Helena Luz Grácio (5E13-6AA7-BF13)

Curriculum Vitae

Helena Luz Grácio

Helena Grácio, has a PhD in Design from the Faculty of Architecture from Lisbon University (2022), a Advanced Studies Course from the Faculty of Architecture from Lisbon University (2011), a Post Graduation course in Jewelry from the Faculty of Fine Arts from Lisbon University (2005), and a degree in Industrial Design (2001) from Lusíada University of Lisbon. Currently she is an Assistant Professor at the School of Education, Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon, where she teaches in curricular units in the design field. She has published numerous book chapters including “Nisa Quartz Inlaid Pottery Workshops: An Action Model in Design Teaching” (Springer, 2020), “The Designer as a Social Agent and Promoter of Local Memorie” (Springer, 2020), “Teaching design in real contexts to preserve local identity and memory” (Taylor & Francis, 2019). Helena is a research member at CIAUD and at Arts and Design at the Interdisciplinary Center for Educational Studies of the Lisbon Higher Education School. She regularly publishes national and international articles in specialized journals and frequently participates in international and national congresses in the design field.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Helena Luz Grácio

Citation names

Grácio, Helena
Grácio, Ana Helena
Grácio, Ana

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: 5E13-6AA7-BF13
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-4083-8687

Email addresses

ahgracio@gmail.com (Personal)

Knowledge fields

Humanities - Arts - Architectural design

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
English	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)
Spanish; Castilian	Intermediate (B1)	Advanced (C1)	Intermediate (B1)	Intermediate (B1)	Advanced (C1)
Portuguese (Mother tongue)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2010/10 - 2022/02/22 Concluded	Doutoramento (Doutoramento) Major in Design Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal "“Biografia Social da Olaria (em) Pedrada de Nisa: Contributos para a construção de um modelo colaborativo entre o design e o artesanato”" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2016/05 Concluded	Provas Públicas Título de Especialista (Título de especialista) Major in Design Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa, Portugal
2009/10 - 2010/07 Concluded	Estudos Avançados (Curso de doutoramento (conclusão de unidades curriculares)) Major in Design Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal	14
1996/10 - 2001/07 Concluded	Design Industrial (Licenciatura) Universidade Lusíada de Lisboa, Portugal	13

Affiliation

Teaching in Higher Education

	Category Host institution	Employer
2021/09 - Current	Adjunct Teacher (Polytechnic Teacher)	Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa Escola Superior de Educação, Portugal

2016/09 - 2021/08	Invited Adjunct Teacher (Polytechnic Teacher)	Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa Escola Superior de Educação, Portugal

2014/10 - 2016/08	Invited Assistant (Polytechnic Teacher)	Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa Escola Superior de Educação, Portugal

2011/01 - 2012/09	Invited Teacher Coordinator (Polytechnic Teacher)	IPA - Instituto Superior Autónomo de Estudos Politécnicos, Portugal

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2010/10 - 2014/08	Agência Design	RH+ Positive Design, Portugal

2007/08/01 - 2011/07/31	Associação Cultural sem Fins Lucrativos	Oficina do Desenho, Portugal

2003/10/01 - 2007/07/31	Agência Design e Comunicação	A&L Criatividade e Comunicação, Lda, Portugal

2001/08/01 - 2003/09/30	Agência Publicidade	Topmarketing: Publicidade e Marketing, Portugal

Projects

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2021 - 2022/08/01	Design4all - DesignLab para estudantes IPL/2021/Design4all_ESELX Principal investigator Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa, Portugal	Ongoing
2020 - 2021/08/01	Design4 - Designlab ESELx IPL/2020/Design4_ESELx Principal investigator Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa, Portugal	Concluded
2019 - 2020	DesignLab4uPlus IPL/2019/DesignlabEseLx Researcher Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa, Portugal	Concluded
2018 - 2019	DesignLab4u IPL/2018/DesignLab4u_EseLx Researcher Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa, Portugal	Concluded

