The City of the Senses, the Senses in the City

Zara Pinto-Coelho is an associate professor in the Department of Communication Sciences at the University of Minho. Her research interests include discourse theories and their critical applications in media studies and cultural studies, in issues related to public participation, public health, gender and heterosexuality, art and urban culture, among others.

Helena Pires is an associate professor in the Department of Communication Sciences at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Minho. She is a PhD in communication sciences, in communication semiotics, at the University of Minho (2007). She teaches in advertising, art and communication, having participated, in the last years, in the direction of the master in communication, art and culture of the University of Minho, where she has also taught. For 4 years, until November 2019, she was the coordinator of the advertising working group of the Portuguese Association of Communication Sciences. She has published and developed research work on the semiotics of the (urban) landscape and in communication, art and visual culture. She is a research member at the Communication and Society Research Centre. She is currently co-coordinator of the Passeio – Platform for Urban Art and Culture, a research project of the Communication and Society Research Centre.

Emília Araújo is a lecturer at the University of Minho’s Sociology Department and researcher at the Communication and Society Research Centre. She is involved in several research projects and has published several works encompassing themes of culture, science and time.

Fábio Freitas Marques is a PhD student in cultural studies at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Minho, master in communication, art and culture, by this same institution, and graduated in social communication/journalism at the Federal University of Ceará (Brazil). Currently, he develops research focused on popular music, identities and everyday life in urban contexts in Portugal and Brazil, funded by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (SFRH/BD/147043/2019). At the Communication and Society Research Centre, he is a researcher-member of the project Passeio – Platform for Urban Art and Culture.

Fabio La Rocca is a sociologist, serves as maître de conférences at University Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, where he is a member of Laboratoire d’Études Interdisciplinaires sur le Réel et les Imaginaires Sociaux. He is a member of the Communication, Art and City research group, Postgraduate Program in Communication, Rio de Janeiro State University (Brasil) and the Kinepolitcon group (the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil). He has experience in sociology, with an emphasis on the themes of cities and urban environments, visual sociology, sociology of the imaginary, culture, communication and media. He is the author of the book La Ville Dans Tous Ses États (CNRS Éditions, 2013; A Cidade em Todas as Suas Formas, Sulina, 2018) and several articles and book chapters on the city, visual sociology, technology, culture.

Jean-Martin Rabot is a PhD in sociology. He is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology of the University of Minho and a researcher at the Communication and Society Research Centre. His work focuses on the sociology of the imaginary, cultural studies and new technologies. He has published several texts, covering themes such as: “Reflexões Sobre o Confinamento e o Distanciamento Social em Tempos de Pandemia” (Reflections on Confinement and Social Distancing in Times of Pandemic); “Vilfredo Pareto: Ação, Heterogeneidade Social e Sentimentos” (Vilfredo Pareto: Action, Social Heterogeneity and Sentiments); “La Résurgence du Sacré Dans la Postmodernité” (The Resurgence of the Sacred in Postmodernity); “L’Imaginaire et la Reliance Dans la Sociologie de Durkheim” (The Imaginary and Reliance in Durkheim’s Sociology); “De l’Importance de la Psychologie Collective Dans les Sciences Sociales: Serge Moscovici et les Passions Humaines” (The Significance of Collective Psychology in Social Sciences: Serge Moscovici and Human Passions).

Márcia Silva is a PhD student in sociology at the University of Minho’s Institute of Social Sciences. She has a master’s degree in sociology and an undergraduate degree in geography and planning from the University of Minho. She works in the areas of tourism, mobility and science.

Pedro Andrade is a sociologist and researcher at the University of Minho, Communication and Society Research Centre. He teaches at the University of Coimbra and the University of Lisbon on the sociology of culture, communication, sociological methods, digital humanities. His research includes urban cultures, art communication, art/science museums, literacies, digital social networks (web 2.0/web 3.0), methodologies/hybrimedia. He was coordinator of international projects, for example, Scientific-Technological Literacy and Public Opinion: The Case of Science Museums; and Public Art Communication: The Case of Local/Global Art Museums, both funded by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia. He participated within international university networks, such as Virginia Commonwealth University, United States of America, and was a member of the project Manifesto Art and Social Inclusion in Urban Communities (United Kingdom). He is the author of several books and scientific papers published in international and national journals with peer review, indexed in global bibliographic databases (Web of Science, etc.) and director of the first Portuguese-French scientific journal, Atalaia-Intermundos (since 1995).

Rita Ribeiro is a lecturer in the Sociology Department within the University of Minho’s Institute of Social Sciences, having gained a master’s degree in anthropology (2000) and a PhD in sociology (2008) from the same university. She is a researcher within the Communication and Society Research Centre. Rita researches the sociology of culture, particularly in the field of popular culture and cultural identity, cultural policies, national and European identity, migration and cultural diversity. As a lecturer, she focuses on the sociology of culture, the sociology of power, cultural heritage and cultural diversity. Rita is a member of the executive board of the European Sociological Association’s Research Network of the Sociology of Culture and on the board of the UMCidades platform.

Teresa Lima is part of the group of doctoral researchers at the Communication and Society Research Centre, and she is currently pursuing a PhD in communication sciences. With a degree in social communication from the University of Minho, she made a foray into journalism (Público) and obtained a degree in advanced studies in contemporary history at the University of Santiago de Compostela. Professionally, she has been active in the information sciences, having a specialization course in archives and documentation by the Portucalense University. Currently, she studies the relationship between biography, speech and communication, based on the life story of the filmmaker Edgar Pêra.