: a recipe for knowledge preservation and the reinvention of tradition. in Experiencing and Envisioning Food. CRC Press. pp. 27–33. doi.org/10.1201/9781003386858-4
  6. Parreira, S.; Duarte de Almeida, P.; Duarte, F. (2023). Changing the world, one meal at a time: critical and fictional approaches in design education. in Experiencing and Envisioning Food. CRC Press. pp. 91–97. doi.org/10.1201/9781003386858-13
  7. Duarte, F. (2022). The Carcaça. in Heller, S.; Heintz, M. (Eds.), The Education of a Design Writer. Allworth Press. pp. 122–123. ISBN 9781621538417
  8. Duarte, F. (2022). O valor das coisas com que vivemos. in Serapião, F. (Ed.), Fernando Jaeger: quatro décadas de design. monolito. pp. 241–251. ISBN 9786588931066
  9. Duarte, F.; Baptista Costa, J. (2021). O design como exercício: a identidade gráfica do Rivoli. in Costa, T.B. (Ed.), Cadernos do Rivoli 08-09. Teatro Municipal do Porto. pp. 437–516. ISBN 9789895348008
  10. Duarte, F.; Monteiro, P.C. (2019). Traz outro amigo também: memórias cruzadas das oficinas populares de 2013. in Silva, S. (Ed.), Que força é essa: imagens de protesto e participação democrática em Portugal. Tinta da China. pp. 19–29 ISBN 9789895452590
  11. Duarte, F. (2017). Os móveis são coisas, não imagens de coisas. in Hugerth, M.W. (Ed.), Marcenaria Baraúna: móvel como arquitetura. Olhares. pp. 13–16. ISBN 9788562114694
  12. Duarte, F. (2016). Instabilidade. in Gonçalves, S. (Ed.), Agora, irrepetível. FBAUL. pp. 232–235. ISBN 9789898771308
  13. Duarte, F. (2014). O mundo já não é pequeno. in Ceia, A.J. (Ed.), José Brandão, designer. Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian. pp. 175–201. ISBN 9789898807007
  14. Duarte, F. (2014). Pakta; Vila Mariana Apartment; Casa Rex; Infodema Headquarters; D-Edge 2.0; Grated Futures; Nescafé School of Cookery; L'AND Vineyards Resort; Brazil Pavilion, Frankfurt Book Fair. in Terragni, E.; Churly, C.; Wright, T. (Eds.), Room: inside contemporary interiors. Phaidon Press. pp. 116–391. ISBN 9780714867441
  15. Duarte, F. (2012). New Haven Railroad; Franklin Gothic; Insel-Bücherei; Bochumer Verein; Herman Miller; Public Theater; Westinghouse; Visionaire 27; Gran Premio dell'Autodromo; You don't have to be Jewish to love Levy's. in Terragni, E. et al. (Eds.), The Phaidon Archive of Graphic Design. Phaidon Press. ISBN 9780714848679
  16. Duarte, F.; Sacchetti, V. (2012). Áreas Cinzentas. in Proença, F.; Oliveira, A.F. (Eds.), Portugal e África: Melhor Cooperação, Melhor Desenvolvimento. ACEP. pp. 159–166. ISBN 9789899622999
  17. Duarte, F.; Nascimento, Á.; Stertzig, K. (2011). O Dilema do Espremedor de Laranjas. in Cerqueira, F.; Valarinho, A.; Gaspar, F. (Eds.), Artes da Casa: Ambientes Singulares. IEFP – Instituto do Emprego e Formação Profissional. pp. 138–151. ISBN 9789896380588

Catalogue texts 10

  1. Duarte, F.; João, R. (2025). Reimaginar o Artificial: a refeição como projeto e a subversão do quotidiano. in Comer com os Olhos. Córtex Frontal. pp. 62–63.
  2. Duarte, F.; Sacchetti, V. (2025). Novos modos de falar de design: Caminhos biorregionais e práticas situadas/New ways of talking about design: Biorregional paths and situated practices. in Milão, S.; Pereira, R.G. (Eds.), Trienal Design Covilhã. Câmara Municipal da Covilhã. pp. 14–19. ISBN 9789893581346
  3. Duarte, F.; Sacchetti, V. (2025). [16 individual project texts]* in Milão, S.; Pereira, R.G. (Eds.), Trienal Design Covilhã. Câmara Municipal da Covilhã. pp. 20–115. ISBN 9789893581346 * [Arpilleras de la Agrobiodiversidad; Champs colorés; Róng Design Library; Aurat March; Kriolish; Forest Collection; Studio Silva Systems; Salt Panels; Cobogó da Mundaú; Tectonic Dusts; Uprooted, Raw Chair; Exploring Jacket; Várzea Queimada; Produtos Empresas Recuperadas; Supporter Scarves; Care].
  4. Duarte, F. (2020). Being of the Forest. Objects of the Forest objectsoftheforest.com
  5. Duarte, F. (2019). What is not Mine is Yours: Meliponiculture as design humanism. in Broken Nature – XXII Triennale di Milano. Electa. pp. 224–230.
  6. Duarte, F. (2018). Designing Brazil Today. in Krysa, J. (Ed.), Stages #7: Design & Empire. Liverpool Biennial. pp. 64–74
  7. Duarte, F. (2018). Projetando Brasil Hoje/Designing Brazil Today. in Coutinho, B.; Duarte, F. (Ed.), Como se Pronuncia Design em Português: Brasil Hoje. MUDE/Câmara Municipal de Lisboa. pp. 17–39.
  8. Duarte, F. (2018). [100 individual project and book texts]* in Coutinho, B.; Duarte, F. (Ed.), Como se Pronuncia Design em Português: Brasil Hoje. MUDE/Câmara Municipal de Lisboa. *[África; Aura; Away to Mars; Bailes; Bomba Hacker; Bossa; Brasil, Junho 2038; Caipira; Campanha Não Eleitoral; Campo Concreto; Carioquinha + Wanda; Casa Vila Matilde; Centro Cultural; Cerâmica do Cabo; Confete; Dingbat Cobogó; Divino Maravilhoso; ESDI ABERTA #UERJ RESISTE; FJ Pronto Pra Levar; Habitat; Havaianas; Kulturrevolution; Learn and Play; Linha Brasil-Rio; Livros Ubu; Mapa da Rede de Transportes MOVE; Marajó das Letras; Material Concept Lab Embraer; Melissa Creatives; Milla; Objetos da Floresta; Oppa por Rosenbaum e Fetiche; Parque Estadual Serra do Mar; Pavilhão do Brasil Feira do Livro de Frankfurt; Placas de Rua da Maré; Pós-Tropical; Programa + Que Água Brastemp; Projetações; Quem Disse, Berenice?; SAC24; SOU; STED; Superpop; Tropical Molotov; Tucum; Tupyguá; UNB; War in Rio + Bando Imobiliário Carioca; Web Seer; Xiloteca Brasilis; Livraria/Bookshop; ,ovo; Prêmio design da Casa Brasileira, 1986–2017; Jader Almeida, a Atemporalidade do Desenho; A Mão Do Povo Brasileiro, 1969–2016; Amamentação e o Desdesign da Mamadeira; Análise do Design Brasileiro: Entre Mimese e Mestiçagem; Anatomia do Design; Atlas Ambulante; Capas de Santa Rosa; Bienal Brasileira de Design Gráfico; Conceitos-chave em Design; Design & Desenvolvimento: 40 Anos Depois; Design + Artesanato: O Caminho Brasileiro; Design Brasileiro de Móveis: Cadeiras, Poltronas, Bancos; Design Brasileiro: Luminárias; Design Brasileiro: Quem Fez, Quem Faz; Design Encanta Inovação Surpreende!; Design Para Um Mundo Complexo; Design, Cultura E Sociedade; Do Desenho Industrial ao Design no Brasil; Espaço Público e Urbanidade em São Paulo; História da Moda no Brasil; Historia Del Diseño En América Latina Y El Caribe; Histórias do Design no Brasil I; Histórias do Design no Brasil II; IAC Primeira Escola de Design do Brasil; Impresso no Brasil (1808–1930); Interiores No Brasil: A Influência Portuguesa No Espaço Doméstico; Jorge Zalszupin: Design Moderno No Brasil; Lá e Cá; Fernando Prado: luminárias; Madeiras Brasileiras; Mana/manuscritos; Marcenaria Baraúna: móvel como arquitetura; Meu Coração Coroado: Mestre Espedito Seleiro; Michel Arnoult, Design e Utopia: Móveis em Série Para Todos; Mobiliário na Habitação Popular; Mobiliário no Brasil: Origens da Produção e da Industrialização; Móvel Moderno no Brasil; Na Casca do Ovo, o Princípio do Desenho Industrial; O Gráfico Amador: As Origens da Moderna Tipografia Brasileira; O mundo codificado; O universo de J. Cunha; Oito Viagens ao Brasil; Pavilhão das Culturas Brasileiras: Puras Misturas; Multi Randolph: Timespaces; Tipografia Digital: O Impacto das Novas Tecnologias; Triunfos e Impasses; Unilabor].
  9. Duarte, F.; Ferreira, P.; João, R. (2014). Slovenian Milk Interfaces 1964–2014. in Boelen, J. & Sacchetti, V. (Eds.), Designing Everyday Life. Park Books/Museum of Architecture and Design. pp. 134–135. ISBN 9783906027678
  10. Duarte, F. (2011). Preface. in João Machado Poster Design. Try Now Digital Publishing Lda.
Articles in magazines and newspapers (selection) 149

Many of these are collected on this site: see Texts.

