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T.A. (Tania) Esteves Fernandes Cardoso

Tânia A. Cardoso is an illustrator, urbanist, and PhD candidate in artistic research at the University of Amsterdam investigating the potential of illustration as a form of urban communication. Her PhD research ”The illustrated cityscape: imperfect lines of urban exploration” is based on the ground-based experience of the illustrator-researcher and explores the poetics of everyday life and reportage art by connecting urban experience, place and imagination. Her illustration work has integrated several international collective exhibitions; was awarded the “Worldwide Picture Book Illustration Competition” 2015 in the Netherlands, the “Gorsedh Kernow Creativity Award” 2017 in Cornwall, UK and was a finalist for the “Women Cartoonists International Award” 2019 in Normandy, France.
Faculty of Humanities
Capaciteitsgroep Kunstgeschiedenis
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  • Turfdraagsterpad 15
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  • Publications

    2022

    • Cardoso, T. A. (2022). The ins and outs of possible cities in comics: Procurando São Paulo. Studies in Comics, 12(2), 201-223. https://doi.org/10.1386/stic_00063_1 [details]
    • Esteves Fernandes Cardoso, T. A. (Accepted/In press). A Tale of Mushrooms and a City: A Story Collecting Stories. Soapbox.

    2021

    • Esteves Fernandes Cardoso, T. A. (2021). Draw(ing) on absence: A reflection on (post)pandemic ground-based illustration practice. In CONFIA 2021 - 9th International Conference on Illustration and Animation, Instituto Politécnico do Cávado e do Ave Instituto Politécnico do Cávado e do Ave.
    • Esteves Fernandes Cardoso, T. A. (2021). To know as you draw: Exploring the city through drawing. Drawing : Research, Theory, Practice, 6(1).
    • Esteves Fernandes Cardoso, T. A. (2021). Unforeseeable Situations: A Confined Reflection. Cadernos de Pós-Graduação em Arquitetura e Urbanismo, 21(1).

    2020

    • Cardoso, T. A. (2020). Between an illustrator and an urban place: The dynamic between word and image in illustrated cities. In CONFIA 2020 proceedings: 8th International Conference on Illustration & Animation (pp. 59-69). Instituto Politécnico do Cávado e do Ave. https://confia.ipca.pt/files/confia_2020_proceedings.pdf [details]

    2019

    2022

    • Esteves Fernandes Cardoso, T. A. (2022). Illustrated Cities: Amsterdam Remembered and Imagined Amidst Pandemic. In Message Journal: : COVID-19 SPECIAL ISSUE Capturing Visual Insights, Thoughts and Reflections on 2020/21 and Beyond...

    2023

    2022

    2021

    2019

    • Varanda, J., & Cardoso, T. A. (2019). The Hole in the Stone = Men-an tol. Kowethas an Yeth Kernewek. [details]

    2018

    • Mongi, R., & Esteves Fernandes Cardoso, T. A. (2018). Aqui, Ali e Acolá: A Fabulástica história da Natureza.

    2020

    • Esteves Fernandes Cardoso, T. A. (2020). Renegotiating between two realms: Encouraging ecocritical awareness through city illustration. Paper presented at X Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture.

    2019

    • Esteves Fernandes Cardoso, T. A. (2019). Bits and pieces of reality in illustrated cities. Paper presented at ASCA Annual Workshop 2019, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

