STEAM AND THE FUTURE OF EDUCATION
Interdisciplinary Innovation and the Integration of the 4 Cultures Domain
19-20 September 2022 | Porto, Portugal
SPEAKERS
Alexandre Quintanilha
Portuguese Parliament
Parliamentary Committee on Education and Science
Born and raised in Moçambique, spent the first 25 years of his life in Southern Africa, completing is PhD in theoretical physics at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. Spent the next two decades at the University of California, Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where he taught biophysics and cell physiology and was involved in launching various graduate programs and interdisciplinary research centers and facilities. Spent the next two decades at the University of Porto, Portugal, where he taught biophysics and was involved in launching several undergraduate and graduate programs and interdisciplinary reserach institutes. Was fortunate to have worked with inspiring students and researchers. Most of his work has been centered in the understanding of mechanisms of stress physiology. For the past decade he has chaired the Parliamentary Committees on Education and Science as well as Culture in Portugal’s Parliament.
Claudia Carter
Birmingham City University
Associate Professor Claudia Carter is a Reader in Environmental Governance at Birmingham City University and Course Leader of the Planning Built Environment programme. Previously she held research and project management positions at Forest Research (UK Forestry Commission), the Macaulay Land Use Institute in Scotland, Cambridge University and the UK Centre for Environmental and Economic Development. Her involvement in STEAM research and activities came through Design Thinking and her inter- and transdisciplinary research experience. Over the past 25 years, her research has largely focused on environmental values, planning and management with a particular interest in societal and individual ways of perceiving and acting in a world dominated by consumerist and profit-oriented policies and values – and painfully slow awareness of, and responses to, rapid climate and environmental change. Claudia enjoys working in inter- and transdisciplinary teams testing new approaches and methods, including exploring the creative process of board games as a way to facilitate engagement, learning and collaboration.
Fátima Vieira
Vice-Rector for Culture of the University of Porto
Fátima Vieira is Vice-Rector for Culture of the University of Porto and Professor of English at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, where she teaches since 1986. She was the Chair of the Utopian Studies Society/Europe from 2006 to 2016, and the recipient of the Larry E. Hough Distinguished Service Award. She is the Coordinator of the Porto branch of CETAPS – the Centre for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies –, where she is the leader of the research project “Mapping Utopianisms”.
For a full record of her publications, see https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2733-1243
Henrique Quintino
Erasmus+ Nacional Agency, Higher Education Team
Henrique Quintino is a Project Manager in the Erasmus+ Nacional Agency, Higher Education Team.
Graduated in Sport Management, Master’s Degree in Management and Public Policies. He is a Hight Education Teacher in – Project Management, and Individual and Social Skills Development. Several years in Municipalities – Head of Sports and Youth Division, Business Incubator Manager, Project Manager of European Funds (FEDER).
State Central Services – Project manager at Human Capital Operational Program (FSE – European Social Funds).
José Carlos Bessa
Vertebrate Development and Regeneration, i3S
José Bessa completed his PhD degree in Developmental Biology at ICBAS (University of Porto; 2008), acquiring advanced knowledge in the development of Drosophila and Zebrafish visual systems, under the supervision of Dr Fernando Casares.
As a postdoc, JBessa has joined the lab of Dr JL Gomez-Skarmeta, an expert in zebrafish Functional Genomics. Currently, José Bessa is developing an independent research line on transcriptional cis-regulation and gene function in the zebrafish pancreas.
Laura Beloff
Aalto University
She is an internationally acclaimed artist and researcher with a long-term recognized career in the international field of art & technology, including academic leadership & research with a core in artistic methods. Beloff has not the most typical academic career; for one she has been producing art projects and presenting them for the public in international forums in museums, galleries, art events and conferences since the 1990’s.
The recognition as an innovative and creative thinker led her to become an active educator in academia and subsequently an academic researcher with a PhD. Previously she was Full Professor at the Art Academy in Oslo 2002-06, Visiting Professor at The University of Applied Arts in Vienna during 2009-11, also she has been a recipient of a prestigious 5-year artist grant from the Finnish State 2007-11. 2012-2019 she has been Associate Professor at IT-University in Copenhagen, Head of Section 2012-2016 and Head of PhD School 2017-2019.
Since Fall 2019 she is working in Aalto University as Associate Professor.
Louise Mackenzie
Artist and Researcher, Newcastle University, UK
Louise Mackenzie is an artist, researcher, teacher, project manager and curator, making gallery, site-specific and participatory work across installation, sound, film and performance. Having trained and worked for 10 years as a psychologist and management consultant, Louise is at home working collaboratively and is a passionate advocate of interdisciplinary working methods.
Her research is concerned with articulating human-nonhuman relationships through process, chance, appropriation and translation. In addition to her own art practice, Louise is founder and curator of interdisciplinary pop-up cinema programme, Black Box.
She also develops and runs participatory workshops and events across institutional and public settings. She is a member of the Cultural Negotiation of Science research group, Northumbria University and holds a PhD in Fine Art from BxNU Institute of Contemporary Art.
