Maria Manuela Lopes is a Visual Artist with inter/transdisciplinary practice and Senior Lecturer of Visual Arts at ESE-/ Polytechnic of Porto and researcher at i3S, ID+ and InED ESE-PP. PhD in New Media Fine Arts University of Brighton and MA Goldsmiths College London. She has participated and coordinated several artistic research projects - currently she is a team member of MID - Mirror Identity Drawings (ESAD CR/ UNESCO Chair); Drawing Across University Borders (I2ADS, i3S); Human Diversity Along The Magalhães Circumnavigation Space: genetics, history and culture ((IPATIMUP/UP). She is Deputy Director of artistic residencies: Ectopia and Cultivamos Cultura. Belongs to the Board of Directors of the International Academy of Music “Aquiles Delle Vigne”, organizes international festivals and multidisciplinary events.

Joana Mendonça lives and works in Porto. She has a degree in fine arts from the FBAUP, postgraduate degrees in Cultural Management (ULHT, Lisbon) and Curatorial Studies (FBAUL/Gulbenkian), and a PhD in Art Education from the FBAUP. She works on the relationship between contemporary art and its audiences in a wide variety of contexts, and on the relationship between formal and non-formal education in museum contexts. She has been part of the Serralves Museum's Education Service since 2009. She is a guest lecturer at the Visual Arts Technical Scientific Unit at ESE IPP and a guest lecturer at EAAD -UM. She is a collaborating member of InED - Center for Research and Innovation in Education.