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Celeste Pedro is a communication designer graduated from the Fine Arts Faculty in Porto, Portugal. Her main focuses have since been typography and editorial design. While working for ten years in design agencies, she did her Master's in Design and Intermedia at the University of Barcelona. Her studies on dictionary design have led her closer to the field of History of Typography and to the engagement in various language courses, workshops and summer schools related to the edition of texts and book production. In recent years, she specialised in early printed books and palaeography while conducting her PhD research on the History of Portuguese Print Culture in the Sixteenth Century, funded by FCT. She was a post-doc researcher for the project "From Data to Wisdom. Philosophizing Data Visualizations in the Middle Ages and Early Modernity (13th-17th Century)" at the Instituto de Filosofia of the University of Porto, where she continues her work on medieval and early-modern diagrams. Celeste has recently concluded the project “Horologium Diagrams: the contribute of digital tools for the study of knowledge visualisation in the Medieval Period” with a research scholarship. In her Ciência Vitae curriculum, the most frequent terms in the context of scientific, technological and artistic-cultural output are Typography; History of Typography; Design; Communication Design; Book History; Print Culture; Databases; Information Design; Digital Tools; Digital Resources; Knowledge Transmission; Digital Archives; Data Visualization; Early Modernity; Medieval Diagrams.
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Celeste Maria Lourenço da Silva de Oliveira Pedro

Citation names

  • Pedro, Celeste

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
D71B-3F00-D36E
ORCID iD
0000-0002-8020-3734

Email addresses

  • cpedro@letras.up.pt (Professional)

Telephones

Mobile phone
  • 963711310 (Personal)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Humanities - Arts
  • Humanities - Other Humanities

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Latin Elementary (A2) Upper intermediate (B2) Elementary (A2) Upper intermediate (B2)
Italian Intermediate (B1) Upper intermediate (B2) Elementary (A2) Upper intermediate (B2)
Spanish; Castilian Elementary (A2) Upper intermediate (B2) Elementary (A2) Upper intermediate (B2)
French Elementary (A2) Upper intermediate (B2) Elementary (A2) Upper intermediate (B2)
German Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2)
Ancient Greek (until 1553) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1)
Education
Degree Classification
2024/01/27 - 2024/02/17
Concluded
Programming in Julia for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences (Outros)
Universidade de Évora, Portugal
2022/09/11 - 2023
Attended
Filosofia (Curso de doutoramento (conclusão de unidades curriculares))
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2022/05/16 - 2022/07/20
Concluded
Digital Storytelling (Outros)
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
Approved
2021/07/05 - 2021/07/09
Concluded
Emergence@UPorto Digital Media Science Communication Hackathon (Outros)
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2013/10 - 2018/07/17
Concluded
PhD in Design (Doutoramento)
Major in Design
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Belas Artes, Portugal
"Sixteenth-Century Print Culture in the Kingdom of Portugal: a study on typographical specimens used in the printing houses of João de Barreira and João Álvares." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
Approved
2016/08/01 - 2016/08/06
Concluded
Summer School Typography and Edition (Outros)
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz Institut für Buchwissenschaft, Germany
