The workshop The Object Like a Body Extention, conducted by the architect João Mendes Ribeiro with the support of Ana Feijão, promoted the exploration of spaces and objects as extensions of the body. It was hosted at ESAD, on January 14 and 15, and February 2, 12 and 19, 2016.

This is one of the three workshops integrated in the module The Reinvented Object, with the curatorship of Maria Milano. It was hosted during the preparing process of the Portuguese participation at the c in 2016, within ESAD’s Master in interior Design.

João Mendes Ribeiro was born in Coimbra in 1960. Graduated from the Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto, where he also taught between 1989 and 1991. He took his PHD in Architecture from Universidade de Coimbra, in 2009, in the field Theory and History. He has been teaching Architectural Design in the Departamento de Arquitectura da Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra since 1991, where was the assistant of Fernando Távora between 1991 e 1998. His work has been widely published, both in national and international publications, in countries such as Germany, Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Chile, China, Denmark, Slovakia, Spain, United States, France, Holland, Hong Kong, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Peru, Czech Republic, United Kingdom, Russia, Switzerland and Thailand. He took part in a large number of national and international exhibitions, including the Portuguese representation at the 9th and 10th Venice Biennale, in 2004 and 2006; the 11th Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space, in 2007; and the 7th São Paulo Architecture Bienal, in 2007.

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