Ana Araujo

Dr Ana Araujo is an architect, teacher and researcher. She was the curator and designer of the exhibition ‘Lina & Gio: the last humanists’, held at the Architectural Association (London) in 2012, exploring the relationship of the work of Italian architect Gio Ponti and Italo-Brazilian architect Lina Bo Bardi. Dr Araujo has lectured and published internationally. She has taught in various architecture schools in Brazil and the UK before starting to work as a unit master at the AA in 2010.

Dr Araujo’s main research interests are on the crossovers between architecture, the arts, feminism, psychoanalysis, and postcolonialism. More specifically, she is invested in promoting sensibilities which have been overlooked in modern and contemporary cultures – be it for their association with ideas of femininity and/or other categories of otherness; be it for their challenging of established epistemological frameworks. Dr Araujo believes that, in order to truly advocate cultural diversity and inclusion, it is necessary to learn to think and, even more importantly, to feel, differently.