  1. Duarte, F. (2025). Vista de Delft: Chemnitz. Electra. 30 p. 39-41
  2. Duarte, F. (17.8.2024). Ornamenta 2024: um Verão de boas ideias para a Floresta Negra. Público. pp. 10-14
  3. Duarte, F. (17.8.2024). 20 horas em Baden-Baden. Público. pp. 14-15
  4. Duarte, F.; Sacchetti, V. (2024). Projectar a polifonia: Uma conversa com Nacho Padilla. Fazer. #2 pp. 13–21
  5. Duarte, F. (2024). O fim da cortiça. Fazer. #2 pp. 31–37
  6. Duarte, F. (2024). Madrid Design Festival. Fazer #2 pp 11-17
  7. Duarte, F.; Sacchetti, V. (2024). Todo o design é local. #2 Fazer. p. 3
  8. Duarte, F.; Sacchetti, V. (2024). Uma nova história, em construção. Fazer. #2 pp. 62–64
  9. Duarte, F.; Sacchetti, V. (2024). ABCLGBTQIA+ Uma conversa com Sílvia Matias e Hellington Vieira. Fazer. #1 pp. 30–33
  10. Duarte, F.; Sacchetti, V. (2024). O design da propaganda portuguesa. Fazer. #1 pp. 23–29
  11. Duarte, F. (2024). O valor do design: Uma conversa com Inma Bermúdez. Fazer. pp 11-17
  12. Duarte, F. (2024). Como projectar uma revolução. Fazer #1 pp. 7-8
  13. Duarte, F.; Sacchetti, V. (2024). Design é um verbo. #1 Fazer. p. 3
  14. Duarte, F. (2023). Ruben Pater: Design e cidadania. Electra. 21 p. 32-39
  15. Duarte, F. (10.9.2022). Pela Occitânia de bicicleta. Público. pp. 2-7
  16. Duarte, F. (23.7.2022). O design aberto ao Mediterrâneo em Valência. Público. pp. 2-9
  17. Duarte, F. (2022). Arquitetura e artesania na terra de Aalto. Projeto.
  18. Duarte, F. (2022). At Europe's Oldest Design Biennial, A Socially Committed Approach to Design Stands the Test of Time. Metropolis. metropolismag.com/viewpoints/ljubljana-design…
  19. Duarte, F. (2022). Students Lead the Way to A Post-Industrial Future at the Saint-Étienne Biennale. Metropolis. metropolismag.com/viewpoints/students-lead-th…
  20. Duarte, F. (2022). The 2022 Milan Triennale Celebrates Research at the Expense of Design. Metropolis. metropolismag.com/viewpoints/2022-milan-trien…
  21. Duarte, F. (2022). Uma nova Bauhaus é possível? Sim, se nós quisermos. shifter. shifter.pt/2022/08/uma-nova-bauhaus-e-possive…
  22. Duarte, F. (25.7.2020). Perguntas essenciais sobre museus, design e democracia em Lisboa. Público. p. 36
  23. Duarte, F. (13.3.2017). Sob o céu mais estrelado. Público. pp. 4-9
  24. Duarte, F. (2017). Manufacturing Landscape. Disegno. pp.72-83
  25. Duarte, F. (3.12.2016). O elogio do design. Público. pp. 18-19
  26. Duarte, F. (27.2.2016). Miami: Faena 'para siempre', que demasiado nunca é suficiente. Público. pp 12-13
  27. Duarte, F. (10.1.2016). A modernidade tropical lá de casa. Público. pp 42-44
  28. Duarte, F. (2016). Celebrar as raízes. Casa Vogue Brasil. pp. 68–69
  29. Duarte, F. (16.11.2014). O futuro do design desafiado em Istambul. Público. pp. 38-39
  30. Duarte, F. (2014). The Metropolis Guide to Emerging Design Neighborhoods: BIP/ZIP, Lisbon. Metropolis. metropolismag.com/viewpoints/the-metropolis-g…
  31. Duarte, F. Ferreira, P., João, R. (2014) Slovenian Milk Interfaces 1964 - 2014 (By Fabrico Próprio, Frederico Duarte, Pedro Ferreira, Rita João) BIO 50 [online resource] 50.bio.si/en/themes/knowing-food/post/435/slo…
  32. Duarte, F. (2014). Promessas/Expectativas e Resultados/Experiências. Camões - Revista de Letras e Culturas Lusófonas. pp. 67–79
  33. Duarte, F. (9.3.2013). Uma nova vida para a caixa de jóias da Europa. Público. pp. 18-19
  34. Duarte, F. (2013). Marselha Redescoberta. Projeto. pp. 78–85
  35. Duarte, F. (2013). Um verão de arquitetura e design em Boisbuchet, na França. Projeto.
  36. Duarte, F. (2013). Unité d’Habitation. Projeto.
  37. Duarte, F. (2013). Design Parade 8. Projeto.
  38. Duarte, F. (2013). ​Marselha Redescoberta. Projeto.
  39. Duarte, F. (2013). New Visual Artists: Eric Price, Márcia Novais, Benjamin Critton. Print. pp. 34–57
  40. Duarte, F. (2013). Freitag: Malas há muitas, mas como a minha não há nem mais uma. Dinheiro Vivo. p. 21
  41. Duarte, F. (2013). Paredes brancas, povo mudo?. Lisboa Capital República Popular. p.8
  42. Duarte, F. (2013). Duas casas, o mesmo horizonte. Nau XXI. p.32-33
  43. Duarte, F. (9.12.2012). Redesenhar o Quotidiano. Público. p.8
  44. Duarte, F. (8.9.2012). Helsínquia é uma cidade que projecta o inesperado. Público.
  45. Duarte, F. (8.9.2012). Ir a Utö e voltar. Público.
  46. Duarte, F. (26.2.2012). A Gente Transforma a Várzea Queimada. Público. pp.58-69
  47. Duarte, F. (2012). A Capital da Imperfeição. Projeto.
  48. Duarte, F. (2012). Sticking It to the Man. Print. pp. 30–31
  49. Duarte, F. (2012). Fazer a diferença. Newsletter Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian. p. 18
  50. Duarte, F. (2012). Monsieur Hulot and his plan. domus. domusweb.it/en/opinion/2012/05/09/monsieur-hu…
  51. Duarte, F. (2012). Como fazer com que o design seja o soft power do Brasil? ffw>>mag!. p. 59
  52. Duarte, F. (25.9.2011). Carcaça. Público. pp.60-61
  53. Duarte, F. (18.9.2011). Capas da Revista UP. Público. pp.60-61
  54. Duarte, F. (11.9.2011). ColorADD. Público. pp.60-61
  55. Duarte, F. (4.9.2011). NetBoard. Público. pp.60-61
  56. Duarte, F. (28.8.2011). Placas de classificação hoteleira. Público. pp.60-61
  57. Duarte, F. (21.8.2011). Face Portuguesa do Euro. Público. pp.60-61
  58. Duarte, F. (14.8.2011). Embalagem Pastéis de Belém. Público. pp.60-61
  59. Duarte, F. (7.8.2011). UMM Alter II. Público. pp.60-61
  60. Duarte, F. (31.7.2011). Milhões de Festa. Público. pp.60-61
  61. Duarte, F. (24.7.2011). 1/4 Vigor. Público. pp.60-61
  62. Duarte, F. (17.7.2011). Garrafas CoMet. Público. pp.60-61
  63. Duarte, F. (10.7.2011). Caixas Automáticas Multibanco. Público. pp.60-61
  64. Duarte, F. (3.7.2011). Genérico do Jornal da Noite. Público. pp.60-61
  65. Duarte, F. (26.6.2011). Logótipo do Ministério da Cultura. Público. pp.60-61
  66. Duarte, F. (19.6.2011). Oleão. Público. pp.60-61
  67. Duarte, F. (12.6.2011). Capas da colecção Uma Aventura. Público. pp.60-61
  68. Duarte, F. (5.6.2011). Cartão de Cidadão. Público. pp.60-61
  69. Duarte, F. (2011). O fator favela. Projeto. pp. 110–113.
  70. Duarte, F. (2011). Design Parade 6 in Hyères. Disegno.
  71. Duarte, F. (2011). O Papel da Luz. Casa Vogue Brasil. pp. 45–48
  72. Duarte, F. (2011). fibra: A Material World. Design Indaba Magazine. pp. 76–80
  73. Duarte, F. (2011). Lembram-se quando voar era qualquer coisa de extraordinário?. Pangrama. pp. 22–23
  74. Duarte, F. (2011). Cadeira Favela. Pli Arte & Design.
  75. Duarte, F. (2011). Kleine Wereld, Grote Familie. items. pp. 18–19
  76. Duarte, F. (2010). EcoBrilho: Jóias Sustentáveis na Bienal Brasileira de Design. Casa Vogue Brasil.
  77. Duarte, F. (2010). Big in Brazil. Design Indaba Magazine. pp. 72–75
  78. Duarte, F. (2010). Brazilian Design Biennial Review. icon. p. 81
  79. Duarte, F. (2010). Drawer. Artecapital.
  80. Duarte, F. (2010). Miguel Vieira Baptista: Drawer. Artecapital. artecapital.net/exposicao-289-miguel-vieira-b…
  81. Duarte, F. (2010). É Proibido Proibir!. Artecapital. artecapital.net/exposicao-264-colectiva-e-pro…
  82. Duarte, F. (2010). Império Ace. Visão Vida & Viagens. pp. 30–35
  83. Duarte, F. (2010). Embarrassment and disappointment in São Paulo. Architectural Review.
  84. Duarte, F. (2009). Crafter Words. Design Indaba Magazine. pp. 54–55
  85. Duarte, F. (2009). Speed Limits. icon. p. 91
  86. Duarte, F. (2009). 10 razões para voltar a Montreal. Visão Vida & Viagens. pp. 94–105
  87. Duarte, F. (2009). Copenhaga – Manual de mudança. Visão Vida & Viagens. pp. 66–84
  88. Duarte, F. (2009). Collective spirit. MUDE Magazine. p. 53
  89. Duarte, F. (2009). Transparency of function. MUDE Magazine. p. 80
  90. Duarte, F. (2009). Eye candy. MUDE Magazine. p. 88
  91. Duarte, F. (2009). Necessity enlightens ingenuity. MUDE Magazine. p. 94
  92. Duarte, F. (2009). Between the fine and the decorative arts. MUDE Magazine. p. 98
  93. Duarte, F. (2009). Natural light. MUDE Magazine. p. 100
  94. Duarte, F. (2009). Everything is possible with Superonda. MUDE Magazine. p. 129
  95. Duarte, F. (2009). An armchair, an utopia. MUDE Magazine. p. 140
  96. Duarte, F. (2009). Subtle evocation of the moon. MUDE Magazine. p. 156
  97. Duarte, F. (2009). Force of Nature. MUDE Magazine. p. 163
  98. Duarte, F. (2009). Main Character. MUDE Magazine. p. 170
  99. Duarte, F. (2009). How to Manufacture. MUDE Magazine. p. 242
  100. Duarte, F. (2009). Brazil is green and yellow, not red. MUDE Magazine. p. 244
  101. Duarte, F. (2009). Espírito colectivo. Revista MUDE. p. 53
  102. Duarte, F. (2009). A transparência da função. Revista MUDE. p. 80
  103. Duarte, F. (2009). Eye Candy. Revista MUDE. p. 88
  104. Duarte, F. (2009). A necessidade ilumina o engenho. Revista MUDE. p. 94
  105. Duarte, F. (2009). Entre as belas artes e as artes decorativas. Revista MUDE. p. 98
  106. Duarte, F. (2009). Luz natural. Revista MUDE. p. 100
  107. Duarte, F. (2009). Tudo é possível com Superonda. Revista MUDE. p. 129
  108. Duarte, F. (2009). Uma poltrona, uma utopia. Revista MUDE. p. 140
  109. Duarte, F. (2009). Uma subtil evocação da lua. Revista MUDE. p. 156
  110. Duarte, F. (2009). Força da natureza. Revista MUDE. p. 163
  111. Duarte, F. (2009). Personagem principal. Revista MUDE. p. 170
  112. Duarte, F. (2009). Fazer com as mãos. Revista MUDE. p. 242
  113. Duarte, F. (2009). O Brasil é verde e amarelo, não Vermelha. Revista MUDE. p. 244
  114. Duarte, F.; Forde, L. (2009). New York 10 básicos/basics. UP!. pp. 62–69
  115. Duarte, F.; Forde, L. (2009). Hotel em Nova Iorque A New York Hotel. UP!. pp. 78–81
  116. Duarte, F.; Forde, L. (2009). +Hotéis/+Hotels in New York. UP!. pp. 62–69
  117. Duarte, F. (2009). 5 de São Paulo. Visão Estilo & Design. pp. 92–95
  118. Duarte, F. (2009). Flight of the imagination. eye. pp. 30–33
  119. Duarte, F. (21.3.2008). Uma Casa para Mrs. Jonkers. Público. p. 18-20
  120. Duarte, F. (8.2.2008). Roger Ball, Caçador de Cabeças Chinesas. Público. p. 34-35
  121. Duarte, F. (18.1.2008). O Design da Inquietação. Público. p. 30-32
  122. Duarte, F. (2008). A House for Mrs Jonkers. Design Indaba Magazine. pp. 58–62
  123. Duarte, F.; Ferreira, P.; João, R. (2008). Aprender com a pastelaria semi-industrial portuguesa - ou porque é que só há uma receita no livro fabrico próprio. Artecapital. artecapital.net/arq_des-42-aprender-com-a-pas…
  124. Duarte, F. (2008). Freedom and Restraint. cluster. pp. 205–206
  125. Duarte, F. (23.11.2007). Ler nas Entrelinhas com os R2. Público. p. 24-26
  126. Duarte, F. (11.11.2007). As Leis da Atracção. Público. p. 28-29
  127. Duarte, F. (19.10.2007). Estratégias de Sobrevivência. Público. p. 26-27
  128. Duarte, F. (5.10.2007). Para Além das Aparências. Público. p. 60
  129. Duarte, F. (21.9.2007). A Rainha dos “Crafts”. Público. p. 30-32
  130. Duarte, F. (17.82007). Beleza Doméstica. Público. p. 30-32
  131. Duarte, F. (3.8.2007). Os trabalhos de Alda Tomás. Público. p.28-30
  132. Duarte, F. (23.7.2007). Experimental Jetset. Público. p. 30-32
  133. Duarte, F. (13.7.2007). Foi você que pediu um João Machado?. Público. p. 30-31
  134. Duarte, F. (11.7.2007). Ouçam o que Elas Dizem. Público. p. 24-26
  135. Duarte, F. (3.7.2007). Essenciais e acessórios. Público. p. 18-19
  136. Duarte, F. (11.5.2007). O Peso das Coisas da Boca do Lobo. Público. p. 32-34
  137. Duarte, F. (4.4.2007). O Futuro Projectado por Jacques Tati. Público. p. 12-14
  138. Duarte, F. (30.3.2007). O Equilibrista. Público. p. 40-42
  139. Duarte, F. (14.3.2007). O Design Glocal. Público. p. 4-7
  140. Duarte, F. (2.2.2007). O Burocrático Dever de Informar. Público. p. 16
  141. Duarte, F. (2007). Queremos Novos Tipos. mude.pt.
  142. Duarte, F. (2007). “La Crème de la Crème” da Pastelaria Fina. Blue Design. p. 122
  143. Duarte, F. (2006). Design ‘06. icon. p. 117
  144. Duarte, F. (2006). Nata Family. icon. p. 65
  145. Duarte, F. (2006). Meriç Kara’s B sides. icon. p. 45
  146. Duarte, F. (2006). The State of Things. icon. p. 99
  147. Duarte, F. (2006). The state of Portuguese design. Portuguese design trail. pp. 8-10
  148. Duarte, F.; Ferreira, P.; João, R. (2006). From Lisbon [Pirâmide]. Sugo. pp. 166–167
  149. My research projects over the past decade span three interlocking modes: EU Horizon research at ITI-LarSyS combining communication design, participatory practice and ecological transition; exhibition-based research in which curatorial projects function as forms of research publication; long-form independent inquiry into design, material culture and territory. The Fazer project (Culturgest/Fidelidade Arte, Lisboa and Porto, 2022–2024), co-curated with Vera Sacchetti, developed a new model integrating scholarly editing, curatorial practice and public engagement around design, making and labour in the Portuguese-speaking world.

Research projects

EU Horizon / New European Bauhaus 2

  1. Bauhaus of the Seas Sails (2021–2026). HORIZON-MISS-2021-NEB-01, Grant No. 101079995. Coordinated by: IST-ID/ITI-LarSyS, Lisbon. NEB Lighthouse project brought together 18 partner institutions across 7 cities and 4 European aquatic ecosystems. As the project’s Communication Coordinator, I developed a body of work spanning design writing, public programme curating and research-led education that embodies a declared international ambition: editorial strategy and public programming across consortium partners and venues; curatorial conception of the conference/exhibition formats for the Making Waves closing conference (Ocean Space, Venice, 15.11.2026); organisation of the Reading the Ocean conference (Oeiras, 26-28.9.2024); co-coordination (with Mariana Pestana) of a Bauhaus of the Seas Sails-inspired Seminar for the Digital Media PhD Programme (IST/UL/UP/NOVA, 2023–24). Recognition of this international reach: the project was selected as one of six Horizon Europe best-practice SSH-integration projects in an EC DG R&I publication (2025); Status: Completed. doi.org/10.3030/101079995. bauhaus-seas.eu
  2. TIDAL ArtS (2024–2027). HORIZON-MISS-2023-OCEAN-01-11, Grant No. 101157796. Coordinated by: Submariner Network for Blue Growth, Berlin. As Artistic Residency Curatorial Coordinator at ITI-LarSyS, I am in charge of overseeing the development of artistic projects during one year in four locations in Europe – Azores Archipelago, Portugal; Venice Lagoon, Italy; Turku Archipelago, Finland; Danube River, Hungary – and coordinating (with Mariana Pestana, assisted by Anderson Alencar and Diana Sánchez) the print publication that will document the process and results these residencies. Status: Ongoing. doi.org/10.3030/101157796 tidalarts.eu

FCT-funded 1

  1. H2ID: From History to Innovation in Design (2027–2030). Co-investigator. FCT Concurso de Projetos I&D 2025, Ref. 2025.18903.PTDC. PI: Helena Barbosa, Universidade de Aveiro. Status: Awaiting funding approval. H2ID investigates Portuguese design exhibitions from 1971 to the present, recovering and systematising the heritage of Portuguese design artefacts and assessing their contemporary impact through participatory methodologies.

DGArtes (Ministério da Cultura)-funded 4

  1. O design dos monumentos (pós-)coloniais (2025–2026). Coordinator. DGArtes Programa de Apoio em Parceria Arte pela Democracia, Ref. 3320. Futuro Sustentável. Status: Ongoing. Commissioning of 2 original articles/projects on the design of (post-)colonial monuments to the design researchers Nuno Coelho and Bárbara Neves Alves, in the context of the third issue of Fazer magazine (release date: 2026). Includes on-site research, public programmes and editorial production.
  2. Comer com os Olhos Art & Food Residency (2024–2025). Co-curator and jury member. Córtex Frontal/Galeria Plato, Arraiolos/Porto. Co-curated with Mercedes Vidal-Abarca, Diogo Ramalho and Rita João. Three two-week residencies pairing visual artists with gastronomes, themed around scarcity. Resulted in open kitchens, printed publication and group exhibition. cortexfrontal.org/comercomosolhos
  3. Fazer #1/Fazer #2 (2022–2024). Co-curator and co-editor (with Vera Sacchetti). DGArtes Programa de Apoio a Projetos – Criação e Edição, Ref. 3618. Futuro Sustentável/Culturgest/Fidelidade Arte, Lisboa and Porto. Status: Completed. Biannual exhibition-and-magazine programme on design, making, labour and social practice. Commissioning to Atelier Carvalho Bernau for the art direction and design of the magazine’s first two print issues and respective exhibitions in Lisbon and Porto; Registration of trademark. culturgest.pt/pt/media/fazer
  4. Fabrico Próprio (2007-2008, 2022). Co-founder and co-director (with Rita João and Pedro Ferreira). DGArtes Programa de Apoio a Projetos – Criação e Edição. Futuro Sustentável. Status: Completed. The first project funded by DGArtes in the Design and Architecture section of the Programa de Apoio a Projetos. Long-term research into semi-industrial Portuguese pastry as designed heritage. Two book editions, multiple exhibitions and public programmes. The research for the third edition of the Fabrico Próprio book was also supported in 2022 through the Programa Garantir Cultura of the Ministério da Cultura. fabricoproprio.net

