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Duncan Bullen
KEYNOTE
Duncan Bullen is Deputy Head of School, in the School of Art at the University of Brighton, where he has responsibility for leading Research and Enterprise.
Duncan's research interests are grounded in the materiality of manual drawing. He is concerned with tactile, repetitive, reductive, non-representational drawing strategies which he aligns with the practice of mindfulness meditation. Duncan is interested in how drawing mindfully may communicate spatially and physically as a means to trace the immediacy of lived experience, through tactile, sensory and contemplative engagement with the world. With this comes an interest in arts-health and the interchange between well-being and well-doing in which the lived body, mind and environment are part of the same process of phenomenologically enacting one's world at a transactional, integrated and visceral level. Duncan's research aims to contribute and build upon discussions that position drawing as phenomenology, and he situates his research within a comparative context that draws on a convergence of thinking from Eastern and Western philosophies. Duncan places particular value on practice-based research, which situates drawing within a first person, experience-based methodology.
Duncan trained in Fine Art at Leeds Polytechnic, graduating in 1988. He then completed an MA in Printmaking at the Royal College of Art in 1991 after which he was the recipient of a Prix d' Rome Scholarship, spending 1991-92 at the British School at Rome. Duncan has had several solo exhibitions and has participated in many internationally recognised shows, as well as contributing writing to academic journals and published book chapters.
Guillaume Blanc
KEYNOTE
Guillaume Blanc is a lecturer in contemporary history at the University of Rennes 2. A specialist in the environmental history of Africa, his research deals more specifically with the global circulation of people and knowledge that presides the heritage of nature in the Horn of Africa. Member of the editorial board of the journal 20 & 21. Revue d'histoire and director of the collection "Environmental History" at the Editions de la Sorbonne, he notably published Une histoire environnementale de la nation (2015) and co-edited Humanités environnementales. Enquêtes et contre-enquêtes (2017).
Guida Casella
Guida Casella, n.1974, Lisbon, Portugal, has a Degree in Fine Arts from the Faculty of Fine Arts of Lisbon in (2000) and an MA in Archaeological Illustration from the University of Bath, UK (2005). The dissertation titled “The Picturesque in Archaeological / Historical Landscape Illustrations” focused on the History of Drawing and related the Antiquarian Illustrations to Romanticism Painting, namely to the Picturesque aesthetic category.
She started her professional activity as scientific illustrator and information designer in 1998, working for several Archaeological research Units (IPPAR, DAI, UNIARQ, CAM, ERA).
Currently she is working on her PhD research in Digital Media_Interactive Content Creation at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universidade Nova de Lisboa under the UT Austin Portugal Programme. Her research interest is in the History of Scientific Image and how Digital Culture is changing the visual language and scope of archaeological research and dissemination.
Mário Linhares
Mário Linhares (Lisbon, Portugal) studied at the Artistic School António Arroio. Having two Graduations - Landscape Design, and in Industrial Design - he also holds a Master Degree in Visual Arts Education, and he is currently doing research for his Ph.D. on Fine-Arts, concerning The Spiritual in Drawing. Draws compulsively and idealizes artistic and humanitarian projects since ‘97. Is married, have one son, and draws on the sketchbooks his wife makes. Enjoys walking, taking public transportation and discussing ideas with friends.
He founded Urban Sketchers Portugal in 2009, joined the International Executive Board in 2011 and he is the current Education Director of Urban Sketchers since 2013. Co-author of the awarded travel book: Carnet de Voyage | Côte d’Ivoire, he contributes to different books about drawing, organizes exhibitions and contributes with lectures worldwide. Travel and sketching are what like the most to do.
