Cláudia Escaleira is an Architect, and Co-Founder and Director of NADA NOVO / NOTHING NEW (2023), an association that promotes the reuse of components and construction materials, and explores the cultural challenges of their application. She is currently concluding her PhD at the School of Architecture, Art and Design of the University of Minho (EAAD-UM) with the research entitled "A classification model for sustainable building connections", crossing sustainability, ecology, building construction and classification within architecture. She is also an integrated member (without PhD) of Lab2PT. She holds a degree (2003) from the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto (FAUP) and a specialization in Sustainable Construction and Rehabilitation (2010) from the School of Engineering of the University of Minho. In the past she has worked as a teacher and as trainer and side by side with her research, she collaborated in the development of architectural projects for building renovation and in the development of technical-scientific assessment reports of buildings (2017-2024). In 2023 NADA NOVO was granted support from national art funding for the development of the project FORUM NADA NOVO (2024) and in 2024 for the development of the two first publications from the collection INTERMÉDIOS (In between).