COCOON RESEARCHERS
Américo Mateus
Susana Leonor
IR COCOON - Lecturer and Researcher at ISMAT in Portimão. His areas of interest and participation in European Projects range from Participatory Design & Nature-Based Solutions; Circular Economy & Biodesign; Design & Innovation.
PhD in DESIGN, has developed her path around creativity and technologies. Since 2018, she has been lecturer and researcher ISMAT , and it’s also Director at Communication Design Degree and Creative Technologies Degree
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Carla Paoliello
Gabriel Patrocínio
She is Invited Assistant Professor at the FBAUL and ISMAT, Portimão. She is interested in discussing collaboration and co-design, craft and traditional practices, eco-consciousness and care, identities and territories. Currently, she has been investigating knowledge exchange and experimenting with living systems and biomaterials.
Gabriel Patrocinio is an Associate Professor of Design and co-director of the Master’s in Design for Circular Economy, and researcher at ISMAT - Lusófona group (Portugal); Adjunct Professor at UERJ, the State University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
David Palma
Jorge Lopes
Lecturer at ISMAT, PhD student in Design at the FAUL of Lisbon, with research interests in the areas of Speculative and Critical Design.
More than a Designer, David considers himself a communicator of sensations, a color organizer, an image creator, and a translator of dreams.
He’s Senior Technologist at the National Institute of Technology, Brazilian Ministry of Science, Innovation, and Technology. Professor of Design at the PUC RIO, collaborates on research groups at the School of Medicine and the Brazilian National Museum. director of BIOLAB Rio.
Juhani Tenhunen
Pirjo Kääriäinen
Creative industry and project manager research. Master of Art in New Media, doctoral studies at Aalto University. Have been working at the university since
2002 as producer, project manager and researcher. Enthusiastic maker and DIY person.
She is a material enthusiast and textile specialist, working as an Associate Professor in Design and Materialities at the Aalto University, Finland. She operates between research and practice, and she is involved in several material research projects focusing on bio-based materials
Ena Naito
Þóra Óskarsdóttir
Doctoral researcher at Aalto University, School of Arts, Design and Architecture. Ena is an interdisciplinary design researcher, working at the intersection between biology, design, and co-learning, particularly by integrating biodesign into learning processes.
Holding both a B.Sc. and an M.Sc. in psychology and the teaching of psychology from the University of Iceland. Director of Fab Lab Reykjavík, a distinguished prototyping lab in Iceland. Under her leadership, Fab Lab Reykjavík has embraced a pioneering role in biodesign, enhancing its capabilities to support green innovations.
Bryndís Steina
Thora Arnardottir
She is an Educational Specialist and Project Manager at Fab Lab Reykjavík. She has built her career around creativity, technology, innovation, and education, focusing her research on enhancing creativity skills and fostering independent knowledge-seeking. Bryndís is always eager to engage in dialogues about prototyping and innovation processes
She is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Living Construction at the Hub for Biotechnology in the Built Environment (HBBE) at Northumbria University in Newcastle, UK, and an Associate Lecturer at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London (UAL), UK. Her expertise focuses on designing with bacterial biomineralisation and the integration of altered fabrication techniques with different biological systems.
Chiara Farinea
Fiona Demeur
PhD in Urban Planning at IUAV (Venice), a Master in Advanced Architecture at IAAC (Barcelona), the Architecture University Degree at Politecnico di Milano (Milan), currently Head of European Projects at the Advanced Architecture Group Department at IAAC.
Fiona Demeur is an architectural designer with a passion for designing and working with nature to find architectural solutions for our cities. Currently, she is working as the project manager of Erasmus+ EU Projects in the Advanced Architecture Group at IAAC.
Andrea Conserva
José Lameiras
Andrea Conserva is an Italian architect, building engineer and researcher. He is currently EU Project Manager at the Advanced Architecture Group Department at IAAC in Barcelona where he is coordinator and scientific personnel of several EU R&D projects targeted at urbanism and sustainability.
Landscape Architect (PhD). Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto (FCUP). Researcher at BIOPOLIS, Research Center in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources. He develops research and professional practice in urban regeneration through the design of green structures and the implementation of nature-based solutions.
