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Joana Rafael is an architect practitioner and researcher, currently based in Porto. Her research focuses on issues of ecology, human geography, and natural sciences, encompassing contemporary culture, media studies, art and technology. She combines architecture as a discipline of thought and design practice, reflecting on the limits of infrastructures and buildings and (radiological-)contaminated territories. Joana holds a PhD in Visual Cultures and a MRes in Research Architecture from Goldsmiths, University of London, and a MA from the Metropolis program, once administered by the Polytechnic University of Catalonia and the Center for Contemporary Culture in Barcelona. Received the Erasmus+ grant (2001), FCT´s PhD Research Scholarship (2008), a study grant from Concordia University, Montreal (2008) and the Research (2019) and Production (2020) grant from Digital Cultures, Creative Industries NL, Netherlands - which led to the development of Lost Zone: Hiking the Dawn of the Metaverse, published by ViaIndustriae, Italia. Joana has been Assistant Professor at Central St. Martins, London (2009-2015), the University of Creative Arts, Canterbury (2013-15), the Instituto de Ciências Educativas, Penafiel (2017-20) and Escola Superior Artística do Porto (2020-2022). Teaches Contextual Studies and Contemporary Culture-related courses, and is a member of CEGOT (Center for Studies in Geography and Spatial Planning) and CEAA (Arnaldo Araújo Research Center). Joana is also a certified farmer. +joanarafael.info
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Joana Trigueiros Rafael Sampaio Rodrigues

Citation names

  • Rafael, Joana

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
2E1C-9022-1881
ORCID iD
0000-0003-0000-6480

Telephones

Mobile phone
  • 91 9241032 (Professional)

Addresses

  • rua de Gondarem 1393 hab 54 , 4150-371 , Porto, porto, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Humanities - Arts - Architectural design
  • Humanities - Other Humanities
  • Humanities - Arts
  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Ecology
  • Social Sciences - Economic and Social Geography - Urban Studies
  • Agrarian Sciences - Other Agricultural Sciences

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Italian Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
French Elementary (A2) Upper intermediate (B2) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
Education
Degree Classification
2024/12/01 - 2025/03/01
Ongoing
Healthier Materials and Sustainable Building Specialization (Curso de Especialização Tecnológica)
Major in Indoor Air Quality; Chemistry; Building Materials
New School University Parsons The New School for Design, United States
2022/01/26 - 2022/01/28
Concluded
Indoor Air Quality and Public Health: Theoretical-Practical Course (Outros)
Major in Indoor Air Quality
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Saúde Pública, Portugal
2019/11/02 - 2019/12/30
Concluded
Biodynamic Agriculture (Outros)
Espaço Visual , Portugal
muito bom
2010/09/09 - 2017/12/31
Concluded
Visual Cultures (Doutoramento)
Goldsmiths University of London, United Kingdom
"Keeping in Reserve: Rethinking Earth Crises through Acts and Architectures of Reservation" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
Excellent
2017/01/15 - 2017/06/02
Concluded
Autodesk Revit (Outros)
Centro de Formação Profissional da Indústria da Construção Civil e Obras Públicas do Norte, Portugal
2016/05/05 - 2016/10/06
Attended
Biological Production and Sustainable Agriculture (Outros)
Espaço Visual , Portugal
muito bom
2008/09/10 - 2009/10/01
Concluded
Research Architecture (Mestrado)
Goldsmiths University of London, United Kingdom
"Coll()sion: Conflicts and Negotiations in International Space" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
Excellent
2006/05/07 - 2008/06/10
Concluded
Metropolis. graduate Program in Architecture and Urban Culture (Mestrado)
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Escola Tècnica Superior d'Arquitectura del Vallès, Spain
"On the Technological Sublime: Bellow the Technical Threshold" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
Excellent
2007/04/04 - 2007/11/09
Concluded
Supervisão Pedagógica e Formação de Formadores (Outros)
Cinel- Vocational Training Center Electronics Industry, Portugal
2006/02/27 - 2006/12/05
Concluded
Energy-efficiency Project Management (Curso de Especialização Tecnológica)
Centro de Formação Profissional da Indústria da Construção Civil e Obras Públicas do Norte, Portugal
2004/01/06 - 2005/01/06
Concluded
Recovery, Safeguarding, and Revitalization of Historic Centers (Mestrado)
Universidade Lusíada de Lisboa, Portugal
"O Reservatorio de Agua para Cidades e Civilizaçoes: Contruir Arquitectura com Modelos de Engenharia (Water Reservoir, for Cities and Civilizations: Building Architecture With Engineering Models)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
Muito Bom
1997/09/05 - 2002/11/05
Concluded
Architecture (Licenciatura)
Universidade do Minho Escola de Arquitetura, Portugal
treze valores (thirteen) C
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution
Employer
2024/12 - Current Researcher (Research) Escola Superior Artística do Porto Centro de Estudos Arnaldo Araújo, Portugal
2018/09 - Current Researcher (Research) Centro de Estudos em Geografia e Ordenamento do Território, Portugal
2018/06/01 - 2021/06/01 Researcher (Research) Núcleo de Investigação em Artes e Multimédia – NIAM, Portugal
Instituto Superior de Ciências Educativas do Douro, Portugal
2011/09 - 2017/12 Researcher (Research) Goldsmiths University of London Department of Visual Cultures, United Kingdom

