Jesse Rafeiro
Professor & Researcher
Jesse Rafeiro is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at Instituto Superior Técnico (Universidade de Lisboa) where he leads AQUA-REVIVE, a 2.5 year project on monastic water heritage in Portugal. He holds a PhD from the Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada (2021) where his dissertation examined “de-anthropocentric” literature as a foundation for rethinking architectural pedagogy in the Anthropocene. Following his PhD he conducted a 3 year interdisciplinary postdoctoral fellowship in Japan at Tokyo College (The University of Tokyo) investigating “more-than-human” approaches to architectural theory and pedagogy, drawing from philosophy, theology, education theory, anthropology, literature, and heritage studies. He is a co-founder of IPTI (Investigation in Patrimony: Tangible and Intangible), a research initiative specializing in digital documentation, reconstruction, and storytelling for architectural heritage that works in partnership with museums, municipalities, historians, and other specialists.
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