Ece CANLI (8F13-FC15-ADA7)

Curriculum Vitae

Ece CANLI

Ece Canli is a researcher, artist and musician whose work intersects body politics, material regimes and designed performativities; more specifically, socio-spatio-material constitutions of gender, sexuality, race and other identity categories. She is currently a researcher at CECS (The Communication and Society Research Centre) in Culture, Arts and Communities Group at the University of Minho (PT) – in the scope of Scientific Employment Stimulus by FCT (Fundação de Ciência e Tecnologia) – where she investigates spatial, material and technological conditions of the criminal justice system, penal design and abolition feminism in her project Prison Heterocisnormative Complex: Spatio-material Politics of Queer Incarceration. She holds a PhD in Design from the University of Porto (PT) (2018), fully funded by FCT, and an MFA in Experience Design at Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts, and Design (SE) (2012). She was a visiting researcher at EMPIRICA Research Group at Aalto University, School of Arts, Design and Architecture (2016-2017). As a researcher and educator, she lectured on themes including design criticism, gender, decoloniality, visual literacy, and semiotics, and published in various edited volumes and peer-reviewed journals. She is a founding member of the internationally acclaimed research collective Decolonising Design Group, a board member of ATGENDER (NL), and a member of the research bodies Carceral Geography Working Group (CGWG) (UK), SOPCOM (Visual Culture WG; Gender and Sexualities WG) (PT) and A Passeio (PT). She was a full-time Assistant Professor (2019-2020) at the University Lusíada-Norte where she taught Design History, Design Theory, Product Design Studio Projects (regent) and Methodologies (Master's in Design), and has been a lecturer at the University of Minho (2021) in the disciplines Design, Culture and Society and Gender, Communication and Language (Master in Sociology of Gender and Sexuality). As an artist, Ece has a solid body of artwork with extensive experience in composition, artistic direction, and sound production for staged performances, exhibitions and films both in collaborations and as a soloist. Working with extended vocal techniques, multimedia, electronics and performing body, she has presented her work internationally in numerous festivals, museums and art venues. Ece was ODE's (Electronic Devices Orchestra) artistic director/conductor in 2023 at Braga Media Arts and gnration. She is a guest writer at the Cinema Batalha Porto in the season 2024/2025.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Ece CANLI

Citation names

CANLI, Ece

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: 8F13-FC15-ADA7
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-4827-0857
Google Scholar ID: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=8_yW2zMAAAAJ&hl=en
Researcher Id: KYR-0675-2024
Scopus Author Id: 57192984741

Email addresses

ececanli@ics.uminho.pt (Professional)
cin@ececanli.com (Professional)

Addresses

Universidade do Minho, ICS, 4710-057, Gualtar, Braga, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

www.ececanli.com (Personal)

Knowledge fields

Humanities - Arts
Humanities - Arts - Architectural design
Humanities - Other Humanities

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
Turkish (Mother tongue)
English	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)
Portuguese	Advanced (C1)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Advanced (C1)	Proficiency (C2)
Spanish; Castilian	Intermediate (B1)	Advanced (C1)	Intermediate (B1)	Intermediate (B1)
Swedish	Beginner (A1)	Beginner (A1)	Beginner (A1)	Beginner (A1)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2024/10 - 2024/12 Ongoing	Arts in Prisons (Outros) Major in Certificate Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, United Kingdom
2024/10/07 - 2024/10/11 Concluded	Media and Sexual Violence (Winter School) (Outros) Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2024/03 - 2024/04 Concluded	Technical Course on Social Reintegration and Prison Services (Curso Técnico de Reinserção Social e Serviços Prisionais) (Outros) Major in Certificate CPF - Centro de Psicologia e Formação, Portugal
2013/10/03 - 2017/09/15 Concluded	Design (Doutoramento) Universidade do Porto, Portugal "Queerying Design: Material Re-configurations of Body Politics" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Distinction
2015/08 - 2015/08 Concluded	The Summer School for Sexualities, Cultures, and Politics (Outros) Major in Certificate Research Center for Cultures, Politics and Identities (IPAK.Center),, Serbia
2015/07 - 2015/07 Concluded	Summer School of Gender and Sexualities (I Escola de Verão em Género e Sexualidades) (Outros) Major in Certificate Universidade do Minho, Portugal Associação Portuguesa de Ciências da Comunicação (SOPCOM), Portugal
2010 - 2012 Concluded	Experience Design/Interdisciplinary Studies (Master) Konstfack University College of Arts Crafts and Design, Sweden "Academy of Silence/Silence of Academy: Design as a Tool, Design as a Political Practice" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2005 - 2010 Concluded	Industrial Product Design (Bachelor) Istanbul Teknik Üniversitesi, Turkey	Summa cum laude

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2020/10 - Current	Contracted Researcher (Research)	Universidade do Minho Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Sociedade, Portugal
	Universidade do Minho Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Sociedade, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

	Category Host institution	Employer
2021 - Current	Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher)	Universidade do Minho, Portugal
	Universidade do Minho Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2021 - Current	Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher)	Universidade do Minho, Portugal
	Universidade do Minho Escola de Engenharia, Portugal
2019/09 - 2020/08	Assistant Professor (University Teacher)	Universidade Lusíada Porto, Portugal
	Universidade Lusíada Porto, Portugal
2019/09 - 2020/08	Assistant Professor (University Teacher)	Universidade Lusíada de Vila Nova de Famalicão, Portugal
	Universidade Lusíada de Vila Nova de Famalicão, Portugal

Positions / Appointments

	Category Host institution	Employer
2024/10 - Current	Board Member	ATGENDER, The European Association for Gender Research, Education and Documentation, Netherlands

2020/10 - Current	Researcher, FCT Fellow	Universidade do Minho Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Sociedade, Portugal
	Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2019/09 - 2020/08	Integrated Researcher	O CITAD – (Centro de Investigação em Território, Arquitetura e Design), Portugal
	Universidade Lusíada Porto, Portugal

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2018/02/28 - 2020/01/01	Collaborating Researcher	Instituto de Investigação em Design Media e Cultura, Portugal

