Mónica Carriço

Mónica Carriço [Lisbon, 1978] is an architect-urbanist, researcher, and – together with Bert de Muynck – co-director of MovingCities. She holds a master’s degree in Architecture Urban & Territorial Planning from Lisbon’s Technical University [FAUTL] and is a member of the Portuguese Architects’ Guild [OA - Ordem dos Arquitectos]. From 2002 until 2006, Mónica practiced architecture in Amsterdam (The Netherlands) with One Architecture and SeARCH architects. In September 2006 she moved to Beijing (China) to collaborate with People’s Architecture, a non-profit cultural and educational organization based in New York. From May-July 2007 she was, along with Ned Rossiter and Bert de Muynck, coordinator of the ‘Transdisciplinary Research on Creative Industries in Beijing – Mobile Research Laboratory’ | orgnets.org. Currently, based in Shanghai, she is developing architectural and urban research, project management, visual communication design (site design & production) and cultural consultancy within movingcities.org.