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Tània Costa

Tània Costa

She holds a degree in Fine Arts from the Universitat de Barcelona and a PhD in Fine Arts (2002) from the UB. She has been accredited as a lecturer by the AQU (Agència per a la Qualitat del sistema Universitari de Catalunya) in 2008 and the Research accreditation as an Associate Professor by the AQU in 2021.

Coordinator of the Grup de Recerca Consolidat 2021SGR01381 GRETDA (Grup de Recerca en Estètica i Teoria del Disseny i l'Art), recognized by the Departament de Recerca i Universitats de la Generalitat de Catalunya.

She is a researcher at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (IVU), attached to the Department of Philosophy in the Contemporary Aesthetics research line.

Teacher at Eina, University of Design and Art attached to the UAB, since 2003, and currently Academic Director of the centre. 

Teaching

As a staff researcher, Tània currently teaches full time for EINA, teaching first year Dimensions of shape and colour. She previously taught for the degree in Art and Design Trends, Domestic Equipment, Image Theory and Communication, Models and Prototypes, the Visual Arts workshop and Introduction to Design Projects, all for EINA, as well as courses in Digital Aesthetics and Theory of Art for other design universities.

She has been the coordinator the EEES Master's Degree in Art and Design Research at EINA and UAB for 7 years, where she continues teaching, focussing on the modules on the Artistic Research and Criticism Workshop.

Previously, Tània taught Contemporary Art and design, Art Theory and Digital Aesthetics for the Master's in Art Today: Analysis and Management for the University of Barcelona (2007-2011), the Master’s in Interactive Design for MECAD, Ramon Llull Univeristy (2007-2010) the Master's in Exhibitions: Curating and Editing, for EINA and the Autonomous University of Barcelona (2007-2008).

Current research

  • Head of Research at EINA
  • Coordinator of the research itinerary in Design and Art at Eina, part of the Doctoral Programme of the Department of Philosophy at the UAB.
  • Coordinator of the Consolidated Research Group 2021SGR01381 GRETDA (Research Group in Aesthetics and Design Theory and Artre), recognised by the Department of Research and Universities of the Generalitat de Catalunya. 
  • Currently, researcher of the project K-Reporters. Reassembling politics through children's cultures to scale intersectional pedagogies. MARIE SKŁODOWSKA-CURIE ACTIONS. Staff Exchanges (HORIZON-MSCA-SE-2022) 
  • Currently, researcher of the RIACHI project Replicas de la Investigación Artística a la Crisis Histórica. MICIN Knowledge Generation Projects PID2022-1400NB-100
  • Researcher of the MCIU Project Artistic research and aesthetic thought. A meeting point between philosophy, art and design.
  • Researcher in the GRETA Research Group in Art Theory and Aesthetics, supported by the Generalitat de Catalunya, SGR-1312, Autonomous University of Barcelona.
  • Researcher at Creative Europe Project Open Up, Migrant Artists 607376-CREA-1-2019-1-CY-CULT-COOP2.
  • Co-coordinator of the GEARAD Group in Applied Aesthetics in Art and Design Research, a doctorate group in the Philosophy department at UAB.
  • Coordinator of the research group Design for Social Innovation: Art and Design During and For the Transition at EINA.
  • EINA's coordinator of EDIVI, the Network of Centers of Higher Learning in Design for Social Innovation and Sustainability.
  • Member of the Program Committee (PC) of the International Conference on Higher Education Advances (HEAD), Valencia, Spain.
  • Member of the Editorial Committee for A Question of Design, the research magazine edited and published by the Autonomous Metropolitan University, Unidad Azcapotzalco in Mexico City, for the Divison of Arts and Sciences of Design (CyAD).
  • Independent reviewer for the research journal Frontiers in Sociology, section Sociological Theory.
  • Member of the editorial board of LAMURAD, Southern Journal of Research in Art and Design.

Publications

(Only the five most recent publications are listed)

  • Tània Costa, Gaspar Maza, Ramon Parramon, Gerard Vilar. An Artistic Research project dealing with the lack of equality or equivalence in urban spaces in Transition in Barcelona: Asymmetries- Horts de Sant Pau del Camp, Up&Down. JAR, Journal for Artistic Research. ISSN: 2235-0225
    - Costa, Tània. The performative in current art and design practices linked to processes of social innovation. The case of La Venezia che non si vede and La Borda. LAOCONTE.  Journal of Aesthetics and Theory of the Arts.  Universitat de València i SEyTA, Sociedad Española de Estética y Teoría de las Artes, Vol 6. ISSN: 2386-8449

  • Costa, Tània. Analysis of ongoing Transition projects in Barcelona. An approach to Transition Design from a Southern perspective. Cuadernos del Centro de Estudios de Diseño y Comunicación, Universidad de Palermo, Argentina. ISSN: 1668-0227.

  • Costa, Tània and Adrià Garcia i Mateu. Transition Design. Metodologías de diseño colaborativo para procesos de emancipación ciudadanos. [Transition Design: Collaborative Design Methodologies for Processes of Citizen Emancipation] Revista de Estudios Globales y Arte Contemporáneo, Vol 3, Núm. 1. Barcelona: Researcher Group Art Globalization Interculturality, Universitat de Barcelona. ISSN: 2013-8652.

  • Costa, Tània. Learning through experience and teaching strategies outside the classroom at design university studies. Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, Vol 196. ISSN: 1877-0428.

Research activities

(Only the five most recent/representative are listed)

  • Speculative design as a methodology for approaching future corporealities in identities in transition. Communication presented at the II Symposium of the Fundació Història del Disseny "To be or not to be; El paper del diseny en la constucció d'identitats". Organising entity: Fundació Història del Disseny and Museu del Disseny de Barcelona 2020. 

  • Coordinator, together with IDensitat, of the residency project and project incubator ASIMETRIES. Organising entity: Idensitat and fabra i Coats, factories of creation. Place and date: Barcelona, 2019.

  • Member of the scientific committee and inaugural conference of the 1st congress of the Campus de les Arts, Barcelona. INDISCIPLINES Congress on Research in the Practice of the Arts. Organising entity: Department of Philosophy and Theory of the Arts, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2019. 

  • Moderator and speaker at the round table El paper dels models cognitius en les teories del disseny. Jornada de Filosofia sobre disseny: El disseny des de l'art, la ciència i la filosofia. Organised by: Department of Philosophy and Theory of the Arts, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

  • Coordinator of the symposium Southern Perspectives on Transition Design, EINA – Autonomous University of Barcelona. Programmed activity at Barcelona Design Week for the Design Museum of Barcelona; and seminar of the doctorate program for the Faculty of Philosophy at UAB, June 8 and 9, 2017.

Tània regularly participates in conferences, presentations and round table discussions related to design for social innovation, Transition Design, contextual and relational art and design, emerging design, contemporary art, art and design theory and art and design research.

As a teacher, she has coordinated exhibitions for institutions including the Tàpies Foundation, Can Castells Art Center, Barra de Ferro Cultural Space, Lluèrnia and the Academy of Fine Arts in Barcelona. Previous to her career in research and teaching, she was an art director for film and theater and also worked as a designer in the industrial design studio Diego Fortunato.