Institutionally funded 5

  1. Nacho Padilla en revista Fazer #2 (2024). Curator and editorial coordinator (with Vera Sacchetti). Acción Cultural Española (AC/E) – Programa para la Internacionalización de la Cultura Española (PICE) co-financed the section of the Fazer #2 exhibition (Culturgest Porto) dedicated to Spanish creative director Nacho Padilla, covering his work as creative director for the Madrid (2016–19) and Barcelona (2020–23) city councils. This grant supported Padilla's visit to Porto for the exhibition opening (9.2.2024) and a panel discussion moderated by Sacchetti and I (50+ attendees) The conversation was edited into a 10-page feature in the printed magazine, “Projectar a polifonia”. culturgest.pt/pt/media/fazer
  2. Disseny Obert/Design Aberto (2023–). Co-coordinator (with Pedro Almeida and Suzana Parreira). FBAUL/EASD València/ESAD Caldas da Rainha/MADE Siracusa. Funder: EU Erasmus Staff Mobility + BIP programme. Student-created online bibliography of essential design texts disseminating design knowledge beyond academia. Active across 4 institutions in 3 countries. dissenyobert.eu
  3. Alcobaça UNESCO Creative City of Gastronomy (2021). Invited curator, part of interdisciplinary team at Instituto Politécnico de Leiria. Funder: Município de Alcobaça. Design-led research supporting Alcobaça’s application for UNESCO Creative City of Gastronomy designation. The application was not submitted following a decision by the UNESCO National Secretariat in Portugal.
  4. Responsible Tourism for a More Inclusive and Positive Impact International Design Workshop (2019) Workshop leader and co-organiser alongside Rita João and Pedro Ferreira (Estúdio Pedrita), Joana Baptista Costa and Mariana Leão and Álbio Nascimento and Kathi Stertzig (The Home Project) of a 9-day international workshop with 25 students from the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) and Portuguese design schools, focused on critical and speculative design responses to the four UNESCO World Heritage Sites in the Centro de Portugal region (Tomar, Batalha, Alcobaça, Coimbra). Funded by Turismo Centro de Portugal and organised by Futuro Sustentável. Coordination: Carla M. Cardoso. ZHdK direction: Karin Zindel; consultant: Vera Sacchetti. responsibletourism.pt
  5. Lojas com História (2014–2017). Founding coordination team member at FBAUL. Funder: Câmara Municipal de Lisboa. Co-founded with Álbio Nascimento and Isabel Lopes de Castro. Established the concept of designed heritage as a framework for protecting Lisbon's historic shops and coordinated the design of the initiative’s visual identity. lojascomhistoria.pt

Exhibitions and curatorial projects

  1. Right Here, Right Now: bioregional paths and situated practices. Trienal de Design da Covilhã, Covilhã. (2025). Invited curator (with Vera Sacchetti) of international exhibition organised in 7 locations, advancing a bioregional, situated-practices framework for design research. trienaldesigncovilha.pt
  2. Fazer #2. Culturgest and Fidelidade Arte (2024). Invited curator (with Vera Sacchetti) of exhibition organised at Culturgest Porto, Porto. culturgest.pt/pt/media/fazer
  3. 75DH30: 75 anos da Declaração Universal dos Direitos Humanos no Metro de Lisboa. Centro Regional de Informação das Nações Unidas para a Europa Ocidental (UNRIC) (2023). Invited curator (with Suzana Parreira and Pedro Almeida) of student poster exhibition, shown at the Estação de Metro Baixa-Chiado and other stations, Lisboa. unric.org/pt/75dh30-75-anos-da-declaracao-uni…
  4. Fazer #1. Culturgest, Fidelidade Arte (2023). Invited curator (with Vera Sacchetti) of exhibition organised at Fidelidade Arte, Lisboa. culturgest.pt/pt/media/fazer
  5. Food: Bigger than the Plate. Victoria & Albert Museum, London. (2019). The Fabrico Próprio project was selected by curator Catherine Flood for this major V&A exhibition on the intersections between food and design. vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/food-bigger-than-the-plate
  6. Futuros: Designing Progress and Resistance in Latin America. Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany.(2019). Commissioned curatorial concept for an exhibition on design in Latin America, presenting the emancipatory potential of design across projects from the 1960s to the present.
  7. Como se Pronuncia Design em Português: Brasil Hoje. MUDE - Museu do Design (2017). Invited curator of an exhibition that was simultaneously the culmination of a decade of field research in Brazil, the principal fieldwork informing my doctoral thesis and the largest survey of contemporary Brazilian design ever staged in Portugal. mude.pt
  8. BIO 50 – Ljubljana Biennial of Industrial Design. Museum of Architecture and Design (MAO), Ljubljana (2014). Invited participant (with Pedro Ferreira and Rita João – Fabrico Próprio) in the "Knowing Food" theme/team, mentored by Lucas Mullié and Digna Kosse. Our contribution, Slovenian Milk Interfaces 1964–2014, consisted of a timeline installation, a milk tasting event on opening day, an online essay and a catalogue chapter. 50.bio.si/en/themes/knowing-food
  9. Protesto. Sociedade Nacional de Belas-Artes , Lisboa (2014). Invited curator (with Nuno Faria) of exhibition on Protest in Portugal since the 25th of April 1974 Revolution. Presented work Ana Hatherly, António Sena da Silva, Capicua, Eduardo Nery and José de Guimarães. snba.pt
  10. Arquivo. SNBA, Lisboa (2014). Invited curator (with Nuno Faria) of exhibition tracing over a century of SNBA history through documents, photographs, catalogues, films and objects drawn from its archive, institutional collections and private loans. Accompanied by the "Um século em 24 horas" interview marathon. snba.pt
  11. Juventude – Projectos. SNBA, Lisboa (2013). Invited curator (with Carla Cardoso and Bernardo Gaeiras) of exhibition confronting students and young professionals in design and architecture with the ideas of formerly young designers and architects. snba.pt
  12. Timeless. Experimentadesign’09. Museu do Oriente, Lisboa (2009). Invited curator of the Portuguese section (with Rita João and Pedro Ferreira) that challenged seven young Portuguese designers and studios to choose a 20th-century Portuguese design they considered relevant for its quality and longevity, to then present new designs from the same typology. experimentadesign.com/2009/pt/02-02-04.html
  13. Fabrico Próprio. MUDE – Museu do Design, Sala do Risco, Lisboa (2008). Invited curator (with Rita João and Pedro Ferreira) of the culminating public stage of the Fabrico Próprio research project (est. 2007), presenting for the first time new pastry design prototypes developed through a workshop process with designers, pastry chefs and other specialists. fabricoproprio.net
  14. Mediações – Mensagens. Bienal de Cerveira, Vila Nova de Cerveira (2007). Invited participant in exhibition curated by José Bártolo for the XIV Bienal de Cerveira. esad.pt/pt/archive/mediacoes
  15. Supply and Demand – EXD Voyager 2005. Associação Experimenta, Strasbourg, Prague, Funchal (2005). Invited curator Voyager’s (Experimenta's travelling exhibition/installation on Portuguese design and creativity) new section on graphic design titled "Supply and Demand”. Invited designers: Bárbara Says.., Flúor, Silva! Designers, Pedro Falcão, Diogo Valério, Tó Trips, João Faria, Júlio Dolbeth, R2, Hugo d'Alte.
  16. Made in Macau. Experimentadesign’05, Lounging Space, Lisboa (2005). Invited assistant curator of exhibition presenting nine young Macanese designers whose work spans furniture design, textile design, product design and video installation. Organised in partnership with Creative Macau. experimentadesign.com/2005/pt/02_04_made.htm
  17. (P) Portugal 1990–2005. Experimentadesign’05. Estação do Rossio, Lisboa (2005). Invited assistant curator. Lisbon presentation of the Triennale di Milano survey.
  18. (P) Portugal 1990–2004. Triennale di Milano, Milan (2004). Invited assistant curator (with Guta Moura Guedes) of the product design section of a major survey of Portuguese architecture and design, commissioned and inaugurated by President Jorge Sampaio.

