PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

esad—idea, Investigação em Design e Arte (June 2024 – Present)

Bookstore Manager esad—idea—store
Cultural Programmer at Exploratório
Curatorial Team Exploratório


Impar Arquitetura (May 2024 – May 2025)

Communications Manager

Tromilux, Lighting Manufacturer (November 2023 – April 2024)

Product Designer

EDUCATION

Faculdade de Belas Artes Universidade do Porto 
(2021–2023)
Master's Degree in Industrial and Product Design

Escola Superior de Artes e Design Matosinhos (2018–2021)

Bachelor's Degree in Product Design

Escola Artística de Soares dos Reis (2015–2018)

Specialised Artistic Secondary Education

ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE

Porto Design Biennale (October, 2023)

Volunteer – Event Support Porto

Ghome (May 2022 - June 2023)

Collaborative project within the “Ghome it Yourself #2” programme. Lisbon 

Biennale Artes & Ofícios (September, 2022)

Volunteer – Event Support. Lisbon

Residência Artística Programa Órbita #2 (April, 2022)

Artistic Residency curated by Festival Súbito, with the support of Agit Lab and CM Águeda. Águeda

Residência Artística Programa Órbita #1 (September, 2021)

Artistic Residency curated by Festival Súbito. Porto September

PUBLICATIONS

“Contributions of design to raising awareness and combating the stigma of dementia”Published in the eBook Advances in Design and Digital Communication IV, Springer, 2023

EXHIBITIONS

Mundo Lusófono: a pronúncia da mulher no design de produto
Featured in the exhibition and accompanying bookCurated by Daniel Vieira and Bernardo Providência Escola de Arquitetura, Arte e Design da U. Minho, September 2024

A Manta
Solo exhibition at Galeria Cozinha, FBAUP, Porto, November 2023




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