CONFERENCE CHAIRS
Conference Chair
Design ISMAT Course Director
Susana Leonor, holds a PhD in DESIGN at Aveiro University in 2016 and has developed her path around creativity and technologies. Since 2018, she has been Professor at Instituto Superior Manuel Teixeira Gomes – ISMAT – Lusófona Group, and it’s also Director at Communication Design Degree and Creative Technologies Degree. Teaching since 2006 at Lusófona University in Lisboa and in the last years at IADE-EU, as been always connected to the different study cycles in the areas of creativity, design, technologies and innovation. Her research path has been linked to creative, participatory processes, co-design and design of systems/processes, therefore also a great affinity for research in applied active pedagogical practices and lifelong learning, and it’s something that applies on the courses that she manages.
Conference Co-chair
ISMAT & FBAUL – CIEBA Researcher
Carla Paoliello is an Invited Assistant Professor at the Fine Arts Faculty of Lisbon University and Ismat, Portimão. She is interested in discussing collaboration and co-design, craft and traditional practices, eco-consciousness and care, identities and territories. Currently, she has been investigating knowledge exchange and experimenting with living systems and biomaterials.
Conference Executive Coordinator
PhD Student – ISMAT Lecturer
Bachelor’s degree in Communication Design from the Superior Institute Manuel Teixeira Gomes, Master’s degree in Design from the Lusophone University of Humanities and Technologies, Postgraduate in Branding and Content Marketing from the Higher School of Social Communication, and currently a PhD student in Design at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Lisbon, with research interests in the areas of Speculative and Critical Design
Conference Springer Nature book Editors
Editor
Coordinator of the Strategic and Expanded Design at DESIGN ID research Group
Lecturer and Researcher at ISMAT in Portimão. His areas of interest and participation in European Projects range from Participatory Design & Nature-Based Solutions; Circular Economy & Biodesign; Design & Innovation. He is an expert at the Taskforce 6 – co-creation of Nature-Based Solutions of the European Commission and Director of Nature-Based Solutions HUB Portugal appointed by the EU NetworkNature. He believes in “Science for the Market” with more than 60 applied research projects implemented and his work as a senior innovation facilitator is recognized by his peers. He is also a national and international guest speaker on Design, Creativity, Innovation, Circularity and Nature-Based Solutions. His already research member for four European Projects consortiums and published more fifty scientific articles in conferences and indexed journals.
Co-editor
ISMAT Design for Circular Economy co-director
Associate Professor of Design (2019-), co-director of the Master’s in Design for Circular Economy, and researcher at ISMAT (Portugal); Adjunct Professor at UERJ, the (Brazil, 1993-), and former Director of ESDI/UERJ School of Design. PhD in Design Policies from Cranfield University, UK (2013). Co-publisher/author of Design & Development: Leveraging Social and Economic Growth through Design Policies (Blucher, 2019). Author of Design Policies & Intellectual Property: Demands for a New Era (Sebrae, 2018). Former board member of: Design Curatorship Group, MAM Rio de Janeiro (2014-2016); Design Consulting Group, Government of Rio de Janeiro (2007-2009); both Associations of Graphic and Product Designers of Brazil; Advisory Council, Brazilian Association of Design Companies. Curator, Design Dialogue: Poland Brazil (Institute Adam Mickiewicz, 2015-2018).
Co-editor
Fashion Lusófona – DESIGN ID research Group Coordinator
Full Professor and Researcher at the School of Communication, Architecture, Art and Information Technologies of the Lusófona University since 202. Researcher at Applied Communication, Culture and New Technologies (CICANT). PhD in Textile Engineering – Design Management, at the University of Minho in December 2009. Master’s degree in art theory at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon and a degree in Visual and Technological Education, Primary School Teachers, at the School of Education of the Castelo Branco Polytechnic Institute, in 1999. Undertook international training in Art Direction for Fashion at Central Saint Martin’s – University of the Arts London. Lecturer in the areas of Design, Fashion Design and Photography since 1999. Currently, director of the BA and MA in Fashion Design and Production at U, Lusófona – Lisbon and Porto. Has coordinated several initiatives around Fashion, namely the organization of Fashion Shows, both at the academic level and at the professional level with several national designers in the main fashion weeks. Her line of research is directed towards Fashion Design – Production, Fashion Photography and Editorial, Contemporary Fashion Design, Cultural heritage and sustainability in fashion.
Scientific Committee
Alexandra Crunchinho – U. LUSÓFONA
Amilton Arruda UFPE | ISMAT
Américo Mateus ISMAT
Ana Margarida Ferreira UBI
Ana Thudichum Vasconcelos FBAUL
António Lacerda U. ALGARVE
Beike Li CAFA U.
Carla Cadete U. LUSÓFONA
Carla Paoliello ISMAT / FBAUL
Carlos Duarte IADE
Cláudia Pernencar ESAD Caldas Rainha
Cristina Portugal UNESP
Daniel Raposo IPCB
David Palma ISMAT
Deniz DENIZ IZMIR– BIOMATERIALSKIT
Derya Irkdas IZMIR – BIOMATERIALSKIT
Emília Duarte IADE
Fernando Poeiras ESAD CR
Fernando Secomandi TU Delft / DRS
Frederico Duarte FBAUL
Gabriel Patrocinio ISMAT
Gonçalo Canto Moniz U. COIMBRA
Ignacio Urbina Polo – Pratt Institute, NYC
João Barata U. LUSÓFONA
Jorge Lopes PUC Rio
Jorge dos Reis FBAUL
José Mauro Nunes UERJ
José Miguel Lameiras FCUP COCOON
Lucy Niemeyer ESDI/UERJ (reformada)
Luiz Salomão Ribas Gomez UFSC
Magda Kochanowska F.A. Academy Warsaw
Marcelo Leslabay – Deusto Univ., Bilbao
Marco Neves FAUL
Maria Guerreiro Caeiro U. ALGARVE
Miguel Aboim Borges ISMAT
Mostafá Zekri ISMAT
Onur Mendi IZMIR U. BIOMATERIALSKIT
Roberta Barban Franceschi – UNIR Valencia
Roberto Iñiguez Flores Monterrey U.
Susana Leonor ISMAT
Thora Arnardottir NORTHUMBRIA U. & UAL
Wandyr Hagge ESDI/UERJ
Honor Committee
José Bragança de Miranda – Rector U. LUSÓFONA
Rui Loureiro, Director do ISMAT
Manuel de Almeida Damásio, Administrador da U. LUSÓFONA
Manuel José Damásio, Administrador da U. LUSÓFONA
Fernando Moreira da Silva FAUL
Rita Almendra FAUL
Teresa Franqueira U.AVEIRO
Mugendi M’Rithaa – Machakos University; Former ICSID/WDO President
Alpay Er – Ozyegin Univ. Istanbul / WDO Senate
Cai Jun – Director, Design Managament Research Lab, Tsinghua University, China
Fred Gelli – Tátil Design, Brasil
Kun-Pyo Lee – Hong Kong Poly, Dean
Lesley-Anne Noel – OCAD, Dean, Toronto
Lorenzo Imbesi – Sapienza Roma / Cumulus President
Yrjö Sotamaa -Aalto, retired / Tongji Univ., Honorary Dean
Ivica Mitrovic – Arts Academic / U. of Split – Dean of Visual Communications Design