PhD (RCA), MFA (SAIC)
Professor, Researcher, Author, Designer, Curator

Out now on Touch, my track “Aviation”:
Touch: Isolation

My full CV is here

I am currently Full Professor of Design at the University of Porto

I am currently Vice-President of the European Academy of Design

I am a member of Academia Europaea

I direct the PhDDesign program @ U.Porto, in partnership with UPTEC

I am director at U.Porto of ID+ / Unexpected Media Lab

I am Principal Investigator of An Infodemic of Disorientation research project

I served as Chairman of the Scientific Board (HSS) at the Foundation for Science and Technology, 2016-2022

I recently completed joint coordination of Anti-Amnesia and Wisdom Transfer

I curated the futureplaces medialab at the UTAustin|Portugal Program in Digital Media

I obtained my PhD in Design in 2003 at the Royal College of Art

I obtained my MFA in Visual Communication in 1992 at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago

My blog / archive (to be updated)

I collaborate with Touch

I curate the Tuxedomoon Archives

My latest art project: A Body of Fractures

My latest book: The Wreckage We Call Progress

My solo CD: Faith

I co-created antifluffy

I co-direct the random music label 333

I publish as autodigest

I am the KREV Ambassador for Portugal

I was the communications coordinator for Radio Manobras

I co-authored the Bauhaus of the Seas manifesto

I co-created Porto Pelo Porto

I edited the audio release for Realismo Mágico


Email me or look me up on LinkedIn / Skype.
Portrait by Anselmo Canha, while recording the cistern at the Peniche fort, 2015.