Team

Carlos Bártolo

Graphic Design

Carlos was born in 1968. He holds a bachelor's degree in Communication Design – Graphic Design (ESBAP), a master's degree in Products and Equipment Industrial Design (FAUP), and a doctorate in Design (ULL). He has been dedicated to teaching Design and Art History, and Cinema and Design, alongside collaborating with public and private companies and institutions, essentially in the cultural field, as graphic and editorial designer, exhibition designer, and scenography designer. He has collaborated with Produções Real Pelágio since the 1990s.

Kerem Aydın

Web Design

Kerem is a Kurdish designer from Turkey, having graduated in Industrial and Product Design from Gazi University, Ankara, and studied Product Design for a year at Universidad Jaume I, in Castellón de la Plana. He founded the brand Fers.studio, under which name he creates customised tapestries. Based in Lisbon, he works in graphic, product, fashion, and set design. Since 2023, he has worked as web designer for Produções Real Pelágio.

Pedro Pinto

Archive

Pedro was born in Lisbon in 1977. He specializes in science and technology studies focused on gender, sexuality, and embodiment. Within the 1990s–2000s he worked as musician, performer, and co-creator of choreographic pieces, namely with Tânia Carvalho, Vera Mantero, Francisco Camacho, among others. He co-founded the association Bomba Suicida. Between 2014–2022 he was researcher at Rhodes University (South Africa) and published the history of puberty science in medical fields (Routledge, 2019). After the passing of Gil Mendo, his life partner, Pedro reengaged with the performance art scene, having recently created the show Cabaret Cosmológico with Vera Mantero.

Susana Ribeiro Martins

Communication and Education (CFA)

Susana was born in 1977, in Lisbon. She holds a postgraduate degree in Anthropology (ISCTE, 2005, 2015), and a bachelor's degree (UCP, 2000) and a postgraduate degree (UNL, 2006) in Communication Sciences. She did an audio description course (Acesso Cultura, 2018), and underwent training in photography and cinema, and their application in various contexts. She wrote for the newspapers JL and A Capital, and for docs.pt 2000/06. She participated in action research projects within the human rights domain (JRS, 2008-12; ACM-GACI, 2006-12; ISCTE, 2013-17). At Real Pelágio, her work has combined activities concerning communication, research/archive, and reading mediation (2017 – present).