Fernanda Barbara is a Partner of UNA Barbara e Valentim Arquitetos and associate professor at Escola da Cidade. She has participated in international seminars and given lectures in cities such as Chicago, Paris, Porto, Lisbon, Querétaro, Santiago, Montevideo, La Plata and several Brazilian cities. She has been a guest lecturer on postgraduate courses: Maestria en Proyectos at the FAU of the Universidad Nacional de La Plata| Argentina since 2022, Diploma de Especialización en Investigación Proyectual FADU/UDELAR in Montevideo|Uruguay, in 2017, and, Des Mutations Urbaines at the École Speciale d’Architecture – Paris| France, in 2015.She was a member of the curatorial team for the Brazilian representation at the Venice International Biennale in 2006 and was a member of the curatorial team for the Ibero-American Biennale in 2019. She was a jury member for the SAU (Sociedad de Arquitectos del Uruguay) National Competition in 2023 and the international competition for the Lisbon Architecture Triennale – Début Award in 2016.She has been an associate professor at Escola da Cidade (since 2006), where she has coordinated various subjects and Plataforma Plus, a research laboratory on the central region of São Paulo, with architects Fréderic Druot, Camille Bianchi and sociologist José Guilherme P. Leite, based on the experience of projects by the French firm Lacaton&Vassal.