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Ana Neto holds a PhD in Design (2024) from the Lisbon School of Architecture. She received a research fellowship to collaborate in REDES - Research and Education in Design Research Group, at the Lisbon School of Architecture, Universidade de Lisboa, and later a doctoral scholarship from FCT. She holds a degree in Communication Design from the Faculty of Fine Arts (Universidade de Lisboa) and took vocational training in Pattern Cutting. She has between 2014 and 2020 worked as a product developer in the clothing industry. Ana gave vocational training between 2018 and 2020, at the same time she began her doctorate journey. Her research is focused on how people engage with their clothes beyond the point of purchase and before disposal in order to understand how wearer-clothing relationships can last for longer.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Ana Moreira Neto da Silva Ramos

Citation names

  • Neto, Ana
  • Ana Neto
  • Neto, A.

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
0513-A111-2BB3
ORCID iD
0000-0003-0142-1889
Researcher Id
AAF-7906-2022
Scopus Author Id
57219166472

Addresses

  • Rua Sá Nogueira Pólo Univeritário - Alto da Ajuda, 1349-055, Ajuda, Lisbon, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Humanities - Arts - Architectural design

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2) Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2)
Education
Degree Classification
2018 - 2024
Concluded
 Design (Doutoramento)
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Investigação em Arquitetura Urbanismo e Design, Portugal
"Usership in Fashion: a Grounded Theory on Wearer-clothing Relationships" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Approved with Distinction
2018/09 - 2019/09
Concluded
 Estudos Avançados em Design (Curso de doutoramento (conclusão de unidades curriculares))
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal
 17
2018/04 - 2018/07
Concluded
 Fashion and Sustainability: Understanding Luxury Fashion in a Changing World (Outros)
Major in Moda e Sustentabilidade
London College of Fashion, United Kingdom
2016/04 - 2016/06
Concluded
 Determinação de Custos de Produção (Outros)
Major in Indústria do Vestuário
MODATEX – Centro de Formação Profissional da Indústria Têxtil, Vestuário, Confecção e Lanifícios, Portugal
2015/10 - 2015/11
Concluded
 Formação Pedagógica de Formadores (Outros)
Joviform, Consultoria Empresarial Lda., Portugal
 90%
2013/01 - 2014/01
Concluded
 Modelista de Vestuário (Curso de Especialização Tecnológica)
MODATEX – Centro de Formação Profissional da Indústria Têxtil, Vestuário, Confecção e Lanifícios, Portugal
2009/09 - 2012/09
Concluded
 Design de Comunicação (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Belas-Artes, Portugal
 16
2008/09 - 2009/07
Attended
 Design (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal
Affiliation

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2019/10 - 2020/12 Pattern Cutter / Product Developer [Lingerie] Skin Intimates, Portugal
2018/03 - 2020/02 Vocational Trainer MODATEX – Centro de Formação Profissional da Indústria Têxtil, Vestuário, Confecção e Lanifícios, Portugal
2017/02 - 2018/01 Pattern Cutter / Product Developer [Lingerie] Textil Gramax International, Portugal
2016/09 - 2017/10 Technical Illustrator (freelance) Matéria-Prima Edições, Portugal
2015/05 - 2017/01 Product Developer [Outdoor wear] SONAE, Portugal
2014/03 - 2015/09 Pattern Cutter [Casual wear] Lanidor, Portugal
2013/03 - 2014/07 Technical Illustrator (freelance) Tuttirév Editorial, Portugal
2013/12 - 2014/01 Pattern Cutter (internship) Dielmar SA, Portugal
MODATEX – Centro de Formação Profissional da Indústria Têxtil, Vestuário, Confecção e Lanifícios, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2024/12 - 2025/11 Oficinas do Vestir
53
Researcher
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Investigação em Arquitetura Urbanismo e Design, Portugal
 Câmara Municipal de Lisboa
Ongoing
2021/09/01 - 2023/12/31 Usership in Fashion: a step back to move forward
2021.04933.BD
PhD Student Fellow
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Investigação em Arquitetura Urbanismo e Design, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2021/02 - 2021/08 Ensino e Investigação em Design / Research and Education in Design
BI_REDES 03/UIDB/04008/2020
Researcher
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Investigação em Arquitetura Urbanismo e Design, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded

