Speakers

Adriana Aranha
Professor of the Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais and Analyst of Public Policies of the City Hall of Belo Horizonte. Social Worker, master in Public Administration focusing on Social Policies. She is currently doing her PhD internship at the Centre for Social Studies, as PhD student in Public Administration at the Getúlio Vargas Foundation.

Diana Bogado
Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra, CES-UC. Department of Social Museology of the Lusophone University of Humanities and Technologies, ULHT. Activist, architect and city planner and master in architecture and urbanism from the Fluminense Federal University, and PhD in Architecture from the University of Seville; during the years 2015 and 2016 as a professor at the University of Architecture and Urbanism Anhanguera Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Diana coordinated the Community Outreach Project, PEC, and carried out participatory urban redevelopment in favelas. It is worth noting the interventions carried out in Vila Autódromo, in Rio de Janeiro: Requalification of the community playground, the Espaço Ocupa Vila Autódromo space and construction of the Museu das Remoções with the community and other activists.

Francisco Carlos Guerra de Mendonça Júnior
PhD candidate in Communication Sciences from the University of Coimbra. He researches rap as a form of political activism in the lusophone space. He acts as RAPentista, a mixture of rap with repente, a rhythm of the Northeast of Brazil, using the nickname "Mossoró". He has a degree in Journalism and Radialism, as well as an MBA in Administration and Sports Marketing.

Isabela Lemos

Psychologist, psychoanalyst and PhD candidate in Post-colonialism and Global Citizenship Programme (CES/UC) since October 2017, with interest in urban studies of the race; in the psychoanalytic practice that takes place outside the private practices, in the streets and in the public equipment; and the development of innovative psychosocial care devices aimed at subjects living in contexts of vulnerability. For the last eight years she has coordinated, developed and worked on social projects aimed at ensuring the rights of children and adolescents in São Paulo, Brazil.

Tiago Castela is a historian of architecture and spatial planning. He teaches and does research on the political dimension of spatial planning and architecture, with a focus on southwestern Europe and southern Africa in the Twentieth Century. He holds a professional degree in Architecture from the Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal. In Fall 2011 he completed a PhD in Architecture, in the History of Architecture and Urbanism program, at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a permanent Research Associate at the Center for Social Studies (CES) of the University of Coimbra, Portugal, where he is a member of the research group on Cities, Cultures, and Architecture (CCArq).