Helena Sofia Silva is a lecturer and researcher in design. She has a degree in Communication Design from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto (FBAUP) and a master's degree in Design and Visual Culture from ESAD, where she teaches subjects related to the History and Theory of Media and Fashion. Her research currently focuses on graphic expressions of protest in Portugal, based on the collection of the Ephemera Archive, and is being developed in the Doctoral Programme in Design at the University of Porto.
Author of Design Português — 1980/1999 (Verso da História, 2015), she has also collaborated on monographs dedicated to João Machado and Francisco Providência. With the latter, she curated Casa do Design’s inaugural exhibition, Burilada | Arte-Factos Para a Sobrevivência (2016).
Together with José Pacheco Pereira, she curated the exhibition of protest posters O Que Faz Falta é Agitar a Malta (2018), a project selected in the Research and Design category of BID 18 (Madrid). She took part in the first edition of the Porto Design Biennale (2019) with the exhibition Que Força é Essa (Casa da Arquitectura).