My name is Ana. I am Brazilian and live in Belo Horizonte, state of Minas Gerais.
I’m an associate professor at UFMG (Federal University of Minas Gerais). UFMG is a public and free-of-charge institution, one of the best universities in Latin America.
I graduated in Architecture and Urbanism (UFMG, 2001) and specialised in technology and construction productivity (UFMG, 2002). I began my teaching career in 2004. As a temporary professor, I was part of the Critical and Historical Analysis of Architecture and Urbanism Department at UFMG.
In 2006, I got tenured at the age of 27. For over a decade, I taught at the Technology Department (School of Architecture, Urbanism, and Design) and the School of Engineering at UFMG. There, I was an honoured professor at two engineering graduation ceremonies.
During that time, I did pioneering research on high-technology management processes, including Building Information Modeling, virtual reality, and laser scanning applied to cultural heritage complexes.
In 2017, I decided to transfer to the School of Information Science at UFMG, where the Museums Studies course is held. I work there as an associate professor and researcher in museum management, Web, information and communication technologies, digital accessibility, and cultural theory. My research was on the biggest press vehicles in Brazil.
I’m the founder and coordinator of the Webmuseu Portal and LavMUSEU virtual lab. I was the director of the Architecture School Museum (MARQ/UFMG).
My book Management of Museum and Exhibition Projects sold out its first edition and has been reprinted. It received a peer-reviewed publishing fund from the FAPEMIG, an important Brazilian agency. It is adopted as a reference by civil service job exams (tenured positions), museum strategic plans, and both undergraduate and postgraduate courses.
I also co-authored six other books (two internationally), printed by influential publishers such as ANTAC (the most relevant construction technology association in Brazil).
A highlight for the chapter on the award-winning project Pedras Sabidas (Wise Stones), published by the Smithsonian Institution, the world’s largest museum, education, and research complex. It was an international selection of best practices in inclusive digital interactivity, resulting in a book edited by Access Smithsonian.
In the last two decades, my academic career has focused on bringing to Brazil the best that other countries had to offer in management systems.
Now, I am on the opposite way. I want to take to the world the best Brazil offers in terms of inclusive management and cultural heritage. This new phase of the blog, named Tropical Productivity, is my first contribution towards this goal.
I’ve been married for 18 years to my beloved husband, Alberto Nogueira Veiga, a specialist in cardiology and family medicine. I share with him the joy and challenges of raising two children: a girl aged six and a boy of nine. The blog on this platform is a legacy of ideas for them.
I believe in a secular and democratic State focused on social wealth, basic universal income, quota policies, public and free-of-charge education and healthcare, equality between men and women, legal guarantee for personal choices regarding reproductive rights, legal and social inclusion of minority groups, and tolerance of differences.
I am a progressive evangelical who believes faith and science are fully compatible. I work against misinformation and fundamentalism in the Brazilian Christian context. As the apostle Paul announced, faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