Other

Designation Funders
2021/09 - Current DEBRIS - Design Education on Biomaterial Research – Innovation from Surplus
n/a
Researcher
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Investigação em Arquitetura Urbanismo e Design, Portugal
 Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Investigação em Arquitetura Urbanismo e Design
Ongoing
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Neto, Ana; Almendra, Rita Assoreira; Ferreira, João Batalheiro. "A map for knowledge transfer and exchange in doctoral research in design". In Proximity in Design Research: People, Processes, Products, Philosophy, edited by Rita Assoreira Almendra, 214-224. Abingdon, United Kingdom: Routledge, 2025.
    Published • 10.4324/9781003509653-22
  2. Ana Neto; Gabriela Forman. "Mediating wearer-clothing relationships: a case study in Fashion Design Education". In The Future of Fashion Education - Speculation, Experience and collaboration, edited by Kirsten Scott; Barry Curtis; Claire Pajaczkowska, 21-33. Routledge, 2024.
    Published • 10.4324/9781003505426-4
  3. Neto, A.; Broega, A.C.. "Research as a link between the "what" and the "how" in fashion design education". In Research & Education in Design: People & Processes & Products & Philosophy, edited by Rita Assoreira Almendra; João Ferreira (6A15-6D61-28B0), 49-56. London, United Kingdom: CRC Press, 2020.
    Published • 10.1201/9781003046103-6
Conference abstract
  1. Neto, Ana; João Ferreira (6A15-6D61-28B0). "What makes it last? Exploring Human Relationship traits in long-term wearer-clothing relationships". Paper presented in Global Fashion Conference 2021, Warsaw, 2022.
    Published
Conference paper
  1. Ana Neto. "Wearer-Clothing Relationships as a System (and where to intervene)". Paper presented in Plate: Product Lifetimes and the Environment, Espoo, 2023.
    Published
  2. Neto, A.; Ferreira, J.. "Through Thick and Thin: Committing to a long-lasting wearer-clothing relationship". Paper presented in Plate: Product Lifetimes and the Environment, Limerick, 2021.
    Published • 10.31880/10344/10253
Journal article
  1. Ana Neto; João Ferreira. "Lasting Bonds: Understanding Wearer-Clothing Relationships through Interpersonal Love-Theory". Fashion Theory 27 5 (2023): 677-707. https://doi.org/10.1080/1362704X.2023.2170706.
    Open access • Published • 10.1080/1362704X.2023.2170706
  2. Neto, Ana. "One dress, 100 days: Addressing pervasive conflict in wearer–clothing relationships". Clothing Cultures 9 1 (2022): 7-29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/cc_00056_1.
    Open access • Published • 10.1386/cc_00056_1
  3. Ana Neto; João Ferreira (6A15-6D61-28B0). ""I Still Love Them and Wear Them" — Conflict Occurrence and Management in Wearer-Clothing Relationships". Sustainability 13 23 (2021): 13054. https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/13/23/13054.
    Open access • Published • 10.3390/su132313054
  4. Neto, Ana; Ferreira, João. "From Wearing Off to Wearing On: The Meanders of Wearer¿-Clothing Relationships". Sustainability 12 18 (2020): 7264. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12187264.
    Open access • Published • 10.3390/su12187264
Online resource
  1. Ana Neto. Wardrobe Hack as an Educational Prompt (in Wardrobe Studies Library). 2024. https://clothingresearch.oslomet.no/2024/02/29/wardrobe-hack-as-an-educational-prompt/.
  2. Ana Neto; João Ferreira (6A15-6D61-28B0). Podcast Series: PhD Journeys in Design (a production within REDES research group, supported by CIAUD, Research Centre for Architecture, Urbanism and Design, Lisbon School of Architecture, Universidade de Lisboa; Gabinete de Comunicação e Multimédia, Lisbon School of Architecture, Universidade de Lisboa). 2023. https://redes.fa.ulisboa.pt/en/podcast/.
  3. Ana Neto; Rita Assoreira Almendra; João Ferreira (6A15-6D61-28B0). Mapping PhD Theses in Design (an analysis framework for knowledge transfer and exchange). 2022. https://redes.fa.ulisboa.pt/en/downloads/.
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. "Usership in Fashion: a Grounded Theory on Wearer-Clothing Relationships". PhD, Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Arquitectura, 2024.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2024/09/27 Towards an understanding of wearer-clothing relationships: the toing and froing of a PhD in Fashion Design Design Research Seminars: Lecture delivered to 1st-year PhD students
Lisbon School of Architecture, University of Lisbon, Portugal (Portugal)
2023/11/07 A PhD Journey in Fashion Design: Learning to step back to move forward Design Research Seminars: Lecture delivered to 1st-year PhD students
ELISAVA (Spain)
2023/05/31 Wearer-clothing Relationships as a System (and where to intervene) Plate: Product Lifetimes and the Environment 2023
Aalto University, Finland (Espoo, Finland)
2023/05/12 Por que dura a nossa relação com a roupa? O caminho para uma teoria fundamentada Criatividade e Inovação na Investigação em Design (World Creativity & Innovation Week)
CIAUD, Lisbon School of Architecture (Lisbon, Portugal)
2023/03/28 Reframing design for garment longevity: A psychology lens on wearer-clothing relationships Fashion: what's psychology got to do with it? 1st international online conference on psychology applied to fashion
UAL Research - London College of Fashion (London (online), United Kingdom)
2022/09/29 Mediating wearer-clothing relationships: a case study in Fashion Design Education The Future of International Fashion & Design Education Symposium
Istituto Marangoni (Online, United Kingdom)
2022/05/20 A Map for Knowledge Transfer and Exchange in Doctoral Research in Design International Research & Education in Design Conference 2022 — REDES2022
REDes research group (CIAUD, Lisbon School of Architecture) (Lisbon, Portugal) (Lisbon, Portugal)
2022/03/31 Exploring the impact of online communities in wearer-clothing relationships Symposium of the International Research Network on Sustainable Fashion Consumption
Sustainable Fashion Consumption Network (Berlin (online), Germany)
2021/10/22 What makes it last? Exploring human traits in long-term wearer-clothing relationships Global Fashion Conference 2021
Academy of Fine Arts, University of Warsaw (Warsaw, Poland)
2021/05/26 Through Thick and Thin: Committing to a long-lasting wearer-clothing relationship Plate: Product Lifetimes and the Environment 2021
University of Limerick (Limerick, Ireland)
2021/04/23 Repensar a Relação com a Roupa [Webinar para Consumidores] Fashion Revolution Week 2021
Fashion Revolution Portugal (Portugal)
2019/12/06 Usership in Fashion: a step back to move forward – a research proposal Professional Practices: Lecture delivered to 1st-year PhD students
Lisbon School of Architecture, University of Lisbon, Portugal (Portugal)
2019/11/14 Research as a link between the What and the How in Fashion Design Education International Research & Education in Design Conference 2019 — REDES2019
REDes research group (CIAUD, Lisbon School of Architecture) (Lisbon, Portugal)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2021/03/01 - 2022/06/30 2nd International Conference on Research and Education in Design (REDES 2022) (2022/05/19 - 2022/05/20)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2022/05/19 - 2022/05/19 Session Moderator "Future-driven Education"
Conference
 REDES 2022: Research and Education in Design Conference 2022
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal
2022/03/28 - 2022/03/28 Session Moderator "Sustainable Fashion: Environment and Fashion working together as one"
Conference
 VII Semana da Bioengenharia
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal

