David Lopes Ramos was born on January 26, 1948 in Pardilhó, municipality of Estarreja. He began his career in journalism in 1971 at Vértice magazine in Coimbra, the city where he studied law, a course he never completed. In 1975 he joined the editorial staff of Diário de Notícias, which he would leave shortly after. He was part of the founding group of the O Diário newspaper where in the 1980s he began to write gastronomy chronicles alongside his journalistic activity. In 1989 he helped found the Público newspaper, where he remained until early 2011, when he retired. He also collaborated with, among others, Revista de Vinhos. His work as a journalist in the areas of gastronomy and wine is widely recognised. He passed away on April 29, 2011.
Nuno Sacramento is a Mozambiquean-born Portuguese curator, and the Director of peacock & the worm (Aberdeen, Scotland). Between 2010 and 2016 he was Director of the Scottish Sculpture Workshop. He is a graduate of DeAppel Foundation, Amsterdam, and has a PhD by practice in Visual Arts (Shadow Curating) from DJCAD, University of Dundee.
In 2010, after introducing Shadow Curating to Deveron Arts, he co-wrote ARTOCRACY (Jovis) with Claudia Zeiske. In 2015, he and Brett Bloom co-organised CAMP BREAKDOWN SCOTLAND and co-wrote Deep Mapping (Half Letter Press). More recently, through his work at Peacock, Sacramento set up the worm – a gallery dedicated to printing and publishing of visual arts and underground cultural activity – where he co-curated Another World is Possible with Aberdeen People’s Press and ran Scotland’s first fully-funded Curatorial Fellowship in 2019-20. He is currently working on 7 solo shows under the title New Aberdeen Bestiary, and an exhibition about the Women’s Liberation Movement in 1970s Aberdeen.
Sacramento has organised many projects such as Makers’ Meal (Scotland/Portugal/Brazil), Slow Prototypes, Skills Biennale, ART CUP (Portugal / Serbia / Finland / Scotland) and B-sides. He is a member of IKT International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art and sits on the board of Scottish Contemporary Art Network.
Integrated researcher at DINÂMIA’CET-IUL and Assistant Professor with Aggregation at the Faculty of Architecture at Lisbon University. Former IIAS Fellow (Israel Institute for Advanced Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem) at the research group “Re-Theorizing Housing as Architecture Research” (2019-20). She hold a PhD (2004) in Architecture and Urbanism from the University of São Paulo. she is an invited researcher at Ghent University (2015-16) and Fellow Researcher at University of São Paulo (2018, funded by FAPESP – São Paulo). In 2013 she was awarded the art and architecture criticism and essay prize by the Portuguese Section of AICA and Fundação Carmona e Costa, with “Nos Trópicos sem Le Corbusier – Arquitectura Luso-Africana no Estado Novo” (2012).