Francesca Vita is a designer and a researcher. She holds a PhD degree in Architecture (2023) from the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto (PT), sponsored by the FCT. In 2015, she spent one year in Guinea-Bissau laying the groundwork for her future researches on domestic space in urban and rural environments, from civilian to military, colonial to post-independence contexts. Her PhD deepens into the topic of colonial legacy in Guinea-Bissau focusing on domestic space: the house imagined, designed, built and then used and transformed. Since 2019 she has been disseminating her studies on colonial legacy and domesticity in international conferences, been awarded in 2022 by the Eleni Bastea award from the IASTE - International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments, for the best article presented about urban studies. Actually, she integrates the research centre Dinâmia'Cet do ISCTE taking part to different research project. From 2016 to 2021, she taught the annual-subject of Dwelling Culture in the interior design bachelor course at the ESAD (Matosinhos, PT) and she has been the art director of the documentary film cycle DESIGNAgorà on design and architecture for two consecutive editions (2019-2021).