Ana do Carmo Soeiro Moreno

Ana Moreno is a designer, lecturer and researcher in Design. She has a degree in Design from the University of Aveiro and a scholarship from the Socrates/Erasmus Programme, having studied at the Universitá Iuav di Venezia. She has a master's degree in Image Design from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto, having defended her thesis "The image of the immaterial. The shop from a holistic perspective of Cultural Heritage" with distinction. Leonardo da Vinci Programme scholarship holder at Magrada Proyectos (Barcelona). Currently she is a PhD candidate in design at FBAUP, and holds a scholarship by FCT, hosted by the ID+ Research Institute for Design, Media and Culture. Since 2016, she has been a guest lecturer at the Polytechnic Institute of Cávado and Ave (IPCA) in the areas of Footwear Design, Illustration, Graphic Design, Introduction to Webdesign and Multimedia Supports, co-organising various exhibitions and guiding students in curricular internships at local companies. Professionally, she has been involved in different areas, from graphic, editorial and exhibit design, in companies both in Portugal and Spain, for clients such as the Ministry of Culture (MC), the Eventoplus Group and the Iraq Britain Business Council (IBBC). She is a founding member of the Douro Generation Association, where she actively collaborated in the funded project "Douro in Movement, Villages with Life" (NORTE-02-0752-FEDER-000009), especially in Action 2 - International Promotion. Currently, as well as teaching, she is a communication designer and publishes her work in national and international design conferences and book chapters. Her areas of interest include Graphic Design, Cultural Heritage, Experience Design, User-Centred Interface Design, Design Research Methods and New Media.

 

Current positions

  • Invited Assistant Polytechnic Institute of Cávado and Ave (IPCA)
  • FCT Research Fellow Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto (FBAUP)

Research Groups

Publications

Books
  • Moreno, A., Chatterjee, A., Herbawi, B., Vieira-da-Silva, D., Luna, F., Sá, G., Alvelos, H., Mendes, M., Néo, M.B., Zanini, M.R., Mourão, S., Meira, S. (2023) “Poster of a Doctorate. PhD Design 2016-2023+”. Porto, Portugal: ID+Instituição de Investigação em Design, Media e Cultura. Link
Book chapters
  • Moreno, A. (2023). Frameworks for the creation of memories of cultural heritage in augmented reality experiences: communicating the Alto Douro wine region. In Perspectivas y tendencias en la investigación en comunicación: ¿Hacia dónde vamos?, 23-38. McGraw-Hill Interamericana de España S.L. ISBN eBook: 9788419544292 Link
  • Terroso, M., Moreno, A., Amorim, N., Palmares, H., & Sampaio, J. (2018). Immersive Business Simulation in Footwear Design Education: A bridge for reality. In Broega et al. (Eds) Reverse Design: A Current Scientific Vision From the International Fashion and Design Congress, 497–505. CRC Press, Taylors & Francis ISBN 978-1-138-37011-1 Link
International journals
  • Terroso, M., Moreno, A., Palmares, H., Pinto, J., Matos, D., Sampaio, J. (2019). Focus on process and outcome in footwear design education, in Procedia CIRP , Elsevier B.V. Link
International conferences
  • Terroso, M., Moreno, A., Amorim, N., Palmares, H., & Sampaio, J. (2018). Immersive Business Simulation in Footwear Design Education: A Bridge for Reality. Conference Proceedings CIMODE 2018 Madrid – 4th International Fashion and Design Congress, May 2018, Madrid, Spain.
National conferences
  • Moreno, A., Zavala, N., Alvelos, H. (2023) Visit to vineyards in “Quintas” of Douro: the immersive media as possible exponential support of the wine tourism experience. In UD22 Proceedings Book: Metamorphosis 8th Meeting on PhD Design Research. DOI: 10.48528/pbag-9511-02 Link
Other publications
  • Moreno, A. (2023). Ecomusealia: communication strategies through digital media in situ. The case study of the Alto Douro Wine Region. In Abstracts Book of the Performing Cultural Heritage in the Digital Conference, 10-13 September 2023

Scientific, artistic and cultural production

Scientific events organization
  • Moreno, A., Herbawi, B., Vieira-da-Silva, D., Luna, F., Sá, G., Alvelos, H., Mendes, M., Néo, M.B., Zanini, M.R., Meira, S. (2023) Comissão de organização da UD23, encontro de estudantes de doutoramento em Design, intitulado de “Actions and Reflections on Design Research”.
Other relevant cultural production
  • Moreno, A. (2023). Poster at the collective exhibition UD23 Posters of a Doctorate, curated by Heitor Alvelos et al. Museu da Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Porto, Portugal. September 25th-29th, 2023.