2013/10/03 - 2018/09/15	Integrated Researcher	Instituto de Investigação em Design Media e Cultura, Portugal
	Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação em Arte Design e Sociedade, Portugal
2016/11/11 - 2017/01/17	Visiting Doctoral Researcher	EMPIRICA Research Group, Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Finland

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2015/01 - 2017/12	Queerying Design: Material Re-configuration of Body Politics PD/BD/105808/2014 PhD Student Fellow Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Belas Artes, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) Concluded
2013/01 - 2014/12	Queerying Design: Material Re-configurations of Body Politics PD/BI/52388/2013 PhD Student Fellow Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Belas Artes, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT)

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2020/10 - Current	Prison Heterocisnormative Complex: Spatio-material Politics of Queer Incarceration CEECIND/ 04229/2018 Researcher Universidade do Minho Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Sociedade, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) Ongoing
2025/01/01 - 2026/06/30	GENTEEL Project – Graphic Novels Against Gender Violence Referência FCT Universidade do Minho Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Sociedade, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2019/01/01 - 2019/12/31	Unidade ID+ (Instituto de Investigação em Design, Media e Cultura) UID/DES/04057/2019 Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal Universidade do Porto, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded

Outputs

Publications

Book chapter	CANLI, Ece. "Engendering Justice: On (In)visibilities of penal design, aestheticization of punishment and spaces of solidarity". In Designing Gender Sensitive Spaces for Consenting Cities: Practices and Provocations, edited by Jess Berry; Timothy Moore; Nicole Kalms; Gene Bawden. Australia: Routledge, 2024. In press CANLI, Ece. "Atravessar A Ponte". In A Pele da Cidade: Notas do quotidiano_3, edited by Zara Pinto-Coelho; Helena Pires, 43-49. Braga, Portugal: CECS - Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Sociedade, Universidade do Minho, 2024. Published CANLI, Ece. "A•per•tur – instalação sonora". In A Pele da Cidade: Notas do quotidiano_3, edited by Zara Pinto-Coelho; Helena Pires, 212-213. Braga, Portugal: CECS - Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Sociedade, Universidade do Minho, 2024. Published CANLI, Ece. "Notes From Transient Spaces, Anachronic Times: An architextural exercise". In Queering Architecture: Methods, Practices, Spaces, Pedagogies, edited by Marko Jobst; Naomi Stead, 67-87. New York, United States: Bloomsbury, 2023. Published CANLI, Ece. "Walls Looking From Within". In Leonorana 8: Vigilância/Surveillance, edited by Isabel Carvalho, 85-93. Porto, 2023. Published CANLI, Ece. "The Apotheosis of Oblivion (and the exit thereof)". In Goodbye Issues II, 219-227. Porto, Portugal: Maiadouro, 2022. Published CANLI, Ece. "Master's Tools vs. Monster's Tools: Design as (b)othering". In The Glossary of Undisciplined Design, edited by Anja Kaiser; Rebecca Stephany, 109-120. Leipzig, Germany: Spector Books, 2021. Published CANLI, Ece; Decolonising Design Group. "Emotional Labor, Support Structures, and the Walls in Between. A Conversation with Members of the Decolonising Design Group (by Nina Paim and Corin Gisel)". In Design Struggles - Intersecting Histories, Pedagogies, And Perspectives, edited by Nina Paim; Claudia Mareis, 301-317. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Valiz, 2021. Published CANLI, Ece; Decolonising Design Group. "Decolonization and Design". In Bloomsbury Design Library Lesson Plans, edited by Rebecca Houze. New York, United States: Bloomsbury, 2021. Published CANLI, Ece. "Design’s Performative Agency: Thoughts on New Directions for Materiality, Ontology, and Identity-Making". In Design & Agency: Critical Perspectives on Identities, Histories, and Practices, edited by John Potvin; Marie-Ève Marchand, 287-299. New York and London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury, 2020. Published CANLI, Ece. "Prison Heterocissexual Complex: Sociospatial Politics of Queer Incarceration and the Case of Turkey". In The SAGE Handbook of Global Sexualities, edited by Ana Cristina Santos; Chiara Bertone ; Ryan Thoreson ; Saskia Wieringa, 313-333. London, United Kingdom: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2020. Published CANLI, Ece; PRADO DE O. MARTINS, Luiza. "Design and Intersectionality: Material Production of Gender, Race, Class – and Beyond". In Sense & Sensibility, edited by Ellens, Pernilla, 175-181. Eindhoven, Netherlands: Onomatopee, 2018. Published CANLI, Ece; ABDULLA, Danah; Prado de O. Martins, Luiza; SCHULTZ, Tristan. "Decolonising Design Education: Ontologies, Strategies, Urgencies". In Extra-Curricular, edited by Jacob Lindgren, 76-91. Eindhoven, Netherlands: Onomatopee, 2018. Published CANLI, Ece; VIEIRA DE OLIVEIRA, Pedro J.S.; KIEM, Matthew; KESHAVARZ, Mahmoud; ABDULLA, Danah; ANSARI, Ahmed. "Design Activism: A Conversation by The Decolonising Design Group". In Modes of Criticism 3: Design and Democracy, edited by Francisco Laranjo, 55-65. Eindhoven, Netherlands: Onomatopee, 2017. Published CANLI, Ece. "Design History, Interrupted: A Queer-Feminist Perspective". In The Responsible Object: A History of Design Ideology for the Future, edited by Marjanne van Helvert, 187-207. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Valiz, 2016. Published
Book review	CANLI, Ece. "Book review of Understanding E-Carceration: Electronic Monitoring, The Surveillance State, And The Future Of Mass Incarceration, by James Kilgore (2022), The New Press". (2024): https://carceralgeographies.co.uk/book-review-understanding-e-carceration-electronic-monitoring-the-surveillance-state-and-the-future-of-mass-incarceration/. Published CANLI, Ece. "Decolonizing Design: A Cultural Justice Guidebook, by Elizabeth (Dori) Tunstall, Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2023, 136 pp. ISBN 9780262047692. $24.95.". Review of Decolonizing Design: A Cultural Justice Guidebook, Design and Culture Journal (2024): DOI:10.1080/17547075.2024.2325240. Published CANLI, Ece. "What's the Use? On the Uses of Use, by Sara Ahmed.". Review of What's the Use? On the Uses of Use, Design and Culture Journal 14, 1 (2021): 95-98. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17547075.2021.1935556. Published CANLI, Ece. "Queer Style - Book Review". Review of Queer Style, exæquo Journal 31, 1 (2015): 171-174. Published
