Luciana Saboia is a Brazilian architect, urbanist and Professor at University of Brasília, Brazil, and received a Ph.D. in History and Theory of Architecture from Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium (2009). She was a visiting researcher at Office for Urbanization at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, EUA (2017) and is currently a researcher at National Council for Scientific and Technological Development in Brazil with focus on landscape, culture and design. She has also received awards and mentions in design competitions and as architect and advisor. From 2015-2019, Saboia was the vice-dean of Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism at UnB and, currently, she is Director of Research.