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Adélia Borges’s professional scope has three cornerstones: writing, exhibitions, and talks/classes. She graduated in journalism at the School of Communication and Art of the University of São Paulo (ECA-USP), wrote for many different local and international publications—including Design & Interiores magazine, which she directed from 1987 to 1994; and Gazeta Mercantil newspaper, where she acted as Design Editor from 1998 to 2001. She has contributed to media oultlets such as Folha de S. Paulo, O Estado de S. Paulo, TV Globo, TV Cultura, and Editora Abril.

She has written or co-written more than fifteen books, including Brazilian Contemporary Furniture (2013); Design + Craft: The Brazilian Path (2011); Sergio Rodrigues (2005); Designer não é Personal Trainer (A Designer Is Not a Personal trainer, 2002); and Cadeiras Brasileiras (Brazilian Chairs, 1994). Her articles, essays for catalogs, and book chapters have been published in Portuguese, German, Korean, Spanish, French, English, Italian, and Japanese.

Since 1988, she has organized and/or curated over forty exhibitions in Brazil, Argentina, the US, France, the Netherlands, the UK, Italy, and Japan, among them New Alchemists, Instituto Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, 1999; A History of Sitting, Museu Oscar Niemeyer, Curitiba, 2002; Kumuro—Native People’s Stools from the Amazon, Carreau du Temple, Paris, 2006; Brazilian Design Today: Frontiers, Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, 2009; Pure Blends, Pavilhão das Culturas Brasileiras, São Paulo, 2010; Brazilian Biennial of Design, edition 2010, Curitiba; Jewels from Brazil,in four location in England, 2011; In Praise of Diversity, Droog Gallery, Amsterdam, 2012; Ceramics of Brazil, A Casa museu do objeto brasileiro, São Paulo, 2015); Vegetal Origins—Transforming Biodiversity, Centro Sebrae de Referência do Artesanato Brasileiro, Rio de Janeiro, 2016; and Pure Gold, Museum fuer Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany, 2017.

From 2003 to 2007 she directed the Museu da Casa Brasileira , the Brazilian design museum, in São Paulo. During her tenure, visitation increased 444%. In 2008, she headed the team that conceived the City's project for the Pavilhão das Culturas Brasileiras (Pavilion of Brazilian Cultures) that would occupy an early 1950s building designed by Oscar Niemeyer at Ibirapuera Park, in São Paulo.

A professor of History of Design at Fundação Armando Álvares Penteado (Faap) from 1998 to 2013, Adélia often offers talks, having spoken in most Brazilian states as well as abroad in Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, Chile, Mexico, Panama, the US, Germany, Spain, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Poland, the Netherlands, the UK, Australia, India, Japan, and Qatar by invitation of renowned institutions such as Victoria & Albert Museum, Danish Design Museum, Helsinki Design Week, Royal College of Art, and Japanese Institute of Design. She is a member of the board in various institutions, including the Nomination Committee of the London Design Museum’s Design Prize; London Design Biennale Advisory Committee; and the Curators Board of the Instituto Sergio Rodrigues, Rio de Janeiro.
www.adeliaborges.com

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