Beatriz Duarte (Brazil, 1993) is an architect, urbanist, curator and researcher currently based in Porto (Portugal), where she is a doctoral candidate in Art Education, affiliated to the Institute for Research in Art, Design and Society (i2ADS–FBAUP/UPorto), with support from the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). She holds a master's degree in Curating and Museology from the University of Porto and a degree in Architecture and Urbanism from UFMG (Brazil), including an exchange period at London South Bank University (CAPES scholarship, Science Without Borders). Her research develops the concept of contemporary heritage — shifting heritage from an asset to be preserved towards a living, relational and contested process — and proposes situated curating as a device for research and artistic mediation. Through sustained engagement with territories shaped by the modern project in its industrial, military, colonial and ecological unfoldings, her work articulates critical spatial practices, collective fabulation and an ethics of care, contributing to the expansion of methodologies within the field of art education.