Carla M. Cardoso (1976) is a designer, teacher, and cultural manager. She holds a degree in Product Design from FAUTL. Since 2012, she has been a lecturer at ESAD.CR and co-director of Associação Futuro since 2007. She served as Director of Iminente (2021-2024), where she coordinated projects such as “Bairros” and the “Festival Iminente”. She also managed programming and production at experimentadesign (2002-2012) and coordinated projects for the Lisbon Architecture Triennale, Est Art Fair, doclisboa’13, Projecto Sociedade, European Creative Hubs Forum, and exhibitions at the CCB. In 2022, she co-curated the “Interferências” exhibition at MAAT.