António Gorgel Pinto, born in Porto, lives and works in Lisbon, Portugal. He is a designer, visual artist and educator who has maintained a participatory art and design practice with different communities since 2005. He is an assistant professor at IADE, Faculty of Design, Technology and Communication, European University; Course Coordinator of the Global Design BA; and integrated researcher at UNIDCOM/IADE, from the same institution. He also frequently collaborates with CHAIA (Centre for Art History and Artistic Research, University of Évora) and CIAUD (Centre for Research in Architecture Urbanism and Design, Faculty of Architecture, University of Lisbon). He has participated in several international conferences and peer-reviewed publications. He has a PhD in Design, with a thesis defended in 2019, at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Lisbon; a Masters' degree in Multimedia Art (2012), with a dissertation defended at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon; a degree in Visual Arts - Sculpture (2005), at School of the Arts, in Évora; and a degree in Design (1997), at Matosinhos School of Art and Design. He is co-founder and co-organizer of the international conference Cross Media Arts - Social Arts and Transdisciplinarity (2016) and of a book with the same title (2018). In the context of his academic missions, he has participated, as an artist and teacher, in the Scholars Residency programme, at the McNally School of Fine Arts, Lasalle College of the Arts, in Singapore (2019). He was a member of the Scientific Committee of the Porto Design Biennale 2021 –¿ Peripheral Perspectives Friday Colloquia, within which he coedited one of the Alter¿ editions, titled "Alter¿Production: Shaping Together a Common Ground". Among the exhibitions in which he participated stands out the show "Strategies of Belonging. A Social Art Practice", which resulted from an artist residency at the Iowa Ceramic Center and Glass Studio, with a later exhibition at CSPS Hall, Cedar Rapids, USA (2019), as well as the exhibition "In The Middle - On the Edge: Contemporary Portuguese Art", at Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College, Grinnell, USA (2008). His main interest is to question social, economic and ecological issues through a transdisciplinary and participatory artistic practice with vulnerable communities.