Inês Dantas

Inês Dantas was born in Coimbra (Portugal), in 1980, and is an architect and artist, based in Munich.

She is founding partner in the architectural practice WUDA*, together with Florian Wurfbaum. WUDA* has gained recognition prizes and nominations and has been published and exhibited throughout Europe. Ines engages in housing and urban schemes, cultural projects and green networks, deploying participatory methods. In her activities, Ines integrates experimental frameworks and research.

Ines’ artistic practice develops from her architectural and urban investigations which work as a catalyst at different scales in context-specific aesthetic outputs. She explores the relationship between culture and nature in urban landscapes and how changes of paradigm translate into spatial, urban and territorial processes which affect subjective narratives.

Ines is currently completing a PhD by Architectural Design at the Bartlett School of Architecture in London. Here, she investigates subjective spatial experiences in the city through green spaces, examining the technology of terrestrial three-dimensional scanning in its speculative potential for architecture, urban design and landscape strategies.

Ines has taught in the University of Innsbruck – Institute for experimental Architecture, University of Brighton, Architectural Association Visiting School Singapore, and has been a guest-critic in different schools such as the Bartlett School of Architecture (Unit20, March UD, Unit 24, Unit 18), the Architectural Association (Inter4, DRL, Inter2, Inter6), University of Westminster… She has lectured in several institutions, like in San Francisco Academy of Art University, Plexus London, Lichtakademie Bartenbach, Milan Polytechnic and Rizvi College Mumbai.

Ines’ work has been exhibited internationally, such as in MAAT – Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, London Design Festival, Edge Arts, Arte Institute, Lisbon Architecture Triennale, Lothringer 13.