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution
Employer
2020/12/05 - Current Invited Associate Professor (University Teacher) Escola Superior Artística do Porto, Portugal
Escola Superior Artística do Porto, Portugal
2017/09/30 - 2020/07/30 Adjunct Teacher (Polytechnic Teacher) Instituto Superior de Ciências Educativas do Douro, Portugal
Instituto Superior de Ciências Educativas do Douro, Portugal
2010/03/01 - 2015/12/01 Associate Professor (University Teacher) Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design School of Art, United Kingdom
2010/09/01 - 2015/09/01 Associate Professor (University Teacher) Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design School of Communication Product and Spatial Design, United Kingdom
2012/09/01 - 2015/01/01 Visiting Professor (University Teacher) University for the Creative Arts at Canterbury, United Kingdom

Positions / Appointments

Category
Host institution
Employer
2017/07/03 - Current Technical Support / Consultant Sociedade Agricola Casal da Cotovia, Portugal
2012/07/01 - 2013/07/01 Course coordinator Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design School of Communication Product and Spatial Design, United Kingdom

Others

Category
Host institution
Employer
2015/07/28 - Current Consultant Andrea Caputo, Architecture Research Office, Italy
2005/10/05 - Current Freelancer joana rafael, escritorio de arquitectura, Portugal
2017/03/05 - 2018/12/21 Architect Escritorio de Design, Portugal
2015/07/01 - 2017/03/01 Editor Andrea Caputo, Architecture Research Office, Italy
2015/07/01 - 2015/09/01 Artistic Director and Project Coordinator (including Chief Editor of the Public Domain Magazine) Andrea Caputo, Architecture Research Office, Italy
2004/03/01 - 2005/04/01 Architect Sociedade de Reabilitaçao Urbana, Portugal
2003/07 - 2004/03/01 Trainee Stefano Boeri, Architecture, Italy
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2017/07/11 - 2027/11/17 Planetary Futures International Graduate Summer School
Master Student Fellow
Concordia University`s Faculty of Arts and Science 2017 International Graduate Summer and Field School, Canada
Concordia University’s Faculty of Arts and Science 2017 International Graduate Summer and Field Schools.
Concluded
2008/10/01 - 2013/08/31 Keeping in Reserve: Re-thinking Earth Crises Through Acts and Architectures of Reservation (https://doi.org/10.25602/GOLD.00022734 )
SFRH/BD/44304/2008
PhD Student Fellow
Goldsmiths University of London, United Kingdom
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2008/09/05 - 2009/09/19 Coll()sion: Conflicts and Negotiations in International Space
SFRH / BD / 44304 / 2008 CRM:0008959 FCT
Master Student Fellow
Goldsmiths University of London, United Kingdom
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2019 - Current Lost Zone: Rebuilding Ruins of the Virtual
Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie, Netherlands
Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie
Concluded
2023/08/01 - 2024/01/01 Torneio de "Petroleo" / "Petroleo" Tournament
Curatorial
ESAD IDEA - Investigação em Design e Arte, Portugal
ESAD IDEA - Investigação em Design e Arte
Concluded
2023/08/01 - 2024/01/01 Dive-In: Design em Projeção
Curatorial
ESAD IDEA - Investigação em Design e Arte, Portugal
ESAD IDEA - Investigação em Design e Arte
Ongoing
2020/10/19 - 2021/07/30 Lost Zone: Hiking the Dawn of the Metaverse
1277125-20DC
Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie, Netherlands
Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie
Concluded
2019/01/01 - 2019/12/31 Centro de Estudos de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território
UID/GEO/04084/2019
Associate Member
Centro de Estudos em Geografia e Ordenamento do Território, Portugal

Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2019/01/01 - 2019/12/31 Unidade ID+ (Instituto de Investigação em Design, Media e Cultura)
UID/DES/04057/2019
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. rafael, joana. "O Nuclear nos Montes Urais: Tensoes Territoriais entre Humanos e Atomos". In Curadoria de Enigmas Territoriais, edited by Inês Moreira. PORTO, Portugal: Parabola Critica, 2022.
    Published
  2. Rafael, Joana. "Refrações / Refractions". In Distant Lights, 49-57. Sines, 2022.
    Published
  3. rafael, joana. "450 meters deep into 1 million years safety". In PRAXIS AND POIESIS: FROM ARTS PRACTICE TOWARDS ART THEORY, edited by Paulo Bernardino Bastos, 51-56. Aveiro, Portugal: Universidade de Aveiro, 2020.
    Published
  4. rafael, joana. "Burying Solid Waste Problems: sanitary land ll challenges in mainland Portugal". In Wastes: Solutions, Treatments and Opportunities III, 93-97. Lisboa, Portugal: CRC Press Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.
    Published
  5. rafael, joana. "Re-visioning of the Earth as planet: Dethroning of the anthropocentric worldview". In Re- placement and replaceability: theoretical traditions and contemporary practices. Lisboa, Portugal, 2019.
    Under revision
  6. "Education". In Fundamental Acts. Milano: a+mbookstore, 2016.
Conference paper
  1. rafael, joana. "Who is the savage in our reservations? Art and the recasting of nature in zoned spaces for its conservation". Paper presented in #18.ART, Lisboa, 2019.
    Submitted
  2. rafael, joana. "Patrimonio como despoletador de Investigacao Artistica Contemporanea". Paper presented in Projeto 3E - Emergente, Educativo e Empreendedor, Penafiel, 2019.
    Submitted
  3. eliseu, sergio; maria manuel lopes; gilberto reis; Paulo Bernardino Bastos; rafael, joana. "NitroPortugal: projeto de arte e tecnologia ao serviço do ambiente". Paper presented in IV Encontro Internacional de Formação na Docência (INCTE 2019), Braganca, 2019.
    Published
  4. rafael, joana. "Caminho Sujo para um Mandato Verde". Paper presented in Forum Internacional Africa, Cooperacao, Educacao e Desenvolvimento II (FIACED II), Penafiel, 2018.
    Published
  5. rafael, joana. "States of Reserve: Legality of the Invisible Regimes". 2015.
    Published
Edited book
  1. belosi, andrea; rafael, joana. Lost Zone: Hiking the Dawn of the Metaverse. Roma, Italy: ViaIndustriae Publishing. 2022.
    In press
Exhibition catalog
  1. Rafael, Joana. Folhas de Sala - films: Greenaway´s The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (1989); Cronenberg´s Crimes of the Future (2024); Rita Barbosa´s Luas Novas (2024).. Batalha Centro de Cinema, 2024.
  2. Rafael, Joana. Fogo Posto, Diana Policarpo and Odete. Lehman and Silva Gallery. Online at https://www.lehmannsilva.com/exhibition/fogo-posto/, 2023.
  3. Rafael, Joana. Limen, Pedro Vaz. Pedro Vaz (Fundo Fomento Cultural and 111 Gallery). Online at: https://www.pedrovaz.art/rafaeljoanalimenporto2021, 2021.
  4. Rafael, Joana. Omega, Yota Ayaan. Artes, Porto, 2019.
  5. rafael, joana. Self-sufficient Housing. The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia & Actar Publishers, 2006.
Journal article
  1. Rafael, Joana. "Fights with Monsters: The Power of Nature above the Success of the Nuclear". Leonorana Nuclear 1 (2023): 37-44. https://leonorana.net/.
    Published
  2. MOREIRA, Ines; Rafael, Joana. "UM VASTO TABULEIRO NA DESCARBONIZAÇÃO: ARQUITECTURA DE SUBTRACÇÃO NA EX-REFINARIA DE MATOSINHOS / A HUGE PLATFORM FOR DECARBONISATION: SUBTRACTION ARCHITECTURE AT THE FORMER REFINERY IN MATOSINHOS". Jornal Arquitectos 263 (2023):
  3. Rafael, Joana. "Prelude for an Analysis of Borders, in Marquês". Curbes Caderno 1 1 1 (2022): 15-17.
    Published
  4. rafael, joana. "450 meters deep into 1 million years safety". Cartha (2017): https://www.carthamagazine.com/issue/2-1/.
    Published
  5. rafael, joana. "Contested Symmetries and Other Predicaments in Architecture". EROS Wisdom 2 (2013): 172-181. http://www.mottodistribution.com/shop/publishers/eros-press/e-r-o-s-journal-issue-2-the-palace-of-wisdom.html.
    Published
  6. rafael, joana. "Islands of Light and Steel". San Rocco islands (2011): 2-10. https://www.sanrocco.info/magazine/islands.
    Published
  7. rafael, joana. "A Letter to the Zoologists". San Rocco Innocence (2010): 104-109. https://www.sanrocco.info/magazine/innocence.
    Published
Journal issue
  1. MOREIRA, Ines; Rafael, Joana. "Curbes Caderno 1". Curbes 1 1 (2021): https://parabolacritica.com/curbes/.
    Published • Coeditor
  2. rafael, joana. "The rooftop issue". Public Domain 2 (2016):
    Submitted • Editor
Magazine article
  1. rafael, joana. "Nos Antropicos: Notas sobre a exposicao Eco Visionarios (Arte, Arquitectura e Novos Media apos o Antropoceno", Contemporanea, 2018, https://contemporanea.pt/edicoes/07-2018/nos-antropicos-notas-sobre-exposicao-eco-visionarios-arte-e-arquitetura-apos-o-antropoceno.
Newsletter article
  1. rafael, joana. "Pripyat", Architecture on Film, 2015, http://www.archi- tecturefoundation.org.uk/programme/2009/architecture-on- lm/pripyat.
Newspaper article
  1. MOREIRA, Ines; Rafael, Joana. "Um vasto tabuleiro na Descarbonização: Arquitectura de Subtração na Ex-refinaria de Matosinhos / A huge platform for Decarbonisation. Subtraction Architecture at the former Refinery in Matosinhos", Jornal Arquitectos , 2023
Website
  1. Rafael, Joana; MOREIRA, Ines. Refinery Board. 2024. https://refineryboard.pt/wp/.
Working paper
  1. rafael, joana. 2014. "Mutually Assured Survival and the Reserves of Future Catastrophe". http://thisisthebarbershop.blogspot.pt/.

