My previous experience (Portugal, Greece and Turkey) ranges from project and community management to event production. I hold a BA in Fashion Design (2013) from the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Lisbon & Politecnico di Milano, later
a Bespoke Tailoring certificate (MODATEX), and I have been recently in the MA Social Design programme at Design Academy Eindhoven. I have over 8 years of experience as a Community manager of Fashion Revolution Portugal, which I co-established as a legal entity in Portugal. Establishing the network
of consumers and SME’s fashion brands (mostly in the ecosystem of Lisbon) has made me comfortable in organizing several sized events, including markets, conferences and educational sessions and Clothing Swap Markets - my personal favourite! Through this variety of activities I gained experience in curatorial and writing work, PR, social media, logistics, management and liaising with public institutions and established a promising relationship with the Portuguese textile industry. In 2019, I dedicated myself to producing a sustainability documentary series of 5 episodes, “É P’ra Amanhã”, which premiered in Lisbon European Green Capital 2021 and on TV, reaching over 59 thousand spectators on average per episode and got familiar with filmmaking on a technical level: sound and image recording and editing. Along with several Fashion Revolution branches and Impact Hub Lisbon, I was also engaged as remote assistant project coordinator for “Small But Perfect”, an incubator for circular and sustainable fashion SME’s where I facilitated the SME’s in their journey and challenges in their accelerator programme. In Turkey and Greece, I researched (Erasmus+ scholarship) on craft heritage and displacement and co-established an NGO providing professional textile training programmes to migrant women in Izmir, Turkey. Recently, my activities have shifted to participatory design practices where I intertwine critical design research (mostly linked to intersectional environmentalism) with craft technologies and folklore - I like to work where the past meets the future! I (co)create functional objects that reveal the hidden stories of our "second skin”— focusing on textiles and food. My work explores personal and collective consumption, activism, and civic participation in the european context. I develop participatory models like Anthotyping Landscapes and projects like Heirlooming, blending craft, upcycling, and degrowth principles. I also write about all these, with texts published in Designers Write, ArtEZ APRIA and What Design Can Do blog.