Eduardo Côrte-Real is associate professor, with aggregation to the IADE – European University. He is an architect, with a Doctorate in Visual Communication and Design. His career is marked by research and writing on Design, Drawing and Architecture. Between 1999 and 2005 he directed IADE's Escola Superior de Design. He's been the president of IADE's scientific council until 2012. Co-chair of seven international Design conferences and a member of the Council of Design Research Society, as well as of the executive board of CUMULUS. He coordinated IADE's doctoral programme in Design and the MA in Design and Visual Culture. Was in charge of UNIDCOM/IADE's line of research Theory and History of Material Culture. He is currently a member of the international advisory board of the journal Drawing: Research, Theory, Practice, and founder/co-editor of the journal The Radical Designist.