Other

Other output
  1. Containing uncertainty: Architecture in a World of Reserves. aula+seminario com alunos da escola de arquitectura da universidade do minho, curso arquitecturas de emergencia. 2019. rafael, joana.
  2. Building Reserves: Towards a Theory of de Facto and Fictional Conservation(ist) Regimes. Conferencia e seminario com alunos. 2017. rafael, joana. http://ca2m.org/es/escuelita/historico/item/2597-escuelita-primera-temporada-abril.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2023/10/20 Na pegada da ex-refinaria de petróleo: leitura multiescalar a partir de Matosinhos V MEETING OF REPORT(H)A | Portuguese Network of Environmental History Energy and socio-environmental challenges
Universidade do Minho (Braga, Portugal)
2020/02/26 The Nuclear in the Ural Mountains xxateneuxxi / The Oblique Think Tank
Ateneu Comercial do Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2019/10/17 Who's the Savage in our Reservations? #18.ART: A Admiravel Ordem das Coisas: da arte, emoção e tecnologia
Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon
2019/09/04 Burying Solid Wastes Problems: Sanitary Landfill Challenges in mainland Portugal 5th edition of the International Conference / Wastes: solutions, treatments and opportunities
(Almada, Portugal)
2018/06/17 Caminho Sujo para um Mandato Limpo Forum Internacional Africa, Cooperacao, Educacao e Desenvolvimento II (FIACED II)
Instituto Superior de Ciencias Educativas do Douro (Penafiel, Portugal)
2017/09/26 Burying Solid Waste Problems 5th edition of the International Conference / Wastes: solutions, treatments and opportunities
Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Costa da Caparica, Portugal)
2015/09/10 Questioning the Reserve States of Reserve - the legality of invisible regimes, panel #4
The World in Which We Occur (TWWWO), XII Baltic Triennial at the Contemporary Art Centre (CAC), Vilnius, Lithuania (Vilnius, Lithuania)
2014/07/28 'Mutually Assured Survival' and the Reserves of Future Catastrophe The Barber shop summer school
The Barber shop gallery (https://thisisthebarbershop.blogspot.com/) (Lisboa, Portugal)