Talks

Papers at scientific meetings 9

  1. Soares da Costa, F.; Duarte, F.; Nisi, V. (2026). BioFabulations: Embodied sense making for planetary care. [Pictorial presentation]. 2026 ACM Creativity & Cognition Conference (C&C 2026). ACM. doi.org/10.1145/3803784.3809288
  2. Simões, M.; Pestana, M.; Duarte, F.; Nisi, V. (2026). Tagus estuary colour swatch: Materials as affective mediators in more-than-human temporalities. [Paper presentation]. 2026 DRS Design Research Society Conference (DRS26). Simeone, L. et al. (Eds.). Design Research Society, Edinburgh. doi.org/10.21606/drs.2026.2121
  3. Soares da Costa, F.; Simões, M.; Duarte, F.; Nisi, V. (2025). Making Seafoam: An Autobiographical Design Journey Engaging Local Ecologies Through Making. [Paper presentation]. 2025 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS 2025). ACM, Funchal. doi.org/10.1145/3715336.3735413
  4. Frutuoso Oliveira, R.; Parreira, S.; Duarte, F.; Lobo, C. (2025). Entre barro e doce. Ao provar o bolo lêvedo… [Poster presentation]. NINE – 1ª Conferência Internacional em Investigação Artística e Metodologias de Design. Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Mirandela.
  5. Frutuoso Oliveira, R.; Parreira, S.; Duarte, F. (2026). Clay and Portuguese Sweet Pastry: Design as a Mediator in a Visual, Sensorial and Gastronomic Experimental Process. [Paper presentation]. RUN-EU Doctoral Symposium. Instituto Politécnico do Cávado, Barcelos. doi.org/10.1201/9781003386858-4
  6. Pedroso-Roussado, C.; B. Torretta, N.; Duarte, F.; Seixas, L.; Pestana, M.; Labs Lda, Y.; Lda, R.; Light, A.; Nunes, N. (2024). Co-design under the Bauhaus of the Seas Light-house Project: a New European Bauhaus case study in Lisbon and Oeiras. [Paper presentation]. DRS2024: Boston. doi.org/10.21606/drs.2024.60410.21606/drs.202…
  7. Duarte, F. (2022). El Monocultivo del Pastel de Nata. [Paper presentation]. IV Simposio de la Fundación Historia del Diseño: Turismo y diseño, Barcelona.
  8. Duarte, F.; Faria, N.; Cardoso, C. (2013). Intervalo Para o Conhecimento. [Poster presentation]. SciComPt – Comunicação de Ciência para o Desenvolvimento, Porto.
  9. Duarte, F. (2011, April 7–8). Sombreros de frutas o innovación frugal? Los desafíos contemporáneos del diseño brasileño. [Paper presentation]. Simposio Internacional Los BRICs: Brasil, potencia emergente, Salamanca.
Invited talks (selection) 73
  1. Design Museum, London (3.7.2026). "Curating on a broken planet". Curating Design: Between Word and World. Invited Panel speaker. 3 July 2026. International conference marking 25 years of the MA Curating Contemporary Design (Kingston University/Design Museum). designmuseum.org/whats-on/talks-courses-and-w…
  2. Faculdade de Arquitetura da Universidade de Lisboa (16.03.2026). "Making Contemporary Design Public". Product Design MA seminar. Invited speaker.
  3. DELLI, Universidade Lusófona, Lisboa (09.03.2026). "Fabrico Próprio: tudo é pesquisa". Design/Não Design Class. Invited speaker.
  4. MAC/CCB – Museu de Arte Contemporânea/Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisboa (24.1.2026). "Lugar de Estar: O Legado Burle Marx". Panel discussion. Invited panellist. Conversation with Fernanda Fragateiro and Juan Araujo on art, architecture, nature and public space. ccb.pt/evento/lugar-de-estar-o-legado-burle-marx
  5. Faculdade de Arquitetura da Universidade de Lisboa (2022–2026). "Making contemporary design public". PhD seminars. Recurring invited speaker (11 November 2022; 17 October 2025; 30 January 2026).
  6. Mercado das Indústrias Criativas do Brasil (MICBR), Fortaleza (2025). "Hubs criativos e desenvolvimento urbano de territórios e cidades". 2025. Invited speaker (Panel discussion) in the Creative Industries Market Event promoted by the Ministério da Cultura do Brasil. micbr.com.br
  7. Directorate-General for Research & Innovation, European Commission, Brussels (2025). “Bauhaus of the Seas Sails”. Reality check event – “Key success factors in the implementation of the non-financial obligation of Social Science and Humanities Integration in Horizon Europe”. Invited speaker. 27 November 2025. Presented the Bauhaus of the Seas Sails consortium’s experience of SSH–STEM collaboration in this closed EU policy event. research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu
  8. Universidade da Beira Interior (UBI), Covilhã (03.10.2025). "Falar publicamente sobre design: prática, processo e resultados". PhD seminar. Invited speaker. iartes.ubi.pt/atividade/seminarios-tematicos-…
  9. Shopyard Summer School - Assembly #2, Braga (19.7.2026). Panel discussion. Invited panellist. Conversation with anthropologist Ana Catarino and architectural historian Janina Gosseye about the social and urban role of first-generation shopping malls, reflecting on their history, challenges and possible futures. Presentation of the “Learning from Babilónia” exercise conducted in 2013 as part of the Material Culture course taught at FBAUL. shopyard.pt/summer-school-en
  10. Câmara Municipal do Fundão (11.6.2025). "Bauhaus of the Seas Sails: An Inspirational Lighthouse". Bauhaus Bites – Positive Food Environments Fortified with Nature-Based Solutions and New European Bauhaus. Invited speaker. bauhausbites.eu/1577-2
  11. Nordic Edge, Stavanger (21.5.2025). NEB-STAR Festival Panel. Invited speaker. nebstar.eu/events/neb-star-festival
  12. Academy of Fine Arts, Sarajevo (17.5.2025). “Everything’s design research”. POPUP! Sarajevo. Invited speaker. popupfest.net
  13. Centro de Artes e Cultura de Ponte de Sor (8.5.2025). "Ponte de Sor: Criar no Tempo da Cortiça” Panel discussion organised by the Direção-Geral das Artes, Programa Nacional Saber Fazer programme. Invited speaker. programasaberfazer.gov.pt/laboratorios/ponte-…
  14. FBAUL (25.4.2025). "Liberdade, Liberdade, Liberdade". Panel discussion included in the event “aurelindo jaime ceia, o design, o ensino e as palavras inquietas”. Invited speaker. belasartes.ulisboa.pt/en/aurelindo-jaime-ceia…
  15. Trienal de Design da Covilhã (11.4.2025). "The Days of Spring International Conference". Panels 2, 4 & 5 – Causes and Opportunities; Long-term Commitments; Vivien Tauchmann: Process and Residency. Invited moderator (3 panels). trienaldesigncovilha.pt/en/2025-internacional…
  16. Câmara Municipal da Maia (8.4.2025). "Bauhaus of the Seas Sails". New European Bauhaus (NEB): Da experiência presente ao futuro. Invited speaker.
  17. City of Munich (27.3.2025). "NEBourhoods for Tomorrow” Closing Conference. Invited speaker. nebourhoods.de/en/events/nebourhoods-for-tomo…
  18. Contextile – Bienal de Arte Têxtil Contemporânea, Guimarães (18.10.2024). "Fazer magazine". Educational TextileTALKS 2024. Invited speaker (with Vera Sacchetti). Presented, alongside Vera Sacchetti and Fátima São Simão, as part of the “Redes interdisciplinares” session, on Fazer magazine as a model for interdisciplinary design networks. contextile.pt/textile-talks_hook-up
  19. Escola Superior de Artes e Design das Caldas da Rainha, Instituto Politécnico de Leiria (ESAD.CR) (13.05.2024). "Fazer Magazine". Seminários Design para Debate VI. Invited speaker (with Vera Sacchetti). ipleiria.pt/esadcr/2024/04/21/seminario-frede…
  20. Universidade de Aveiro (23.3.2024). “Revista Fazer”. 10º Encontro Nacional de Estudantes de Design (ENED) – “Beyond Design: ideias com propósito para os próximos 100 anos”. Invited speaker. ened.pt
  21. Escuela de Diseño, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago de Chile (27.1.2024). "Fazer: revista de diseño en portugués". Panel discussion. Invited speaker. diseno.uc.cl/2024/01/charla-fazer-una-revista-de-diseno-portugues
  22. Associação DOC, Caldas da Rainha (6.1.2024). "Fazer: uma revista sobre design e arquitectura na língua portuguesa". Conversa DOCA: Lançamento da revista Fazer. Invited speaker.
  23. Mercado das Indústrias Criativas do Brasil (MICBR), Belém (11.11.2023). "Estratégias para a Internacionalização da Economia Criativa Brasileira” Panel. Invited speaker. micbr.com.br
  24. FBAUL (27.6.2023). "Design at Wine: mesa-redonda “o papel dos rótulos nos vinhos portugueses” Panel discussion. Invited speaker. belasartes.ulisboa.pt/en/design-at-wine-mesa-…
  25. IADE - Universidade Europeia (28.3.2023). “NEB Stewardship Lab #1 Lisbon Edition” Invited speaker to panel discussion with Päivi Keränen, NEB Stewardship LAB Coordinator/Metropolia University of Applied Sciences, Finland; Margarida Oliveira, National Contact Point at ANI/New European Bauhaus; Teresa Cálix, NEB Goes South Coordinator/Assistant Professor at Faculty of Architecture, University of Porto; Antje Disterheft, Member Executive Commission of the Portuguese Sustainable Campus Network/Researcher and integrated member at CENSE FCT - UNL; Emília Duarte, Head of UNIDCOM/IADE. iade.europeia.pt/en/eventos/universities-as-p…
  26. ESAD.CR (05.05.2023). "Bauhaus of the Seas Sails". Seminários Design para Debate V. Invited speaker. Seminar for the Industrial Design undergraduate degree, organised by Carla Cardoso and Teresa Fradique. ipleiria.pt/esadcr/2024/04/21/seminario-frede…
  27. EASD València, Valencia (23.2.2023). "Todo el diseño es local". Festival Diálogos. Invited Invited Keynote speaker. easdvalencia.com/dialogos-2023
  28. KreNI9/Mladi Ambasadori Conference, Niš (1.12.2023). "Increasing Exposure: Life Goals and Career Reinventions". Invited Invited Keynote speaker. kreni.org/2023
  29. NERLEI – Núcleo Empresarial da Região de Leiria, Leiria (6.12.2022). “Belo, Sustentável e em Conjunto”. A Criação de Comunidades Criativas enquanto Qualidade Aspiracional do Design. Invited Keynote speaker. nerlei.pt/pt/evento-nerlei/novas-tendencias-d…
  30. Estonian Design Centre, Tallinn (18.6.2022). "European Design Awards Conference" Invited moderator of Panel discussion with Spanish designer Isabel Inés. europeandesign.org/festivals/tallin-2022
  31. Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo, Universidade de São Paulo (30.11.2021). "A não coleção de design brasileiro no V&A: os desafios da curadoria de design contemporâneo". II Seminário Arquivos, Historiografia e Preservação: perspectivas contemporâneas. Invited speaker. Online lecture presenting doctoral research upon invitation of design historian Eduardo Costa. fau.usp.br/eventos/ii-seminario-arquivos-hist…
  32. BDMG Cultural, Belo Horizonte (22.11.2021). "O desafio contemporâneo do design brasileiro". Urbe Urge – Programa de fomento a projetos em resposta à emergência climática. Invited Keynote Speaker (online lecture).
  33. MAAT – Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisboa (23.04.2021). Invited moderator of the "Here and Elsewhere" panel discussion between artist Alice dos Reis and architect Paulo Moreira, part of the two-part programme OPEN/CLOSED SYSTEMS – 2021 Spring Opening at maat, accompanying the opening of three new exhibitions. maat.pt/en/event/openclosed-systems
  34. ESMAD, Instituto Politécnico do Porto, Porto (17.4.2021). “Algumas ideias pós-doutorais”. Drive – Design Related Investigation. Invited Keynote speaker. Online keynote address. drive.esmad.ipp.pt/pt
  35. Eesti Kunstiakadeemia (EKA), Tallinn (12.04.2021). "Beyond the Modern in Latin American Design". Design History Guest Speaker series. Invited speaker. Online lecture presenting my doctoral research, upon invitation of design critic Sandra Nuut.
  36. MAAT – Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisboa (20.1.2021). "Bauhaus of the Seas” NEB Co-Design Event, invited Master of Ceremonies. bauhaus-seas.eu/event/lisboa-maat-20-may-2021
  37. Victoria & Albert Museum, London (13.10.2020). "Our poor, beautiful and culturally rich country". VARI Lunchtime Research Seminar. Invited speaker.
  38. HAWK University of applied sciences and arts, Hildesheim (25.6.2020). "Critically curating design". Design am Mittwoch. Online keynote address.
  39. ESAD.CR (11.07.2019). "Living Cities/Cultura e Cidade". Seminar. Invited speaker. ipleiria.pt/esadcr/2020/05/25/living-cities
  40. FBAUL (01.04.2019). "Agência e inscrição no design". Seminário Mestrado em Design de Comunicação e Novos Media. Invited speaker. On the politics of design criticism and the agency of communication designers in contemporary political communication. belasartes.ulisboa.pt/en/agencia-e-inscricao-…
  41. Triennale di Milano, Milan (1.3.2019). "Meliponiculture as design humanism". Broken Nature Symposium. Invited speaker. brokennature.org/symposium-march-1
  42. KABK, The Hague (8.3.2019). "The contemporary challenge of Brazilian design". Research Studio Talks. Invited speaker.
  43. FBAUL (03.12.2018). "O que mostra um museu de design". Reflexões sobre design Seminar. Invited Keynote speaker. Lecture for undergraduate equipment-design students, paired with a talk by designer Pedro Neves; upon invitation of Ana Thudicum Vasconcelos. belasartes.ulisboa.pt/palestras-com-designers…
  44. Biblioteca de Marvila, Lisboa (27.11.2018). “O desafio contemporâneo do design brasileiro”. Era Uma Vez um País Programme. Invited Keynote speaker. Public lecture to Brazilian secondary-school students visiting Portugal.
  45. Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte (13.11.2018). “Como se Pronuncia Design em Português: Brasil Hoje”. Guest speaker lectures. Invited Keynote speaker.
  46. Torino Stratosferica, Turin (19.10.2018). “Thinking with Turin”. Utopian Hours. Invited speaker (Visiting Urban Explorer). torinostratosferica.it/en/edition-2018
  47. Design Museum, London (15.9.2018). "Reconsidering Canon in a Diverse World". Invited speaker. Panel discussion. Organised by Jana Scholze and Donna Loveday (Kingston University/Design Museum). designmuseum.org/whats-on/london-design-festi…
  48. Mind-Brain College, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisboa (21.06.2018). "Cause You Make Me Feel So Brand New: The Intertwining Trajectories of Design and Science". Design and Communication in Science Workshop. Invited speaker.
  49. Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool (24.11.2017). "Design & Empire: Empire Talks II". Invited speaker. Panel discussion with curators Mohamed Elshahed and Emily King. e-flux.com/announcements/161648/design-empire…
  50. Bonde Conference, New York (22.7.2017). “What if there’s no such thing as Brazilian design?”. Invited speaker. portorocha.com/bonde
  51. Birkbeck, University of London, London (6.6.2017). “The contemporary challenge of Brazilian design: an exhibition today, a collection tomorrow”. Birkbeck Cultures and Languages Student Conference 2017. Invited speaker.
  52. FBAUL (14.11.2016). “O desafio contemporâneo do design brasileiro”. Estudos Contemporâneos em Design. Invited Keynote speaker.
  53. Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing, São Paulo (14.9.2016). “O desafio contemporâneo do design brasileiro”. Mestrado em Design, ESPM. Invited Keynote speaker.
  54. Archdaily, Santiago de Chile (6.9.2016). “The contemporary challenge of Brazilian design”. Guest speaker series. Invited speaker.
  55. Escola Superior de Desenho Industrial (ESDI), UERJ, Rio de Janeiro (2.6.2016). “O desafio contemporâneo do design brasileiro”. Invited Keynote speaker (inaugural lecture, 2016-17 academic year).
  56. A Escola Livre, São Paulo (23.8.2016). “Falar e escrever sobre design”. Invited Keynote speaker.
  57. Instituto Federal da Paraíba, João Pessoa (17.7.2016). “Os desafios do design brasileiro contemporâneo”. N Design Parahyba. Invited speaker.
  58. ESAD.CR (05.11.2015). "Não, eu não sou designer, bem, sou formado em design, mas...". Seminário Permanente de Investigação sobre Criação e Pensamento Contemporâneo. Invited speaker.
  59. Metropolitan School of Art, Manchester (29.4.2014). “Designing Brazil beyond the Cup”. Student Out of Play workshop. Invited Keynote speaker.
  60. Universität der Künste Berlin (21.11.2013). “Portuguese design – an empty slogan?”. designtransfer. Invited Keynote speaker.
  61. CIES-iscte, Lisboa (06.09.2012). "A Gente Transforma 2012". Curso de verão - América Latina Hoje. Invited speaker. iscte-iul.pt/noticia/curso-de-verao-america-l…
  62. Universidade de Coimbra (30.3.2012). “Pôr o design no seu lugar”. Encontro Nacional de Estudantes de Design. Invited Keynote speaker. ened.pt
  63. Instituto de Design de Guimarães (23.3.2012). "Design e Cidade". Panel discussion included in the programme of Guimarães 2012 European Capital of Culture. Invited speaker.
  64. Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisboa (15.11.2011). "Factor Favela". Programa Próximo Futuro: Observatório de África e da América Latina. Invited speaker. Lecture examining how Brazilian design practice, journalism and criticism conflate origin with identity and “gambiarra” with frugal innovation; later published as an essay in Projeto magazine. proximofuturo.gulbenkian.pt/blog/observatorio…
  65. Museu da Ciência da Universidade de Coimbra (12.4.2011). “Ferramentas”. Ciclo de Conversas Design + Multimédia. Invited Keynote speaker.
  66. Royal College of Art, London (21.1.2011). “The added values of human resources in Brazilian product and furniture design”. Brazil: the Cultural Contemporary Conference. Invited speaker.
  67. Centro de Design de Recife (9.11.2010). “Uma Cidade Ideal Está por Vir”. Festival de Design Revela 2010. Invited Keynote speaker.
  68. Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisboa (05.11.2010). "A Felicidade está à venda?". 4th Próximo Futuro Research Workshop: Felicidade. Invited speaker. Workshop organised by António Pinto Ribeiro with the Gulbenkian Environment Programme, examining the role of happiness in design. proximofuturo.gulbenkian.pt/observatorio/a-fe…
  69. Parsons the New School of Design, New York (10.10.2010). "Beyond the Fruit Hat". Global Issues in Design and Visuality. Invited Keynote speaker.
  70. School of Visual Arts, New York (30.4.2010). “Alvorada: How Social Change Is Shaping Brazilian Design and Creating Brazil’s Own Design Model”. Crossing the Line: The 2010 D-Crit Conference. Invited speaker.
  71. Experimentadesign, Lisboa (13.9.2009). "Stop & Think". EXD'09 Open Talk. Invited speaker. experimentadesign.com/2009/pt/02-03-02.html
  72. European Parliament, Brussels (21.4.2009). “Criticism matters for European Creativity”. Europe's Creative Regions and Cities Forum. Invited speaker.
  73. ESEIG – Instituto Politécnico do Porto, Vila do Conde (24.04.2007). "E Agora?". Ciclo de Palestras – Licenciatura em Design. Invited Keynote speaker.

Awards and grants

Distinctions 4

  1. Paula Rhodes Memorial Award in Design Criticism – SVA Top of Class, School of Visual Arts, New York (2010). Award honours MFA degree candidates whose work is deemed exceptional by their chair and faculty.
  2. 100 Young European Talents (2009). European Parliament. Brussels. Distinction awarded in the context of Europe's Creative Regions and Cities Forum.
  3. Frieze Writer's Prize – Highly Recommended (2009). frieze magazine. London. Mention for a review of "Speed Limits" (CCA, Montreal), published in icon magazine.
  4. AnimaRoma Award – First Prize (2002). Comune di Roma. Rome. First Prize (with Chiara Ternullo and Pedro Teixeira de Melo) in the AnimaRoma Award for architecture.

Competitive grants and scholarships 4

  1. AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Studentship (2014–2018). Arts and Humanities Research Council. Birkbeck, University of London. Ref. 1474635. Competitive doctoral funding.
  2. FCT Doctoral Scholarship (2015–2019). Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia. Birkbeck, University of London. Ref. SFRH/BD/100496/2014. Held concurrently with AHRC studentship.
  3. Bolsa de Especialização e Valorização Profissional em Artes (2008–2010). Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian/FLAD. New York. Full studentship for professional specialisation in the United States (MFA, SVA).
  4. SVA Design Criticism MFA Department Scholarship (2009). School of Visual Arts. New York. Scholarship granted to top of class students.

Teaching

Course units

* Course unit coordinator

Faculdade de Belas-Artes, Universidade de Lisboa (FBAUL) 2011–2015, 2019–

  • Estudos em Design*BA Design de Comunicação, 3rd year
  • Design de Comunicação IV*BA Design de Comunicação, 2nd year
  • Design de EdiçãoBA Design de Comunicação, 3rd year
  • Projeto IIMA Design de Comunicação, 1st year
  • História e Crítica do Design I and II*BA Design de Comunicação, 1st year
  • Cultura Material*BA Design de Comunicação, 3rd year
  • Estudos Contemporâneos em Design*MA Design de Comunicação, 1st year
  • Produção em Novos Media*MA Design de Comunicação e Novos Media, 1st year

Escola Superior de Artes e Design das Caldas da Rainha (ESAD.CR) 2010–2014

  • Teoria e Crítica do Design*BA Design Industrial, 2nd year
  • Seminário*BA Design Industrial, 3rd year
  • Opção Livre – Design e Cultura Material*BA Design Industrial, 3rd year
  • Modelos Profissionais e de Comunicação*BA Design Industrial
  • Seminário Interdisciplinar*MA Design de Produto, 1st year
  • Seminário de Crítica de Design*MA Design de Produto, 2nd year
  • Design de Estratégia*MA Design de Produto
  • Atelier de Design IMA Design de Produto, 1st year

Escola Superior de Desenho Industrial (ESDI–UERJ), Rio de Janeiro 2020–21

  • Design em um mundo em colapso*Graduate Programme in Design (60 h, one semester)

Parsons the New School of Design, New York 2009–10

  • Global Issues in Design and Visuality in the 21st Century: Culture (teaching assistant to Susan Yelavich)BA Design, 3rd year

Doctoral teaching 2

  1. Seminar I: Digital Media PhD Programme - ULisboa/UP/NOVA (2023–24). Seminar co-coordinated with Mariana Pestana, exposing PhD students to interdisciplinary research at the intersection of ecology, design, architecture and Human-Computer Interaction. Inspired by the Bauhaus of the Seas Sails research agenda and centred on the fourth wave of HCI.
  2. Faculdade de Arquitetura, Universidade de Lisboa (2021–2026). "Making contemporary design public". PhD seminars. Recurring invited contributor (2021, 2025, 2026).

