Gerson Lessa – coordinator
PhD in Visual Arts at PPGAV / EBA / UFRJ (2014), with a thesis in the research line Image and Culture. Master in Design from PPD / ESDI / UERJ (2008), with a dissertation in the line of research in the History of Industrial Design. Graduated in Industrial Design from ESDI / UERJ (1985). Admitted to the faculty at the School of Fine Arts, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, in the Industrial Design Course (BAI) in March 2009. Develops research related to the history of Industrial Design and Material Culture, dedicating itself to the collection, identification and preservation of materials and objects produced by the plastics industry throughout the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries, as well as bibliography and commercial and ephemeral references about these objects and industry.
Alexandre Salles
Graduated in Architecture and Master in Urban Semiotics at FAUUSP, Alexandre coordinates the undergraduate and graduate courses in Interior Design and Furniture Design at the European Institute of Design – IED São Paulo. He has experience in large architectural firms in São Paulo, as well as collaborating on national and international architectural projects and competitions. In 2011, he founded Estúdio Tarimba, a multidisciplinary office focused on the development of corporate, commercial, residential, consultancy and design research projects. He has participated in academic boards of Brazilian and international universities, as a member of the jury of numerous awards related to interior design, product, architecture, and also in curating content for events and exhibitions related to the universe of Architecture, Art and Design.
Ana Lúcia de Lima Pontes Orlovitz
Graduated in Design by Mackenzie and post-graduated in Marketing by ESPM, Ana Lúcia started her activities at the Associated Research and Planning Group (GAAP) developing projects for Metrô, Fepasa and Cosipa. In 1989, she started working as a Designer at Deca, where she stayed for 26 years developing the company’s entire line of sanitary metals. During this period she was awarded by the Museu da Casa Brasileira, International Design Excellence Awards – IDEA, IDEA Brasil, Objeto Brasil Award, Red Dot, Good Design, SENAI Excellence Design Award and Salão Design Movelsul, among others. She worked in partnership with IED in design classes and is currently a managing partner at LOG Design.
Anael Alves
Master of Science in Production Engineering, concentration area Management and Innovation by COPPE / UFRJ. Bachelor in Industrial Design with qualification in Product Design by Centro Universitário da Cidade and specialization in Ergonomics also by COPPE / UFRJ. He worked in the industry for 12 years and has taught design for 9 years, 3 of them in the Surface Design and Fashion Design degrees at SENAI CETIQT, and the rest in the Industrial Design department at the UFRJ School of Fine Arts, where he operates.
Clarisse Romeiro
Designer, founder of Veredas Atelier, and has been studying the language of stamping since 2010. Winner of the 31st Design Award Museu da Casa Brasileira with the Renewal Collection – a tribute to the masters of our culture; ranked 2nd in the 32nd Design Award at the Museu da Casa Brasileira with the Vagalume collection – a tribute to the creative process; finalist of the Casa Vogue Design Award in 2017 and 2019 with collections developed for Donatelli Tecidos. Paulistana and resident in São Paulo, currently develops a research on the relationship of stamping with concrete poetry.
Fernanda Tissot
Graduated in architecture and urbanism from the University of Caxias do Sul (2006) with experience at the Polytechnic of Milan where she attended the Luminotechnics course curated by Pietro Palladino. She has been a director of Luxion Ilumination since its foundation in 2003, Coordinator of the Commercial, Industrial and Decorative Lighting Committee of Abilux – Brazilian Association of the Lighting Industry and creator of the Carlitos Award for University Design. Under her direction, Luxion was a finalist for the MCB Award three times and winner of the Brasil Design Awards twice, the LIT Design Award and the Salão Design Award once.
Fernando Mascaro
Fernando Mascaro is an architect and designer unspecialized by FAUUSP (1979). He advises companies in the implementation of design strategies for mass industrial production (cradle to cradle) and in co-creation exercises with consumers. He prepares and conducts workshops and extension courses with a focus on “thinking> doing> learning> rethinking> remaking> relearning” (from ordinary to extraordinary) with schools of architecture and design in Brazil and abroad. He is a project partner at the Cité du Design in St-Étienne, has already had the opportunity to be part of the jury of the 23rd Design MCB Award and is currently a member of the steering committee of the “Human City Design Award” organized by the “Seoul Design Foundation”. A persistent walker and attentive observer of human and urban scenarios, he considers design the most powerful collective tool that destroys impossibilities and provokes social transformations.
