Co-founder — b. 1991, Portugal
Pedro Velho
Bio
Pedro Queirós Pinto (he/him), known artistically as Pedro Velho, is a researcher, mediator, educator, and artist based in Bergen, Norway.
He collaborates with the Extending Digital Narrative (XDN) research group at the Center for Digital Narrative, University of Bergen, where his work focuses on digital and immersive storytelling.
Across research, teaching, and artistic practice, he is interested in how creative work can shape the conditions for meaningful encounters between people, stories, and communities. His practice spans performance, non-fiction, and mediation, drawing on intermedial and socially engaged approaches.
Works
Academic work and publications
Positions & affiliations
2025–present — Research Assistant, Center for Digital Narrative, Extending Digital Narrative (XDN) research group — Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies, Faculty of Humanities, University of Bergen — UiB profile ↗ — NVA research profile ↗ — ORCID ↗
Education
2020–2023 — MA in Intercultural Mediation and Social Intervention — School of Education and Social Sciences (ESECS), University of Leiria and Oeste (formerly Polytechnic University of Leiria), Leiria, Portugal
2010–2014 — BA in Theatre — School of Arts and Design, University of Leiria and Oeste (formerly Polytechnic University of Leiria), Caldas da Rainha, Portugal
Research projects
2024–2028 — SURVIVING SOGICE, collaboration — PhD project by Sérgio Galvão Roxo, University of Bergen — survivingsogice.eu ↗
Publications
2023 — Queirós Pinto, P. “A Mediação Intrapessoal através da fotografia e videografia terapêutica: Narrativas, Convivência e Mindsets”. Master’s dissertation, School of Education and Social Sciences (ESECS), University of Leiria and Oeste (formerly Polytechnic University of Leiria)
2023 — Queirós Pinto, P., & Vieira, R. “Processos de mediação intrapessoal através da fotografia e videografia terapêutica”. In Teoria e Prática da Pedagogia Social, da Mediação Intercultural e da Intervenção Social — book chapter
2023 — Queirós Pinto, P., & Vieira, R. “Uma Proposta de Mediação Intrapessoal através da Fotografia e Videografia Terapêutica”. In XXXIV Congresso Internacional da SIPS (Sociedade Iberoamericana de Pedagogia Social) e 10.ª Conferência Internacional de Mediação Intercultural e Intervenção Social — conference proceedings
2023 — Queirós Pinto, P. “A Mediação intrapessoal através da fotografia e videografia terapêutica enquanto ferramenta pedagógica para a convivência”. In Conferência Internacional Investigação, Práticas e Contextos em Educação, Vol. XII — conference proceedings
2022 — Queirós Pinto, P., & Vieira, R. “Intrapersonal mediation through therapeutic photography/videography”. In XVII PhD Meeting in Psychology – CIS_ISCTE — conference proceedings
Conference presentations
21 October 2026 — “Beyond the Headset: Conceptualizing Storylistening, Storysensing, and Storyshaping in Immersive Narrative”, with Sérgio Galvão Roxo — After Virtual Reality: Extending Immersive Narrative Symposium, Center for Digital Narrative, University of Bergen, Bergen
23 September 2026 — “Beyond the Headset: Storylistening, Storysensing, and Storyshaping in Immersive Narrative”, with Sérgio Galvão Roxo — CDN Autumn Equinox: Open Research Day, Bergen
11–12 June 2026 — “Super-Vigilant(h)e(ro)s: (Self)Superheroization, GenAI and the Aestheticization of Persecution in Digital Out-group Vigilantism” — Aesthetics of Digital Vigilantism Symposium, John Cabot University, Rome — watch ↗
9–12 June 2026 — “Her Name Was Gisberta: VR Against Transphobia”, with Sérgio Galvão Roxo — 8th Interactive Film and Media Virtual Conference (#IFM2026), Research creation, online — watch ↗
13 November 2025 — “Coexistencialism, Technology and the Politics of Human and Other-than-Human Care: Speculative Design, Co-Narratives and Spiritual Activism against the Commodification of Grief” — SPIRITED: First Annual Conference on Spirituality, Religion, and Interactive Technology Design, University of St. Thomas, Minnesota
2023 — “A Mediação intrapessoal através da fotografia e videografia terapêutica enquanto ferramenta pedagógica para a convivência”, conference poster — XII Investigação, Práticas e Contextos em Educação (IPCE)
2023 — “Uma proposta de mediação intrapessoal através da fotografia e videografia terapêutica: Pedagogias da convivência e mindsets”, with Ricardo Vieira — XXXIV Congresso Internacional da SIPS (Sociedade Iberoamericana de Pedagogia Social) and 10.ª Conferência de Mediação Intercultural e Intervenção Social
May 2022 — “Intrapersonal mediation through therapeutic photography/videography – Narratives, relationships and mindsets”, conference poster, with Ricardo Vieira — XVII PhD Meeting in Psychology, CIS_ISCTE
Selected projects & awards
2018–2019 — 29 26, ethnographic film and community project, director — in competition, Opus Bonum (Best World Documentary Film), 22nd Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival, 2018; presented at the 7th Congress of the Portuguese Anthropological Association (APA), 2019
2018/19 — IV Laboratory of Writing for Theatre — TNDM II, Portugal
2017 — Laboratory of Experimental Theatre — CCC, Portugal
2009–2011 — Director and educator — Caldas da Rainha Youth Centre Theatre Group, Portugal
Awards
2019–2021 — Illustration — VI Pingo Doce National Children’s Literature Award (2019); Prémio Matilde Rosa Araújo, Special Mention (2020); Finalist, Capital da Cultura do Eixo Atlântico Award, Braga Biennial of Illustration (2021)