Conference paper	CANLI, Ece. "Fairly and Queerly: Deconstruction as a Method in Design". Paper presented in Fair Design: Design Theory and Criticism Conference, Warsaw, 2017. Published CANLI, Ece. "A-binary Imagination: Towards a Material-Discursive Deconstruction in Design". Paper presented in Gender & Design Colloquium, Paris, 2015. CANLI, Ece. "Queering Design: A Theoretical View on Design and Gender Performativity". 2015. CANLI, Ece. "From Surrendering to Representing: Expression of Harassment via Collective Design Process". 2015. CANLI, Ece. "[Non]Gendered Desires: Queer Possibilities in Design". Paper presented in DESIGNA2014, Covilhã, 2014. Published CANLI, Ece; Usakierali, Ceylan. "Resistance Against Displacement: Adaptation to City with Culturally 'Designed' Products". Paper presented in ragile Student Conference at Sint-Lucas School of Architecture, Brussels, 2011. CANLI, Ece; USAKIERALI, Ceylan. "Raw, Cooked and Burnt: A Sustainable Experiment in Igneada". Paper presented in LeNS, Sustainability in Design: Now! Conference, Bangalore, 2010. Published
Edited book	CANLI, Ece; Rita Maldonado Branco. The Proceedings of UD’15: 4th PhD in Design Research Forum. Porto, Portugal: University of Porto. 2015. Published • Editor
Exhibition catalog	CANLI, Ece. The Apotheosis of Oblivion. Espaço MIRA (Exhibition titled TIRESIAS UND DER KLEINE TOD by Alisa Heil), 2022. CANLI, Ece. The Vengeance of Serpents (A Vingança das Serpentes). Centro Internacional das Artes José de Guimarães (CIAJG), 2021.
Journal article	Ece Canli. "Decolonizing Design: A Cultural Justice Guidebook Decolonizing Design: A Cultural Justice Guidebook , by Elizabeth (Dori) Tunstall, Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2023, 136 pp. ISBN 9780262047692. $24.95.". Design and Culture (2024): https://doi.org/10.1080/17547075.2024.2325240. 10.1080/17547075.2024.2325240 CANLI, Ece. "Smartification of punishment: AI, criminal justice and the future of carceral communication". Interactions: Studies in Communication & Culture 13 3 (2024): 233-251. Published • https://doi.org/10.1386/iscc_00063_1 CANLI, Ece. "Verses Witness: Reimagining Carceral Spaces through Poetry". Writingplace (Poetics of Place Special Issue) 10 (2024): Open access • In press CANLI, Ece. "Rethinking Carceral Domesticity Electronic Monitoring, Punishment and Home as Prison". PAD. Pages on Arts and Design Journal (2023): 121-147. https://www.padjournal.net/new/pad-25-2023-december-vol-16/. Open access • Published CANLI, Ece; Mandolini, Nicoletta. "Aesthetics in Distress: Gender-Based Violence and Visual Culture. Introductory Note". Vista 10 (2022): 1-12. http://dx.doi.org/10.21814/vista.4071. Open access • Published • 10.21814/vista.4071 CANLI, Ece; ABDULLA, Danah; ANSARI, Ahmed; KESHAVARZ, Mahmoud; KIEM, Matthew; PRADO DE O. MARTINS, Luiza; SCHULTZ, Tristan; VIEIRA DE OLIVEIRA, Pedro J.S.. "A Manifesto for Decolonising Design". Journal of Future Studies 23 3 (2019): 129-132. Published CANLI, Ece. "Binary by Design: Unfolding Corporeal Segregation at the Intersection of Gender, Identity and Materiality". The Design Journal: An International Journal for All Aspects of Design 21 5 (2018): 651-669. Published • 10.1080/14606925.2018.1491716 CANLI, Ece; KESHAVARZ, Mahmoud; ANSARI, Ahmed; PRADO DE O. MARTINS, Luiza; VIEIRA DE OLIVEIRA, Pedro J.S.; KIEM, Matthew; SCHULTZ, Tristan; ABDULLA, Danah. "What Is at Stake with Decolonizing Design? A Roundtable". Design and Culture 10 1 (2018): 81-101. Published • 10.1080/17547075.2018.1434368 CANLI, Ece; KAYA, Cigdem. "Silence of Academy: Expressing Harassment through Collective Design Process". METU Journal of the Faculty of Architecture 33 2 (2016): 227-245. Published • 10.4305/METU.JFA.2016.2.10 CANLI, Ece; UMUL, Fatma. "Bodies on the Streets: Gender Resistance and Collectivity in Gezi Revolts". Interface: A Journal for and about Social Movements 7 1 (2015): 19-39. Published
Journal issue	CANLI, Ece; VIEIRA DE OLIVEIRA, Pedro J.S.. "Surveillance With, Beyond, and Against the Biometric Body". Revista Lusófona de Estudos Culturais (RLEC)/Lusophone Journal of Cultural Studies (LJCS) 12 1 (2025): https://rlec.pt/index.php/rlec/announcement/view/79. In press • Coeditor CANLI, Ece; Mandolini, Nicoletta. "Aesthetics in Distress: Gender-Based Violence and Visual Culture". VISTA, The Journal of Visual Culture 12 July - Dec (2022): https://revistavista.pt/index.php/vista/issue/view/241. Under revision • Coeditor CANLI, Ece; VIEIRA DE OLIVEIRA, Pedro J.S.; ABDULLA, Danah; PRADO DE O. MARTINS, Luiza; SCHULTZ, Tristan; KESHAVARZ, Mahmoud; ANSARI, Ahmed; KIEM, Matthew. "Decolonising Design (Editor's Introduction)". The Journal of the Design Studies Forum (2018): 10.1080/17547075.2018.1434367
Magazine article	CANLI, Ece. "Lachen bringt Tränen", Missy Magazine, 2021
Online resource	CANLI, Ece. "Ladybird, Ladybird", Film essay for Batalha Centro de Cinema, Porto. 2024. https://www.batalhacentrodecinema.pt/en/editorial/fs-ladybird-ladybird/. CANLI, Ece. "Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence", Film essay for Batalha Centro de Cinema, Porto. 2024. https://www.batalhacentrodecinema.pt/en/editorial/fs-merry-christmas-mr-lawrence/. CANLI, Ece. AºPERºTUR: A Sonic Aisle through Time, Space and Justice-Making. 2023. https://www.passeio.pt/en/galeria/a-per-tur-um-corredor-sonico-atraves-do-tempo-do-espaco-e-da-justica/. CANLI, Ece. Designing with/against Cherophobia. 2021. https://futuress.org/magazine/designing-with-against-cherophobia (Futuress Magazine). CANLI, Ece. The Dorm of Gender, Gender of the Dorm. 2011. Bianet Communication Network, https://bianet.org/yazi/cinsiyetin-yurdu-yurdun-cinsiyeti-128888.
Thesis / Dissertation	CANLI, Ece. "Queerying Design: Material Re-configurations of Body Politics". PhD, Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Belas Artes, 2017. CANLI, Ece. "Academy of Silence/Silence of Academy: Design as a Medium, Design as a Political Practice". Master, Konstfack University College of Arts Crafts and Design, 2012.

