Ricardo Campos is a principal researcher and member of the board of the Interdisciplinary Center for Social Sciences of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities (CICS.Nova) and a guest lecturer in the Master’s Degree in Intercultural Relations (Universidade Aberta). He is a founding member and co-coordinator of the Rede Luso-Brasileira de pesquisa em Artes e Intervenções Urbanas (RAIU). He coordinated the projects Artcitizenship – Young people and the arts of citizenship: activism, participatory culture and creative practices (2019-2022), TransUrbArts – Emergent Urban Arts is Lisbon and São Paulo (2016-2020), both with financial support from the Foundation for Science and Technology. Over the years he has carried out research in various research centers on the themes of urban youth cultures, urban art, digital media, visual anthropology and visual culture, with several book chapters and articles in national and international journals on these topics. He is the author of the works “Arte(s) Urbana(s)” (with Sílvia Câmara, Húmus, 2020), “Introdução à cultura Visual. Abordagens teóricas e metodológicas” (Mundos Sociais, 2013), “Porque pintamos a cidade? Uma abordagem etnográfica ao graffiti urbano” (Fim de Século, 2010). He is the co-organizer of the books: “(Re)Encantar o mapa: fantasmas, imaginários, prefigurações” (with Gabriela Leal and Andrea Pavoni, Fora de Jogo, 2024), “A arte de construir cidadania: juventude, práticas criativas e ativismo.” (with Alix Sarrouy and José Simões, Tinta da China, 2022); “Exploring Ibero-American Youth Cultures in the 21st Century. Creativity, Resistance and Transgression in the City” (with Jordi Nofre, Palgrave Macmillan, 2021); “Political Graffiti in Critical Times: The Aesthetics of Street Politics” (with A. Pavoni and Y. Zaimakis, Berghahn Books, 2021), Transglobal Sounds. Music, Youth and Migration (with João Sardinha, Bloomsbury Academic Publishing, 2016), “Popular & Visual Culture: Design, Circulation and Consumption” (with Clara Sarmento, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014) and “Uma cidade de Imagens” (with Andrea Brighenti and Luciano Spinelli, Mundos Sociais, 2011).
