Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
Priscila Farias, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor at the University of São Paulo School of Architecture and Urbanism (FAU USP), and a researcher supported by CNPq (Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development). She coordinates FAU USP PhD and MSc Program in Design and the Visual Design Research Lab (LabVisual), is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal InfoDesign, a member of the Editorial Board of other scientific publications such as the Journal of Design History and The Design Journal, and acts as a referee for various academic publishers, events and funding agencies. She has been a member of the ICDHS Board since 2012, when she organized the 8th ICDHS Conference in São Paulo. She has published and lectured widely on design, typography and semiotics in different parts of the world, and acted as a visiting scholar at University of the Arts London, University of Brighton and Università IUAV di Venezia.