Livia Lazzaro Rezende

Livia Lazzaro Rezende is Visiting Professor at one of Rio's most renowned design schools, the Escola Superior de Desenho Industrial (School of Industrial Design - ESDI), of the University of Rio de Janeiro State (UERJ). Livia held a postdoctoral fellowship position at ESDI in 2012, after receiving her PhD in History of Design from the Royal College of Art and the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. Her doctoral thesis discusses how the Brazilian Empire and First Republic constructed their ideas of a modern, civilised nation, and how these were projected in European, North-American and Brazilian International Exhibitions and World s Fairs. It explores the materialisation of these ideas in objects, publications, buildings and exhibition displays understood and promoted as Brazilian . Dr. Rezende has graduated in Industrial Design from ESDI and completed her master s degree in Design at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (PUC-Rio). She has researched, lectured and written on the history of Brazilian design for ten years. In Rio, Dr. Rezende worked as a graphic and editorial designer in several studios; developed and lectured an undergraduate History of Design course, and published her master s dissertation on the uses of Brazilian visual Romanticism in the design of consumer good labels during the 19th century. In London, she worked as an editorial designer and lectured History of Design and Critical Theory in Design and Fashion undergraduate courses. Dr. Rezende also supervised dissertations by Graphic Design undergraduates. She has published and presented her research in several international conferences in Brazil, UK, Belgium and Japan. Her knowledge of Design and History focuses on the Brazilian visual culture from Empire to First Republic (1841-1922); material culture; International Exhibitions and World s Fairs; Modernism, modernity and national identity.

Livia Lazzaro Rezende é Professora Visitante da Escola Superior de Desenho Industrial (ESDI) da Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ). Livia é pós-doutora pela ESDI e doutora em História do Design pelo Royal College of Art e pelo museu Victoria & Albert de Londres. Sua tese de doutoramento discute como a idéia e imagem de uma nação moderna e civilizada foi construída pelo Império e Primeria República e projetada em Exposições Universais européias, norte-americanas e brasileira por meio de publicações, objetos, edificações e mostruários ditos 'nacionais'. Livia graduou-se em Desenho Industrial pela ESDI (1997) e obteve mestrado em Design pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (2003). Tem pesquisado, lecionado e escrito sobre a história do design brasileiro há mais de dez anos entre o Rio e Londres, com experiência nas áreas de Design e História, e ênfase nos seguintes temas: cultura visual brasileira do Império à Primeria República; cultura material; Exposições Universais; Modernismo, modernidade e identidade nacional.