Her artworks have been shown nationally and internationally including Pomona Museum of Art, California (USA), Unhallowed Arts, Perth (Australia), National Library of Spain, Madrid (Spain), BALTIC CCA and BALTIC39, Newcastle (UK), Summerhall, Edinburgh (UK), Lumiere Durham (UK), Fort Process, Newhaven (UK), Charles Darwin House, London (UK), Basement 6 Collective, Shanghai (China) and National Taiwan University of the Arts (Taiwan).
Lucas Evers
WAAG SOCIETY, HEAD OF WET LAB PROGRAMME
Waag Society, Head of Wet Lab programme Head of Wet Lab programme
Lucas Evers (M) initiated Waag’s Open Wet Lab. He is actively involved in projects that concern interactions between the arts and sciences, arts and ethics and the arts in a contemporary makers culture. The Open Wet Lab is a laboratory where arts, design, sciences, engineering and the public meet to research biotechnologies and their impact on society and ecology. He is trained in fine arts and teaching at Zuyd University of Applied Sciences, Maastricht and studied political science at the University of Amsterdam.
At Waag, he initiated projects like Trust me I’m an Artist (ethics of art and science collaboration), Future Emerging Art and Technologies, BrainHack, Do It Together Bio, and Critical Making. His interests lie in the way we can learn from the interactions, the differences and similarities, between artistic, scientific and other cultures of research.
Marta Vaz Mendes
Bioengineering & Synthetic Microbiology Group, i3S
Marta V. Mendes (MVM) graduated in Biochemistry at the University of Lisbon in 1997 and in 2003, completed her PhD degree (cum laude) in Biological Sciences (Plant and Microbial Biotechnology) at the University of León (Spain). During the PhD she was responsible for the elucidation of the post-PKS biosynthetic steps of a polyene antibiotic. Her interest in the biosynthesis and regulation of specialized metabolites in Streptomyces continued during her two postdoctoral periods, first in Spain (Institute of Biotechnology of León) and then in France (Université Henry Poincaré), as a team member of a European FP6 funded project (ActinoGEN). In 2005, MVM returned to Portugal as a postdoctoral research fellow and since 2007, she has been able to continuously attract competitive funding (National and European) as principal investigator, focusing her research on the regulatory networks that control Streptomyces physiology and metabolism. Currently she is the coordinator of a joint ERA-IB-2 / ERASynBio research project (TACRODRUGS) that includes seven European partners. TACRODRUGS introduces the concept of a specialized expression host for the production of high added-value products through the synergic use of synthetic biology principles and metabolic engineering methodologies.
Matej Mertik
WEB SCIENCE INSTITUTE, ALMA MATER EUROPAEA
Matej Mertik, PhD, is an assistant professor and head of the Web and information technologies programmes at Alma Mater Europaea ECM.
He received his PhD in computer science at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (FERI) at the University of Maribor. As a researcher, he worked in the System Design Laboratory by prof. Peter Kokol and was Project Leader at the Centre for Interdisciplinary and Multidisciplinary Research and Studies.
He has participated in several international research projects such as was the largest research basic project in Computer Science in Norway “Technology for mixed reality stages” at Univerisity of Tromso in Norway (2010).
Between the years 2014-2017 he has held a research position of Scientific Associate at CERN (European Organization for nuclear research) at Machine Protection and Electrical Integrity Group, Technology Department (2014-2016) and a position of Visiting Scientist (2017), where he developed data analysis and mining software for LHC (Large Hadron Collider) at TE-MPE-EE. His research areas focus on data mining, machine learning and open source technologies.
Olga Noronha
ESAD-Idea
Olga Noronha, born in Porto in 1990, holds a degree in Jewellery Design from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design (UAL) and a Masters in Design Research from Goldsmiths College, University of London. In 2017 got her PhD at the same university, with a merit scholarship for a PhD – Design Star Consortium – Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).
Olga Noronha has, since 2011, been linked to several national and international academic institutions, as a researcher, guest lecturer, examiner and speaker, namely at Royal College of Arts (UK); Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design (UK); Winthrop University (USA); UCA Rochester (UK); POLIMI (IT); CITAD – FCT (PT); ESAD (PT); among others) as well as the Museo Del Gioiello Vicenza, in Italy, assuming the curatorship of part of the museum. Noronha is currently Coordinator and Principal Investigator on a research project financed by Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) entitled “Study of filigree patterns for biomedical jewellery applications” – https://biofiligree.com
With multiple national and international exhibitions and publications in the areas of design, science and art, Olga Noronha’s work is part of several public and private collections. The work developed by Olga Noronha fluctuates between different areas, characterised by contrasts and dichotomies that aim to combine scientific pragmatism and the conceptualism of art.
Rona van der Zander
GrowbeYOUnd
Rona van der Zander is an entrepreneur, 2x start up founder and lecturer. She has worked worldwide with large companies, NGOs and international organisations (including the United Nations) in the field of learning, innovation & communication. Rona is a lecturer at various universities in Germany, France, the U.K. and the U.S. in the field of ‘Future of Work’.
She is the founder of GrowbeYOUnd, an agency that supports universities and companies to build future skills. Rona also co-founded si:cross, a podcast platform for company internal audio messages, to turn employees into active storytellers and on-the-go learners.
She has given a TEDx talk on “Future of Work” and hosts a podcast on the future of communication.