Outputs

Publications

Book chapter	Rijo, Cátia; Grácio, Helena. "The Designer as a Social Agent and Promoter of Local Memories". In Handbook of Research on Driving Industrial Competitiveness With Innovative Design Principles, 236-248. IGI Global, 2020. Published • 10.4018/978-1-7998-3628-5.ch016 Nunes, Clarisse; Silva, Encarnação; Nobre, Rita; Miguel, Teresa; Antunes, Sandra; Rijo, Cátia; Grácio, Helena. "Histórias multissensoriais: um projeto de literacia inclusiva". CIED - Centro Interdisciplinar de Estudos Educacionais, Escola Superior de Educação, Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa, 2020. https://doi.org/10.34629/ipl.eselx.cap.livros.080 Rijo, Cátia; Grácio, Helena. "DESIGNLAB4U: A laboratory of knowledge, experimentation and practical action". 2019. 10.1007/978-3-319-94706-8_36 Rijo, Cátia; Grácio, Helena; Antunes, Sandra. "Designing with people for inclusive growth". Taylor & Francis, 2017. 10.9774/GLEAF.9781315198101_25 Rijo, Cátia; Grácio, Helena; Antunes, Sandra. "Práticas projetuais criativas no ensino do design". In Investigação e Ensino em Design e Música, Convergências Research Books, edited by Raposo, Daniel; Neves, João Vasco Matos; Pinho, Francisco; Silva, José, 45-49. Castelo Branco, Portugal: Edições IPCB, 2017. Published
Conference paper	Rijo, Cátia; Grácio, Helena; Antunes, Sandra. "Teaching methodologies in communication design". 2018. 10.1007/978-3-319-60477-0_4 Rijo, Cátia; Grácio, Helena; Antunes, Sandra. "Teaching design in real contexts to preserve local identity and memory". 2018. Rijo, Cátia; Grácio, Helena; Antunes, Sandra. "Teaching methodologies in the scope of collaborative design towards cultural interaction". 2015.
Journal article	Grácio, Ana Helena; Aboim Borges, Miguel; Rijo, Cátia. "Nisa Quartz Inlaid Pottery Workshops: An Action Model in Design Teaching". (2020): http://hdl.handle.net/10400.21/11250. 10.1007/978-3-030-32415-5_23 Rijo, Cátia Sofia Tiago Duarte; Grácio, Helena; Antunes, Sandra. "DESIGNLAB4U : uma experiência de experimentação e ação prática em design". (2018): http://hdl.handle.net/10400.11/6374. Grácio, Helena; Rijo, Cátia. "Estratégias nos processos de design e ferramentas de acção: uma reflexão sobre plataformas colaborativas". (2018): http://hdl.handle.net/10400.21/9315. Rijo, Cátia; Grácio, Helena; Antunes, Sandra. "Revitalizing and transmitting heritage and local memories: building collaborative processes between design and crafts". (2017): http://hdl.handle.net/10400.21/9343. Rijo, Cátia; Grácio, Helena. "New Teaching Methodologies in The Scope of Collaborative Design Using Virtual Collaborative Platforms". Convergências X 19 (2017): http://convergencias.esart.ipcb.pt/?p=article&id=264. Published Grácio, Helena Luz; Rijo, Cátia. "Design thinking in the scope of strategic and collaborative design". (2017): http://hdl.handle.net/10400.21/9307. 10.4013/sdrj.2017.101.04 Rijo, Cátia; Grácio, Helena; Antunes, Sandra. "Ensino do design em contextos reais para a preservação da identidade e memória local". (2016): http://hdl.handle.net/10400.21/9348. Rijo, Cátia; Grácio, Helena; Antunes, Sandra Sofia P.. "Revisiting Memory and Heritage to a Common Future". (2016): http://hdl.handle.net/10400.21/12023.
Magazine article	Jorge Lino Alves; Grácio, Ana Helena; Lígia Lopes. "Metodologias participativas no ensino do design: a olaria pedrada de Nisa", BOLETIM INFORMATIVO DA FACULDADE DE ENGENHARIA DA UNIVERSIDADE DO PORTO, 2013, https://sigarra.up.pt/feup/pt/noticias_geral.noticias_cont?p_id=F1342804787/Engenharia%2053.pdf.
Thesis / Dissertation	Grácio, Helena. "Biografia Social da Olaria (em)Pedrada de Nisa : Contributos para a construção de um modelo colaborativo entre o design e o artesanato". PhD, 2022. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/27988.

Activities

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2019/06/19 - 2019/06/21	Co-chair da International Conference in Arts and Society (2019/06/19 - 2019/06/21) Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)	Common Ground Research Networks, United States

Event participation

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2022/07/07 - 2022/07/08	Moderadora do Painel: Design, Music, Arts, Culture and Society, durante a 8a edição do EIMAD - Encontro de Investigação em Música, Arte e Design, que decorreu entre 07-08 de julho de 2022, na Escola Superior de Artes Aplicadas do Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco. Conference	EIMAD - Encontro de Investigação em Música, Arte e Design Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco Escola Superior de Artes Aplicadas, Portugal
2018/02/22 - 2018/02/24	Moderadora do Painel: Design e Ensino, durante a 6a edição do EIMAD - Encontro de Investigação em Música, Arte e Design, que decorreu entre 22-24 de fevereiro de 2018, na Escola Superior de Artes Aplicadas do Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco. Conference	EIMAD - Encontro de Investigação em Música, Arte e Design Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco Escola Superior de Artes Aplicadas, Portugal