Professor, essayist and curator, Paulo Pires do Vale is a graduate and master in Philosophy from FCSH, Universidade Nova de Lisboa. He teaches at the Portuguese Catholic University, at the Department of Architecture at UAL and at Maria Ulrich School of Early Childhood Educators, where he coordinates the Postgraduate Degree in Artistic Practices and Pedagogical Processes.

He wrote, “Everything is something else. Desire in Hegel's Phenomenology of the Spirit ”and countless essays for books, magazines and catalogs of collective and individual exhibitions, focusing on the relationship between art, education and society.