Artistic / Performance

Artistic exhibition	CANLI, Ece; (with Angélica Salvi and Marta Vuduvum). POISOGEM (25'07'' Composition and Sound installation for 6 channels and 3 radio transmitters, exhibited at Errant Sound Gallery in Berlin, along with two impromptu performances in the scope of Heroines of Sound Festival, produced by Sonoscopia). 2023. CANLI, Ece. AºPERºTUR (13'13'' Composition and Quadraphonic Sound installation exhibited in Yedikule Fortress in Istanbul, in the scope of The IV. International Istanbul Triennial). 2022. CANLI, Ece. LUMERENCE (13' Composition and Quadrophonic Sound installation exhibited at Observatório Astronómico de Prof. Manuel de Barros in the scope of the group exhibition organised by Paralaxe)). 2022.
Artistic performance	CANLI, Ece; MIRANDA, Catarina; COLONNA, Clélia; FAICC (students of Companhia Instável). 2024. S-P-H-Y-M-O (A 45' Artistic direction/Choreographic and Musical composition created as COBRACORAL for 16 performers of FAICC). Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art. CANLI, Ece; MIRANDA, Catarina; COLONNA, Clélia. 2023. Creation and performance for "Music between Companion Species", organised by Galeria Municipal do Porto. Quartel de Monte Pedral. CANLI, Ece. 2023. PATAPHORS: A Performative Melange (solo performance). at ETCETERAS: Festival Feminista de Design e Publicações; Casa Comum - Universidade do Porto. CANLI, Ece. 2022. Oubliette (solo performance). at Maus Habitos (Porto). CANLI, Ece. 2022. INVAGUS (solo performance). at CCOP (Porto), at Festival Novas Frequências (Rio de Janeiro). CANLI, Ece. 2022. EA DASHED CONCERT #5 (solo performance). at Escola das Artes - Universidade Católica Portuguesa (Porto). CANLI, Ece; (with Lea Taragona and Marta Vuduvum). 2022. M.E.L. (a short-term artistic residency and music performance creation, organised by Cultura em Expansão and Sonoscopia. at Associação Moradores da Bouça (Porto). CANLI, Ece; (with Sofia Lemos, curated by Mariana Pestana). 2022. 7,83 Hz (performance and musical composition). at Museu de Arte, Arquitetura e Tecnologia (MAAT), Lisbon, Portugal. CANLI, Ece. 2022. Lingua Franca (an artistic residency and performative creation for an art film). www.lingua-franca.net. CANLI, Ece; curated by Alexandra Balona. 2021. ANABIOSIS: Dream in Technicolor (solo performance), in the scope of Future Past Imaginaries programme. at RAMPA Associação Cultural, Porto, Portugal. CANLI, Ece; curated by Marta Mestre. 2021. The Vengeance of Serpents (A Vingança das Serpentes) (solo performance). at Centro Internacional das Artes José de Guimarães (CIAJG), Guimarães, Portugal. CANLI, Ece. 2020. Síncope Vasovocal (solo performance). at Círculo Católico de Operários do Porto (CCOP), Porto, Portugal. CANLI, Ece; Nina Jeppsson. 2016. MANHOLE, (duo performance created and presented at Festival Cidade PreOcupada at the Galeria Municipal do Montemor-O-Novo, Portugal. CANLI, Ece; (with Joclécio Azevedo and Catarina Miranda). 2015. Escombros (trio performance directed by Joclécio Azevedo, presented at FIMP Festival, at Teatro Carlos Alberto, Porto.
Musical composition	SALVI, Angélica ; AUGUSTO, Pedro ; CANLI, Ece; PAIS, João Filipe. S/T (album). Lovers & Lollypops, 2024. CANLI, Ece. S A C R O S U N (solo album). Lovers & Lollypops, 2024. CANLI, Ece; SALVI, Angélica. Carmen (composition and live film-concert over the 1915 film). Fundação Inátel, 2023. CANLI, Ece; MIRANDA, Catarina; COLONNA, Clélia. cobracoral (album) by COBRACORAL. Lovers & Lollypops, 2022. CANLI, Ece. VOX FLORA, VOX FAUNA (solo album). Lovers & Lollypops, 2020. CANLI, Ece; SALVI, Angélica. ORA (album), by NOOITO. 2020.
Musical performance	Artistic direction/conductor of ODE (Orchestra of Electronic Devices) – 1 year – by Braga Media Arts, in collaboration with Guildhall School of Music & Drama. London (UK). 2023. Conductor Artistic direction/conductor of Coro Ninfas do Lis at ÁGORA festival at Leiria, Castelo da cidade de Leiria, organised by Omnichord. 2023. Conductor
Sound design	CANLI, Ece; MIRANDA, Catarina; COLONNA, Clélia. 2024. Anguane’s Fountain for Diana Policarpo's Sculpture Installation at Biennale Gherdeina, Italy, composed as COBRACORAL. CANLI, Ece. 2023. Multi-channel sound design and installation, 3 quadrophonic, 2 stereo, 1 2+1, at Festival DDD (Dias da Dança) - SPA, at Teatro Municipal Rivoli, Porto. CANLI, Ece. 2021. Sound design and composition for the performance work "Exposição" by Costanza Givoni, premiered at Teatro Campo Alegre, Porto and presented at various venues. CANLI, Ece. 2020. Tentações (original soundtrack for the book release and the solo exhibition “Tentações de Santa Augusto” by Miguel Carneiro, at Oficina ARARA, Porto. CANLI, Ece. 2020. Molde, (original soundtrack for the performance-video “Molde” by Costanza Givoni, directed by João Vladimiro; screened online by Teatro Cine de Torres Vedras. CANLI, Ece. 2019. Tree Of Remembering (original soundtrack for the videoart by Selin Gömüç; exhibited in “Forgetting Istanbul” at Büyükdere35, Istanbul. CANLI, Ece; Pedro Augusto. 2019. ETNCDMTD (Esternocleidomastoideo) (original soundtrack composed for the group exhibition "Ai os Ais de Tanta Gente”, exhibited in Atelier Caldeiras, CACE Cultural do Porto.

