Maria Gabriela Caffarena Celani

Gabriela Celani holds a BA and MSC in Architecture and Urban Design from FAU-USP and a PhD from MIT. Since 2004 she is a researcher and professor at the Architecture and Urban Design program at Unicamp, where she created the Laboratory of Automation and Prototyping for Architecture and Construction (LAPAC) and the Center for Sudies on Knowledge- and Innovation-based Urbanization (CEUCI). She is currently a full professor and teaches in the undergraduate and graduate levels, developing research in the fields of design and technologies for Architecture and Urbanism. At Unicamp, she was an advisor to the Dean of Undergraduate Studies and to the Rector, and Director of Projects at the Exploratory Science Museum, and is presently heading the Physical-Spatial component of the International Hub for Sustainable Development (HIDS) project. At the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP), she was the area coordinator for Architecture, Urbanism and Design for four years.She is the author of the book CAD Criativo (Elsevier, 2003) and translated the books The logic of architecture and The poetics of gardens into Portuguese. She was a funded visiting professor at the Universidad Nacional del Litoral (Argentina), at the Technical University of Lisbon and at MIT. She was responsible for projects funded by FAPESP, CAPES, FAEPEX and CNPq, involving national and foreign universities, such as Coimbra, Lisbon, Melbourne, Braunschweig and Kaiserslautern. She was vice president of SIGraDi and president of CAAD Futures. She was a guest speaker at the following events: Digital fabrication: a state of art (Lisbon, 2011), SIGraDi 2012 congress (Fortaleza), Sustainable Intelligent Manufacturing (Lisbon, 2013), Digital D'Arq (Coimbra, 2015) and SIGraDi/eCAADe 2019 (Porto). She organized CAAD Futures 2015, BRAGFOST 2016 and FGKD 2024. She received the Arturo Montagú (Sigradi, 2017) and Zeferino Vaz (Unicamp, 2018) awards for her academic career. Member of tUnicamp's Visual Arts Museum council, Unicamp's Sustainability Advisor Council, and Sigradi's Advisor Council. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)