Cristina Filipe, an artist, researcher and educator, is currently collaborating researcher at the Centro de Investigação em Ciência e Tecnologia at Escola das Artes/Universidade Católica Portuguesa where she completed her PhD in Heritage Studies with a grant from the Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia with Gonçalo de Vasconcelos e Sousa as her supervisor. Her researcher work focus on the contemporary jewellery in Portugal since the 1960s and its relationships with the Portuguese historical, art and social contexts and with some aspects from the international field. She began her artistic training at the Escola Artística António Arroio and, in 1983, joined Ar.Co–Centro de Arte e Comunicação Visual, where she studied sculpture and jewellery. In 1987, she continued her studies in jewellery at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam with a scholarship from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. The following year she returned to Ar.Co, this time as a teacher and, from 2004, as head of the jewellery department, positions she held until 2015. Further, in 1992, Filipe completed a student exchange programme at the Royal College of Art in London and, in 2001, completed her master's degree in Arts & Design at the Surrey Institute of Art & Design in Farnham, again as a Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation scholar. In 2017, she was awarded the Susan Beech Mid-Career Grant from the Art Jewelry Forum for the production of the book "Contemporary Jewellery in Portugal: From the Avant-garde of the 1960s to the Early 21st Century", which was launched in 2019 at the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, where she curated the exhibition "Summer Guests: Contemporary Jewellery in Portugal", that placed contemporary jewellery in dialogue with the Modern and Lalique collections. Throughout her artistic career, Cristina Filipe has made jewellery in various mediums and her works have been exhibited in Portugal and abroad and published in many national and international exhibition catalogues. She has participated in various exhibitions – both with her own work and as curator – and has conducted several workshops and teaching exchanges in Portugal and abroad. In 2004, she founded PIN–Associação Portuguesa de Joalharia Contemporânea, which she has chaired since then. With PIN she has produced and curated many international events. She is the author of several articles, essays and texts for contemporary jewellery exhibition catalogues. Her work is present in national jewellery collections such as that of the MUDE–Museu do Design e da Moda and of Ar.Co. She is currently engaged in the creation of a Digital Archive which will gather all the information related to her PhD research over the last decade. The systematisation and cataloguing of this documentation, including photographs, drawings, documents and books, will not only guarantee the preservation of this heritage, but also make it accessible to other researchers, institutions, specialists and curators working in the discipline As co-editor of the recently published book and in light of its research, the MUDE has begun to acquire pieces for its collection and will provide support for the cataloguing and definition of fields and terminologies required during the process of developing this archive, as well as integrating it into its future collection, thus ensuring its maintenance. The result of this research and the construction of this archive will be the production of an International Biennial of Contemporary Jewellery to be held in Lisbon, from 2021, a partnership between PIN and MUDE that will include an anthological exhibition of a Portuguese artist, an international group exhibition and a Colloquium on a theme in compliance with the United Nations 2030 Agenda goals. Aware of the importance of this research and the preservation of this heritage, the Imprensa Nacional-Casa da Moeda has invited Cristina Filipe to coordinate a new collection centred on jewellery authors to begin in 2021.