Damara Inglês

Damara Inglês is a Metaverse Designer and Strategist focused on Digital Fashion and Immersive experiences.
She was born in Luanda (Angola), grew up in Lisboa (Portugal), and graduated in London (UK), as such the notions of intersectionality, minority empowerment, and nomadic thought are inherent to her work process.

In 2019 she started her meta verse adventure after graduating from the Fashion Media Practice and Criticism BA + MA at the London College of Fashion, University of Arts London.
In there she realized that her practice appreciates the visceral materiality and craft of analog fashion, as well as the emancipatory value of Digital Fashion, exploring technology as lenses to transform the Fashion industry through sustainability, innovation, and disruptive thought. Her work aims to blend the notions of Object and Digital-Aura, Experience and Memory, Mysticism and Technology.

In 2021 Damara became an Official Lens Creator for Snapchat and designed “Kazumbi” in collaboration with HERVISIONS and Snapchat Spectacles, expanding her digital skills and gaining early access to disruptive technologies. During her practice she collects different elements of personal meaning, so far she collected three: “Extended-Tactility”, “Bio-Cyborg” and “Intersectional Digitisation” where she explores the complexity of her own identity as an African woman in the diaspora and in the Metaverse.

“I love to think about the intercultural and hyper-social connections within the Metaverse, and dream about it as an evolutionary step of intra and inter-human experiences. Not as an echo of the different categories of segregation that are part of the contemporary discourse IRL.”