2016/07/04 - 2016/07/08
Concluded
Digital edition of texts and manuscripts (Petrus Hispanus workshop 1) (Outros)
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Filosofia, Portugal
2014/07/13 - 2014/07/28
Concluded
Text - Memory - Monument (Outros)
Major in Italian Renaissance Humanism
Aarhus Universitet, Denmark
Passed - 10 ECTS - MA level
2013/04 - 2013/06
Concluded
Contemporary Critical Thought: some representatives (Outros)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2012/02/10 - 2012/06/22
Concluded
Latin, Language and Translation (Outros)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2011/10 - 2012/04
Concluded
German A2 (Outros)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
15/20
2011/11/25 - 2012/02/04
Concluded
Planning and Organising Documental Units (Outros)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Portugal
8,5/10
2010/10 - 2011/06
Concluded
Latin (Outros)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
18/20
2007 - 2008/07/18
Concluded
Diseno y Producción Gráfica/Intermédia (Master)
Major in Design
Universitat de Barcelona Facultat de Belles Arts, Spain
"A identidade da palavra. WOR.L.D" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
20/20
2000/10 - 2005/07/18
Concluded
Communication Design and Graphical Arts. (Licenciatura)
Major in Design
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Belas Artes, Portugal
14/20
1997/09 - 2000/06
Concluded
Agrupamento 2 / General course in Arts. (Ensino secundário)
Ministério da Educação, Portugal
17/20
1998/06
Concluded
First Certificate in English (Diploma de especialização)
Cambridge School Portugal, Portugal
B
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution
Employer
2022/10/15 - 2023/10/16 Researcher (Research) Universidade do Porto Instituto de Filosofia, Portugal
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2020/09/01 - 2021/12/31 Contracted Researcher (Research) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Filosofia, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution
Employer
2018/02 - 2019/09 Adjunct Teacher (Polytechnic Teacher) Instituto Politécnico do Porto Escola Superior de Educação, Portugal
Instituto Politécnico do Porto Escola Superior de Educação, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution
Employer
2009 - 2013 Professional Trainer Alquimia da Cor – Produções Digitais, Lda., Portugal
2006 - 2013 Senior Communication Designer / Project manager U Design - Atelier Gráfico Unipessoal, Lda, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2022/10/15 - 2023/10/16 Horologium Diagrams: the contribute of digital tools for the study of knowledge visualization in the medieval period
UIDB/00502/2020
Researcher
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Filosofia, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2014/01 - 2018/04 Sixteenth-Century Print Culture in the Kingdom of Portugal. A Study of Typographical Specimens Used in the Printing House of João de Barreira and João Alvares.
PD BD 105796 2014
PhD Student Fellow
Instituto de Investigação em Design Media e Cultura, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2024/01/01 - 2024/12/31 Value systems in digital health technologies
2022.15724.CMU
Associação Fraunhofer Portugal Research, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2020/09/01 - 2022/06/30 From Data to Wisdom. Philosophizing Data Visualizations in the Middle Ages and Early Modernity (13th-17th Century)
Post-doc
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Filosofia, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2016/05/01 - 2019/10/31 Edição Crítica e Estudo das Obras Atribuídas a Petrus Hispanus - 1
PTDC/MHC-FIL/0216/2014
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Filosofia, Portugal

