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About Me

Architect, Designer, Property Valuation Services, Volunteer. I worked in serveral places, from telecommunications companies, copy centers, construction (yes, I carried buckets of cement), wrapping christmas gifts in a Mall, inquiring people on the street as a volunteer for the Portuguese Food Bank, AIDS associations, public schools. Presently, I work in a bank, and own my small (and great) creative company - Addapt.

Location:
Portugal, Sintra
Current organization:
Addapt [creative factory]
Past organizations:
Cowork Sintra, BrandCo Portugal, DO:MA Project
Current role:
Partner
Gender:
Male
Areas of expertise:
Architecture, Design, Property Aquisition and Entitlement
I am:
Agnostic, Architect, Brainstormer, Concerned citizen, Designer, Entrepreneur, Environmentalist, Marketer, Real Estate professional, Startup
Associations:
Ordem dos Arquitectos - Portugal, Architecture for Humanity, TEDxCascais, Cowork Sintra
Languages:
Portuguese, English
My website links:
Hugo Ferro Branco, Addapt [Creative Factory]
Universities:
Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Faculdade de Arquitectura de Lisboa, ISEG - Universidade Técnica de Lisboa
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I'm passionate about

Architecture, Design, turning ideas upside down, running, learning, loving.

An idea worth spreading

Everything we take from granted is real, but it is not sustainable. I've got to reinvent our life, our way of thinking, the way we make things. And that's just great! :)

Talk to me about

New ideas, life stories, positive thinking.

People don't know that I'm good at

Staying in silence.

My TED Story

A happy child, a early parents house leaving, lots of tears during my early twenties, dealing with difficult people in a daily basis, getting lots of bad vibes, starting to think that "this is the best it's going to get". But I grabbed my life, my energy an positive thinking, and went forward. Never stoped, rethinking constantly all the aspects of what I am, what I do, what I need to do. With a smile. Always a smile. :)

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    A comment on Talk: Joel Burns tells gay teens "it gets better"

    Sep 19 2011: Tolerance is a sign of intelligence and humanity. No one asks to born a certain way, and diversity is fundamental to the balance of our fragile world. No one should be ashamed to born gay, straight, white ou black.

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