Fernando Morita
Automotive designer acting globally for Ford and Lincoln Motor Company, with more than 20 years’ experience in the design field. Graduated in Product Design from Belas Artes in SP and Postgraduate in Strategic Design from IED SP, where he taught and coordinated the Post and One Year of automotive design for 7 years where he fostered partnerships with brands such as: Mercedes-Benz, Nissan, Stellantis, Jaguar, Giugiaro. Morita started her career at Volkswagen working in Brazil, Germany and Spain at the VW Group’s advanced design studio. And he consolidated his career with Amoritz GT by building the first prototype of a super sports car in Brazil, Doni Rosset, which won first place in the transportation category of the Museu da Casa Brasileira Award in 2015.
Freddy Van Camp
Designer and university professor born in Belgium, graduated from ESDI and with a postgraduate degree in Los Angeles, USA and Braunschweig, Germany. He was a professor, director and campus coordinator at ESDI-UERJ from 1974 to 2020. Owner of VanCampDesign, since 1980, in Rio de Janeiro and Petrópolis, with a specialized job in Product Design; Interior Design; Exhibitions and Stands; Packaging Design; Systems Design, Signage and Graphic Design. Awarded several times, juror of numerous competitions, author and translator of books on design. Militant in Design Policies and Regulation of the Designer Profession. He was a member of the MCB Design Award jury in 1987, 1993, 1997, 2003, 2011 and 2012.
Giancarlo Latorraca
Architect by FAUUSP, PhD student by the Graduate Program in Design at the same college and licensed professor at Escola da Cidade. He collaborated with Lina Bo Bardi, Paulo Mendes da Rocha and the Brasil Arquitetura office. He worked at Instituto Lina Bo and P.M.Bardi from 1993 to 2001, developing editorial projects and national and international exhibitions such as the exhibition ‘Design at the impasse at the Triennale of Milan’ (1998). He carried out furniture and interior design at the Marcenaria Baraúna and executed numerous expographic projects in partnership with the Apiacás Arquitetos office (2001-2010). He is currently Technical Director of the Museu da Casa Brasileira, developing with the team an extensive review of the institution’s collection and carrying out, among others, research and exhibition projects such as the exhibition ‘Ways to exhibit: Lina Bo Bardi’s exhibition architecture’, organized by occasion of the celebration of the centenary of the architect’s birth, APCA-2014 award, Category “Frontiers of architecture”, modality “Architecture and Urbanism”.
Giorgio Giorgi Júnior
Graduated in Industrial Design from Mackenzie (1976), with a master’s degree in Communication and Semiotics from PUC-SP (1985) and doctorate (1998) and teaching (2018) from FAUUSP, where he teaches since 1989. Between 2005 and 2015 he idealized (with Robinson Salata) and coordinated the specialization course in Design for Furniture with Senac-SP. In 2009 and 2011 he coordinated the judging committee for the Design Award of the Museu da Casa Brasileira. His lighting projects with Fabio Falanghe were awarded by the MCB (1988, 1995, 2002 and 2013), nominated for the German Design Award (2013) and received the Good Design Award from The Chicago Athenaeum (2011).
Luís Alexandre F. Ogasawara
Designer and Psychologist, master in Communication and Semiotics and specialist in Analytical Psychology, he works as a research professor in the undergraduate and graduate courses in Design and Strategic Design at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism at Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, as a judicial expert in cases involving Property Industrial and also as a clinical psychologist.
Marcelo Teixeira
Architect and master in architecture and design, he has 30 years of creative experience in the fields of Art, Architecture and Design, working in the areas of management, strategy and innovation, design and development of products, environments and transportation (aircraft). Specialist in the luxury market, he was Embraer’s Head Designer for 10 years working together with renowned offices such as BMW DesignworksUSA in California, Infusion Design in Kansas and Priestman Goode in London. He taught disciplines in undergraduate and graduate programs at Senac, IED and FAAP, where he coordinated the Postgraduate course in Interior Design at SJC. He currently teaches courses in Architecture and Design at FAU Mackenzie, in addition to being the Creative Director of Studio.
