Experiencing Food, Designing Dialogues (ePub)

Ricardo Bonacho is an Assistant professor in Food Design at Estoril Higher Institute for Tourism and Hotel Studies in MsC of Innovation in Culinary Arts, an Assistant Professor in Design Applied to Culinary Arts at School of Tourism and Maritime Technology, Higher Institute of Leiria, an Invited Professor at University of Beira Interior and a researcher at CIAUD - Research Center for Architecture, Urbanism and Design, Faculty of Architecture - University of Lisbon. His main research interests are the relationship between Design and Gastronomy and the possible contributions to the teaching of Design in Culinary Arts.

Alcinda Pinheiro de Sousa has been teaching the introductory level course "Visual Culture" at Faculdade de Letras, Universidade de Lisboa, since 2007. She is interested in the intersection between this field of studies and Food Design. Alcinda is an Associate Professor of English, having written a PhD dissertation on the poet and visual artist William Blake, specifically on his views of art and science. Although particularly interested in Digital Humanities since the late 1990s, she has recently developed with colleagues a research project in Digital Humanities, and the first results were published in The International Journal of the Book (Common Ground, 2013, 2014, 2016).

Cláudia Viegas is Assistant Professor at Estoril Higher Institute for Tourism and Hotel Studies. She teaches courses in Health and Food, Food Physiology, Nutrition, and Dietetics, and Food Safety and Nutrition. Her main research interests are related to Public Health concerning Food, Nutrition and Lifestyles, specifically the strategies that allow people to engage in good real food, in order do promote good nutrition and health. As a nutritionist she started her career in ICA (2000-2005), a catering company, as a member of the Quality Department.