Currently studying the advanced professional program Curation and Commissioning Public Art at HDK-Valand - Högskolan för konst och design at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and participates in the Cohort of Respondents of the AFFIRMATIONS program of Columbia University (2023, NY, USA).
Co-director and curator of muq, a platform that experiments the ‘museum as a practice’in architecture, psychoanalysis and arts through experimental pedagogies, curatorship, archives and exhibitions. EM 2023, was a participant selected as co-director of muq at Field Office Workshop 01 in London, organised by the Royal College of Art, University of Greenwich, Bartlett School and Architectural Association with the Festive Memories project. Muq participated in the Post-pandemic Exhibition with "Queer Counter-archive" at the Santa Catarina School Museum (2022), The 5th Wrong Biennale (2021) and the Psychology and Mourning Seminar (2021).
Independent researcher in architecture and visual cultures, he contributed to ArchDaily, Vitruvius, Construction21, the book Intelligence, Creativity and Fantasy (PHI-Sorbonne, Paris) and the Union of Architects of Brazil/SC. He was a collaborating professor in public institutions, such as UFSC and UDESC, between 2017 and 2022 and tutor of the Soft Storm workshop at International Design Week, University of Antwerp and Academy of Fine Arts - Antwerp (Belgium, 2023). Composed the Artistic Jury in 2023 of the 2eme EDIQ Congrès and was an artistic fellow in 2022 with the multimedia installation "Exception Tectonique", at Université Laval (Québec, CA, 2022). Participating artist and proponent of the collective research project "Paisagem Tendência", awarded with the Elisabete Anderle Award for Stimulus to Culture/Santa Catarina Foundation for Culture (2022-23) and IAB 2023 Architectural Culture Award. Active member of Arquitetura Bicha, a reference in the discussion of queer architecture in Brazil. Curator and creator of Parallel Architecture and Arts, awarded by CAU-BR (2018) and the Catarinense Culture Foundation (2017).
Between 2022 and 2023 he was leader of Graphic Design and image management and Editor of B612architectes (Brussels, BE, 2022-23) - being part of the winning team of the École Jean XXIII design contest and writer of the Construction21 Green Awards, for the Écoles Charmille-Schhuman, and the Uccle Architecture Prize.
Complete Curriculum
Education
Federal University of Santa Catarina - UFSC (Brazil, 2014-2016)
MSc. Urbanism, History and Architecture of the city
State University of Santa Catarina - UDESC (Brazil, 2008-2014)
Universidad de Sevilla Academic Exchange (Spain, 2012-2013)
Architecture and Urbanism
Academic Experience
Tutor at International Design Week 2022, ‘Soft Storm’ workshop (Belgium, 2023)
Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp / University of Antwerp
Queer Architecture and Monuments, MA level
Assistant Professor, Collaborator (Brazil, 2018-2022)
State University of Santa Catarina
History and Theory of Art and Architecture. Exhibition Design and Landscape Architecture Studios.
Assistant Professor, Collaborator (Brazil, 2017-2018)
Federal University of Santa Catarina
History and Theory of Art and Architecture.
Lecturer (Brazil, 2017-2018)
Barddal School of Arts
History and Theory of Art and Architecture. Photography Theory and Studio.
Researcher, Scholarship Holder (Brazil, 2015-2016)
Coordination for higher Education Staff Development, Federal University of Santa Catarina
Theory and analysis in landscape architecture and history of architecture.
Junior Researcher, Scholarship Holder (Brazil, 2014-2015)
National Heritage Institute for the Arts and History (IPHAN) , National Boards for Teaching and Research (CAPES)
Inventory, research and publication design on modern architecture.
Complementary Academic Experiences
Invited Member of the Artistic Committee of 2e Congrès de l’ÉDIQ (Canada, 2023)
Université Laval à Quebéc
Invited Co-Supervisor, Master Thesis (Portugal, 2023)
Universidade do Porto, Integrated Masters in Architecture Main Supervisor: Ana Neiva
Rio Phantasmagoria : Project for a queer exhibition in the public space
Rafael Magalhães Manhães de Souza
Arquitetura Bicha (Brazil, 2021-Current)
University of São Paulo, State University of Santa Catarina, Federal University of Ceará
Architectural Collective and Research Group for LGBTQAI+ architecture and queer theory.
Independent Research Supervisor (Brazil, 2019-2021)
PET-Arq UFSC Laboratory, Federal University of Santa Catarina
LGBTQI+ history in the city; Contemporary theories of Architecture
Professional Experiences
Creative Director / Co-director (2021-Current)
muq
Independent multidisciplinary architecture, art, psychoanalysis practice. Virtual and in-person exhibitions and workshops, archive management, conceptual design. Selected for 5th Wrong Biennale (Virtual, 2021), Post-pandemic City Exhibition (MESC, Brazil, 2022), Field Office Workshop 01 (AA, Bartlett, Royal College of Art, UK, 2023).
Independent Architect and Urban Designer (Brazil and Belgium, 2014-Current)
Exhibitions, ephemeral architecture and landscape architecture
Architect, Conceptual Designer and Design Leader (Belgium, 2022-2023)
B612architectes
Design leader, Candidatures - Public Competitions, Editor and Copywriter
Copywriter for Construction 21 and Uccle Architecture prizes (winner, 2023)
Graphic Designer and Candidature Manager for Jean XXIII competition, Woluwe-Saint-Pierre (winner, 2023)
Architect and Creative director (Brazil and Belgium, 2020-2023)
Marola Coletiva
Curatorial projects, Architectural Design, Seminars, short-courses and on-line courses.
Curator and Creative director (Brazil, 2016 -2018)
Paralela Architecture and Arts
Cultural circuit. 33 simultaneous exhibitions and management of a 80 architects and artists team.
Awards, selected work and exhibitions
Paisagem Tendência (Artistic and architectural research; video and photography)
Luiz Antônio Medeiros da Silva Award (Brazil, 2023), IAB-Brazil Architects Institute, Santa Catarina
Elisabete Anderle Prize (Brazil, 2022), Government of Santa Catarina, FCC-Foundation for the Arts
muq-Museum of what we have left (multidisciplinary practice)
Field Office Workshop 01 (AA, Bartlett, Royal College of Art, UK, 2023).
5th Wrong Biennale (2021)
Museu da Escola Catarinense - Museum for the School (2022)
Exception Tectonique (mixed media installation)
Arts Scholarship and Exhibition (Canada, 2022)
Université Laval à Quebéc, 2e Congrès de l’ÉDIQ
Nostradamus and the prophecy machine (art installation)
Museu da Escola Catarinense - Museum for the School (2022)
Refugos (queer art and queer curatorial practices)
Selection Curatorial development Program (Brazil, 2021)
Cultural Center Marieta
Languages
Portuguese - Native
English - Fluent, IELTS C1
French - Advanced
Spanish - Fluent, Universidad de Sevilla
German - A1 Level, UFSC
Dutch - A1 Level, Brulingua