Ana Cação is a designer with a passion for interdisciplinary contexts and collaborations.

She has a bachelor’s in Spatial and Interior Design at the Upper School of Arts and Design at Caldas da Rainha, which she completed in 2021, and completed the first year of the Master’s in Product Design. She has a Master’s in Design for Health and Well-being, a pioneer in Portugal, which she completed with the dissertation titled “Design for Knowledge Dissemination: towards Ecological Well-being, a Design Case with sea urchins”, where she proposes a new area of intervention for contemporary Design practice and research. Before her career in Design, she graduated in Law from the University of Coimbra in 2012, completed specializations in Conflict Mediation (2013), Banking, Financial Markets and Insurance Law (2014) and Administrative Law and Public Administration (2016), having practiced law until 2019.

Currently she is a research assistant at LiDA – Laboratory in Design and Arts of the Polytechnic of Leiria, working at the intersection of design, communication, and science management.

Her main research interests include Planetary Health and Ecological Well-being, More-than-human Design, and Photography.