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2024/11/21	Descolonização: Over-design, Un-design e Counter-design (invited lecturer)	Cultura do Design Contemporâneo IDEGUI - Instituto de Design de Guimarães (Guimarães, Portugal)
2024/10/30	The Historicity of Queer Incarceration: Colonial Spatiality of Gendered and Sexualised Punishment	Spaces of Confinement: Memories of Repression and Coloniality National Library of Portugal and Aljube Museum - Resistance and Freedom, Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)
2024/10/21	Design and the Promise of Happiness (invited speaker)	RISD Graphic Design Lecture Series Rhode Island School of Design, USA (New York, United States)
2024/09/30	Just Feminisms: Tackling the Tension between Penal Abolitionism and Carceral Favouritism	ATGENDER: Gender Studies and the Precarious Labour of Making a Difference: (Un)paid Jobs, Internships, and Volunteering in the Worlds of Activism, Profit, and Non-profit University of Utrecht (Utrecht, Netherlands)
2024/07/04	Captive Performativities: Art and Body in the Carceral Context	Performing Space 2024 Department of Theatre Studies e Department of Performing and Digital Arts de University of the Peloponnese (Nafplio, Greece)
2024/06/28	Women (Un)building Punitive Justice: From Absence to Abundance	Women designing and planning for social equality School of Architecture, Design and Civil Engineering - ZHAW - Zurich University of Applied Sciences (Winterthur, Zurich, Switzerland)
2024/02/08	Dreams Unwalled: Prison Abolitionism as a Radical Practice of Collective Reimagination	Practices of Imagination – Placings of Imaginaries Practicing Place Research Group, Katholische Universität Eichstätt (Eichstätt, Germany)
2023/10/26	BBB: Performing Bodies beyond Bars	ACTS OF REBELLION: Repressions, marginalities, protests and performing arts CEAA - Arnaldo Araujo Research Centre - Performing Arts Studies research group, ESAP (Porto, Portugal)
2023/09/20	Trans*forming Justice: On (In)Visibilities of Penal Design, Aestheticization of Punishment and Spaces of Solidarity	Consenting Cities Symposium XYXLab, Monash University Prato Center (Prato, Tuscany, Italy)
2023/09/05	Affording Abolition Feminism(s)	ATGENDER Conference 2023: Feminist Pedagogy of/beyond Borders Kadir Has University (Istanbul, Turkey)
2023/06/09	Unmaking Criminal Justice: From Carceral Design to Materiality of Accountability	HASTAC2023: Critical Making, Social Justice Pratt Institute (New York, United States)
2023/01/11	Voice, Electronics and Cosmic Anxiety (invited lecturer)	Som/Api Talk Series ESAP – Escola Superior Artística do Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2022/10/28	Media arts, Technology and Activism (invited lecturer)	Seminários em Media Arts Media Arts Master's Program, University of Minho (Braga, Portugal)
2022/07/05	Beneath the Thick Skin, Behind the Brick Walls (invited speaker)	Planetary Patchwork Online Seminars Planetary Patchwork (Florence, Italy)
2022/03/24	Artificial Cuts (Cortes Artificiais) (invited speaker)	E-X-S-I: Encontro Expressões Entre Som e Imagem, Técnica-Prática-Teoria Maus Hábitos – Espaço de Intervenção Cultural (Porto, Portugal)
2021/11/17	The Skin Acts (invited speaker)	Medienhaus Lecture Series 2021: Performance! Universität der Künste Berlin (Berlin, Germany)
2021/06/08	Unwary Inquiry: 9 Questions to Check Privileges, Politics and Purposes (invited speaker)	Community Toolkit Workshop The Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design (Karlsruhe, Germany)
2021/05/25	Discomfort Dialogue #4 (invited speaker)	Discomfort Dialogues Lecture Series Critical Inquiry Lab, Design Academy Eindhoven (Eindhoven, Netherlands)
2021/05/19	Conversation on Work #Session 4. (invited speaker)	Ciclo de Conversas D+M (Design + Multimedia Talks) Escola das Artes, Universidade de Coimbra ( Coimbra, Portugal)
2021/05/14	Politics of Design (invited lecturer)	Seminários II no Departamento de Design de Produtos e Serviços Universidade do Minho (Guimarães, Portugal)
2021/05/12	On Cherophobic Designing (invited speaker)	Trouble Wednesday: Queer and Feminist Perspectives on Design Lecture Series Potsdam University of Applied Sciences (Fachhochschule Potsdam) (Potsdam, Germany)
2021/04/09	Gender and Protest in Land Justice Movements (invited speaker)	Building Solidarities: Trans/Racial Architectures Lecture Series Barnard College Department of Architecture, Barnard College & Columbia University (New York, United States)
2021	Speculative Design: Opportunities, Limitations, Histories (invited lecturer)	Aula Aberta em Speculative Design Universidade Lusíada Norte - Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2020/12/02	Prison Heterocisnormative Complex: Spatio-Material Politics of Queer Incarceration (host speaker)	1º Seminário Permanente (Facets of Justice and Violence in Contemporary Societies: Discourses, Materialities and Representations) CECS, Universidade do Minho (Braga, Portugal)
2020/10/29	Haunting as a Counterhegemonic Design Research and a Counterfactual Artistic Practice (invited speaker)	The Vantage Body Social Practices — Piet Zwart Institute, Willem de Kooning Academy (WdKA) (Rotterdam, Netherlands)
2020/10/16	Monsterising the Master's Tools: Design as (b)othering (invited lecturer)	Graphic Design Lecture Series Yale School of Art (New Haven, United States)
2020/02/21	Master's Tools vs. Monster's Tools: Reflections and Strategies on Designing as (b)othering (invited speaker)	Glossary of Undisciplined Design Symposium GfZK / Museum for Contemporary Art Leipzig (Leipzig, Germany)
2019/11/13	On Dead Center of Queerness, Decoloniality and Materiality (invited speaker)	Warehouse Talks [Conversas no Armazém] Armazém Cowork (Porto, Portugal)
2019/09/27	Decolonising Design (invited speaker)	Real World: Design, Politics, Future: Papanek Symposium Porto Design Biennale (Porto, Portugal)
2019/09/27	Design Politics of Bodies: Tackling the Coloniality of Bodies and Borders (invited speaker)	Papanek Symposium 2019, 'Real World: Design, Politics, Future’ Porto Design Biennale at Palácio de Cristal (Porto, Portugal)
2019/06/26	Designing in Queer Times: Material Politics of Coloniality, Identity and Power (invited lecturer)	Hacking as a Social Practice HfG Offenbach University of Art and Design (Frankfurt, Germany)
2018/10/26	Arte, design e comunidade: há cultura sem política? (invited speaker)	E o futuro? Ensinar arte e design na sociedade do instantâneo Colloquium University of Lisbon, Faculty of Fine Arts (Lisbon, Portugal)
2018/10/25	Design Research, Performance Art and Gender (invited lecturer)	Multimedia class on methodologies University of Porto, Faculty of Fine Arts (Porto, Portugal)
2018/05/28	Colonised Bodies, Imperial Feminism, Material Practices (invited speaker)	A Topography of Excesses IASPIS (Swedish Arts Grants Committee) (Stockholm, Sweden)
2018/03/08	Decolonising Design in Building Platforms (invited speaker)	Beyond Change Conference Swiss Design Network (SDN) in FHNW Academy of Art and Design Basel (Basel, Switzerland)
2018/03/04	Blood Will not Tell: Menstrual Design, Humanitarianism, Imperial Feminism (volunteer speaker)	Festival Feminista do Porto Gato Vadio (Porto, Portugal)
2017/04/20	Body Politics by Design (invited lecturer)	Small Talks Series University of Porto, Faculty of Fine Arts (Porto, Portugal)
2016/11/14	Design and Intersectionality: Material Production of Gender, Race, Class – and Beyond (host speaker)	Intersectional Perspectives on Design, Politics and Power Symposium School of Arts and Communication (K3), Malmö University (Malmö, Sweden)
2015/11/19	A-binary Imagination: Towards a Material-Discursive Deconstruction in Design	Gender & Design Colloquium Design en Recherche - Telecom ParisTech (Paris, France)
2015/09/23	Fairly and Queerly: Deconstruction as a Method in Design	Fair Design: Design Theory and Criticism Conference Academy of Fine Arts of Warsaw (Warsaw, Poland)
2015/08/20	Queer Language of Artefacts	The Summer School for Sexualities, Cultures and Politics IPAK.Centar (Belgrade, Serbia)
2015/01/08	Gendered VS. Queered Design: New Possibilities in Material Culture (invited speaker)	Today’s Talk Forum Swedish Consulate of Istanbul (Istanbul, Turkey)
2014/11/29	Queering Design: A Theoretical View on Design and Gender Performativity.	UD14 - 1o Encontro Ibérico de Doutoramentos em Design University of Porto, Faculty of Fine Arts (Porto, Portugal)
2014/11/21	[Non]Gendered Desires: Queer Possibilities in Design	DESIGNA2014 Conference Universidade da Beira Interior (Covilhã, Portugal)
2013/05/09	From Surrendering to Representing: Expression of Harassment via Collective Design Process	5T: Gender Perspective in Design Conference Yasar University (Istanbul, Turkey)
2011/04/06	Resistance Against Displacement: Adaptation to City with Culturally 'Designed' Products	Fragile Student Conference Sint-Lucas School of Architecture (Brussels, Belgium)
2010/10/01	Raw, Cooked and Burnt: A Sustainable Experiment in Igneada	LeNS, Sustainability in Design: Now! Conference Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology (Bangalore, India)