Coordination of degrees and course units 4

  1. Estudos em Design (2019–). Course coordinator. Licenciatura em Design de Comunicação, 3rd year. FBAUL. 7 consecutive academic years (2019–20 to 2025–26).
  2. Design de Comunicação IV (2019–2023). Course coordinator (with Suzana Parreira and Pedro Almeida). Licenciatura em Design de Comunicação, 2nd year. FBAUL. 4 academic years (2019–20 to 2022–23).
  3. História e Crítica do Design I–II/Estudos Contemporâneos em Design/Cultura Material (2011–2015). Course coordinator. Licenciatura em Design de Comunicação/Mestrado em Design de Comunicação e Novos Media. FBAUL. Multiple course units in the Design de Comunicação programme, 2011–12 to 2014–15.
  4. Design em um mundo em colapso (2020). Course co-organiser (with Zoy Anastassakis and Wellington Cançado). Programa de Pós-Graduação em Design, Escola Superior de Desenho Industrial (ESDI–UERJ), Rio de Janeiro. A 60-hour, one-semester graduate course (5 August–25 November 2020, delivered online during the COVID-19 pandemic), taking as its point of departure two texts written in distinct contexts – Victor Papanek’s “Design for the Real World” (1971) and Rafael Cardoso’s “Design para um Mundo Complexo” (2012) – to think through design’s implications in the climate catastrophe and the Anthropocene and to speculate on its multispecies, Afro-Indigenous and cosmopolitical possibilities. Structured around 8 key concepts – Anthropocene and extractivism; project and speculation; counter-colonial and feminist resistance; justice and care; multispecies resurgence; production and scale; cosmopolitics and territory; technique and animism – each traversed by 2–3 reference texts spanning design theory, anthropology and Indigenous Brazilian thought (Ailton Krenak, Davi Kopenawa, Antônio Bispo dos Santos, Anna Tsing, Paul B. Preciado, Arturo Escobar, Isabelle Stengers, Gui Bonsiepe). I co-led discussion of 7 of the course’s 23 reference texts, including Sasha Costanza-Chock, Arjun Appadurai and Arturo Escobar. The course’s second half was devoted to student-led design projects of free thematic and formal choice, developed over six weeks of group critique and public discussion.
Workshops and pedagogical initiatives 24
  1. Co-designing rituals with non-human cognition (2026). Scientific coordinator (with Mariana Simões). ITI/Future Worlds Lab (CIEBA), Lisboa. Interdisciplinary workshop conceived by Carlos Pastor Garcia, developing a Ritual Toolkit for aquatic ecosystems. Part of the scientific-pedagogical programme of the exhibition "Designing Sustainable Futures" (curated by Ana Mestre), Centro de Exposições do Pavilhão de Portugal. ulisboa.pt/evento/designing-sustainable-futures
  2. Bauhaus of the Seas Sails – From the Tagus to the Tile (2026). Co-organiser (with Jeremy Morris, Fahrenheit.works). New European Bauhaus Festival, Brussels. Hands-on workshop (~20 participants, incl. DG MARE staff) on the tools, materials and processes behind the oyster-based "From Tagus to the Tile" demonstrator pilot of the Bauhaus of the Seas Sails project. new-european-bauhaus.europa.eu/festival/works…
  3. The Days of Spring – Covilhã Design Triennial International Conference (2025). Co-organiser (with Vera Sacchetti). Trienal de Design da Covilhã. International conference with designers from Brazil, Peru, Switzerland, Cape Verde, China and the UK. Moderation of 3 panel sessions. trienaldesigncovilha.pt
  4. Who's Eating Sarajevo (2025). Workshop leader. Sarajevo Academy of Fine Arts/Pop-Up Festival. EU Erasmus Staff Mobility. 5-day workshop on local and transeuropean food systems within the Bauhaus of the Seas framework. popupfest.net
  5. Como fazer um portefólio – Erasmus+ workshop (2024). Co-lead (with André Gouveia). FBAUL Academic Division/Mobility Services. Portfolio workshop for Communication Design students. Under PRR Impulso Adulto programme. November 2024. belasartes.ulisboa.pt/en/workshop-como-fazer-…
  6. Reading the Ocean (2024). Co-organiser. Bauhaus of the Seas Sails/IST, Oeiras. Three-day consortium conference (50+ participants) with public ocean literacy programme. bauhaus-seas.eu
  7. NEB Lighthouse Projects joint workshop (2024). Co-organiser. New European Bauhaus FAIR, Art and History Museum, Brussels. Workshop gathering all 6 NEB Lighthouse projects (30 participants) on the role of artists and creatives in large-scale territorial projects and questions of gentrification in neighbourhood-based interventions.
  8. Fazer #2 guided tours Culturgest Porto (2024). 3 guided tours of the exhibition-as-magazine "Fazer #2", co-curated with Vera Sacchetti, for the general public at Culturgest Porto. culturgest.pt/pt/media/fazer
  9. 75DH30: 75 anos da Declaração Universal dos Direitos Humanos no Metro de Lisboa (2023–2024). Co-organiser and co-curator (with Suzana Parreira and Pedro Almeida). UNRIC/Metro de Lisboa. Exercise developed with students of the Design de Comunicação IV course commissioned by UNRIC for a public exhibition shown in 4 Lisbon Metro stations. unric.org/pt/75dh30 Currently submitted for the ULisboa Prémio de Inovação Pedagógica 2026 (with Suzana Parreira and Pedro Almeida).
  10. Fazer #1 guided tours Fidelidade Arte, Lisboa (2023). 18 guided tours of the exhibition-as-magazine "Fazer #1", co-curated with Vera Sacchetti, for the general public and for student groups from ETIC, António Arroio, ESAD.CR, FBAUL and IADE, plus professional groups including Fidelidade Arte staff and the Ephemera Archive Association. culturgest.pt/pt/media/fazer
  11. BECOMING ASSEMBLY: On the Whys and Hows of Design Today (2023). Invited speaker. Colectivos Pláka/Galeria Municipal do Porto. Course curated by Vera Sacchetti on paradigm changes in contemporary design practice. plaka.porto.pt
  12. Responsible Tourism for a More Inclusive and Positive Impact (2019). Workshop leader and co-organiser. ESAD Caldas da Rainha/ZHdK. 9-day international workshop with 25 students from the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) and Portuguese design schools. Coord.: Carla M. Cardoso. responsibletourism.pt
  13. Workshop "Se esta rua fosse minha" (2024). Organiser. Culturgest, Fidelidade Arte, Porto. Workshop led by Brazilian designer and activist Peter Füssy on urban design from a child’s point of view, part of the "Fazer #2" public programme.
  14. KreNI9 Festival of Creativity – “Increasing exposure: Life goals and career reinventions” workshop (2023). Workshop leader. Young Ambassadors/Mladi Ambasadori, Niš, Serbia. Full-day workshop with young participants on staying relevant in a changing creative economy, following the keynote address listed under Invited talks. One of 10 international experts invited to this festival of creativity in south-eastern Serbia.
  15. Como se Pronuncia Design em Português: Brasil Hoje guided tours (2017). Guided tour leader. MUDE – Museu do Design, Lisboa. 27 guided tours of the exhibition for schools, universities and the public, central to its public-facing pedagogical programme.
  16. Semi-Industrial (2014). Workshop co-lead (with Pedro Ferreira, Pedrita Studio). Instituto Europeo di Design, Madrid. One-week workshop drawing on Fabrico Próprio research, using food – its materials, processes, histories and rituals – as a lens to explore how design shapes and is shaped by, what, why and how we eat.
  17. Intervalo para o Conhecimento (2013–2014). Co-organiser (with Carla Cardoso). SNBA, Lisboa. Seminar series inviting 64 artists, designers, architects and researchers to re-present their MA and doctoral theses in a non-academic, open context. Bridges academic knowledge production and public discourse.
  18. Juntos (2013–2014). Co-organiser and moderator (with Carla Cardoso and Nuno Faria). SNBA, Lisboa. Panel series gathering designers, architects and artists with their respective clients to discuss specific projects. 14+ sessions including: h3 restaurant branding, Conserveira de Lisboa rebranding, Blitz newspaper design. snba.pt
  19. Critical: Lisbon. Speak to the City, Speak with the City (2012). Workshop co-lead (with Lev Bratishenko and Becky Quintal). Trienal de Arquitectura de Lisboa. Week-long workshop on expression, writing and critical publishing about architecture, conceived as a speculative editorial project examining the gap between architects and the public in their shared desire to improve the city.
  20. O Recife Não é Só Praia: uma oficina rápida sobre crítica de arquitectura (2010). Workshop leader. Centro de Design Recife/Revela Design Festival, Recife. Workshop on architecture criticism.
  21. Putting Architecture in its Place (2010). Workshop co-lead (with Becky Quintal). Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal. One-week CCC Day Camp on talking, discussing, writing and publishing critical thoughts and observations about architecture, examining the architecture critic’s dual role as disciplinary advocate and urban/social activist.
  22. I am currently co-supervising six PhD students at ITI, FAUL, FBAUL and UBI, and two MA students at FBAUL. At ITI, the doctoral thesis projects of candidates Carlos Pastor Garcia, Fernanda Costa and Mariana Simões are examples of Bauhaus of the Seas Sails-inspired interdisciplinary research around HCI design and the more-than-human paradigm: Carlos Pastor Garcia is investigating installation design as a practice of symbiotic mediation between materials, people and other species; Fernanda Costa is addressing the potential of biomaterials for the design of pedagogical experiences for children; Mariana Simões is developing a digital platform for sharing restorative material manufacturing methods related to the Tagus River.
  23. At FAUL, Rita João is reflecting on her design practice through the iterations of a tile-related, two-decade project. At UBI, Pedro Sousa is addressing the convergence of craft, industrial and digital ecosystems with a design futures approach. At FBAUL, Rita Frutuoso Oliveira is researching the shared heritage of ceramics and pastry making in Portugal.
  24. Also at FBAUL, Communication Design MA students Afonso Horta and Ana Rita Nascimento are respectively addressing queer clubbing visual culture and digital literacy in the disinformation age.

Supervision

PhD co-supervision, ongoing 6

  1. Costa, F. (2026–). "Cast Ashore: Fostering environmental awareness through Digital Storytelling…". PhD Digital Media (UL/UP/NOVA). Co-supervisor (with Valentina Nisi)
  2. Cunha, R.J.V. (2024–). "Design e azulejaria de painel: Grão". PhD Design, FA-UL. Co-supervisor (with Pedro Cortesão Monteiro)
  3. Garcia, C.P. (2024–). "Symbiotic estuary: HCI design with fictional narratives to generate affection for interspecies caring in the Lisbon Tagus". PhD Digital Media (UL/UP/NOVA). Co-supervisor (with Anton Poikolainen Rosén and Mariana Pestana)
  4. Simões, M. (2024–). "Materialscapes: digital narratives about thinking-with and making-with the world". PhD Digital Media (UL/UP/NOVA). Co-supervisor (with Mariana Pestana and Valentina Nisi)
  5. Sousa, P. (2026–). "Futuros do Design de Mobiliário Português: Convergência entre Ecossistemas Artesanais, Industriais e Digitais para a Transferência de Conhecimento em contextos produtivos territorialmente situados (Paredes/Paços de Ferreira; Gondomar; Nordeste Transmontano)". PhD Design, UBI. Co-supervisor (with Mónica Romãozinho)
  6. Oliveira, R.F. (2025-). “O barro e a doçaria portuguesa: o design como mediador num processo de experimentação visual, sensorial e gastronómica.” PhD Belas-Artes, especialidade Design de Comunicação, FBAUL. Co-supervisor (with Suzana Parreira)

MA supervision, ongoing 2

  1. Horta, A. (2026–). "Design Perspectives on Clubbing Experience". MA, Design de Comunicação, FBAUL. Role: Supervisor
  2. Nascimento, A.R. (2026–). "O Design de Comunicação Como Instrumento de Literacia Visual e Digital". MA, Design de Comunicação, FBAUL. Role: Supervisor

MA supervision, completed 7

  1. Pinto dos Santos, J.P. (2025). "QUEER ARCHIVE: an Imagined Curriculum". MA, Design de Comunicação, FBAUL. Role: Supervisor. hdl.handle.net/10400.5/99418
  2. Miyashiro, L.A. (2025). "A Paisagem Tipográfica nas ruas de Portugal e Brasil". MA, Práticas Tipográficas e Editoriais Contemporâneas, FBAUL. Role: Co-supervisor (with Emerson Nunes Eller). hdl.handle.net/10400.5/99080
  3. Saavedra, M.S. (2022). "Ocupar, construir, habitar: um projeto contra-cartográfico sobre o Bairro 6 de Maio". MA, Design de Comunicação, FBAUL. Role: Co-supervisor (with Pedro Almeida). hdl.handle.net/10451/53432
  4. Oliveira, C.F.M.G. (2022). "Êstes Construíram Brasília: uma (anti)celebração crítica dos 60 anos da capital brasileira". MA, Design de Comunicação e Novos Media, FBAUL. Role: Co-supervisor (with Sofia Gonçalves). hdl.handle.net/10451/53460
  5. C) Performance in other activities relevant to the mission of the institution
  6. Beyond research and teaching, I have consistently contributed to the broader cultural and educational mission of higher education through curatorial practice, civic initiatives and institutional service. My 15 curated exhibitions function as extended research environments with their own public programmes; my civic work – most notably the Lojas com História project – has resulted in permanent policy change at municipal level.
  7. Since 2011 I have taught at FBAUL as a Guest Assistant Lecturer (Assistente Convidado) – including since completing my PhD in 2021 – at a maximum dedication of 59%, the ceiling permitted for this category; under FBAUL’s Statutes (Diário da República, 2.ª série, n.º 5, 8 January 2021), this part-time status has not made me eligible for election to the Conselho Científico (Art. 26.º, n.º 1, alínea a)) or Conselho de Departamento (Art. 49.º, n.º 1) – a structural constraint of my employment category that appointment to the Assistant Lecturer position under this call would resolve.