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

Publications

Book
  1. Pedro, Celeste; Marttila, Terhi. Hacking the Good Life. João de Barros and the Game of Moral Virtues - booklet. Porto, Portugal: Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto. 2023.
    Published • https://doi.org/10.21747/978-989-9082-75-5/hac
Book chapter
  1. Pedro, Celeste. "The Horologium Diagram: Visual Representations of Time". In From Wisdom to Data - Philosophical Atlas on Visual Representations of Knowledge, edited by Pedro, Celeste; Higuera Rubio, José; Romele, Alberto; Rodighiero, Dario, 99-105. Porto, Portugal: U. Porto Press - Editora da Universidade do Porto, 2022.
    Published
  2. Pedro, Celeste. "A Sixteenth-Century Board Game by João de Barros". In Illustration and Ornamentation in the Iberian Book World, 1450¿-1800, edited by Alexander Samuel Wilkinson, 284-314. BRILL, 2021.
    Published • 10.1163/9789004447141_015
Book review
  1. Pedro, Celeste. "[Review of Elina Gertsman. The Absent Image: Lacunae in Medieval Books. University Park, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2021.]". 30, 1 (2023): 244-247. https://journals.uco.es/refime/article/view/16597.
    Published • https://doi.org/10.21071/refime.v30i1.16597
  2. Pedro, Celeste. "[Review of the book Diagramming Devotion: Berthold of Nurembergs Transformation of Hrabanus Maurus¿s Poems in Praise of the Cross, by Jeffrey F. Hamburger. Chicago/London: The University of Chicago Press, 2020]". 28, 2 (2022): 154-157. https://journals.uco.es/refime/issue/view/1106.
    Published • https://doi.org/10.21071/refime.v27i2.13141
Conference abstract
  1. Pedro, Celeste; Marttila, Terhi. "Hacking João de Barros' 16th century Dialogo [...] em modo de jogo, a combinatorial game about moral vices and virtues". Paper presented in Overcoming divides: electronic literature ans social change: book of abstracts / ELO Conference 2023, Coimbra, 2023.
    Published
  2. Pedro, Celeste. "Sixteenth-Century Print Culture in the Kingdom of Portugal: Comparative study of typographical specimens used in the printing houses of João de Barreira & João Álvares". Paper presented in Livro de atas: UD14 - 1º Encontro Ibérico de Doutoramentos em Design / 3º Encontro Nacional de Doutoramentos em Design, Aveiro, 2014.
    Published
Edited book
  1. Higuera Rubio, José. From Wisdom to Data. Philosophical Atlas on Visual Representations of Knowledge.. Porto, Portugal: U.Porto Press. 2022.
    Published • Editor
Journal article
  1. Pedro, Celeste; Marttila, Terhi. Corresponding author: Marttila, Terhi. "Hacking the Good Life". The Digital Review 3 (2023): https://thedigitalreview.com/issue03/hacking/begin/index.html.
    Open access • Published • https://doi.org/10.7273/zyyq-xs17
  2. Pedro, Celeste. "Evagations Diagrams in Medieval Computus". Mediaevalia Textos e estudos 41 (2022): 461-472. http://dx.doi.org/10.21747/21836884/med41a34.
    Open access • Published • 10.21747/21836884/med41a34
Magazine article
  1. Rodighiero, Dario; Romele, Alberto; Higuera Rubio, José; Pedro, Celeste; Azzi, Mateo; Uboldi, Giorgio. Corresponding author: Rodighiero, Dario. "Advanced Interface Design for IIIF. A Digital Tool to Explore Image Collections at Different Scales", Umanistica Digitale (UD), 2023, https://umanisticadigitale.unibo.it/article/view/17230.
    https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2532-8816/17230

Artistic / Performance

Curatorial / Museum exhibition
  1. Sílvia Patrício; Pedro, Celeste. 2022. "From Data to Wisdom".

