Biography
Researcher at ID+ / Unexpected Media Lab – Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto and lecturer at Lusófona University, Cláudia Lima participated in the project "Wisdom Transfer: Towards the scientific inscription of individual legacies in contexts of retirement from art and design higher education and research", financed by FCT - Foundation for Science and Technology, in which she studied the career of artists trained at the School of Fine Arts of Porto and pedagogical practices in this school during the April 25th Revolution period. Following these studies, she developed a post PhD on the first teaching practices in Design in higher education. Her research interests also include the study of photography as a social document. On these subjects she participated in international conferences and published book chapters and extensively in international journals. She is currently collaborating in “Afro-Ibero-America Masks”, a Brazil/Portugal project that gathers and disseminates testimonies of artists, organizers and performers and works in the crafts of sacred and profane rites.
She has been involved in the coordination of events including conferences, symposiums, seminars, exhibitions, and workshops; she has coordinated academic projects in collaboration with institutions such as Portuguese Red Cross and Alzheimer Portugal Association, which aim at promoting a socially conscious design practice and responding to human needs.
Her PhD in Digital Media (University of Porto), financed by national funds, was focused on the study of communication practices of public libraries on the web and resulted in the publication of the book Biblioteca em Rede: Comunicação Integrada no Contexto das Culturas Participativas [Library Network: Integrated communication in the context of participatory cultures].
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