Diana Soeiro

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Email: diana.soeiro@fcsh.unl.pt, dianasoeiro.drphil@gmail.com

Academic Degrees 

MSc, Economics and Public Policy, Candidate, Department of Political Economy, School of Social and Human Sciences, ISCTE – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), Lisbon (Portugal), 2018.

PhD in Philosophy, Aesthetics, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal, 2011.

Dissertation: Colour as Shelter, Architecture as Care [in Portuguese]. Chairs: Maria Filomena Molder (FCSH-Universidade Nova de Lisboa) and Maria João Durão (Faculty of Architecture-Universidade Técnica de Lisboa). Institutional Support: Ministry of Health - Directorate-General for Installation and Health Care Facilities (ex- DGIES)

MA in Communication Sciences/ Film and Television (no thesis), Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal, 2007.

MA in Philosophy, Aesthetics (no thesis, transition to PhD), Universidade Nova de LIsboa, Portugal, 2006.

Lic in Philosophy and History of Ideas, Universidade Nova de LIsboa, Portugal, 2004.

Research Interests

Philosophy of Space, Architecture and Urbanism, Political Science, Body and Space, Technology as an Extension of Self, Anthropology and Psychiatry.

Current research projects

Philosophy of Space (SFRH/BPD/77770/2011) – FCT-funded individual post-doctoral project.

Latest Publications

• Soeiro, Diana (forthcoming). “Rational Landscape: Spatial justice, politics and aesthetics – The city of Lisbon as a case study”, IFILNOVA Yearbook, Bern: Peter Lang.
• Soeiro, Diana (forthcoming). Soeiro, Diana, Four Entries on Architecture, “Gonçalo Ribeiro Telles, b.1922”, in Stephen Ross (Ed), Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism, UK/USA, Routledge.
• Soeiro, Diana (forthcoming). Soeiro, Diana, Four Entries on Architecture, “Álvaro Siza Vieira, b.1933”, in Stephen Ross (Ed), Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism, UK/USA, Routledge.
• Soeiro, Diana (2017). “Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, Cannibal Metaphysics, University of Minnesota Press, 2014”, cultural geographies, First Published Online: April 17, 2016. Issue published: January 1, 2017, vol.24 (1), pp. 189–190. SAGE Publishers, eISSN: 14770881, ISSN: 14744740. DOI: 10.1177/1474474016643977
• Soeiro, Diana (2016). “Japanese Secession” in Stephen Ross (Ed), Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism, UK/USA, Routledge. DOI: 10.4324/9781135000356-REM836-1
• Soeiro, Diana (2016). “Kazuo Shinohara, 1925–2006” in Stephen Ross (Ed), Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism, UK/USA, Routledge. DOI: 10.4324/9781135000356REM243-1
• Soeiro, Diana (2016). “Jürgen Friedrich, International Environmental ‘soft law’, Springer, 2013”, Ethics, Policy & Environment — A Journal of Philosophy & Geography, vol. 19 (1) pp.369-371. Taylor & Francis, ISSN: 2155-0085. DOI: 10.1080/21550085.2016.1226233
• Soeiro, Diana (2015). “Garth A. Myers, African Cities: Alternative Visions of Urban Theory and Practice, Zed Books, 2011”, Journal of Asian and African Studies, First Published Online: March 23, 2015. Issue published: April 1, 2015, vol.24 (1), pp. 254-255, SAGE Publications, eISSN: 17452538, ISSN: 00219096. DOI: 10.1177/0021909614523930
• Soeiro, Diana (2014). “The Destruction of Ruins as Spatial Planning”, in HORIZONTE: Zeitschrift für Architekturdiskurs, Ausgabe 9 (Oktober): Ruine, pp.47–55. ISSN: 2190–5649, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar (Germany) |
• Soeiro, Diana (2013). “On Artificial and Animal Electricity: Alessandro Volta vs. Luigi Galvani”, in Journal of Philosophy of Life, Vol.3, No.3. pp.212–237 * ISSN: 2185-4505, Editor-in-chief: Masahiro Morioka, Research Institute for Contemporary Philosophy of Life – Osaka Prefecture University (Japan) |

 
Latest conference presentations

• Soeiro, Diana (2017). Curator: “The Metamorphosis of the Architect”, Arquitecturas Film Festival. Director: Sofia Mourato. Venues: Forum Lisboa (City Hall of Lisbon), Cine-City Alvalade and Lisbon Architecture Triennial Headquarters (Palace Sinel de Cordes), October 11-15, 2017.
• Soeiro, Diana (2017). “The future of African cities: On democratic governance and good urban planning“, II International Conference on African Urban Planning organized by the Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning – University of Lisbon in collaboration with the International Planning History Society (IPHS), Lisbon, September 7-8, 2017.
• Soeiro, Diana (2017). “Filosofia do Espaço”, Architecture’s Final Project Lecture Series, ISCTE – School of Technology and Architecture, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Sara Eloy (Coord.), Pedro Botelho, Pedro Mendes and Pedro Pinto, March 15, 2017.

 
Grants received

2015-2018 | Post-Doctoral grant, Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT), Portugal

2012-2015 | Post-Doctoral grant, Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT), Portugal

2008–2011 | PhD grant, Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT), Portugal!