Supervision

	Thesis Title Role	Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2024/10 - Current	Street Musicians, Arts and Communication (provisory-unofficial title) Supervisor	Mestrado em Comunicação, Arte e Cultura (Master) (Master) Universidade do Minho Departamento de Ciências da Comunicação, Portugal
2024/04 - Current	Eco-consciousness: More-than-Human Interconnectedness through Eco-Somatic Practices Co-supervisor	Doutoramento em Ciência e Tecnologia das Artes (PhD) Universidade Católica Portuguesa Escola das Artes, Portugal
2024/04 - Current	A Imagem Decorativa:Retratos de Feminilidade na Filmografia de Sofia Coppola Supervisor	Mestrado em Comunicação, Arte e Cultura (Master) Universidade do Minho Departamento de Ciências da Comunicação, Portugal
2022/07 - Current	Representação do Amor LGBTQIAPN+ em Séries e Filmes Teen da Cultura Popular: Um Olhar Sobre a Série Heartstopper Supervisor	Masters in Communication, Art and Culture (Master) Universidade do Minho Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2024/01 - 2024/07	Envisioning Education in Moldova: Speculative Design as a Tool to Explore the Future of Education Co-supervisor	Master in Product and Service design (Master) Universidade do Minho Escola de Arquitetura Arte e Design, Portugal

