Beatriz Duarte (Brazil, 1993) is an architect, urbanist, curator and researcher based in Porto, Portugal. She holds a PhD in Art Education from the University of Porto, developed at the Institute for Research in Art, Design and Society (i2ADS–FBAUP/UPorto) with support from the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). She also 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 through the Science Without Borders programme (CAPES scholarship).

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 mode of research and artistic mediation. Through sustained engagement with territories shaped by the modern project and its industrial, military, colonial and ecological unfoldings, her work brings together critical spatial practices, collective fabulation and an ethics of care, contributing to expanded curatorial and artistic research methodologies within the field of art education.