Clara Vieira Rodrigues is regularly invited to speak, write, and share expertise on child-centred design, children’s digital rights, child-centred AI, AI literacy, and participatory design. Here you’ll find her recent appearances, talks, podcast episodes, and press features.
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Podcasts & Videos
UNICEF Podcast: Segurança na Rede, Rede de Segurança · Season 2, Episode 5 · 2026 “Challenges and Opportunities of AI” Clara joins UNICEF Portugal to discuss the role of artificial intelligence in the lives of new generations by navigating challenges and opportunities for children and young people. → Watch on YouTube · Listen on Spotify
Fala, Fala Podcast · Episode 30 · 2025 “Purposeful Design: Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Artificial Intelligence for Children’s Rights” Clara joins Ana Rita Magalhães to discuss purposeful design, entrepreneurship and the role of artificial intelligence in children’s rights. → Watch on YouTube · Listen on Spotify
Designing for Children’s Rights Podcast · Season 1, Episode 6 · 2023 “Co-creating with Children in Public Space as Design Activism” Clara, founder of D4CR Porto Chapter, discusses co-creating with children in public space as an act of community involvement and design activism — including the event where 250 children wrote a 40-metre message: “We Have Rights, We Design the Future.” → Listen on Spotify
Talks & Conferences
2nd International Conference: DS4i — Design for Social Impact · Lusófona University, Porto · 19 May 2026 “Designing for Agency and Social Innovation: Child-Centered AI, Co-Creation, and Educational Transformation” Invited keynote speaker at this international conference bringing together researchers, academics and designers around the theme of design for society. → Conference programme
Porto Pedagogical Innovation Conference (P.PIC) · Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto · 18 July 2025 Paper: “Child-Centred Design as a Driver of Curricular Innovation” Clara presented an accepted paper at this international conference on pedagogical innovation. → Conference programme
NHNAI Project International Final Conference – A New Humanism in the Age of Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence · Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisbon · 9 May 2025 “Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Challenges of Coexistence” Clara was invited to join the Education roundtable at this international conference on humanism, neuroscience and artificial intelligence, developed in partnership with the Université Catholique de Lyon. → NHNAI Project
ACM Interaction Design and Children (IDC) Conference · TU Delft, Netherlands · 17 June 2024 Workshop: “Exploring Child–AI Entanglements” Clara participated with an accepted position statement at this leading international academic conference on interaction design and children, organised by the University of Twente and the University of Salzburg. → Workshop page
ACM Interaction Design and Children (IDC) Conference · TU Delft, Netherlands · 17 June 2024 Workshop: “Child-Centered AI for Empowering Creative and Inclusive Learning Experiences” Clara participated with an accepted position statement at this workshop co-organised by MIT Media Lab, University of Amsterdam and University of Sussex. → Workshop page
Press & Articles
SIC · Jornal da Noite · 7 June 2026 “Que uso fazem os jovens da inteligência artificial?” Clara was invited as AI Specialist to comment on a report about the new EU Kids Online study on young people’s use of artificial intelligence, addressing AI literacy, children’s digital rights and the role of families and schools. → Watch the report
Columnist at PÚBLICO · ongoing Clara writes regularly about child-centred design, digital literacy and tech parenting for one of Portugal’s leading newspapers. → Read the articles
Collaborations
Mentor at NEW INC · New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York Clara was selected as mentor at the New Museum’s incubator for art, design and technology — one of the most prestigious programmes of its kind globally. → Mentor profile
Designing for Children’s Rights (D4CR) · Clara is a volunteer at the global association and founded in 2022 its Portuguese Chapter, working to integrate children’s rights into the design and development of products and services worldwide. → d4cr.org