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Personal profile
Isadora is an Artist, Lighting Designer, Stage and Set Designer, Stage manager and Curator. She has worked as a lecturer and Researcher in the UK and Portugal and has collaborated with Chinese, Spanish, British, Palestinian, Mexican, Argentinian, Kazakh, American, Brazilian and Nigerian partners. Having a particular interest in Art-based methods for Participatory Action Research (PAR), her research focuses on Cultural Studies and the impact of Art Design on contemporaneity. For the past 8 years, she has continued to explore the emergence of various artistic practices in different socio-political conjunctures and how they can form and inform society(ies).
Research interests
Social Sciences
Art and Politics
Limits of Fiction
Scenography
Light Art
Performance
Artivism
Public Art
Cultural Studies
Contemporary Artistic Practices
Experience
Interpreter and Translator - Rio Fashion Week - 2006 to 2010
Stage Manager - Opera House Theatro Municipal do Rio de Janeiro - 2010 to 2014
Lecturer - School of Arts and Creative Industries at Edinburgh Napier University - 2017 to 2022
Awards and honours
2015, Best in Show for the School of Arts and Creative Industries for the Art installation Under Construction
2014, Yan Michalski prize (Category: Special Achievement ) for the Art Direction of the Theatre show Inside My Own House
Education/Academic qualification
BA(HONS) Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro - 2013
MA, Edinburgh Napier University - 2015
PhD, Universidade do Porto - 2021
Person Types
- Staff
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Projects
- 1 Finished