Ana Catharina Marques
Country: Brazil
Area of Expertise: Architecture
The new, the original, and the unique attracts Ana Catharina. She yearns for knowledge and new experiences. She likes having incessant exchanges of worldly experiences with people. In this dynamic of constantly desiring new experiences, she is fascinated by researching and exploring the new and the unknown.
Having graduated from the Federal University of Minas Gerais, in Belo Horizonte – Brazil, Ana Catharina is an architect with an emphasis in urban architecture. Since her time at University, she has become interested in issues related to human perception of cities, the urban architecture, and of the objects in everyday urban life.
She is an architect, and a designer with a passion for beauty and is always looking for the feelings conveyed by objects. She is interested in creating environments designed by peoples’ everyday experiences, by the personality of each user and by the sensations that people have in their daily interactions with objects.
Since her graduation from University, Ana Catharina has sought to entrench herself in a professional life, in Brasilia, her hometown. She has been working with: furniture conception, furniture details, residential refurbishment, residential buildings, institutional projects, offices and hotel buildings, colleges buildings and project management. At the same time, she has commenced graduate studies at Brasilia University (UnB) in the aesthetics area, studying the common elements among architecture, design, and fashion.
Ana Catharina believes that beauty seduces, involves, and engages people. It is an excellent attraction tool that must be aggregated to the object. To add to her aforementioned and general experiences, and in order to deepen her studies in these three common elements, she spent a year in London studying fashion at the University of the Arts London (Central Saint Martins and London College of Fashion).
CIID is a benchmark in education and praxis in interaction design; Ana Catharina believes that an opportunity to study on the Interaction Design Programme could develop her knowledge about the issues afore-presented. The programme will enable the apprehension of new methods, new technologies and new solutions for integrating the user with the object in the intentionality desired by both; and thus, the creation of better integration there between.