Inês Maria Andrade Marques

Inês Maria Andrade Marques is an Assistant Professor at the School of Communication, Arts and Information Technologies and Institute of Education, Lusófona University (Lisbon). She is also Vice-Director of the Master's Degree in Visual Arts Teaching. As an integrated researcher at CICANT (Centre for Research in Applied Communication, Culture, and New Technologies) and collaborator at CeiED (Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Education and Development), she co-leads the ReLeCo ART.DS group focused on Socio-Artistic Studies for Decoloniality and Sustainability.

Her research explores:

• Contemporary public art and collaborative site-specific installations
• Art pedagogies emphasizing interdisciplinary approaches
• Community engagement through visual practices
• Decolonial frameworks in art education

Publications (2016-2024) cluster around three themes: Art Education (sustainable pedagogies, creativity methodologies), Public Art (urban interventions, community narratives), and Cultural Heritage (modernist architecture, spatial identity). Recurrent subfields include collaborative creation, place-making, and socio-artistic activism.

She directs participatory art projects like Memória da Cor (senior community artist books) and curates student exhibitions. Grants include interdisciplinary EU initiatives (WeARTolerance), with lab affiliations driving her work in art-education-sustainability intersections.