Tânia Lopes Martins (1993, Porto) is a designer and visual artist based in Caldas da Rainha. At ESAD Caldas da Rainha, she graduated in Industrial Design in 2014 and completed her master’s in Product Design in 2019 with the theoretical-practical project “City in Performance.” During her master’s, she received a scholarship from the Erasmus Mundus Cruz del Sur program, living and studying for 11 months in Recife, Brazil, where she attended a Postgraduate course in Design at the Center for Arts and Communication at the Federal University of Pernambuco.
Subsequently, from 2019 to 2020, she worked at Toyno, a design studio in Lisbon, focusing on various museographic and exhibition design projects. More recently, from 2021 to 2023, she was a communication manager at Vicara, a design studio and product publisher in Caldas da Rainha. Between 2023 and 2024, she worked as a designer at the textile company Santos Monteiro. Since 2020, she has been a co-founder, designer, and content manager for FÁ-LO, a cultural space in Caldas da Rainha aimed at promoting and showcasing the artistic work produced in the city.
In 2023, she began her PhD in Artistic Creation at the University of Aveiro, in partnership with the Polytechnics of Porto and Leiria. She is currently developing an artistic research proposal titled “From the Inside Out: Co-creation, Interventions, and Dialogues in the Public Sphere” a project that has received a doctoral scholarship from the Science in Cultural Heritage program, awarded by FCT – Foundation for Science and Technology, in partnership with the Museums and Monuments of Portugal and hosted by the José Malhoa Museum. Throughout her artistic-cultural journey, she explores issues related to urbanism and social empowerment through visual arts and design, with a particular emphasis on media and performative arts.