Participants TTT Touring Porto

Host:

Michael DaCosta (UK)

Founder Director of Architects of Communication (Europe).
From 1999 to 2001 Michael carried out research on the subject of Enterprise and Management of the Creative Arts for London College of Printing at the University of the Arts London focussing on the relationship between commerciality and creativity. He is a London advisory Council member of Arts & Business and a board member IXIA (UK Public Art Think Tank). Michael was host of: the World Creative Forum during the London Design Festival in 2003; the Great Artistic Metropolis, National Public Art Conference, London in November 2005; the Can Artists Make Great Places Conference (London Design Festival) 2007. He recently worked on a successful Culture 2007 application for the Portuguese Order of Architects and was a consultant on the winning Wieden and Kennedy pitch for the global Nokia advertising account (worth 200m USD) earlier this year. Michael also lectures, is a contributing editor to Art and Architecture Journal and writes for Prophecy magazine in NYC. He contributed to the forthcoming book ‘1001 buildings’ by Quarto Publishing in the UK. He participated as a panelist in the One Dot Zero and British Council Re-Imagining the City tour of South East Asia 2008."
He lives in Porto and London.