Biography

Tiago Castro is a cultural manager, urbanist and researcher. He holds a degree in Tourism Management and Planning and a master in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Aveiro and a specialization in Management and Production of Shows from the University Lusófona of Porto. In the past 20 years, he has been working mainly in the cultural sector as producer, manager, creator and trainer within national and international projects. In 2012, he cofounds the NGO 4iS - Inovação Social where he develops urban transformation projects through culture and participation, cultural networks, participatory processes and collaborative and cocreation practices. He is a researcher at the Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra (CES-UC) where he integrated the research team of the project «CREATOUR - Creative Tourism Destination Development in Small Cities and Rural Areas» (2016-2020)and was consultant of the project «CREATOUR Azores - Turning the Azores into a Creative Tourism Destination» (2019-2022). Currently, he's on a doctoral scholarship in Sociology - Cities and Urban Cultures with the research project «INTERMEDIA - Cultural intermediaries in urban regeneration in small cities» and is executive coordinator of the CREATOUR Observatory - Culture and Tourism for Local Development (CES-UC).