Liliana Soares at World Design Rankings
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Liliana Soares
Representing Portugal in World Design Rankings
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Platinum | 0 | |
Gold | 0 | |
Silver | 0 | |
Bronze | 0 | |
Iron | 1 |
More on Liliana Soares : Liliana Soares is Professor Coordinator at the Polytechnic Institute of Viana do Castelo (IPVC-Portugal) since 2024. She finished her Pos-Phd in Design at Architecture Faculty of Lisbon (FA.UL, Portugal) in 2022 under the supervision of Rita Almendra and Fernando Moreira da Silva, presented her PhD in Design at University of Aveiro in 2012 supervised by Dante Donegany (NABA Faculty, Italy) and Fátima Pombo (UA), with a scholarship of Foundation for Science and Technology (Portugal) and holds a Master in Management from the Euro-Arab Management School, Granada (Spain) supervised by Celia De Anca (IE University, Spain), with a scholarship of the Euro-Arab Foundation. She is also a Designer from the Architecture Faculty of Lisbon (FA.UL, Portugal) under the supervision of Daciano da Costa. Since 2024, she is the Coordinator of the Research Group DISLab- Laboratório de Design para a Inovação e Sustentabilidade CAIUD.FA + IPVC. She is effective researcher at the CIAUD - Research Centre for Architecture, Urbanism and Design (University of Lisbon) since 2013 and, since 2010 a collaborating researcher at ID+. She is lecture in Environment Design Course (IPVC.PT), Product Design Course (IPVC.PT), Master in Integrated Design (IPVC.PT). She also lectured in teaching missions from Erasmus Programme. She is member of the Pedagogical Council of IPVC (since 2011) and was a member of Technical and Scientific Council of IPVC (2014-2018). She was the Head of Product Design course for 9 years (2013 - 2022). She has lectured extensively on design theory and design thinking at international and national conferences, has participated in design fairs and has published research articles in international academic journals. Liliana Soares has participated in Scientific Review Committee in international events and journals. Liliana has supervised almost 40 Master dissertations and has been a member of Master jury and of PhD Defence Jury. She supervises currently 2 PhD these and several Master Dissertations in Design. She has published academic works as single author or in co-authorship, including books, book chapters, papers in peer reviewed journals and in international peer reviewed conference proceedings. Liliana is Member of the Jury of the PhD Scholarship in Design Architecture and Urbanism granted by FCT and External referee in the periodical Italian research assessment exercise (VQR 2015-2019) of The Italian National Agency for the Evaluation of Universities and Research Institutes (ANVUR). In 2019 she founded Altempo Design Research Group with Ermanno Aparo and 2 alumni and won a Iron A'Design Award (2020) and a Gold Muse Design Award (2023). She was, also, awarded with Certificate of Excellence 2023 with Women Researcher Award for the Contribution and Honourable Achievement in Innovative Research Given under seal of the company ScienceFather (org). Since 2022 she is a Principal Investigator of the MUSAE embryo project (CIAUD), securing FCT funding. She generates methodologically creative process in research, developing sustainable solutions to connect design education, business world and society. Liliana Soares wrote 5 books. . . . Links: https://sciencefather.com/ https://www.designboom.com/design/shatron-sustainable-mute-for-trumpets-recycled-wood-05-12-2020/ https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=q29ALmwf1mA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVokCEiU2yM https://design.museaward.com/
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Designers in Portugal were ranked based on the number and level of design awards won. Best designers from Portugal are sorted and listed above based on the number of Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron Design Awards won, total score for each designer is calculated based on the table below.
Color Legend | Award Level | Score Modifier |
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Platinum Design Award | +6 Points | |
Golden Design Award | +5 Points | |
Silver Design Award | +4 Points | |
Bronze Design Award | +3 Points | |
Iron Design Award | +2 Points |
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