Keynote speakers
Ana Tostões is an architect, architecture critic, and historian. She is Full Professor at Técnico-University of Lisbon (IST-UL), where she serves as the Chair of the Architecture Scientific Board and is responsible for the PhD program. She is also the leader of the Heritage research line at the Center for Innovation in Territory, Urbanism, and Architecture (CITUA). Among other universities worldwide, she has been invited professor at the University of Tokyo, the University of Navarra, FAUP, and KU Leuven. She has served as the President of Docomomo International and as the Editor of the Docomomo Journal (2010-2021). She has authored books and essays, curated exhibitions, participated in juries, scientific committees and delivered lectures at universities worldwide. In recognition of her contributions, she was awarded the X Bienal Ibero-Americana de Arquitectura y Urbanismo Prize 2016 and distinguished with the Commander degree of the Order of Infante Dom Henrique.
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Bárbara Coutinho is an art historian. PhD in Architecture (IST-UL, 2019). Degree in History of Art (FCSH-UNL, 1993), with a postgraduate degree in Didactics of History of Art (FCSH-UNL, 1995) and a Master's degree in History of Contemporary Art (FCSH-UNL, 2002). Founding director and programmer of MUDE - Museu do Design e da Moda, Francisco Capelo Collection since 2006. Invited Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico since 2006 and Integrated Researcher at CITUA - Centre for Innovation in Territory, Urbanism and Architecture. Member of Docomomo Portugal, co-chair of the Docomomo International Specialist Committee (ISC) in Interior Design and member of the Advisory Board of BID - Bienal Iberoamericana de Diseño. Her work is divided between curatorship, research, teaching and writing, having as main research field’s the intersections of museology, architecture, curatorship and exhibition design. Among the exhibitions she has curated, stands out the particular attention given to the history of the theory and the practice of design in Portugal.
Deniz Hasirci graduated from Bilkent University's Department of Interior Architecture and Environmental Design in 1997. She later earned her master’s and PhD from the same university. As a Fulbright scholar, she collaborated on "learning environments" at North Carolina State University. Her work has been published in academic journals and periodicals, covering topics like interior design history, modern interior design, and Turkish modern furniture. She served as the head of the Department of Interior Architecture and Environmental Design at Ä°zmir University of Economics from 2010 to 2017, where she has been teaching since 2006. She is involved in projects like DATUMM, which documents Turkish modern furniture, and is a founding member of Docomomo-Turkey's Interior Design Committee and the Docomomo ISC/ID.
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Helena Souto is associate professor at IADE-Universidade Europeia, holds a PhD in Art Sciences (Universidade de Lisboa) and a master's degree in Art History (Universidade Nova de Lisboa). Her research field is the Portuguese Design History, with a focus on the relationship between Portuguese Design and Gender Studies. In these areas, she has published several articles and books, curated exhibitions and was one of the Scientific Responsible of the European cooperation project “MoMoWo – Women's Creativity since the Modern Movement”. In 2022, she was the scientific curator of the exhibition “Women's creativity in modern and contemporary Portuguese ceramics (1950-2020)” at the Museu Nacional do Azulejo (National Tile Museum).
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Marta Peixoto is an architect (1985) with a Ph.D. in History and Theory of Architecture from PROPAR (2006), the Architecture Research and Graduate Program of UFRGS, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Today, she is the Chair of Docomomo Brazil and full professor at the Department of Architecture and at PROPAR, UFRGS, where she teaches Design and History of Architecture. She is the secretary of the Interior Design Committee of Docomomo International and a member of the 20th Century Committee of ICOMOS Brazil. She has written for architecture magazines and journals and is one of the editors of Docomomo Brazil Magazine; she coordinates research projects and a research group with professors, graduates, and undergraduate students. Since 2019, she has had a CNPq (a federal agency that fosters academic research in Brazil) productivity grant as a researcher.
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Patrícia Santos Pedrosa is architect, researcher, professor, feminist, activist, and mother. Assistant Professor (University of Beira
Interior, Architecture). Researcher at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Gender Studies (ULisbon).
Researcher and Project Leader W@ARCH.PT - Women architects in Portugal, 1942-1986 (Portuguese Government Funding, 2018-2022). Degree in Architecture (Technical ULisbon, 1997), Master in History of Art (Nova ULisbon, 2008), PhD in Architecture (UPCatalonia, Spain, 2010), and a postgraduate degree in Feminist Studies (UCoimbra, 2016). Young Researchers in Art Studies Award
(Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, 2008) and Pedagogical Innovation’s Award UBI (University of Beira Interior, 2023). Main research areas: History of Architecture (Women and XX Century);
Architecture, cities, and Gender.
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Paula Torgal is an architect, FA UT Lisboa. Diploma Advanced Studies 3º cycle, Doctorate Program Problems of Architecture and Modern City: Theory, History and Projects, Universidade de Valladolid. Project Teacher, FAA, Universidade Lusíada Lisboa [1999-2015].
Co-founder Office "ptjm associated architects". 1º Prize, contest CRSS Bragança, in co-authorship. Combine the teaching of Architecture with the practice of Project. Co-organizes Seminars and Conference Cycles. Invited to final juries Project in various Schools of Architecture. Elected President of the SRS - South Regional Section of the Order of Architects, mandate 2017-2019. Teaches in professional and advanced training courses in several Schools. Currently, is the Vice-President of the National Board of the Order of Architects.
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Zsuzsanna Böröcz is a musicologist and an art and architecture historian. She obtained a PhD in art history at the KULeuven in 2004. Her primary fields of interest are interior and design issues in the context of heritage conservation, craftsmanship and higher education in the 19th and 20th centuries. Currently, she is apart-time guest professor at the KU Leuven Faculty of Arts and is affiliated with the Faculty of Architecture of her own university and with the University of Antwerp Faculty of Design Sciences. She serves as the President of Docomomo Belgium and founding co-chair of the Docomomo ISC/ID.