Manuel João Ramos
Manuel João Ramos, born 1960 in Lisbon, Portugal, is Associate Professor with tenure at the Dept. of Anthropology and Senior Researcher of the Centre of International Studies, at ISCTE - University Institute of Lisbon. He is presently the head of the Central Library of African Studies. In 1982 he completed a BA in Anthropology (at FCSH-UNL) with honours, presenting a monographic essay about a fishing community in South Portugal. In 1987 he completed a MsC in Comparative Literary Studies (at FCSH-UNL), with a dissertation on travel literature. In 1995, he successfully presented his PhD thesis in Symbolic Anthropology (at ISCTE-IUL), with honours, on Christian mythology and visions of the East.
He pursues a parallel graphic arts carrier and is involved in NGO militancy. He is the president of ACA-M, the delegate of FEVR (European Federation of Road Traffic Victims) to the UN Road Safety Collaboration, and is a member of the directors' board of the Global Alliance of NGOs for Road Safety. He's also the representative of the Hakluyt Society in Portugal.
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Pedro Loureiro
Born on the southwestern-most tip of Europe, in Lagos, Portugal. A childhood of legos and sand castles led him to architecture school, but an adolescence of doodling drove him to illustration. Works halfway between the two professions, as an architecture illustrator. Likes to sketch, to travel and to chop vegetables into tiny bits. Teaches sketching workshops regularly and tells his stories in the blog Storysketching and in Urban Sketchers Portugal. He is also a regular writer for Drawing Attention and is an illustrator for The Wedding Sketchers, alongside two other fellow sketchers.
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Pedro Alves
Pedro Alves is an architect and illustrator living in Torres Vedras. Drawing has always been a constant passion and the medium he used from early on to express ideas or to represent animated characters he liked. In college, in 2001 he started his contact with the sketchbook to record urban environments and has never stopped since. He is part of the drawing group CCC Sketchcrawl Torres Vedras and is one of the coordinators of the Urban Sketchers Oeste. The fact that he works in Lisbon allows him to document various situations of the capital's busy life, interspersed with relaxed family lunch sketches in Torres Vedras during the weekends. Drawing is always present in his life and work, and according to him, this process of daily drawings does not have a specific purpose, serving for its constant evolution and search for new ways of being and communicating.
Ana Moya Pellitero
Ana Moya is a postdoc researcher with an FCT grant at CHAIA, University of Évora. She holds a post-graduation in Intervention and Management of the Landscape Heritage by UA Barcelona (2009). PhD in Urban Landscape Theory and Urban Culture from the Department of Architectural History and Theory, TU Eindhoven (2007). She has been Assistant Professor at ISMAT, Lusophone University (2010-15) and lecturer at TU Eindhoven (2000-2007). Her PhD dissertation developed a trans-disciplinary and intercultural research in the field of urban landscape perception with a phenomenological enquiry involving topics related with landscape theory, urban culture, psychology of perception, visual media and representation, both for the European and Chinese urban context. Her postdoc research develops a theory on the somatic multicultural urban landscape, which studies the dynamic identity and immaterial landscape heritage in two historical neighbourhoods in Lisbon and Barcelona, involving the body, its choreography and the multisensorial perception and mapping of the urban space. She published the book “The Perception of the Urban Landscape” Ed. Biblioteca Nueva (2011), and she was contributor in the collective work “Exploring the Visual Landscape”, IOS, Delft University Press (2011).
Filipa Pontes
Filipa Pontes (Beja – Portugal, 1978), holds a degree in Graphic Design in Portugal (ESAD, Caldas da Rainha) and a postgraduate degree in Creative Illustration in Spain (EINA, Barcelona). Since 2004 participates in projects, exhibitions and artistic residencies in Portugal, Brazil, Spain, Mozambique, China and Norway. Using drawing as a way to research and reflect on the human relations in the contemporary society, creates site-specific projects through installation, performance and artist’s books, exploring the connections between place, time and space.
Filipa collaborated internationally with institutions in projects related to contemporary art, education and culture. She has also organized workshops and programs in the fields of drawing and illustration, developed curatorial projects and worked as a teacher. Currently living in Berlin, Filipa is studying at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Lisbon (PhD program) investigating the relationships between drawing practice and autoethnography.