Maria Catarina Silva, Paulo Luís Almeida, Cristiana Vieira

DRAWinU

Herbarium pages: Drawing from the display

Maria Catarina Silva (Gaia, 1992) is currently a research intern in the DRAWinU project - Drawing Across University Borders: Learning, Researching, and Communicating through Drawing in the University (PTDC/ART-OUT/3560/2021), funded by FCT. She is studying plant forms through drawing, developing work from nature and on the archive of the Herbarium at the Natural History and Science Museum of the University of Porto (MHNC-UP). She completed an MA in Drawing and Printmaking in 2017 at FBAUP, with the project Wander to Wonder: An exploration of the limits of perception in drawing and printmaking. She has a BA in Sculpture (FBAUP, 2014).

Paulo Luís Almeida (i2ADS/FBAUP) was born in Mozambique. He is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts, U.Porto (FBAUP) and currently Director of i2ADS – Institute of Research in Art, Design and Society. As a researcher, he works within i2ADS's programme 'Drawing Across Disciplines,' which is focused on developing drawing-based strategies to challenge disciplinary strictures and habits of thought that often constrain thinking across divergent areas. Paulo is the co-IR of the DRAWinU R&D project, funded by FCT, a study on drawing in STEM to develop new learning strategies and creative practices based on drawing activities in Higher Education. He is the institutional delegate of the Society of Artistic Research and a member of the Drawing Research Network.

Cristiana Vieira (MHNC-UP) is responsible for the curatorship of the University of Porto Herbarium (PO) housed at MHNC-UP. As a curator of the Herbarium, her role is to manage all the Herbarium collections, to help support the research community which visits and uses the botanical collections and to captivate students and researchers to develop work at the Herbarium. With a PhD in biology from the Faculty of Sciences, Porto University, she was involved in the study of the environmental determinants of bryophytes communities.