BIOGRAPHIES

Joana Caetano (CETAPS / FLUP)
Joana Caetano is a guest assistant at FLUP, where she teaches Studies on Utopia, a collaborator of CETAPS-Centre for English and Anglo-Portuguese Studies and U.Porto Press, and Executive Editor of VIA PANORAMICA: Revista de Estudos Anglo-Americanos/ A Journal of Anglo-American Studies. She completed her PhD with a thesis entitled Hainish Hospitalities: Ursula K. Le Guin's Constellation of Utopian Care, in 2023, at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Porto, with funding from FCT. He has published book chapters, reviews and articles in various scientific journals, namely the Utopian Studies Journal, Cadernos de Literatura Comparada and the magazine BANG!, in which he has a section dedicated to Ursula K. Le Guin.

José Carneiro (FBAUP)
Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto. Director of the MA in Image Design (FBAUP). Director of the Center for Studies in Design and Art (FBAUP). He holds a PhD in Art and Design from the FBAUP, 2014. He is a researcher at the ID+ Institute for Research in Design, Media and Culture and collaborates with i2ADS - Institute for Research in Art, Design and Society. He is the author of several scientific articles and has participated regularly in national and international conferences. He develops artistic and communication design work. He is the author of the Records & Photographs project and the Clube da Esquina radio program. More information at www.josecarneiro.org.

Maria Neto (CEAU / FAUP - UBI)
Architect, visiting assistant professor at DECA-UBI and researcher at CEAU-FAUP and ICHaB-ETSAM. She has a PhD in Architecture (EA-UAH+ICHaB-ETSAM, 2022) with an individual FCT scholarship, deserving of a nomination for the Extraordinary Prize, postgraduate studies in Development of Human Settlements in the Third World (ICHaB/ETSAM) and professional practice in Humanitarian Shelter Coordination (IFRC/UNCHR/Oxford Brookes University). She has worked in the field with the UNHCR in Kenya and the BRC in England, supporting refugees and asylum seekers. She was awarded the Fernando Távora Prize, was a guest speaker at the Portuguese representation at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale and was selected for the anthology of the Lisbon Triennale Universities Prize. She is part of several research projects with competitive funding (FCT, MICIU and DGArtes), and is the author of several articles, book chapters and published books. She has also edited several specialist magazines and books for Scopio Editions, a publishing house with which she has collaborated since 2013. As well as teaching at DECA-UBI and working in her own office in Porto, she has collaborated with IHRU on the "From Housing to Habitat" program, and is currently coordinating the UBI-FAUP-CMF inter-institutional agreement at UBI for the construction of 5 buildings under the National Urgent and Temporary Accommodation Grant (BNAUT), aimed at refugee, asylum-seeking and migrant communities.

Mário Mesquita (FAUP)
He is an architect, urban planner and photographer. He has a PhD in Architecture (FAUP) - "From the networks of invisibility in the contemporary equation of territory. From process, project, work and public water service in Porto between the 19th and 20th centuries: an investigation/action from the perspective of being an architect and the emergence of transdisciplinarities", Master in Planning and Design of the Urban Environment (FAUP/FEUP) - "Formation and consolidation of the urban fabric in the Antas area - Porto 1880-1950" and Degree in Architecture (FAUP). He is an Assistant Professor at FAUP, where he has taught since 1999. At this institution he is Professor of Project 5, Regent of "Porto: Territories and Networks of Invisibility" and Co-regent of "Architecture: Processes of Transformation in Teaching and Learning" (MIARQ/ FAUP) He is on the teaching staff of the following courses: INOVPED "The Community as Practice" (FPCEUP), "Advanced Training in Interpretation and Choreographic Creation" (Companhia Instável), "Portfolio" (FBAUP) and "Beyond Museums Training course" (UNESCO Chair "Water Heritage and Sustainable Development", Ca' Foscari University of Venice - Italy) He is the Coordinator of the Pedagogical Innovation Community - UP "PTRI". As an Integrated Researcher at i2ADS, he coordinates "Processes of transformation in artistic-scientific education in Porto (1950-2016)" and, as a Collaborating Researcher at CITCEM, he coordinates "Territories of invisibilities" and the PTRI Research Community. He is a Senior Researcher at Águas do Porto, coordinating the Heritage Master Plan, the Heritage Information and Interpretation Platform and the Water Heritage Park - UNESCO/WWM.

Olívia Marques da Silva (ESMAD)
She has a degree in Philosophy from the University of Porto and a PhD in Photography from the Derby School of Art & Design, UK (Ph.d.,Mphil/ Ph.d./MA). She combines her academic activity with artistic expression as a photographer, participating in various solo and group exhibitions. She has received grants from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and the Portuguese Photography Center. Her connection to the Polytechnic of Porto began in 1992, where she was director of the Image Arts Department at the School of Music and Performing Arts (ESMAE), created and coordinated the Master's Degree in Audiovisual Communication with a Specialization in Photography and Documentary Film and Audiovisual Production and Directing. She was president of ESMAE's Technical-Scientific Council. She was a photographic consultant for the Electric Car Museum of the Sociedade de Transportes Coletivos do Porto0. She collaborates with the following research centers: CCRE, FAUP and eCPR/South Wales University. She coordinates the annual Multimedia, Photography and Cinema Conference, Images of the Real Imagined (IRI). She is currently President of the School of Media Arts and Design (ESMAD) at P.PORTO.

Pedro Leão Neto (FAUP)
Architect graduated from the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto (FAUP, 1992), Master in Planning and Design of the Urban Environment (FAUP-FEUP, 1992), PhD in Planning and Landscape (University of Manchester, 2002) and post-doctorate (FAUP, 2018). Professor and Researcher at FAUP, he is the coordinator of the research group Architecture, Art and Image (AAI) and of scopio Editions, being Editor-in-chief of the scientific journal Sophia Journal Architecture, Art and Image and Principal Investigator (PI) of the Visual Spaces of Change (VSC) project funded by FCT and of the Contrast project: Network of Multidisciplinary Artistic Initiatives in Art, Architecture, Design and Photography (Project Support - Creation and Editing - DGartes). She teaches Architecture Project Communication and Architecture, City and Territory Photography, and her field of research is focused on the universe of Architecture, Art and Image. Within this field of research, he has published and edited more than 30 books, several scientific articles, coordinated various research projects, exhibitions, conferences and international competitions.

Rui Lourosa (ESAP)
PhD in Media Art from the Lusófona University in Porto. He has a degree in Art and Communication from the Escola Superior Artística do Porto, participated and received a scholarship at the Stage Europeo degli Esordi in Lucca, and holds a DEA from the University of Vigo in the program Modes of Knowledge in Contemporary Artistic Practice. He is currently a researcher in the Art and Critical Studies research group at the Arnaldo Araújo Study Center. As an artist, he continually develops work within the scope of his research: photography, ethnography and the funerary. She works with and investigates the photographic in its procedural character: digital, but more especially analog, alternative and historical. She continually experiments with the stereoscopic photographic and cinematographic process in relation to the generation and maintenance of immersiveness with disturbance and discomfort. He has continually presented papers, conferences and exhibitions on his research and artistic practice. He is a lecturer at the Escola Superior Artística do Porto in various curricular units in the area of design and printing and where he organizes the program "VISUA - Laboratório de Experimentação e Práticas Visuais". He is also a member of the General Council and the Pedagogical Council of ESAP and was from 2009 until 2016 Director of the Visual Arts - Photography Degree Course.