Academic service

Scientific committees and editorial boards 6

  1. UD26 Doctoral Student Conference (2026). Scientific Committee Member. Universidade de Aveiro. ud26.web.ua.pt
  2. 2025 ACM DIS Conference (2025). Interactive Technologies Institute/IST, Funchal. Communication Chair of major international HCI academic conference. dis.acm.org
  3. V Simposio de la Fundación Historia del Diseño (2025). Scientific Committee Member. Fundación Historia del Diseño, Barcelona. historiadeldisseny.org/es/actividades/congres…
  4. WAD?24 – What’s Around Design International Conference (2024). Scientific Committee Member. ISMAT – Instituto Superior Manuel Teixeira Gomes, Universidade Lusófona. Portimão, Portugal. International design conference with proceedings published by Springer Nature. whatsarounddesign.ismat.pt
  5. Entre Fazeres no Design: Portugal & Brasil (2024). Scientific Committee Member. FBAUL – funded by FCT (UIDB/04042/2020) and PRR Impulso Adulto. Two-day international platform for exchange between Portuguese and Brazilian designers. belasartes.ulisboa.pt/entre-fazeres-no-design…
  6. Fazer magazine (2023-). Co-founder and co-editor-in-chief (with Vera Sacchetti) fazer.design

Research units 2

  1. ITI-LarSyS – Interactive Technologies Institute, Universidade de Lisboa Research institution at Universidade de Lisboa and founding centre of LARSyS, the Associated Laboratory for Robotics and Engineering Systems (rated Excellent by FCT in 2025) dedicated to interdisciplinary research employing design as a strategic tool for human-centred innovation and for understanding socio-ecological systems. iti.larsys.pt I am currently an Integrated Researcher (2023–) and Post-doc Researcher (July 2023-July 2026), having been dedicated to the Bauhaus of the Seas Sails project as Communication Coordinator (2023-2026) and to the TIDAL ArtS project as Artistic Residency curatorial coordinator.
  2. Centro de Investigação e Estudos em Belas-Artes (CIEBA), FBAUL. Research and Studies Centre for visual arts, design, heritage and arts education (rated Very Good by FCT in 2025). cieba.belasartes.ulisboa.pt I am currently a Collaborator Researcher (2024– ) affiliated to the Design Experiences and Society Thematic Line and the Expanded Design (communication, media, cultures) Research Group.

PhD examination juries 2

  1. Pezzin, O.C. (2026). "Da matéria ao fluxo. A transição do Designer e do Design editorial de revista…". PhD, Design Industrial, UNESP, Brazil. Role: Arguer. hdl.handle.net/11449/320152
  2. Cordeiro, B.J.R. (2023). "A autoria na tatuagem contemporânea: Uma perspetiva de design". PhD, Design de Comunicação, FBAUL. Role: Arguer. hdl.handle.net/10451/58308

MA examination juries 7

  1. Nascimento, N.S.P. (2025). "Uma abordagem crítica às opacidades da IA criativa". MA, Design de Comunicação, FBAUL. Role: Main Arguer. hdl.handle.net/10400.5/117254
  2. Durão, A.C. (2025). "A (im)possibilidade de esquecer: memória, capitalismo de vigilância…". MA, Design de Comunicação, FBAUL. Role: Main Arguer. hdl.handle.net/10400.5/101485
  3. Tulio Filho, J.A. (2025). "A paz, o pão e 50 anos de (sem) habitação". MA, Design da Imagem, FBAUP. Role: Main Arguer. hdl.handle.net/10216/172430
  4. Ferreira, A.S. (2024). "Design sensorial: uma exposição sobre a tecnologia de arte vestível". MA, Design para a Sustentabilidade, FBAUL. Role: Main Arguer. hdl.handle.net/10451/63993
  5. Resende, F.A. (2023). "Design de Comunicação: contribuição para o desenvolvimento de estratégias…". MA, Design de Comunicação, FBAUL. Role: Main Arguer. hdl.handle.net/10451/56686
  6. Cunha, I.C.P. (2023). "Para um arquivo dissidente: uma reflexão crítica sobre o modelo e discurso do arquivo". MA, Design de Comunicação, FBAUL. Role: Main Arguer. hdl.handle.net/10451/56250
  7. Silva, H. (2010). "Glocalness: identidade e memória no design português contemporâneo". MA, Design, ESAD. Role: Main Arguer. hdl.handle.net/10400.26/6925

Award juries and evaluation panels 11

  1. Design About Wine – Wine label design Mutante magazine/FBAUL, Lisboa (2026). Jury member. mutante.pt/2026/05/mutante-awards-design-at-w…
  2. Tidal ArtS Azores Basin Artistic Residency Tidal ArtS, Ponta Delgada (2026). Jury member. tidalarts.eu/residency-1-azores-archipeligo-s…
  3. ADCE Student Awards 2025 – Communication & Creative Ideas Jury Art Directors Club Europe (ADCE), Disseny Hub Barcelona (2025). One of 19 international jurors in the Communication & Creative Ideas category, comprising educators and industry professionals from 13 European countries. adceurope.org/jury-adce-awards
  4. Comer com os Olhos Art & Food Residency Córtex Frontal, Arraiolos (2025). Jury member. cortexfrontal.org/comercomosolhos
  5. Design About Wine – Wine label design Mutante magazine/FBAUL, Lisboa (2025). Jury member. mutante.pt/2025/05/mutante-awardsdesign-at-wi…
  6. Prémios Clube da Criatividade – Design Clube da Criatividade de Portugal, Lisboa (2023). Jury member. clubedacriatividade.pt/premios-ccp-ano/2023
  7. Bauhaus of the Seas Sails “Eating Between Tides” Residency Jury ITI/IST, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisboa (2023). Jury member. gulbenkian.pt/en/apoios-lista/art-food-reside…
  8. Estonian Design Awards – Service Design Estonian Design Centre, Tallinn (2022). Jury President. disainikeskus.ee
  9. European Design Awards – Print Jury Athens/Tallinn (2022). Jury member. europeandesign.org
  10. V Bienal Iberoamericana de Diseño (BID16) Matadero Madrid (2016). One of 7 international jurors. bid-dimad.org/bid16/jurado
  11. Designs of the Year Design Museum, London (2013–2016). Invited annually as a nominator for the Design Museum Designs of the Year Award. Several nominations made the final selection each year and were shown in the Design Museum annual exhibition. designmuseum.org/design/beazley-designs-of-th…

Peer review 5

  1. NORDES 2025 – 11th Nordic Design Research Conference (2025). Ad hoc reviewer. OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University. Oslo, Norway, 6–8 August 2025. Reviewed submissions for this peer-reviewed Design Research Society/Nordic Design Research Society conference, themed “Relational Design”. uni.oslomet.no/nordes2025
  2. WAD?24 – What’s Around Design International Conference (2024). Reviewer. ISMAT – Instituto Superior Manuel Teixeira Gomes, Universidade Lusófona. Portimão, Portugal. Reviewed 3 submitted papers as a member of the conference’s Scientific Committee; proceedings published by Springer Nature. whatsarounddesign.ismat.pt
  3. UD24 – Unfolding Design Boundaries (2024). Ad hoc reviewer. DeCA – Departamento de Comunicação e Arte, Universidade de Aveiro. Aveiro, Portugal, 4–5 July 2024. Reviewed 1 submitted paper for the 11th edition of this annual meeting of Design PhD researchers. ud24.web.ua.pt
  4. Daimon – Revista Internacional de Filosofía (2023). Ad hoc reviewer. Universidad de Murcia. Reviewed 2 submissions in 2023 for this peer-reviewed philosophy journal, as listed in its annual reviewer acknowledgements (Daimon, n.º 92, 2024, p. 237). revistas.um.es/daimonB) Teaching Capacity
  5. I have taught continuously since 2009 at Higher Education Institutions in New York, Caldas da Rainha, Lisbon and Rio de Janeiro (online); however, I suspended my teaching activity between 2015 and 2019 to pursue my doctoral studies, which were funded by a AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Studentship (Ref. 1474635) and a FCT Doctoral Scholarship (Ref. SFRH/BD/100496/2014) held during this period.
Conferences, panels and events organised 36
  1. Interspecies Research Studio (30.6.2026). Organiser (invited). Panel discussion. Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa. Roundtable convening the Interspecies Research Studio (ITI–LARSyS); 7 researcher-designers presented work from the exhibition Interespécies (MAC/CCB, 2025). ulisboa.pt
  2. NEB Lighthouses: Mapping Impact Across Systems & Places (12.6.2026). Organiser (open call). Panel discussion. New European Bauhaus Festival, Brussels, Belgium. With Andrea Hrzic. Representatives of the first 6 NEB lighthouse demonstrators shared achievements and reflected on the NEB legacy. new-european-bauhaus.europa.eu
  3. The New Design Museum (25.11.2025). Organisation and co-moderation (with Delfim Sardo) of a conversation with curator Beatrice Leanza, author of The New Design Museum: Co-creating the Present, Prototyping the Future (Park Books, 2025), alongside the designer Eva Gonçalves and the design critic Silvio Lorusso. Organised by the Licenciatura e Mestrados em Design de Comunicação and the Mestrado em Curadoria e Crítica, FBAUL. belasartes.ulisboa.pt
  4. Como projetar uma revolução: a via chilena para o design – Conferência Pedro Inacio Alonso Faculdade de Arquitetura, Universidade de Lisboa (20.11.2025). Co-organiser (with Pedro Cortesão Monteiro e Jorge Nunes) of conference by curator Pedro Ignacio Alonso to present the SYNCO room reconstruction; joint effort with FBAUL, organised with Campo Arquitectura and Galeria Antecâmara. fa.ulisboa.pt
  5. Como projetar uma revolução: a via chilena para o design – Conferência Hugo Palmarola. FBAUL, Lisboa (18.11.2025). Co-Organiser (with Victor Almeida and Ana Thudicum Vasconcelos) of conference by curator Hugo Palmarola to present the exhibition on design under Salvador Allende’s Chile (1970–73); funded by CIEBA with support from the Embassy of Chile. belasartes.ulisboa.pt
  6. Making Waves – Designing Regenerative Coastal Futures, Ocean Space, Venice (15.11.2025). Co-organiser, as Communication Coordinator of Bauhaus of the Seas Sails, of the project’s closing conference with its 18 partners; conceived the Cabinet of Curiosities and Long Table formats. bauhaus-seas.eu
  7. The ___ Knows Everything Tasting European Commission’s DG REGIO/European Committee of the Regions, Brussels, Belgium (14.10.2025). Co-organiser (with Andrea Hrzic) of Speculative gastronomy pilot presentation by Katinka Versendaal at the European Week of Regions and Cities. bauhaus-seas.eu
  8. Comer com os Olhos Art & Food Residency Córtex Frontal, Arraiolos (2025). Co-curator (with Mercedes Vidal-Abarca, Diogo Ramalho and Rita João) of a residency pairing visual artists and gastronomes that resulted in open kitchen events, a book and a group exhibition at Galeria Plato, Porto. cortexfrontal.org
  9. The Days of Spring – International Conference of the Covilhã Design Triennial Trienal de Teatro Municipal da Covilhã (11-12.4.2025). Co-organiser (with Vera Sacchetti). trienaldesigncovilha.pt
  10. aula aberta dciv _ the designer as… FBAUL (13.3.2024). Co-organiser (with Suzana Parreira and Pedro Almeida) of open class with Gemma Copeland (Common Knowledge) and Ruben Pater. belasartes.ulisboa.pt
  11. Conversa com Nacho Padilla Culturgest Porto (10.2.2024). Co-organiser (with Vera Sacchetti) of Fazer #2 exhibition panel discussion about Nacho Padilla’s work as creative director of Madrid and Barcelona. culturgest.pt/pt/media/fazer
  12. Lançamento Fazer #1: conversa entre Frederico Duarte Tereza Bettinardi e Ethel Leon Livraria Eiffel, São Paulo (30.1.2024). Organiser and moderator of magazine launch and panel discussion. Supported by República Portuguesa – Cultura/DGArtes and the Consulate-General of Portugal in São Paulo.
  13. Lançamento Fazer #1: conversa entre Frederico Duarte e Zoy Anastassakis Livraria da Travessa, Rio de Janeiro (26.1.2024). Organiser and moderator of first Brazilian launch of Fazer #1 and panel discussion. Supported by República Portuguesa – Cultura/DGArtes and the Consulate-General of Portugal in Rio de Janeiro.
  14. O que pode um livro?: conversa com Tereza Bettinardi Fidelidade Arte, Lisboa (20.12.2023). Co-organiser and moderator (with Vera Sacchetti) of Fazer #1 exhibition panel discussion about the Portuguese Book Design Award. culturgest.pt/pt/media/fazer
  15. Trabalhar em design e arquitetura em Portugal: conversa com Guilherme Sousa Fidelidade Arte, Lisboa (28.11.2023). Organiser and moderator of Fazer #1 exhibition panel discussion about labour conditions in design and architecture in Portugal. culturgest.pt/pt/media/fazer
  16. A Verdade do Vinho: conversa com Luís M. Jorge Fidelidade Arte, Lisboa (15.11.2023). Organiser and moderator of Fazer #1 exhibition panel discussion with writer and wine critic Luís M. Jorge on design and wine in Portugal. culturgest.pt/pt/media/fazer
  17. Uma oportunidade perdida: conversa com investigadores Fidelidade Arte, Lisboa (31.10.2023). Co-organiser and moderator (with Vera Sacchetti) of Fazer #1 exhibition panel discussion with design researchers from several Portuguese institutions discussed design history and research integrity. culturgest.pt/pt/media/fazer
  18. Os dias da propaganda: conversa com representantes de partidos Fidelidade Arte, Lisboa (18.10.2023). Co-organiser and moderator (with Vera Sacchetti) of Fazer #1 exhibition panel discussion with representatives of the 8 parties in the Portuguese Parliament about political propaganda. culturgest.pt/pt/media/fazer
  19. O valor do design: conversa com Inma Bermúdez Fidelidade Arte, Lisboa (4.10.2023). Organiser and moderator of Fazer #1 exhibition panel discussion with Spanish designer Inma Bermúdez. culturgest.pt/pt/media/fazer
  20. disseny obert // design aberto FBAUL (29.9.2023). Co-organiser (with Pedro Almeida and Suzana Parreira) of presentation of a student-built online design-text bibliography, with EASD València project founders Carmen Martínez and Rosario Ibañez. belasartes.ulisboa.pt/en/disseny-obert-design…
  21. Reading the Ocean Oeiras (26-28.9.2023). Co-organiser (with Mariana and Cristiano Pedroso-Roussado) of three-day conference that gathered 50+ representatives of the Bauhaus of the Seas Sails consortium, with public programmes on Ocean Literacy. bauhaus-seas.eu
  22. Design, autarquia e autonomia FBAUL (20.2.2020). Co-organiser and moderator (with Raul Cunca) of conference by Brazilian design historian Ethel Leon on Gui Bonsiepe’s work in Chile and Brazil. belasartes.ulisboa.pt/en/the-italian-autarky-…
  23. a Esdi nos (pre)ocupa FBAUL (27-28.10.2017). Co-organiser (with Victor Almeida) of a once-day symposium celebrating ESDI, the first design school in Brazil, Latin America and the Portuguese-speaking world, with a faculty solidarity declaration. belasartes.ulisboa.pt/en/esdi
  24. Juntos: Blitz SNBA, Lisboa (27.11.2014). Co-organiser (with Carla Cardoso and Nuno Faria) and moderator of panel discussion with designer Cândida Teresa and Manuel Falcão on the design of the Blitz music newspaper, founded in 1984. snba.pt
  25. Juntos: Conserveira de Lisboa SNBA, Lisboa (26.6.2014). Co-organiser (with Carla Cardoso and Nuno Faria) and moderator of panel discussion with designer Guilherme Cartaxo and Tiago Cabral Ferreira on the rebranding of Lisbon’s oldest tinned-fish company. snba.pt
  26. Juntos: Cozinha Comunitária Terras da Costa SNBA, Lisboa (29.5.2014). Co-organiser (with Carla Cardoso and Nuno Faria) and moderator of panel discussion with architects Tiago Mota Saraiva and Rúben Teodoro about their design for the community kitchen project with the head of Terras da Costa residents Association Durval Carvalho. snba.pt
  27. Juntos: Pentecostes SNBA, Lisboa (19.12.2013). Organiser (invited). Panel discussion. SNBA, Lisboa. With Carla Cardoso and Nuno Faria. Artist Ilda David and writer José Tolentino Mendonça discussed the Pentecostes painting at Capela do Rato. snba.pt
  28. Juntos: h3 SNBA, Lisboa (29.12.2013). Co-organiser (with Carla Cardoso and Nuno Faria) and moderator of panel discussion with designer Ricardo Mealha and Albano Melo on the branding of the h3 restaurant chain. snba.pt
  29. Juntos: Candeeiros Luxfacit Mecametal/FNAC SNBA, Lisboa (8.11.2013). Co-organiser (with Carla Cardoso and Nuno Faria) and moderator of panel discussion with designer Jorge Alves and Diamantino Botica, head of the Mecametal/FNAC cooperative, on a 1980s Portuguese-made lighting line. snba.pt
  30. Juntos: Optimus Primavera Sound SNBA, Lisboa (17.10.2013). Co-organiser (with Carla Cardoso and Nuno Faria) and moderator of panel discussion with artist João Paulo Feliciano and Pedro Moreira da Silva (Communication Director, Optimus) on the design of the Primavera Sound Festival in Porto. snba.pt
  31. Intervalo para o Conhecimento SNBA, Lisboa (2013–2014). Co-organiser (with Carla Cardoso) of a Seminar series in which 64 artists, designers, architects and researchers re-presented their MA/PhD theses in a public, non-academic setting. snba.pt
  32. Um século em 24 horas SNBA, Lisboa (2-4.6.2013). Co-organiser (with Carla Cardoso and Nuno Faria) and moderator of a 56-interview live marathon for the “Arquivo” exhibition, marking over a century of SNBA history. snba.pt
  33. Juntos: Edições Tinta da China SNBA, Lisboa (27.3.2013). Co-organiser (with Carla Cardoso and Nuno Faria) and moderator of the panel discussion with designer Vera Tavares and Bárbara Bulhosa. snba.pt
  34. Observatório de África e da América Latina: o lugar do design e da moda no Norte de África Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisboa (12.5.2012). Organiser and moderator of a full-day seminar on design and fashion in North Africa after the Arab Spring, for the Programa Próximo Futuro. proximofuturo.gulbenkian.pt/observatorio/o-lu…
  35. A prática profissional e o design em Portugal desde o séc. XVI ao séc. XX: o cartaz como interlocutor dessa história FBAUL (16.12.2011). Organiser of a conference by Helena Barbosa (Universidade de Aveiro) on her doctoral research dedicated to the history of the Portuguese poster. belasartes.ulisboa.pt/
  36. Inspired Lisbon by Bombay Sapphire (13-17.2.2008). Co-organiser (with Carla Cardoso and Namalimba Coelho) of a 5-day festival dedicated to design, creativity and curiosity.

