Mariana Sanchez Salvador is a Portuguese architect and researcher.
Her research has focused on how the spaces we inhabit, from the house and the city to the territory, are transformed by the food we eat, the culture surrounding it, and by food-related activities, shaping complex and rich foodscapes.
Her Doctoral research in Urban Studies (ISCTE-IUL and NOVA.FCSH) focuses on the evolution of the Foodscape of Lisbon, between early 20th century and 21st century, mapping and describing the production spaces, ancient food routes and markets existing in the city. The research work was financed by a PhD Fellowship awarded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), between 2015 and 2019.
Mariana was awarded the Architect Quelhas dos Santos Prize for Best Master Dissertation in Architecture (FAUL – Faculty of Architecture, University of Lisbon) in 2015, which was published in Portuguese as ‘Arquitectura e Comensalidade: uma história da casa através das práticas culinárias’ / ‘Architecture and Commensality: a history of the house through foodways’ (Caleidoscópio, 2016).
She authored several publications (scientific papers, book chapters and magazine contributions) and has been a guest speaker at national and international conferences, and courses of Master, PhD in Architecture and PhD in Landscape Architecture, besides numerous public events. Plus, she has been interviewed for Portuguese newspapers (Público, Expresso) and radio stations (Rádio TSF, Rádio Antecâmara).
She currently teaches Thesis Project II at the M.Arch at Da/UAL – Department of Architecture of the Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa, and Lisbon: City and Architecture at CIEE – Council for International Educational Exchange. Between 2021 and 2023, she taught Food Systems at the Master in Food Design at ESHTE – Estoril Higher Institute for Tourism and Hotel Studies.
Mariana has also contributed to artistic publications and Architecture and Design biennials, having participated in the 5th Istanbul Design Biennial Empathy Revisited: Designs for more than one (2020) and the Tbilisi Architecture Biennial What do we have in common? (2020). Her artwork 1851 days of research was part of the collective exhibition I Think I Made You Up, at Galeria Plato (Évora, 2022) and her piece Interspecies Cookbook (Beetroot Edition) was part of the collective exhibition ‘B(i)TES: Mapping Food Design through Phygital Food Systems’ at Elisava School of Design (Barcelona, ES, 2024). Recently, she was part the winning team for the Art & Food Residency ‘Eating Between Tides’, by the European NEB project Bauhaus of the Seas Sails.
MARIANA SANCHEZ SALVADOR 