Ana Carolina Cardoso is an architect and interdisciplinary researcher, interested in crossing themes related to participatory processes, action research, laboratories for experimentation and citizen innovation, urban activism, collaborative culture and urban commons. She holds a degree in Architecture from the Lisbon School of Architecture - University of Lisbon, and a Master of Architecture (2012). Co-coordinated LABIC Barreiro Velho - Community Innovation Laboratory (2021-2022). Co-organized "Technopolitics in Urban Regeneration: Co-creating Public Spaces", a university extension program carried out by ISCTE, where she taught on topics related to collaborative processes in the city, digital tools and citizen laboratories (2019-2020). During the time she lived in São Paulo, she was an invited professor at the Istituto Europeo di Design-São Paulo, Brazil (2016-2018) where she taught subjects related to the themes of Digital fabrication, Maker Culture, Open Design, Sharing Economy and Collaborative Culture. And she was president of Garagem Fab Lab Association, a space focused on education, innovation, technology and creativity based in São Paulo, Brazil (2015-2018). She is part of A-GRUPA (associated with EDA-Ensaios e Diálogos Associação), an collective of women architects and she is co-founded of Casa da Participação association, based in Aveiro, that works with participatory community development processes. Currently, she is PhD student and assistant researcher at ISTAR / ISCTE-IUL, with an FCT doctoral scholarship, and her research focuses on "City as a laboratory for citizen innovation: a methodological contribution to collaborative practices of co-creation of urban space".