Public engagement

Policy advisory panels 3

  1. Os 230 – Comissões de Cidadãos Advisor to 12th Commission – Culture, Communication, Youth & Sport (2026) Advised on proposals covering artistic practice spaces, media literacy, cultural responsibility, youth councils and sports patronage, presented at the Portuguese Parliament in May 2025. os230.pt
  2. SSH-Integration Reality Check (27.11.2025). Invited participant and presenter. Directorate-General for Research & Innovation, European Commission, Brussels. Invited by DG R&I to represent the Bauhaus of the Seas Sails project at a closed policy event with project coordinators, European Commission officials, evaluators and National Contact Point representatives. Following the event, the project was one of six Horizon Europe projects selected as best-practice cases of SSH–STEM integration in the EC publication “SSH integration in Horizon Europe: Examples and good practices” (Directorate-General for Research & Innovation, European Commission, 2025). research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu
  3. “Pensar Como Pensar 2050” – Lab2050 (16–17.09.2022). Invited participant. PlanAPP – Centro de Competências de Planeamento, de Políticas e de Prospetiva da Administração Pública, Presidência do Conselho de Ministros. Residential codesign session, Hotel dos Templários, Tomar. One of 32 invited participants “com elevadas qualificações académicas e relevantes experiências profissionais” in the opening methodological meeting of Lab2050 – a Lisbon-government strategic foresight project (Jul. 2022–Oct. 2023) tasked with defining how to conduct a truly national and inclusive public debate on “the Portugal we want for 2050.” Outputs fed into the project’s Action Programme and Carta de Missão and seeded the Clube 2050 practice network. (PlanAPP, “Retrato das Atividades do Projeto Lab2050,” Jan. 2023, pp. 13–16) planapp.gov.pt

Consulting 8

  1. Lojas com História (2014–2017). Founding consultation team member. Câmara Municipal de Lisboa/FBAUL. Founding team at FBAUL (with Álbio Nascimento and Isabel Lopes de Castro), invited by the Câmara Municipal de Lisboa to consult on the creation of Lojas com História – now a permanent municipal landmark programme protecting Lisbon’s historic shops. Roles included: articulating with 3 municipal departments (urbanism, economy and culture); defining the classification criteria for designed heritage; coordinating the programme’s branding and initial communication strategy. [lojascomhistoria.pt]
  2. Alcobaça UNESCO Creative City of Gastronomy (2021). Co-curator (with Rita João). Município de Alcobaça/Instituto Politécnico de Leiria. Co-curated Alcobaça’s application for UNESCO Creative City of Gastronomy designation with Rita João, as part of a multidisciplinary team led by the Instituto Politécnico de Leiria. Work encompassed conceptual framing across four strategic axes – Knowing, Transforming, Showing, Enjoying – grounded in an extensive engagement process: 38 stakeholder interviews and a public hearing with 65 participants. The application was ultimately not submitted following a decision by the UNESCO National Secretariat in Portugal.
  3. Advisory Board, The Science Office (2009–). Science communication consultancy. Board member. The Science Office combines science with communication and brings the scientific message to different publics, through original channels and contemporary languages.
  4. APES – Associação Portuguesa de Economia da Saúde (2011). Communication Study. Consultant. Proposal for editorial communication and community management consultancy.
  5. Futuros: Designing Progress and Resistance in Latin America (2019). Curatorial Concept Study. Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein. Commissioned proposal presenting the emancipatory potential of design in Latin America across a rich plurality of projects collected since the 1960s, from the halls of power to the city street, from supermarket aisles to the living room.
  6. Mercado das Indústrias Criativas do Brasil – MICBR (2018, 2023, 2025). Invited Specialist/“Buyer”. Ministério da Cultura do Brasil. Three editions of Brazil’s Creative Industries Market (São Paulo, Belém, Fortaleza); held formal advisory conversations with a large number of cultural agents, designers and other professionals on Brazilian contemporary design.
  7. "Ubiquitous Statue of Fernando Pessoa" (2022–). External Mentor. Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (KABK). External mentoring of João Henrique Viegas.
  8. Os 230 – Comissões de Cidadãos, 12th Commission: Culture, Communication, Youth & Sport (2025–2026). Advisor. Portuguese Parliament. Advised the commission’s two presidents and citizen-MPs on culture and communication policy proposals presented to the Assembleia da República (see also C.2, Civic service).
Dissemination initiatives 26
  1. "Making contemporary design public" (2021–2026). FA-UL PhD seminars. Recurring invited speaker.
  2. Two MICBR panels – Ministério da Cultura do Brasil (2023, 2025). Belém and Fortaleza. Invited panellist. "Estratégias para a Internacionalização da Economia Criativa Brasileira" (Belém) and "Hubs criativos e desenvolvimento urbano de territórios e cidades" (Fortaleza).
  3. The New Design Museum – conversation with Beatrice Leanza (2025). FBAUL – organised by Licenciatura e Mestrados em Design de Comunicação and Mestrado em Curadoria e Crítica. Co-moderator (with Delfim Sardo).
  4. BauhausBites 1st Consortium Meeting (2025). Câmara Municipal do Fundão. Invited speaker. Presented Bauhaus of the Seas Sails to 30+ consortium partners from 7 European cities. Led tour of Covilhã Design Triennial 2025.
  5. Right Here, Right Now: Bioregional Paths and Situated Practices (2025). Curator (with Vera Sacchetti). Trienal de Design da Covilhã, 7 venues. First Covilhã Design Triennial international exhibition; 16 projects on bioregional and situated design practices shown across 7 venues, accompanied by the two-day international conference “The Days of Spring” (see above).
  6. Liberdade, Liberdade, Liberdade – conference by Guilherme Sousa (2025). FBAUL. Co-moderator (with Sónia Rafael).
  7. Conversa Ponte de Sor: Criar no Tempo da Cortiça (2025). Centro de Artes e Cultura de Ponte de Sor. Invited panellist. With Américo Rodrigues (Director-General of the Arts), Ana Paula Amendoeira (Vice-President CCDR Alentejo) and Carlos Faisça (CEIS20, Universidade de Coimbra).
  8. Fazer #2 exhibition and guided tours (2024). Curator (with Vera Sacchetti). Culturgest Porto. Exhibition-as-magazine extending the Fazer project to Porto. 3 guided tours (Feb–May 2024) for the general public, plus moderated public conversations.
  9. Fazer magazine launches: Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Santiago de Chile, Caldas da Rainha (2024). Multiple venues. Co-presenter (with Vera Sacchetti). Supported by DGArtes, Comissão Comemorativa 50 anos 25 de Abril and Consulates of Portugal.
  10. Fazer #1 exhibition and guided tours (2023). Curator (with Vera Sacchetti). Fidelidade Arte, Lisboa. 18 guided tours (Oct 2023–Jan 2024) for the general public and student groups from ETIC, António Arroio, ESAD.CR, FBAUL and IADE, plus professional groups including Fidelidade Arte staff and the Ephemera Archive Association. 10+ moderated public conversations, including with Inma Bermúdez, Nacho Padilla and a panel on political propaganda design and a workshop led by Peter Füssy on urban design for children.
  11. "Increasing Exposure: Life Goals and Career Reinventions" (2023). KreNI9 Festival, Niš, Serbia. Keynote and workshop.
  12. "Belo, Sustentável e em Conjunto" (2023). NERLEI – Comunidades Criativas, Leiria. Keynote.
  13. "Todo el diseño es local" (2023). Festival Diálogos, EASD València. Keynote.
  14. Disseny Obert // Design Aberto (2023). Co-organiser (with Pedro Almeida and Suzana Parreira). FBAUL. Launch of a student-built online bibliography of essential design texts, modelled on and developed in partnership with EASD València’s Disseny Obert project (Carmen Martínez and Rosario Ibañez).
  15. "A Section of Now: Social Norms and Rituals as Sites for Architectural Intervention" (7.5.2022). Book reviewer. A Puta da Leitura, Antecâmara – Galeria e Rádio, Lisboa. Review, recorded for Julia Albani's radio programme, of Giovanna Borasi's edited volume on social norms and rituals as sites for architectural intervention (Canadian Centre for Architecture/Spector Books, 2022). [antecamara-galeria.pt/a-puta-da-leitura-a-sec…
  16. Visita Orientada com Frederico Duarte, Exposição Eileen Gray.E.1027.Arte Total, Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea (MNAC) do Chiado, Lisboa (10.2.2022). Invited by MNAC director Emilia Ferreira to guide a tour of the exhibition on Eileen Gray’s E.1027 house.
  17. Bauhaus of the Seas – NEB Co-Design Event (2021). MAAT, Lisboa. Master of Ceremonies. First Bauhaus of the Seas co-design event. [bauhaus-seas.eu/event/lisboa-maat-20-may-2021/]
  18. "Our poor, beautiful and culturally rich country" (2020). VARI Research Seminar, V&A Museum, London. Invited lecture.
  19. "Meliponiculture as design humanism" (2019). Broken Nature Symposium, Triennale di Milano. Invited speaker.
  20. Design Indaba Journalism Workshop (2008). Design Indaba, Cape Town. Tutor. One of 3 international tutors (alongside Marcus Fairs, Dezeen and Julie Lasky, ID magazine) in the inaugural Design Indaba Journalism Workshop led by Susan Yelavich.
  21. 75DH30: 75 anos da Declaração Universal dos Direitos Humanos no Metro de Lisboa (2023). Co-curator (with Suzana Parreira and Pedro Almeida). UNRIC/Metro de Lisboa. Public exhibition of 30 student posters shown across 4 Lisbon Metro stations, commissioned by the United Nations Regional Information Centre for Western Europe for the Declaration’s 75th anniversary.
  22. Como se Pronuncia Design em Português: Brasil Hoje exhibition and guided tours (2017). Curator. MUDE – Museu do Design, Lisboa. The largest exhibition curated by the candidate. 27 guided tours for audiences ranging from 8th-grade Brazilian students to graduate cohorts from FBAUL, IADE, ESAD, ISMAT, Universidade Lusíada and FA-UL, central to its public-facing pedagogical programme; talks and public conversations in Lisboa, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Belo Horizonte.
  23. Juntos & Intervalo para o Conhecimento Public Programmes (2013–2014). Co-organiser and moderator (with Carla Cardoso and Nuno Faria). SNBA, Lisboa. Two public-programme series run for 11 years as part of Projecto Sociedade. Juntos paired designers, architects and artists with their clients to discuss specific projects (12+ sessions, including Blitz, Conserveira de Lisboa, h3 and Edições Tinta da China); Intervalo para o Conhecimento invited 64 artists, designers, architects and researchers to re-present their MA and doctoral theses in a non-academic, public setting. [snba.pt]
  24. Projecto Sociedade exhibition cycle – Juventude – Projectos (2013), Arquivo and Protesto (2014). Curator (with Carla Cardoso, Bernardo Gaeiras and Nuno Faria). SNBA, Lisboa. Four-exhibition cycle under the motto “Devolver a Sociedade à Cidade”; Arquivo accompanied by the 56-interview “Um século em 24 horas” marathon. Ran alongside the Juntos and Intervalo para o Conhecimento public programmes (see above).
  25. Criticism matters for European Creativity (2009). Europe's Creative Regions and Cities Forum, European Parliament, Brussels. Invited speaker.
  26. Earlier international curatorial work (2001–2009). Curator/Assistant Curator. Triennale di Milano; Experimentadesign; MUDE. Fabrico Próprio (2008, MUDE), Timeless (2009, Experimentadesign), Made in Macau and Supply and Demand – EXD Voyager (2005, Experimentadesign) and (P) Portugal 1990–2004/2005 (Triennale di Milano, assistant curator). See A.2 for full curatorial project descriptions.
Courses and seminars 28
  1. Fabrico Próprio: tudo é pesquisa (2026). Speaker (invited). DELLI, Universidade Lusófona, Lisboa. Lecture for the Design/Não Design seminar class.
  2. Como projetar uma revolução: a via chilena para o design – conferência Hugo Palmarola (2025). Organiser (invited). FBAUL. 18 November 2025. Invited curator Hugo Palmarola to present the exhibition “How to Design a Revolution”, on design under Allende’s Chile (1970–73); funded by CIEBA with support from the Embassy of Chile. First of two joint conferences with FAUL (see below). [belasartes.ulisboa.pt]
  3. Como projetar uma revolução: a via chilena para o design – conferência Pedro Ignacio Alonso (2025). Organiser. Faculdade de Arquitetura, Universidade de Lisboa. 20 November 2025. Invited curator Pedro Ignacio Alonso to present the SYNCO room reconstruction (Cybersyn project); joint effort between FBAUL and FAUL, organised with Campo Arquitectura and Galeria Antecâmara, with support from the Embassy of Chile. [fa.ulisboa.pt]
  4. Falar publicamente sobre design: prática, processo e resultados (2025). Speaker (invited). Universidade da Beira Interior (UBI), Covilhã. PhD seminar.
  5. aula aberta DCIV – the designer as… (2024). Co-organiser (with Suzana Parreira and Pedro Almeida). FBAUL. Open class for the Design de Comunicação IV course with invited designers Gemma Copeland and Ruben Pater, exploring the political and cooperative dimensions of graphic design practice. [belasartes.ulisboa.pt]
  6. Fazer Magazine (2024). Speaker (invited, with Vera Sacchetti). ESAD.CR. Lecture in the Design para Debate VI Seminar, organised by Carla Cardoso and Teresa Fradique.
  7. Bauhaus of the Seas Sails (2023). Speaker (invited). ESAD.CR. Lecture in the Design para Debate V Seminar, organised by Carla Cardoso and Teresa Fradique for the Industrial Design undergraduate degree.
  8. Making Design Public (26.4.2022) Speaker (invited) IADE - Universidade Europeia Lisboa. Lecture in the Design PhD Seminar Guest Speaker series, upon invitation by Professor and head of IADE’s PhD programme, Ana Marques.
  9. Beyond the Modern in Latin American Design (2021). Speaker (invited). Eesti Kunstiakadeemia, Tallinn. Online lecture in the Design History Seminar Guest Speaker series, upon invitation by design critic Sandra Nuut.
  10. Design enquanto ato político (2021). Speaker (invited). BDMG Cultural & Cosmópolis, Escola de Arquitetura e Design da UFMG, Belo Horizonte. Live public interview within the URBE URGE seminar series, in conversation with architect and researcher Roberto Andrés, on design as political action.
  11. A não coleção de design brasileiro no V&A – Os desafios da curadoria de design contemporâneo (2021). Speaker (invited). Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo, Universidade de São Paulo. Online lecture in the II Arquivos, Historiografia e Preservação Seminar, upon invitation of Eduardo Costa.
  12. Design, autarquia e autonomia (2020). Co-organiser and co-moderator (with Raul Cunca). FBAUL. Session with design historian Ethel Leon on Gui Bonsiepe’s search for projective autonomy in Chile’s revolutionary government and Brazil’s developmentalist period.
  13. Critically Curating Design (2020). Speaker (invited). Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaft und Kunst, Hildesheim. Online lecture to Matthias Ries’s product design seminar aimed at undergraduate students, on research and curatorial processes.
  14. Seminário Living Cities/Cultura e Cidade (2019). Speaker (invited). ESAD.CR. Lecture in a seminar organised by Carla Cardoso and Lígia Afonso for the masters degree in Cultural Management and the Living Cities Observatory of the UNESCO Chair in Arts and Culture Management.
  15. The Contemporary Challenge of Brazilian Design (2019). Speaker (invited). Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (KABK). Lecture on doctoral research, upon invitation by Alice Twemlow, to her research studio seminar for KABK faculty.
  16. Agência e inscrição no design (2019). Speaker (invited). FBAUL. Lecture at the Mestrado em Design de Comunicação e Novos Media Seminar on the politics of design criticism in an era of atomised information and post-truth.
  17. ‘Cause you make me feel so brand new: The intertwining trajectories of design and science (2018). Speaker (invited). Mind-Brain College, Universidade de Lisboa – Faculdade de Medicina. Lecture at the Design and Communication in Science Workshop.
  18. O que mostra um museu de design (2018). Speaker (invited). FBAUL. Lecture in the Reflexões sobre design seminar, upon invitation of Ana Thudicum Vasconcelos, paired with a talk by designer Pedro Neves, bringing external practitioners into the classroom as a pedagogical resource.
  19. a Esdi nos (pre)ocupa (2017). Organiser. FBAUL. Two-day symposium (27–28 October 2017) on ESDI, the first higher education institution for design in Brazil, Latin America and the Portuguese-speaking world, organised with ESDI colleagues; included a faculty solidarity declaration signed by Portuguese design schools.
  20. Design para além da Gambiarra (2016). Speaker (invited). SESC Centro de Pesquisa e Formação, São Paulo. Guest lecture in the 4-class course “Design e Brasilidade”, led by curator Adélia Borges, on creativity that springs from precariousness.
  21. Não, eu não sou designer, bem, sou formado em design, mas... (2015). Speaker (invited). ESAD.CR. Lecture at the Seminário Permanente de Investigação sobre Criação e Pensamento Contemporâneo.
  22. O lugar do design e da moda no Norte de África (2012). Coordinator and moderator. Programa Gulbenkian Próximo Futuro – Observatório de África e da América Latina, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian. Full-day seminar on design and fashion in North Africa after the Arab Spring, with speakers Mirian Tavares (Universidade do Algarve), Sandra Muendane (CEsA), Omar Nagati (CLUSTER, Cairo) and Tarek Atrissi (Kaflab Foundation). [proximofuturo.gulbenkian.pt]
  23. A Gente Transforma 2012 (2012). Speaker (invited). CIES-ISCTE, Lisboa. Lecture at the Latin America Today Summer Course.
  24. A prática profissional e o design em Portugal desde o séc. XVI até ao final do séc. XX (2011). Organiser. FBAUL. Invited Helena Barbosa (Universidade de Aveiro) to present her doctoral research on the history of the Portuguese poster, including her virtual museum of 30,000 specimens, connecting students directly with active design history research.
  25. Factor Favela (2011). Speaker (invited). Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisboa. Lecture at the Observatório de África e da América Latina Seminar, Programa Próximo Futuro, a examining how Brazilian design discourse conflates origin with identity and frugal innovation with stereotype.
  26. Beyond the Fruit Hat (2010). Speaker (keynote). Parsons The New School of Design, New York. Lecture in the Global Issues in Design and Visuality Seminar series lead by Professor Susan Yelavich.
  27. A Felicidade está à venda? (2010). Speaker (invited). Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisboa. Lecture at the 4th Próximo Futuro Research Workshop: Felicidade, organised by António Pinto Ribeiro with the Gulbenkian Environment Programme, on the role of happiness in design.
  28. E Agora? (2007). Speaker (keynote). ESEIG – Instituto Politécnico do Porto, Vila do Conde. Lecture in the Ciclo de Palestras of the Licenciatura em Design.

