Rafaela Blanch Pires is a designer and professor at the Scenic Arts department at the Federal University of Goiás (Brazil).  Her background is in fashion design, MA in “Fashion and Textiles” and PhD in “Design and Architecture” (São Paulo University). Between 2015 and 2016 she worked as a doctoral visiting student at the "Wearable Senses Lab" at the Technical University of Eindhoven (Holland). She experiments with the areas of bio-materials, digital fabrication, special effects make-up, costume design and electronics.