Liliana Cristina Marques Soares e Aparo

Liliana Soares is an Adjunct Professor, coordinator of the Licenciatura of Product Design and member of the Pedagogical Council of the Polytechnic Institute of Viana do Castelo (IPVC). She was a member of the Scientific Technical Council of IPVC.

She holds a PhD in Design from the University of Aveiro (UA), with an individual grant from the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), under the direction of Fátima Pombo (UA) and Dante Donegani (Naba, Italy). She was a Fellow of the Euro-Arab Foundation (European Commission) in the development of her Master's thesis at Euro-Arab Management School (Spain). She is a designer by the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Lisbon, having been a student of Daciano da Costa, Eduardo Afonso Dias, Jorge Pacheco, Pedro Silva Dias and Fernando Moreira da Silva.

She is a researcher of the CIAUD - Research Centre for Architecture, Urbanism and Design at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Lisbon, and collaborator of the Research Institute for Design, Media and Culture of the University of Aveiro / University of Porto and researcher at the Global Design Survey Network (Denmark ).

Her interest focuses on the theory and critique of design, semiotics and space. She collaborates in design and architecture magazines, participating in various national and international scientific events. She is a member of scientific committees of conferences with publication of minutes and in international journals of the specialty. She is a member of research projects (FCT, Directorate General of the Arts, European Commission). She has supervised more than 20 master's theses and supervises doctoral theses.

Liliana Soares is co-author of the book "Sei progetti in cerca d'autore" by Alinea Editrice, published in 2012.

Current positions

  • Professor Adjunto IPVC

PhD Details

  • Year 2012

Research Groups