Flora Paim
(Brazil)
Flora Paim, a Brazilian architect, artist, and researcher based in Portugal, is pursuing a PhD in Artistic Studies at NOVA University of Lisbon, supported by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). She holds a degree in Architecture and Urbanism (FAU-UFAL) and a master’s in Art and Design for Public Spaces (FBAUP). Her interdisciplinary work connects arts, spatial practices, and urban studies, focusing on the physical, affective, historical, and political dimensions of places. Her projects include collective walks, landscape interventions, publications, and audiovisual installations, with occasional work in scenography and film production design. Since 2017, she has concentrated on wastelands in Portugal, working with ruined spaces abandoned due to deindustrialization or urbanization but still retaining signs of human and more-than-human activity. Recent works include several academic publications and artistic projects such as the audio walk "Marginalia Vegetal" (Verde que te quero, 2024), the installations "No Place Ever Vanishes" (RESIDIR / CRL - Central Elétrica, 2021) and "Archeology of the Void" (Porto Design Biennale, 2019), and co-curating "Journeys to the In-Between" (MAAT - Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, 2020) with the architecture collective Artéria.