Ad Hoc journal article review

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2024 - 2024 Fashion Theory (1362-704X) Taylor & Francis
2022 - 2022 International Journal of Consumer Studies (1470-6431) Wiley
2022 - 2022 Management Letters/Cuadernos de Gestión (1131-6837) Institute of Applied Business Economics at the University of The Basque Country (UPV / EHU)

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2021 - Current Sustainable Fashion Consumption Network Member
2019 - Current UCRF — Union of Concerned Researchers in Fashion Member

Conference scientific committee

Conference name Conference host
2025 - 2025 6th Product Lifetimes and the Environment Conference (PLATE 2025) Aalborg University
2023 - 2023 5th Product Lifetimes and the Environment Conference (PLATE 2023) Aalto University, Finland

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2018/03 - 2020/02 Representação de Croquis Técnicos (UFCD 4885) Modelista de Vestuário (Curso de Especialização Tecnológica) MODATEX – Centro de Formação Profissional da Indústria Têxtil, Vestuário, Confecção e Lanifícios, Portugal
2018/03 - 2020/02 Interpretação de Croquis Técnicos (UFCD 2281) Modelista de Vestuário (Curso de Especialização Tecnológica) MODATEX – Centro de Formação Profissional da Indústria Têxtil, Vestuário, Confecção e Lanifícios, Portugal
2018/03 - 2020/02 Técnicas de Pesquisa para Desenvolvimento de Peças de Vestuário (UFCD 2316) Modelista de Vestuário (Curso de Especialização Tecnológica) MODATEX – Centro de Formação Profissional da Indústria Têxtil, Vestuário, Confecção e Lanifícios, Portugal
2018/03 - 2020/02 Planeamento e Desenvolvimento de Peças de Vestuário (UFCD 2317) Modelista de Vestuário (Curso de Especialização Tecnológica) MODATEX – Centro de Formação Profissional da Indústria Têxtil, Vestuário, Confecção e Lanifícios, Portugal

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2024 - Current International Journal of Sustainable Fashion & Textiles (2754026X) Intellect
Distinctions

Award

2023 Outstanding reviewer 2022
Management Letters / Cuadernos de Gestión journal, Spain
2021 Best Student Paper Award (2nd place) at PLATE Conference
University of Limerick, Ireland