Communication Design

Bachelor and Master in History of Art by the Faculty of Arts of the University of Porto. Doctorate in Architecture (Program Problems of Architecture and modern city: theory, history, projects) by ETSA of the University of Valladolid. She has been a professor at ESAP since 1986. She is Coordinator of the Autonomous Section of Theory and History and Vice-President of the Scientific Council of ESAP. He has been developing research in the field of Theory and History of Architecture and History of Photography, and it is worth mentioning the participation in two completed FCT projects: Photography, Modern Architecture and the "Oporto School": Interpretations around the Teófilo Rego Archive (2013-2015) as responsible researcher, and Modernismos do Sul (2014-2015), as a member of the research team.

Anselmo Canha. Degree in Communication Design - Graphic Art (University of Porto, 1984). Master in Image Design (University of Porto, 2008), PhD in Design (University of Porto, 2018). As a researcher, he is dedicated to the relationships between independent contexts of creation - namely non-professional and experimental - and social transformation. In his master dissertation he studied the Stop Shopping Center. His PhD thesis elected a community radio - Radio Manobras - as the center of a constellation of cases in the city of Porto. He co-coordinated “Manobras no Porto”, a project dedicated to think and act through creative action in the Historic Center of Porto. He has been a professional designer since 1984, having developed work mainly in the editorial, corporate identity and signage fields, the latter being his current professional specialization.

Completed a Master Degree on Illustration and Animation and graduated on Graphic Design. He has been working as a professor in several higher education entities (IPCA, IPP and IPB) and tutoring Workshops and Masterclasses with IPCA, Cinanima, Casa da Animação, Casa da Juv. Famalicão and individually. Professionally he works as a digital animator, graphic designer, visual effects artist and sound designer. He has some animations transmitted on FOX, RTP2 and TELE5 TV Channels and already produced and implemented audiovisual content in digital games. It stands out the collaboration with Portuguese Football Federation, ComicCon, "Pedro e o Gato", MagikBee, Original Features and Animgram. He also dedicates himself to research, constantly publishing and presenting scientific articles on international conferences. He currently attends a PhD in Communication Sciences at the University of Minho.

Bachelor of Fine Arts / Painting by FBAUP (1981). PhD from the University of Vigo (Department of Sculpture, 2014), with the thesis "Art and Memory: Developments and derivations about the concept of memory and its contribution to artistic practice". He was a Fellow of the Foundation for Science and Technology (2009-2012). Since 1982, he has been teaching at ESAP's Higher Arts Courses, of which he was one of the founders, having held various positions. As a plastic artist, he began exhibiting in 1978: he held 5 solo exhibitions and participated in more than 150 collectives, in Portugal and abroad, being represented in some public and private collections. Between 1976 and 1981 he worked in Animation Cinema, including two films subsidized by the Portuguese Cinema Institute, produced by Cinematógrafo - collective of intervention, of which he was one of the founders. In 2015 Trindade re-started working in cinema, having produced two short films which were shown in some international film festivals. 

Henrique Muga. Degree in Psychology (University of Porto, 1986), Master in Social Psychology (University of Porto, 1998), and PhD in Social Sciences - research line Psychology of Art (Universidade Fernando Pessoa, 2015). He has taught at ESAP since 1987. He is the author of several articles and books in the field of architecture and cinema. He coordinated, in partnership with Porto Lazer, the project "Urban Art - Intervention in Boxes of Electricity", Largo de S. Domingos. He was Chairman of the Pedagogical Council and Deputy Director of the Board of Directors. He is currently integrates CESAP`s Direction.

João Cruz. Bachelor Degree in Communication Design (1993), Masters in Multimedia Art (2003) and PhD in Art & Design (2011) from the School of Fine Arts at the University of Porto.
Lecturer of design and media studies for the Bachelor, Master and PhD programmes at the School of Fine Arts at the University of Porto (1999–2017). Member of ID+ Unexpected Media Research Group (2007–2017). Editor and co-founder of media-label Crónica Electrónica (http://cronicaelectronica.org) (2002–2010). Co-founder and co-creative director of Colönia Design Studio, Store & Micro-Gallery (2009–2014). Currently director of Mountain Superstudio™ (http://mountainsuperstudio.com) (2017), a design studio specialising in art direction, editorial design, branding and video with a focus on Portuguese fashion.