Mariana Betting Ferrarezi
Graduated and post-graduated in Advertising and Marketing at ESPM. With a specialization in Furniture Design by the IED of Barcelona, Mariana created with Roberto Hercowitz, her partner, the studio at Doïsdesign. His first projects were small products and the internal design of some exhibitions in Spain and Germany, but in 2006, when they returned to Brazil, they started to dedicate themselves to the development of furniture and objects for the industry, selling their products in specialized stores in the sector. With contemporary features, they combine utility and aesthetics, and it targets the close interaction, functional and affective, between the piece and the user. They won awards at the Design Museum of the Brazilian House Award, IF Design Award, Top XXI, among others, and are the most awarded design studio in the history of the Salão Design Award. There were pieces exhibited at Brazilian Design Biennials, Museum of the Brazilian House, Salone del Mobile in Milano, Brazil S / A Milan, Casa Cor Sweden in Stockholm, among others.
Natasha Schlobach
Born in 1988 and from a family of engineers and architects, Natasha Schlobach graduated in Industrial Design – Product Design from Faculdade Presbiteriana Mackenzie (2009). While at university, she gained knowledge in ceramics, modeling, jewelry and furniture. After graduating, she worked as a designer, furniture and interior designer in some offices in São Paulo. In 2012, she completed her postgraduate degree in furniture design at Senac, thus defining her main focus – furniture. For 3 years she collaborated directly in the creation and development of the products of an important design studio-Ovo. So plunging into the world of designs and furniture. In the second half of 2013, she participated in the team of architect Guilherme Torres, in the development of new pieces and in the reformulation of previous lines. She currently has her studio – opened in June 2013 – where she carries out furniture and interior projects; and projects with curatorship and creative direction in the area of design and art. She also works at the ADP Association of Product Designers-since September 2014 as general director of the Nucleus + Furniture of ADP; and in the management from 2019 to 2023 as president of the association.
Tatiana Sakurai
Researcher, professor of undergraduate and graduate studies in the Department of Design (AUP) at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of the University of São Paulo (FAUUSP). She has a degree and a master’s degree in Architecture and Urbanism from the Institute of Architecture and Urbanism of São Carlos (IAU-USP). PhD by the Graduate Program of FAUUSP. She conducted postdoctoral research at the Center for Neighborhood Knowledge linked to the UCLA Department of Urban Planning at UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. She has experience in the areas of Industrial Design and Architecture, working mainly on the following themes: home furniture, interior architecture, design for experience, sustainability.
Valkiria Pedri Fialkowski
PhD student and master in design by UFPR, MBA in Marketing by FGV, researcher in the areas of Design management, sustainability and data-driven design. She is a founding partner of the company ARBO design, where she works on innovation and strategic design projects. Together with her clients, she received more than 50 design awards, such as the IF Design Award, the Bienal Iberoamericana de Diseño, the Museu da Casa Brasileira and the Brasil Design Award, in addition to obtaining 30 patents and registrations with the INPI and international bodies. She has been working for more than 20 years as a consultant and design manager in interdisciplinary teams, collaborating on projects for local and global clients, such as Midea, Toshiba and Discovery Channel. She has also been a collaborator in companies such as Electrolux and Busscar Ônibus.
Yorrana Maia
Graduated in Bachelor of Design from the State University of Pará (2003), post-graduated in Fashion and Creation from the Santa Marcelina College (2006), in Fashion as a Cultural Factor from IADE-Lisboa (2007) and Master in Communication, Languages and Culture by the University of the Amazon (2013). She has been a professor at the University of the Amazon in the Fashion course for 12 years and conducts mentoring to develop a collection and research trends for fashion brands and copyright design. She was the advisor for the textile project Miriti-Taua, which received an Honorable mention in the 29th Design Award at the Casa Brasileira Museum. He works researching the Design area, with an emphasis on Fashion, mainly in the following themes: fashion, collection planning and development, creation process, Instagram process documents, creativity, research of trends and collections of fashion and culture.
Service Registration:
34th MCB Design Award
Registration: May 20th to August 4th
Registration fee: R$ 98.00. 50% discount for students and 25% for MCB Friends
Result: through the website www.mcb.org.br
Realization: MCB
