Maria da Piedade Ferreira

Dr. Maria da Piedade Ferreira is an architect, performance artist, researcher and curator. Her doctoral thesis "Embodied Emotions: Observations and Experiments in Architecture and Corporeality“ (2016) coins her concept of "Corporeal Architecture". Her work explores the interconnections between architecture, neuroscience and art and has been published and presented internationally, including the ANFA, eCAADe and IUAV conferences. In 2020, as a response to COVID-19, she founded the YouTube channel Corporeal Architecture, a curatorial project that works as an open-access education and exhibitions room. She has been teaching at TU Munich, ETH Zürich, TU Kaiserslautern and HFT Stuttgart.