Cidália F. Silva (PhD) is an Associate Professor of Architecture and Urbanism at the University of Minho¿s School of Architecture, Director of the PhD Program in Architecture and Integrated Research Member of Lab2PT (Landscape, Heritage and Territory Laboratory at University of Minho. Professor Ferreira Silva works in-between three interconnected approaches: since 2004, she investigates on the contemporary change of the paradigm from the city to the expanded urban territory, a shift that reclaims the integration of complex and holistic thought, by truly being with the places we live and work in, seeking to understand the overlapping network mostly invisible of socio-spacial crossing scales relationships; in this framework, since 2007, she pursued a deeper focal research on the issues of Time and Uncertainty, embracing a critical position regarding architecture, which denotes a difficulty in integrating the constant change not only of cities and territories but of our own lives, as this Pandemic time we live at a planetary scale exposes so strongly; finally, since 2017 she engaged in researching the role of children in the transformation of the contemporary urban space, a theme that has been dismissed by architecture and urbanism, with the detrimental effects that this may have, especially in the inadequacy of the system of collective spaces to the child's needs, causing their spatial segregation and exclusion from the right to a free space of belonging. In this context, she is the coordinator of the Project on Architecture, Art and Urbanism integrated in the Collaborative Laboratory, ProChild CoLab, which aims to develop a national strategy against child poverty and social exclusion, with a transdisciplinary scientific approach. Furthermore, her research on Time expands the field of architecture to hold uncertainty as part of the creative process that crosses time-space, embracing ¿(not-)Knowing¿ as the primary focus to lead her practice of research. She is passionate about the acts of thinking, writing, and generating ideas, practices she utilizes with her research students as she leads them to discover ways to catalyze their potential to create original knowledge. "Interconnection" is one of the key-words in her research, and functions not only as the method to seek ways of crossing fields, scale(s) and time(s), but also to connect the ¿I¿ with the ¿other¿ in a dialogical practice of consciousness. Being an active participant in various interdisciplinary conferences, she published 9 articles in international journals. Has 13 section(s) of books and 4 book(s). She is co-supervising 6 PhD theses. Supervised 19 MSc dissertation(s) e co-supervised 3. Editor (2015-2021) of The International Journal of the Constructed Environment, Cidália Silva is currently a Visiting Professor and Researcher at SRH University Heidelberg, funded by the DAAD (October 2021-September 2022).