    Talk / presentation

    • Cardoso, T. (speaker) (18-5-2022). Drawing Stories With Maps, Carto/Graphic Storytelling:, London. https://www.livingmaps.org/past-events/2022/drawing-stories-with-maps
    • Cardoso, T. (speaker) (25-2-2022). Drawing Lines In A Mobile City, Mobility Studies (MOST) , Padova.
    • Cardoso, T. (speaker) (25-2-2022). Drawing While Walking Exercises For Urban Storytelling, University of Padova.
    • Cardoso, T. (speaker) (18-10-2021). Illustration Today as Urban Research.
    • Cardoso, T. (speaker) (11-12-2020). Draw(ing) on Absence: Reimagining Urbanism in (Post)Pandemic Illustration Practice.
    • Cardoso, T. (speaker) (23-10-2020). Between an illustrator and an urban place: The dynamic between word and image in illustrated cities, Escola Superior de Design IPCA.
    • Cardoso, T. (speaker) (10-7-2020). Renegotiating between two realms: Encouraging ecocritical awareness through city illustration, Universidade Catolica Portuguesa.
    • Cardoso, T. (speaker) (12-12-2019). How to do/redo/undo the South - Comics and the Global South., ASCA Theory Seminar, Amsterdam.
    • Cardoso, T. (speaker) (9-10-2019). Illustration in the City, ASCA Word & Image Research Group.
    • Cardoso, T. (speaker) (10-4-2019). Bits and pieces of reality in illustrated cities., ASCA Annual Workshop 2019, Amsterdam.
    • Cardoso, T. (speaker) (6-12-2018). From Los Angeles to L.A. - Navigating Real and Imagined Cities., ASCA Theory Seminar.
    • Cardoso, T. (speaker) (15-11-2018). In and Out the Possible Cities in Procurando São Paulo, Amsterdam Comics Conference, Amsterdam.
    • Cardoso, T. (speaker) (16-10-2018). The illustrated cityscape: imperfect lines of urban exploration., Artistic Research Research Group.