Attending the PhD in Art and Design at FBAUP and Master in Image Design and Licentiate in Communication Design at FBAUP. He has been working as a graphic designer since 2003. He is co-founder of the design office - GSA Design, specializing in the development of visual identities as well as in editorial in the area of cultural production, among others. He has been a senior designer at the Serralves Foundation since 2004. From his teaching experience, ESAP has been teaching since 2010 and ESAD in Matosinhos where he has been teaching since 2009. Since 2010 he has co-hosted ESAP's "Plug and Play" design conferences . His work has already been selected for the Trnava Poster Triennial (2003), International Museum Communication Awards (2007) and winner of the Best Design Prize for Art and Photography Prize edition Read / Booktailors with the book "Berlin - Critical Reconstruction" ( 2009).

Jorge Cunha Pimentel graduated in Fine Arts - Painting from FBAUP, in 1989, and PhD in Arquitecturapela Universidad de Valladolid, in 2014, with the thesis Public Works of Rogério de Azevedo. The years of the SPN / SNI and the DGEMN. He has been a professor at ESAP since 1987. He was Director of the Superior Course of Design and coordinator of the degree of Plastic Arts. She has been developing research in the fields of Architecture History and Architectural Design, with the participation in two ESAP projects already completed or in the process of being completed, around the subject of Design Architecture (2014-2016), as responsible researcher; and participation in the FCT project already completed Photography, Modern Architecture and the "Porto School". Interpretations around the Teófilo Rego Archive (2013-2015), as a member of the research team.

Jorge Ribeiro holds BA in Communication Design (Faculty of Fine Arts) and a Master in Multimedia (Faculty of Engineering), both from the University of Porto. Currently, he is a researcher at Associação Fraunhofer Portugal Research in the Human-Centred Design group, with research interests in human behaviour, interaction design, usability, prototyping, and web technologies. He is also a lecturer at Escola Superior de Design (IPCA), FBAUP, e ESAP.

Designer, graduated from the School of Art and Design since 1996, with work developed essentially in the area of communication. Master in Multimedia in Education from the University of Aveiro since 2007. She is developing her PhD in Design at the University of Aveiro, where she is a collaborator of the ID + Institute of Research, Design, Media and Culture. His research work is part of the Strategic Design for Sustainability Research Line. He has been teaching at the Escola Superior Artística do Porto (ESAP) since 2001, where he is currently a member of the Multimedia Design and Communication Course. He was President of the Pedagogical Council and integrated some working groups of curricular organization.

Bachelor in Photography (ESAP - 1995), Degree in Design (ESAD - 1998), Iberian Master - Graphic and Intermediate Production (University of Barcelona - 2007) and PhD in Fine Arts - Design, Drawing and Expression Techniques program University of Valencia - 2016, recognized by the University of Porto in 2017). She has been a professor at the ESD (IPCA) since 2009. She has been sworn in the profession of Graphic Design SKILLS Portugal since 2011. She has been developing research in the field of photography and graphic arts at the Marques Abreu Portuguese Photograver. IN PURE PRINT on Graphic Works by Marques Abreu (1898-1974), Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto in 2016.

Maria de Fátima Alves Sales Varão. Degree in History - Archeology (University of Porto, 1986). PhD in Architecture, with Thesis Januário Godinho in Portuguese Architecture or the other face of modernity (Modern Architecture and Restauration program, University of Valladolid, 2001). Fellow of FCT, program PRAXIS XXI (1995-1999). Lecturer at ESAP (since 1987), currently teaching at the Integrated Master's Degree in Architecture and Visual Arts Licenciatura Photography, Intermediate Plastic Arts, Audiovisual Cinema, Multimedia Communication Design and Theater. Coordinator of the Autonomous Section of Theory and History (2010/2012). Researcher at CEAA (UI & D 4041 of FCT) and coordinator of the Modern Architecture theme - preservation and dissemination. IR of the Group of Theory, Critics, History and Practices of Contemporary Art of CEAA (2010/2012).

Susana Barreto completed PhD course at Central Saint Martins (CSM) in 2008, after which she continued her research on the ethical implications of Global Design in a joint programme PostDoc between Faculty of Fine Arts in Porto and CSM. In 2021 Susana completed 2 FCT funded research projects, Wisdom Transfer as a Leader and Anti-Amnesia as a co-Leader. Susana's work at the Graphic Communication course in Macau paved the way to put forward a research project "the Fading Legacy of the Macanese" funded by the Grants/Asia-Europe Comparative Studies Research of which Susana was both author and project leader. Susana has supervised several MA, Phd and Postdoc studies and organized international and national conferences in Porto. For the last 3 years that Susana has been acting as the Co-Coordinator of the Design, Architecture and Urbanism panel for the FCTs PhD scholarships call. Susana's interests converge around the role of ethics in visual communication, design and crime, design culture, visual methodologies, life stories of Portuguese Design figures, Visual/history collections.