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event
Event name
Institution / Organization
2022/05/06 - Current chair panel #5_ presentation and discussion
Conference
Spring Seminar 2022: Traumatic Landscapes
Universidade Católica Portuguesa Escola das Artes, Portugal

Universidade Católica Portuguesa Centro de Investigação em Ciência e Tecnologia das Artes, Portugal
2021/05/07 - Current chair of panel #3_ presentation and discussion
Conference
Spring Seminar 2021: Spectrology, Hauting and Ghosts
Universidade Católica Portuguesa Escola das Artes, Portugal

Universidade Católica Portuguesa Centro de Investigação em Ciência e Tecnologia das Artes, Portugal
2023/10/27 - 2023/11/03 programa artistico EdenX 3.0
Round table
Eden X 3.0
Porto Design Biennale, Portugal
2022/07/08 - 2022/07/16 programa artístico ÉdenX 1.0
Round table
ÉdenX 3.0
Jardins Efemeros, Portugal

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role
Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2023/02/15 Arquitetura do Desastre
(Thesis) Main arguer
Joao Alexandre da Costa Leite (Master)
Universidade do Minho Escola de Arquitetura, Portugal
2021/02/25 Traces of Migratory (E)scapes amidst the mediterranean
(Thesis) Main arguer
Saraa Shrbaji (PhD)
Universidade do Minho Escola de Arquitetura, Portugal

Committee member

Activity description
Role
Institution / Organization
2021/02 - 2022/06 membro da Comissão Científica do Spring Seminar
Member
Universidade Católica Portuguesa Centro de Investigação em Ciência e Tecnologia das Artes, Portugal

Conference scientific committee

Conference name Conference host
2022/05/04 - 2022/05/06 Spring Seminar 2022: Traumatic Landscapes School of Arts Universidade Católica Portuguesa | Porto
2021/02/25 - 2021/03/02 Spring Seminar 2021: Spectrology, Hauting and Ghosts School of Arts Universidade Católica Portuguesa | Porto

Consulting

Activity description Institution / Organization
2015/10/01 - 2017/05/30 Architecture research and competitions consultant Andrea Caputo, Architecture Research Office, Italy

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2023/02/11 - Current Site-Specific Writing workshop + masterclass Site-specific Writing Museu Arte, Arquitetura e Tecnologia (MAAT), Portugal
2020/12/05 - Current Problemáticas da Cultura Contemporanea Post-graduation Curatorial, Urban Culture and Spatial Practices (Especialização pós-licenciatura) Escola Superior Artística do Porto, Portugal
2017/09/03 - 2020/07/30 Unit: Contemporary Culture; Unit: Homogenization of Perception and Technology Interactive and Multimedia Content Production (Curso Técnico Superior Profissional) Instituto Superior de Ciências Educativas do Douro, Portugal
2010/03/01 - 2015/12/01 Collaborative Unit: Bigger Picture University of the Arts London Central Saint Martins, United Kingdom
2010/09/01 - 2015/09/01 Unit 5: Fundamental Agencies (Contextual Studies 1)¿; Unit 7: Critical Agencies (Contextual Studies 2)¿ and Unit 12: Accounts of Agency (Contextual Studies 3 – Dissertation)¿ Architecture, Space and Objects (Bachelor) University of the Arts London Central Saint Martins, United Kingdom
2012/09/01 - 2015/01/01 Unit: Design Theories and Operations (Bachelor) Canterbury Christ Church University Faculty of Arts Humanities and Education, United Kingdom

Other jury / evaluation

Activity description Institution / Organization
2022/09/27 - 2022/10/01 jury member of the ninth edition of Arquiteturas Film Festival Arquiteturas Film Festival Porto, Portugal
Distinctions

Award

2009 AWARD 2ºciclo
World Architecture Community, United States
2005 Menção honrosa em concurso Self-Suficient Housing
Actar Publishers, United States