Àfrica Sabé Dausà

Àfrica Sabé Dausà

Master's Degree in Architectural Lighting Design. Polytechnic University of Catalonia. Barcelona. September 2015.

Degree in Architecture. University of Girona. Girona. September 2013.

Teaching

Lectures, workshops and teaching experience:

Lecturer of the subject Light Creation Laboratory 1 and 2 at EINA from the academic year 2021-2022.

Lecturer of the subject Light, concept and form in the postgraduate courses of window dressing, visual, merchandising and commercial interior design at Artidi, Escuela Superior de Escaparatismo, Viaje Visual, Diseño e Imagen. Classes started in November 2017.

Teacher of the subject/workshop: Light and atmospheres. Lighting in retail in the CSP Fashion and Visual Merchandising of IED Barcelona, March-April 2021.

3-day intensive workshop for the definition of the proposal for LlumBCN by the students of the Master in Lighting Design. Architectural lighting design for the Fundació UPC and coordination of the production and installation. October 2019 to February 2020.

Round Table: How do we perceive the space? Do we focus enough in perception? at the Festival des Architectures Vives de Monpellier. June 2018.

Lecture: Before the beginning (of product) at the IaaC Global Summer School. Barcelona, July 2017.

Workshop: How to brief a new product at the Global Summer School of the IaaC. Barcelona, July 2017.

Workshop and coordination of the BAU group installation at LlumBCN 2017. Workshop: October 2016 to January 2017. Installation and festival, February 2017.

Lecture: How do we live the city at the Métropoles du Sud Congress. Montpellier. January 2017.

Round table: Creative city at the scientific seminars of the Métropoles du Sud Congress. Montpellier. January 2017.

Workshop: How do we experience the city, what do we need in an urban element at the Regiliget City Congress. Genoa. October 2016.

Conference: How do we live the city at the Regiliget City Congress. Genoa. October 2016.

Professional experience

Freelance architect and lighting designer - Registration number: 74960-5 since July 2019, currently full-time combined with teaching duties.

Architect and lighting designer in the international projects department of Urbidermis S.L. from February 2019 to February 2020 part-time combined with project development and lighting as a freelance professional.

Lighting designer and architect in the project department of Santa & Cole from March 2015 to January 2019.

Lighting design support at ARTEC3 studio, intensive internship for one month during the course of the master's degree. Barcelona, February-March 2015.

Co-founder of ilallum SCP. Small company/project founded in March 2014 from which we offered different services related to lighting. Within the company I designed illuminated letters that are currently rented for ephemeral performances and sold in specific projects.

Collaboration with the drafting team of the Municipal Urban Development Plan (POUM) of Susqueda. Development of all the graphic documentation of the planning figure, from 2013 to 2015.

Collaboration with the technical services of Susqueda and Riells i Viabrea Town Council from 2012 to 2017.

Architectural assistant and collaborations with the architect Armand Garcia, I started with practices in July 2007 and currently we still share some project.

Support in the start-up programme for the Santa Caterina building. Headquarters of the government of the Generalitat de Catalunya in Girona. Support in the relocation of staff and placement of jobs and services. Girona, April to July 2010.

Interior design at Diseño 4 Sentits S. L. Girona, from January to December 2009.

Architectural internship at Dot arquitectes (currently Bosch. Capdeferro arquitectes). Sant Joan les Fonts and Girona, from June 2006 to May 2007.

Collaboration with Itziar González in the citizen participation process for the remodelling of the Bisagra de Santa Eugénica. Girona, July 2006.

CERSA MOLBLES S.L. (KIBUK Group). Summer support for the interior design team of four shops (Cornellà, Sant Feliu de Llobregat, El Prat de Llobregat and Castelldefels) in summer 2003.