Currently PhD candidate at Doctoral Program in Design at Faculty of Fine Arts of University of Porto (University of Aveiro, UPTEC and ID+), researcher at ID+ Research Institute for Design, Media and Culture and collaborator at Institute of Sociology of University of Porto (with research funded by Foundation for Science and Technology - FCT).

BA in International Business Administration (Oxford Brookes University, UK), MA in Design (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and Post-graduated in Project Management (Institute of Technological Education, Brazil).

Experience as researcher, consultant, project lead implementing projects which encourage socioeconomic transformation, environmental protection, cultural sustainability, team development, moreover education, health and human rights promotion. Worked in projects related to social design, social entrepreneurship, social impact business, youth entrepreneurship and employability, as well as creative, collaborative, organic & circular knowledge, communities and economies, solidarity economy and social ecology, encouraging public policies implementation. Also, ran projects related to social pedagogy with emphasis on social management, in addition to associative and fraternal economy.

Founder of SOMOS Process - Education for Transformative Social Innovation Projects (www.nuwa.com.br/somos) as well as Nuwa Project and Nuwa Project Lab (www.nuwa.com.br - www.nuwa.com.br/laboratorio).

Interested in facilitating projects, processes, approaches and education in design & management with basis on organic and circular knowledge and multidimensional/holistic design project management, with sensorial exercises. Evidence in the decolonisation of design, methodologies and knowledge, as well as in learning from the wisdom and knowledge of the Souths. Attracted to alliances between design and other practices such as social, natural, biological and ecological sciences, also in the connection between design and contemporary spirituality. Focus on organic, circular, creative & collaborative knowledge, communities and economies; transformative social innovation; transformative social design; transformative projects, processes and approaches; interculturalities; relationality; territoriality, localisation; codesign; participatory design; transition design; and promotion of public policies.

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