Professional training 8

  1. Responsible Tourism for a More Inclusive and Positive Impact (2019). Workshop Leader (invited). ESAD.CR. 9-day international design workshop with 25 ZHdK and Portuguese students. responsibletourism.pt
  2. Who’s Eating Sarajevo (2025). Workshop Leader (invited). POPUP! Festival, Sarajevo Academy of Fine Arts. popupfest.net
  3. Como fazer um portfólio (2024). Workshop Leader (invited, with André Gouveia). FBAUL, Erasmus+ 2025/2026. belasartes.ulisboa.pt
  4. Semi-Industrial (2014). Workshop Leader (invited, with Pedro Ferreira, Pedrita Studio). Instituto Europeo di Design, Madrid. Based on the Fabrico Próprio research. fabricoproprio.net
  5. Critical: Lisbon. Speak to the City, Speak with the City (2012). Workshop Leader (invited, with Lev Bratishenko and Becky Quintal). Trienal de Arquitectura de Lisboa. trienaldelisboa.com
  6. Putting Architecture in its Place (2010). Workshop Leader (invited, with Becky Quintal). Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal. cca.qc.ca
  7. O Recife Não é Só Praia: uma oficina rápida sobre crítica de arquitectura (2010). Workshop Leader (invited). Revela Design Festival, Centro de Design Recife.
  8. Note on governance-body eligibility: I have taught at FBAUL since 2011 (with a gap between 2015 and 2019 when pursuing my doctoral studies) as a guest assistant lecturer, event after holding a PhD since 2021. My highest degree of dedication was is 59%, the ceiling permitted for this category. Under FBAUL’s Statutes (Diário da República, 2.ª série, n.º 5, 8 January 2021), the elected professor/researcher seats on its Scientific, Pedagogical, School or Department councils require full-time status. As a part-time guest lecturer I have therefore not been eligible for election to any of FBAUL’s Governance Bodies. This is a structural constraint of my employment category that appointment to the Assistant Lecturer position under this call would resolve.

Continuing education and exchange programmes 3

  1. BECOMING ASSEMBLY: On the Whys and Hows of Design Today (2024). Participant (invited). COLECTIVOS PLÁKA, Galeria Municipal do Porto. Continuing-education course curated by Vera Sacchetti on paradigm changes in contemporary design practice. [plaka.porto.pt]
  2. Erasmus+ Staff Mobility exchange, EASD València (2014, 2023). Visiting lecturer. Escola d’Art i Superior de Disseny de València. Two EU-funded staff exchanges – workshop “España y Portugal é tudo igual: Lecturas ibéricas” (2014) and keynote “Todo el diseño es local” (2023, see above) – part of an ongoing partnership that also produced the Disseny Obert collaboration.
  3. Erasmus+ Staff Mobility exchange, Sarajevo Academy of Fine Arts (2025). Visiting lecturer. POPUP! Festival, Sarajevo Academy of Fine Arts. EU-funded staff exchange; “Who’s Eating Sarajevo” workshop (2025, see Professional training actions below).

Associations 4

  1. Práticas Situadas – Associação Cultural (2020–). Board Member. Non-profit association whose mission is to foster craft and design through an original brand of products and diverse initiatives, including the Forum de Artes e Ofícios. origemcomum.com
  2. Futuro Sustentável Associação Cultural (2008–). President. Non-profit dedicated to design culture and research. Producer of exhibitions, publications and educational initiatives aligned with FBAUL mission. futuro.org.pt
  3. Associação para a Interpretação do Azulejo Industrial (2014–). Board Member. Association dedicated to studying the collection inherited from Joaquim Cortiço, devoted to collecting, storing and trading discontinued ceramic tile lines. corticoenetos.net
  4. Science Office (2009–). Science communication consultancy. Board member. Science Office combines science with communication and brings the scientific message to different publics, through original channels and contemporary languages. scienceoffice.org

Press and references

  1. Barrios, J. (2025). “Frederico Duarte e Rita João.” Refeitório. Antena 1. rtp.pt/play/p12250/e842672/refeitorio
  2. Rodrigues e Sousa, J. (2025). “Frederico Duarte: «Assumo a inconstância e a complexidade como parte de ser ibérico»”. El Trapezio. eltrapezio.eu
  3. Correia de Barros, M. (2023). Mapa de ideias: Frederico Duarte. Prima. p. 130.
  4. Magalhães, B. (2023). “Fazer”: uma exposição que também é uma revista de design. Time Out. timeout.pt
  5. Vieira, M. (2023). Culturgest à descoberta das novas influências da sociedade. Jornal de Notícias. jn.pt
  6. Belin, L. (2019). "Design brasileiro precisa ser democrático e lutar contra a desigualdade, diz crítico português". Gazeta do Povo. gazetadopovo.com.br
  7. Belin, L. (2019). "O que o design feito no Brasil tem de brasileiro?". Gazeta do Povo, Curitiba. gazetadopovo.com.br
  8. Bird, H.; Flood, C.; Stephenson, J. (Eds.) (2019). Food : bigger than the plate V&A Publishing. Catalogue of a major V&A exhibition on the intersections between food and design, for which the Fabrico Próprio project was selected by curator Catherine Flood. vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/food-bigger-than-the-plate
  9. Barcelos, M. (2018). "Design (Ep. 2)". Sobretudo. Podcast interview (part 2 of 2). open.spotify.com
  10. Barcelos, M. (2018). "Design (Ep. 1)". Sobretudo. Podcast interview (part 1 of 2). open.spotify.com
  11. Reichers, A. (2018). "Contemporary Brazilian Design with Frederico Duarte". Print. Interview. printmag.com/culturally-related-design/contem…
  12. Walters, J. (2017). "A sharp eye for Brazilian design". eye. pp. 114–115. eyemagazine.com/review/article/a-sharp-eye-fo…
  13. Pereira, M. (2017). "Brasil Hoje ou a revolução numa embalagem de champô". Diário de Notícias. dn.pt/arquivo/diario-de-noticias/brasil-hoje-…
  14. Dale, J. (2017). "Mostra reúne destaques do design brasileiro, em Portugal". O Globo. oglobo.globo.com/ela/turismo/mostra-reune-des…
  15. Cardoso, J.A. (23.9.2017). "Em cada Brasil uma história, em cada design um projecto". Público. publico.pt/2017/09/23/culturaipsilon/noticia/…
  16. Cardoso, J.A. (23.9.2017). "Uma livraria em português (do Brasil)". Público. p. 31. publico.pt/2017/09/23/culturaipsilon/noticia/…
  17. Gama, M. (2017). "Portugal exibe design atual feito no Brasil, de sinalização a arquitetura". Folha de São Paulo. folha.uol.com.br/ilustrada/2017/09/1920823-po…
  18. Gama, M. (2017). "“Design é serviço”, diz curador de mostra sobre produção do Brasil”". Folha de São Paulo. Interview. folha.uol.com.br/ilustrada/2017/09/1920824-de…
  19. Belo, I. (2017). "O Brasil contemporâneo mostra-se em Lisboa em 50 projetos e uma livraria especializada". Visão. visao.pt/visaose7e/ver/2017-09-22-o-brasil-co…
  20. Ragajopal, A. (2017). "Brazilian Perspectives". Metropolis. p. 56.
  21. Esteves Cardoso, M. (2017). "O pão nosso". Público. Opinion column, by one of Portugal’s most celebrated writers. Revisits my research for the column “O Design Nosso de Cada Dia,” into the anonymous design of Portugal’s everyday carcaça bread. publico.pt/2017/03/26/sociedade/noticia/o-pao…
  22. Suqi, R. (2014). “Portuguese Design". The New York Times. nytimes.com/2014/05/22/garden/portuguese-desi…
  23. Douek, D. (2013). "O Brasil é a imagem do futuro do mundo". A Casa Museu do Objeto Brasileiro. http://159.65.233.245/biblioteca/texto/463
  24. Alves, F. (2013). "É nas paredes que se gritam as novas palavras de ordem". Visão. visao.pt/visaose7e/ver/2017-09-22-o-brasil-co…
  25. Kreh, A. (2011). "Design is everywhere: on Location in Times Square". On Any Given Day… The Graduate Programs, School of Visual Arts, New York. pp. 78–85.