Like the palm of my hand: memories to redesign the city - The Phyllis M. Taylor Center for Social Innovation and Design Thinking (original) (raw)

Andréia De Bernardi is a Brazilian art/educator who works at the intersections of art, cultural heritage and design. PhD candidate in Design at Minas Gerais State University/UEMG, she holds a B.A. in Art Education and has a Master in Education. Working at the Social Design Integrated Center (CIDS/UEMG), her current interests consist of art education, design and memory, decolonizing pedagogies and participatory design projects. She is also a professor of the Visual Arts teaching degree at Minas Gerais State University in the Design School. She is currently developing a research project in co-operation with Edson José Carpintero Rezende, Ph.D, and Juliana Rocha Franco, Ph.D, whose aims to collaboratively construct symbolic cartographies by using social design approach and participatory skills. Andréia has been designing and carrying out social projects, inspiring people and groups who have, for several reasons, suffered from opression and have had their subjectivities made totally invisible by the maistream stablishment. Her projects encourage the contact with cultural and traditional manifestations and artistic experimentation in an aesthetic background backed by the personal heritage of the people involved. In 2018 Andréia led the “Lagoinha_Heritage Design Development” extension project, presented in CUMULUS Conference 2019 – The Design After, in Bogotá, Colombia.