    Others

    • Cardoso, T. (participant) (20-2-2023 - 12-6-2023). WARP (Walking as Research Practice) Research group 2023, Amsterdam. In collaboration with Alice Twemlow, I co-created, co-orgazine and co-moderate the WARP Research Group at the University of Amsterdam. We conduct two (…) (organising a conference, workshop, ...). https://asca.uva.nl/programme/seminars/warp/warp.html
    • Cardoso, T. (participant) (23-11-2022). ASCA Summit 2022, Amsterdam. Invited panel member on the roundtable about Fieldwork. (participating in a conference, workshop, ...). https://aihr.uva.nl/content/events/2022/11/asca-summit.html
    • Cardoso, T. (participant) (16-11-2022). Conversas Rotterdam, Rotterdam. Invited speaker at Conversas. Conversas is a series of bi-weekly informal meetings made to get to know each other and share projects, stories, or (…) (participating in a conference, workshop, ...). https://www.facebook.com/events/1289826211870333/?ref=newsfeed
    • Cardoso, T. (participant) (15-11-2022). Urban Fringes, Madrid. Online presentation "Illustrating Contemporary Cities: drawing, storytelling and response-ability" and moderation of the reading group. (organising a conference, workshop, ...). https://www.urbanfringes.com/fringe-reading-group
    • Cardoso, T. (participant) (29-9-2022 - 30-9-2022). "Walking-with Amsterdam", Amsterdam. The conference was co-organized by me, F. Ranalli, F. Smits and Prof. A. Twemlow with the support of the Centre of Urban Studies (CUS), Amsterdam (…) (participating in a conference, workshop, ...). https://asca.uva.nl/programme/workshops/warp/warp.html
    • Cardoso, T. (participant) (28-9-2022). VOX-POP event "Walking back to Amsterdam", Amsterdam. Curator and moderator of the event at VOX POP. (organising a conference, workshop, ...). https://voxpop.uva.nl/content/evenementen/2022/07/zomerprogramma.html
    • Cardoso, T. (participant) (7-9-2022). 4th Spatial Humanities Conference, Gent. "The book of -scapes: An articulated drawing of urban, slightly urban, rural and digital walks" was the title of the presentation and workshop I (…) (organising a conference, workshop, ...). https://zenodo.org/record/6791955#.YwY2tBzP2Hs
    • Cardoso, T. (participant) (15-7-2022). 12th International Illustration Research Symposium, Cornwall. I presented online "The curious case of transcribing zoom meetings into illustrated spatial atmospheres" at the panel "The Near and the Far". (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Cardoso, T. (participant) (16-4-2022). Comicdom Con Athens 2022, Athens. I conducted a guest lecture and creative workshop starting at the Netherlands Institute in Athens called "Graphic Wanderings: Finding Stories In (…) (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Cardoso, T. (other) (20-3-2022). Illustrating Dwalen Langs Verhalen, culturele wandelingen door Amsterdam. (other). https://www.uva.nl/shared-content/faculteiten/nl/faculteit-der-geesteswetenschappen/nieuws/2022/03/masterstudenten-redacteur-editor-publicer…
    • Cardoso, T. (participant) (18-2-2022 - 10-6-2022). ASCA Cities Project Seminar 2022 (Post)Pandemic Urbanism #2:, Amsterdam. In collaboration with Carolyn Birdsall and Jelke Bosma I co-organized and co-moderated the the 2021-2022 ASCA Cities Project seminar in the Univerity (…) (organising a conference, workshop, ...). https://www.cities.humanities.uva.nl/news/postpandemic-urbanism-2/
    • Cardoso, T. (participant) (28-10-2021). CONFIA 2021, Aveiro. Online presentation "Draw(ing) on absence: A reflection on (post)pandemic ground-based illustration practice". (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Cardoso, T. (participant) (17-10-2021). IN-R Symposium 2: Materiality, Space & Embodiment, Bergen. Short online presentation at the Plenary Session of the Symposium about the illustrated results and reflections considered during the workshop I (…) (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Cardoso, T. (participant) (15-10-2021). FRINGE/ALUS Symposium: Urban (Im)mobilities and Borderland Narratives, Madrid. Online presentation entitled: "I Am My Own Landscape: Reframing the Flâneur in the Fringes of Urbanism and Illustration". (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Cardoso, T. (participant) (30-9-2021). Urban transformations and new urban challenges after the COVID-19 pandemic in Amsterdam and Lima. I participated at the Roundtable "Urban restructuring and belonging before and after the COVID-19 pandemic" with the presentation "The covid-19 and (…) (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Cardoso, T. (participant) (27-9-2021 - 13-6-2022). WARP (Walking as Research Practice) Research group 2021/2022, Amsterdam. In collaboration with Alice Twemlow, I co-created, co-orgazine and co-moderate the WARP Research Group at the University of Amsterdam. We conduct two (…) (organising a conference, workshop, ...). https://asca.uva.nl/programme/seminars/warp/warp.html
    • Cardoso, T. (participant) (14-7-2021). Research Committee 21 on Urban and Regional Development 2020, Antwerp. Online presentation "Finding place: Engaging with the city through the practice of illustration" in the panel "Sensing and Shaping the City". (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Cardoso, T. (participant) (8-4-2021). ASCA’s Theory Seminar: Urgent Matters. During the ASCA's Theory Seminar: Urgent Matters I co-moderated a session entitled "It matters which stories tell stories: webbing nature and culture (…) (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Cardoso, T. (participant) (12-2-2021). llustration Research Symposium #11 – Education & Illustration: Models, Methods, Paradigms. Participation in the symposium with the poster presentation entitled "The Illustrator as Researcher: Issues and Considerations of a Drawing (…) (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Cardoso, T. (participant) (8-9-2020 - 20-10-2020). Feminist Urban Lab, Amsterdam. The short intensive course is set up as an interdisciplinary research lab in which feminist urban research is explored. Through the usage of three (…) (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Cardoso, T. (participant) (10-4-2019 - 12-4-2019). ASCA Annual Workshop 2019, Amsterdam (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Cardoso, T. (participant) (15-11-2018 - 17-11-2018). Amsterdam Comics Conference, Amsterdam. Presentation in a panel with the title: In and Out the Possible Cities in Procurando São Paulo. (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
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