Patricia Anahory is an architect currently serving as director of CIDLOT- Centro de Investigação em Desenvolvimento Local e Ordenamento de Território at the Universidade de Cabo Verde, an emerging research center dealing with urban and territory issues. She holds a Masters Degree in Architecture from Princeton University. Her master's thesis Homing Landscapes: Mapping Memory[al], Dakar questioned the program of a slavery memorial and the architectural translations of memory and identity [re] construction. Her undergraduate thesis Reframing the Body: A Women's Prison reworked social and spatial definitions of boundaries in articulation with issues of gender, society of control and architecture. She worked several years in architecture and design offices in New York and has completed independent projects in the USA, Cape Verde and Ghana. One of her projects is featured in the 2008 book Phaidon Atlas of Architecture of XXI Century world Architecture. In 2000 she was awarded the prestigious Rotch Traveling Fellowship which allowed her to travel extensively throughout the African continent.  (more)

Andréia Moassab is an architect and urban planner. She holds a Masters degree and a Doctorate in Communication and Semiotics from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUCSP / Brazil). In her Masters, she examined the relationship between art and urban space. Her doctoral dissertation addressed the processes of resistance carried out by thousands of youth in hip-hop movements around the peripheries of Brazil. She did part of her PhD research at the Centro de Estudos Sociais, Universidade de Coimbra (Portugal). Since 1992 she has worked in urban planning and regional development, and has coordinated projects in many regions of Brazil. In recent years her research also focused on contemporary art studies. Her scientific papers have addressed public policy, social movements, gender, racism, and the media. She is a member of the Grupo de Pesquisas em Mídia Impressa da PUCSP (a research group in print media). She is currently research coordinator at CIDLOT Centro de Investigação em Desenvolvimento Local e Ordenamento de Território at the Universidade de Cabo Verde.  (more)