Isabela Torres Rodrigues

Graduated in Art History from the Federal University of São Paulo (Unifesp), the researcher mainly studies the area of Design History. Between March of 2018 and March of 2019, she was accepted as a Scientific Initiation scholarship holder from the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), whose research, Slow Design in Brazil: A First Approach, was based on the study of Slow Design in Brazil, its relationship with the field of Art History, through a comparison with other design concepts and movements. At the end of the first year of Scientific Initiation, the scholarship was requested to be renewed until mid-2020, in order to advance the study of the manual production of artifacts during the eighteenth century. After the second approval of the scholarship, the researcher considers she performed a role as a research assistant, contributing to the studies of professor and advisor Angela Brandão, From the Regiments of Crafts to the Artistic Treatises: a study on theoretical knowledge in the craft exams.In 2019, the researcher took a free course in Document Management at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (FIOCRUZ). In 2020, she also completed a university extension course in Collection Management at the São Paulo School of Sociology and Politics Foundation (FESP). In 2021, she began her masters degree in art history at Unifesp with the research project: A look at the wood crafts, between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, in the Luso-Brazilian context. In September of 2021, the Master's scholarship from the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) was granted, until the end of 2023. In 2022, during her masters degree, she started an MBA in Museum Management and Innovation, from the Brazilian Association of Cultural Management (ABCG). She successfully completed the course in early 2024 with the presentation of the project: Experimental Laboratory from Grain to Corn: A journey through the ancestral culture of corn from planting to table.The researcher, since graduation, has participated in academic events related to her area of studies, Art History, not only as a listener, but also as a communicator and part of the organization. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)