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2024/10 - Current	Co-organising the "12th European Feminist Research Conference 2025: Contemporary Feminist Liberation Struggles: Bodies, Borders, and Intersections" Conference and ATGENDER 2025, and co-convening the Strand "Rebuilding communities: transformative justice in conflict- and violence-affected contexts" with Dr. Mauro Moschetti (July 9-12, 2025) (2024/07/09 - 2025/07/12) Conference (Co-organisor)	Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain ATGENDER, The European Association for Gender Research, Education and Documentation, Netherlands
2019/11/18 - Current	Organising Aula Aberta, hosting Dr. Rita Maldonado Branco to present the work "Design with and for people with Dementia" (2019/11/18) Seminar (Other)	Universidade Lusíada Porto, Portugal
2019 - Current	Organisation of vocal workshops series "Voice Folds" at SOOPA, Porto (taking part as both organiser and trainer) (2019) Workshop (Other)
2024/03 - 2024/09	Coordinating the stream "Precarity of paid/unpaid care work" with Guanqin He and Melpo Paida at ATGENDER 2024 Conference (with the theme of Gender Studies and the Precarious Labour of Making a Difference: (Un)paid Jobs, Internships, and Volunteering in the Worlds of Activism, Profit, and Non-profit) (2024/09/27 - 2024/09/29) Conference (Co-organisor)	ATGENDER, The European Association for Gender Research, Education and Documentation, Netherlands
2023/05/14 - 2023/05/14	Workshop "Shaping the voice matter / Moldar a matéria de voz" hosted by Vozes Itinerantes in Barreiro (2023/05/14) Workshop (Other)
2019/03 - 2019/08	I co-curated and co-organised Prints That Run With Wolves, a group exhibition that hosts national and international female printmaking artists, exhibited at IRL, Porto, as part of the Feira da Alegria Festival, Porto (2019/06 - 2019/07) Exhibition (Co-organisor)
2015 - 2016	Intersectional Perspectives on Design, Politics and Power Symposium, organised by Decolonising Design Group; co-reviewing the papers and co-editing the proceedings. (2016/11/14 - 2016/11/15) Symposium (Co-organisor)	Decolonising Design Group, Sweden School of Arts and Communication (K3), Malmö University, Sweden
2014/10 - 2015/10	UD15 – 4th International PhD in Design Research Forum; co-reviewing the papers and co-editing the proceedings. (2015/10/19 - 2015/10/20) Conference (Co-organisor)	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Belas Artes, Portugal
2009/05 - 2009/10	Organising the 3rd National Forum of Industrial Design Students, extensive forum as a part of 4th National Design Conference held in Istanbul Technical University (ITU), Turkey, October 2009, as the chairperson and main coordinator of the event (2009/10 - 2009/10) Seminar (President of the Organising Committee)	Istanbul Teknik Üniversitesi, Turkey

Event participation

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2024/10/24 - 2024/10/25	Participation at the conference "Prison systems and prison architecture: how are they related? A European perspective" organised by The School of Criminology of the Faculty of Law of the University of Porto and the CIJ – Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Justice, together with Gefo.ch - Gefängnisforschung.Schweiz Conference	Prison systems and prison architecture: how are they related? A European perspective Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Direito, Portugal
2024/02 - 2024/04	Abolitionist Futures Reading and Discussion Group with the international anti-prison scholars and activists. Meeting	Abolitionist Futures, United Kingdom
2017/03/02 - 2017/03/03	Participation in 2nd INTIMATE International Conference: Queering Parenting organised by INTIMATE research project (coordinated by Dr. Ana Cristina Santos) Conference	2nd INTIMATE International Conference: Queering Parenting Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2016/03/30 - 2016/03/31	Participation in 1st INTIMATE International Conference: Queering Partnering, organised by INTIMATE research project (coordinated by Dr. Ana Cristina Santos) Conference	1st INTIMATE International Conference: Queering Partnering Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2015/08/16 - 2015/08/23	Participation and presentation at The Summer School for Sexualities, Cultures, and Politics	The Summer School for Sexualities, Cultures, and Politics Research Center for Cultures, Politics and Identities (IPAK.Center),, Serbia
2015/07/07 - 2015/07/09	Participation at — specialised on gender and sexuality studies, semantics and politics of visual representation	Escola de Verão em Género e Sexualidades (Summer School on Gender and Sexualities) Associação Portuguesa de Ciências da Comunicação (SOPCOM), Portugal

Jury of academic degree

	Topic Role	Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization
2024/12/11	Mãe Solo É..Contributos do Design para Promover Redes de Apoio Eficazes e Desejáveis (Mother Only Is..Contributions of Design to Promote Effective and Desirable Support Networks) (Thesis) Arguer	Priscila Pinheiro da Silveira (Master) Universidade do Minho Escola de Arquitetura Arte e Design, Portugal
2022/05/30	The Cyber West Manifested in the Corporeal Rest (Thesis) Main arguer	Amy Galera (Master) Aalto-universitetet Högskola för konst design och arkitektur, Finland
2022/03/17	Design Menstrual para Higiene: Produtos para jovens raparigas, em idade escolar, com a menstruação, para manterem as suas rotinas de higiene (Thesis) Main arguer	Liliana Silva Gomes (Master) Universidade Lusíada Porto, Portugal

Ad Hoc journal article review

	Journal title (ISSN)	Publisher
2024/11 - 2025/01	Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais (RCCS) (0254-1106)	CES, University of Coimbra
2020 - 2024	The Design Journal	Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
2023/10 - 2023/10	Journal of Communication and Languages (2183-7198)	NOVA Institute of Communication - ICNOVA of NOVA University Lisbon
2022/04 - 2022/05	European Journal of Communication	SAGE Journals
2021/11 - 2022/01	RUUKKU: Studies in Artistic Research Journal (University of the Arts Helsinki	Aalto School of Arts, Design and Architecture and the Faculty of Art and Design at the University of Lapland)
2021/07 - 2021/07	Vista: Revista de Cultura Visual	Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade do Minho

