Paola Bernstein Jacques
Works as a professor at the Architecture and Urbanism as well as the Visual Arts graduate programs at the Federal University of Bahia. She also works as a researcher for CNPq [National Council of Scientific and Technological Development], coordinating the Laboratório Urbano [Urban Laboratory] research group. She is the author of Les favelas de Rio (“Slums in Rio” – Paris, l’Harmattan, 2001); Estética da Ginga (“The Aesthetics of Sway” -Rio de Janeiro, Casa da Palavra, 2001); Esthétique des favelas (“The Aesthetics of the Slums” – Paris, l’Harmattan, 2003); co-author of Maré, vida na favela (“Maré, Life in the Slums” – Rio de Janeiro, Casa da Palavra, 2002), and the organizer of Apologia da Deriva (“An Apologetics of Drifting” – Rio de Janeiro, Casa da Palavra, 2003), Corps et Décors Urbains (“Urban Bodies and Decorations” – Paris, l’Harmattan, 2006), Corpos e cenários urbanos (“Urban Bodies and Sceneries” – Salvador, Edufba, 2006), and Corpocidade: debates, ações e articulações (“Corpocidade: debates, actions, and articulations” – Salvador, Edufba, 2010).