Other

Dataset
  1. Pedro, Celeste. historicaltype.eu. https://historicaltype.eu/work.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2024/09/27 Digital Volvelles https://diagrams-2024.diagrams-conference.org/tutorials/#Digital_Volvelles DIAGRAMS 2024 - 14th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Diagrams
University of Münster (Münster, Germany)
2023/09/15 A arte memorativa dos bons costumes de João de Barros V Congresso Internacional da SPF
Universidade de Évora - Sociedade Portuguesa de Filosofia (Évora, Portugal)
2023/09/07 Hic notandum quis primus horologium inuenit V Congreso Internacional Sobre Libro Medieval y Moderno
Universidade de Zaragoza (Zaragoza, Spain)
2022/08/24 What is in an Ontology? Reading and Communicating Visual Information XVe Congrès International de Philosophie Médiévale/The XVth International Congress of Medieval Philosophy: La Pensée Radicale au Moyen Âge/Radical Thinking in the Middle Ages
SIEPM - Societe Internationale pour l'Etude de la Philosophie Médiévale (Paris, France)
2022/02/19 From Data to Wisdom: Historical Overview of Data Visualizations. 3.ª ultramaratona de Business Intelligence & Analytics
Coimbra Business School, ISCAC (Coimbra, Portugal)
2021/12/13 Digital Ontologies for Elemental Diagrams XV Colóquio Internacional de História da Filosofia da Natureza. Teorias da Matéria.
Universidade de Campinas (Campinas, Brazil)
2021/12/03 Musical Tapestry International Conference IMAGO, ACTUS ET VERBUM Challenges and Questions in Medieval Studies A Cross-Disciplinary Dialogue Between Philology, Philosophy, History, Art and Literature
Instituto de Estudos Medievais - FCSH/NOVA - HIS/00749 & Instituto de Filosofia da Universidade do Porto - FIL/00502 (Lisbon, Portugal)
2021/09/06 Evagations Diagrams in Medieval Computus De cognitione 8th International Congress of SOFIME
Sociedad de Filosofía Medieval & Instituto de Filosofia da Universidade do Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2019/06/26 Trees and Circles: Knowledge Through Practice in a Sixteenth-century Board Game. The Challenges of Design: Imagination, Aesthetics and New Technology
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras (Porto, Portugal)
2019/04/16 Ilustrar para Sophia Sophia: 100 anos. (Re)visitação e tributo.
Universidade do Porto Escola Superior de Educação InED (Porto, Portugal)
2018/05/24 A Sixteenth-Century Board Game by João de Barros. Typography, Illustration and Ornamentation in the Early Modern Iberian Book World, 1450-1800.
University College Dublin (Dublin, Ireland)
2015/08/28 Portuguese Printers of the Renaissance. Tralmar Workshop HAB
University of Jyväskylä (Wolfenbüttel, Germany)
2014/11/29 Sixteenth-Century print culture in the Kingdom of Portugal: Comparative study of typographical specimens used in the printing houses of João de Barreira & João Álvares. UD14 - 1º Encontro Ibérico de Doutoramentos em Design, 3º Encontro Nacional de Doutoramentos em Design
Universidade de Aveiro (Aveiro, Portugal)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role)
Institution / Organization
2024/09/13 - 2024/09/14 The Midnight Rotating Tree: key talks, drawing classes and workshops about Circles. https://ifilosofia.up.pt/activities/the-midnight-rotating-tree-keytalks-drawing-classes-and-workshops-about-circles (2024/09/13 - 2024/09/14)
Seminar (President of the Organising Committee)
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Filosofia, Portugal
2024/07/26 - 2024/07/27 The Midnight Rotating Tree: key talks, drawing classes and workshops about Trees. https://ifilosofia.up.pt/activities/tmrt-trees (2024/07/26 - 2024/07/27)
Seminar (President of the Organising Committee)
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Filosofia, Portugal
2023/07/12 - 2023/07/12 "Hacking João de Barros’ 16th-century Diálogo [...] em modo de jogo, a combinatorial game about moral vices and virtues" - Workshop for the Electronic Literature Organization 2023 (ELO 2023) International Conference and Media Arts Show: Overcoming divides: electronic literature and social change. (2023/07/12 - 2023/07/15)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2022/06/14 - 2022/06/14 CLOSURE WORKSHOP: IIIF READER - Depicting Research in the Humanities through Digital Environments (2022/06/14 - 2022/06/14)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Filosofia, Portugal
2022/04/20 - 2022/04/20 IIIF Reader: Multilevel Visualization Research (2). A Workshop to Explore and Annotate Image Collections at Different Scales. (2022/04/20 - 2022/04/20)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Filosofia, Portugal

Bibliotheca Hertziana ¿ Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Italy
2022/03/25 - 2022/03/25 IIIF Reader: Multilevel Visualization Research (1). A Workshop to Explore and Annotate Image Collections at Different Scales. The IIIF Reader is a tool designed for annotating and visualizing images through the International Image Interoperability Framework, this workshop aims at presenting and using it. (2022/03/25 - 2022/03/25)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Filosofia, Portugal

Instituto de História Contemporânea, Portugal
2020/02/27 - 2020/02/28 The Game of Moral Precepts, workshop about the Diálogo de Preceitos Morais (1540), of João de Barros. (2020/02/27 - 2020/02/28)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Filosofia, Portugal
2015/10/19 - 2015/10/20 UD15: Periphery and Promise. 4th PhD in Design Research Forum. University do Porto, Portugal (2015/10/19 - 2015/10/20)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
Instituto de Investigação em Design Media e Cultura, Portugal

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2009 - 2013 Graphic Elements of the Medieval, Barroque and Neoclassical Periods: Printing Processes; Modern Design in the Communication Era; Signalling systems; History of the Arts and Typography; Graphical Culture; Linguistics for Designers. (Curso de Especialização Tecnológica) Alquimia da Cor, Produções Digitais, Ldª., Portugal