Das coisas belas e desenhadas - 2nd Edition

Fátima Pombo is Full Professor of Design, Director of the Research Institute for Design, Media and Culture [ID+] at the University of Aveiro, having performed other scientific management responsibilities. She was a visiting professor at the University of Leuven (KUL), Belgium, for almost a decade and lectured within the Erasmus programme at other European Universities. 

She is Co-Chair of the Design Commit 2026 edition as she was of the Design Commit 2024 edition. Engaging in international research projects and conferences, she participates in several academic activities and serving, among others, as a design jury member for the iF Design Award in Germany, for the Evaluation Panel of FCT-Foundation for Science and Technology and for the Evaluation Commission of A3ES -Accreditation of Study Programmes.
 
Her main research interests are interior design, spatial design, the phenomenology of design, and the aesthetics of sustainability.
Fátima Pombo, an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation postdoctoral fellow, conducted research at the University of Munich and at the University of Heidelberg. Beyond academia, she studied Music at the Conservatório de Música do Porto.

She published Traços de Música (2001), Das Coisas Belas e Desenhadas (1st ed. 2018; 2nd ed. 2020), Synchresis Audiovision Tales (as editor, 2019) and Design para Ideias Ecossistémicas. A Transição para um Futuro Sustentável (as editor, 2023) with the Universidade de Aveiro Editora.