Association member

	Society Organization name	Role
2023/09 - Current	ATGENDER, The European Association for Gender Research, Education and Documentation (NL)	Board Member
2023/09 - Current	CGWG - Carceral Geography Working Group (UK)	Member
2023/09 - Current	SOPCOM - Associação Portuguesa de Ciências da Comunicação (PT)	Member
2022/09 - Current	A PASSEIO - Platform for the study of art and urban culture	Researcher, Artist, Member
2016 - Current	Decolonising Design Group	Founding Member
2013 - 2021	ID+ Instituto de Investigação em Design, Media e Cultura	Researcher, Member
2016/11 - 2017/01	EMPIRICA Research Group at Aalto University, School of Arts, Design and Architecture	Researcher
2013 - 2017	Instituto de Investigação em Design, Media e Cultura (ID+)	Doctoral Research Fellow

Conference scientific committee

	Conference name	Conference host
2024/09 - Current	Dementia Lab Conference 2025 Portugal: ethics + aesthetics in design	University of Aveiro
2024/10 - 2024/12	IX CECS Doctoral Conference (IX Jornadas Doutorais do CECS)	CECS, University of Minho
2024 - 2024	Graduate Conference on Science and Technology of the Arts	Escola das Artes, Universidade Católica Portuguesa
2024 - 2024	ATGENDER: Gender Studies and the Precarious Labour of Making a Difference: (Un)paid Jobs, Internships, and Volunteering in the Worlds of Activism, Profit, and Non-profit	Utrecht University
2023/01 - 2023/06	HASTAC2023: Critical Making, Social Justice	Pratt Institute
2022/04/05 - 2022/10/28	Counterparts 2022: Exploring Design Beyond the Human - Swiss Design Network Winter Research Summit	Zurich University of the Arts, Switzerland
2021/08/04 - 2021/09/27	LearnxDesign 2021: 6th International Conference for Design Education Researchers	Shandong University of Art & Design, Jinan, China
2020/03 - 2020/03	Design as Common Good Conference – (Framing Design through Pluralism and Social Values)	Swiss Design Network
2019/02 - 2020	Academy for Design Innovation Management 2019 Conference	Loughborough University, London
2019/01 - 2020	DRS Learn X Design 2019 - Fifth International Conference for Design Education Researchers	METU (Middle East Technical University)

Consulting

	Activity description	Institution / Organization
2020/10 - Current	Center of Other Worlds (COW)	Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal
2018 - 2019	Project mentoring and consultancy for the long-term design and innovation contest within Gender Equality Program	IMECE Social Innovation Platform, Turkey
2017/11 - 2018/08	9-month Gender Equality program run by IMECE - Social Innovation Platform (Turkey, 2017-2018) – mentoring the working groups whose focus was particularly on design innovation based on gender equality.	IMECE Social Innovation Platform, Turkey

Course / Discipline taught

	Academic session	Degree Subject (Type)	Institution / Organization
2021/09 - 2022/02	Design, Culture and Society	Bachelor in Fashion Design and Marketing (Licenciatura)	Universidade do Minho Escola de Engenharia, Portugal
2021/09 - 2022/02	Gender, Communication and Language	Master's in Sociology of Gender and Sexuality (Mestrado)	Universidade do Minho Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2020/01 - 2020/08	Methodologies	Mestrado em Design de Produto (Master's in Product Design) (Mestrado)	Universidade Lusíada Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura e Artes, Portugal
2019/08 - 2020/08	Design History	Bachelor in Design (Licenciatura)	Universidade Lusíada Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura e Artes, Portugal
2019/08 - 2020/08	Design Theory	Bachelor in Design (Licenciatura)	Universidade Lusíada Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura e Artes, Portugal
2019/08 - 2020/08	Design II (Product Design Studio Course)	Bachelor in Design (Licenciatura)	Universidade Lusíada Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura e Artes, Portugal
2019/08 - 2020/08	Design II (Product Design Studio Course)	Bachelor in Design (Licenciatura)	Universidade Lusíada de Vila Nova de Famalicão Faculdade de Arquitectura e Artes, Portugal

Interview (tv / radio show)

	Program	Topic
2024/02 - 2024/02	Episode 13 of the ERRATA, a podcast hosted by Isabel Duarte, about women in Portuguese design history. The episode is about queerying design, biased materialities and abilition feminism	ERRATA
2021/03/08 - 2021/03/08	"Ist die Zukunft Queer? (Is the Future Queer?)", an episode of Off_line Podcast hosted by Felix Kosok at Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach am Main, Offenbach	Off_line Podcast

Journal scientific committee

	Journal title (ISSN)	Publisher
2020/12 - 2022/07	The Design Journal (1756-3062)	Informa UK (Taylor & Francis)
2020/03 - 2022/03	Design and Culture (1754-7083)	Informa UK (Taylor & Francis)

Mentoring / Tutoring

	Topic	Student name
2016 - 2017	Trans - Hackear o Género. (Trans - Hacking the Gender)	Renata Silveira

Distinctions

Other distinction

2022	Travel grant awarded for the project VOX VIA - BRAZIL, by SHUTTLE - PLAKA Programa de Apoio à Criação Artística Contemporânea, Porto (PT)
2020	Annual grant awarded for the project COBRACORAL - Prática Vocal, Pulso Circular, by CRIATORIO - Programa de Apoio à Criação Artística Contemporânea na cidade do Porto (PT) Câmara Municipal do Porto, Portugal
2018	Honorary Distinction for Doctoral Dissertation Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Belas Artes, Portugal
2014	Doctoral Research Grant (BD) Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
2013	Doctoral Research Grant (BI) Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
2010	Summa Cumme Laude – Honorary Graduation Distinction Istanbul Teknik Üniversitesi, Turkey