Moirika Reker

Research Group: Praxis

Moirika Reker holds a PhD in Philosophy (2022) from the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon on the philosophy of the garden in Rosario Assunto, and a MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University, New York(“Invisible matter”). She is an integrated member of the Center of Philosophy of the University of Lisbon, having collaborated in the research project “Philosophy and Landscape Architecture”. Research interests include philosophy of landscape, aesthetics, philosophy of nature, the city and gardens. Was invited assistant professor at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Coimbra. She is also a visual artist.

E-mail: mreker@letras.ulisboa.pt

Selected Publications

• Reker, Moirika (2024). “Alla ricerca del giardino in Georg Simmel”. In: Pau, Federica e Luca Vargiu (eds.), Georg Simmel. Variazioni estetiche, Milano: Meltemi, 2024, pp. 237-258.
• Reker, M., Rego, R.M. (2024). Ruins As Cultural Heritage. Ethical and Aesthetic Considerations. In: Mastandrea Bonaviri, G., Sadowski, M.M. (eds) Heritage in War and Peace. Law and Visual Jurisprudence, vol 12. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-47347-0_2
• Reker, Moirika (2023). “Rosario Assunto, The Philosopher of the Garden”. In: Pereira, C. (ed.), On Gardens. Nature as matter of expression Porto, Portugal: Ordem dos Arquitectos – secção regional Norte, pp. 235-242.
• REKER, Moirika. 2021.“The unity between Beauty and Good: Ethics of Contemplation and the Creation of Gardens”, in Mind in Nature. Bridging Process Philosophy and Neoplatonism, ed. Maria-Teresa Teixeira, Aljoscha Berve and Moirika Reker, Newcastel Up Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, pp. 86-95.
• REKER, Moirika. 2019. “Brigding City and Landscape”, in Philosophy of Landscape. Think. Walk. Act, ed. Adriana Veríssimo Serrão  Moirika Reker, Lisboa: Lisboa: eCFULeditions, pp. 269-288.
• REKER, Moirika. 2017. “Cidade frutífera: A fruta urbana como contributo estético-político no desenho da cidade”. Revista MÁTRIA XXI 6: 2017, 263-288.
• REKER, Moirika. 2015. “Landscape and the collapsing Metropolis”, in Convocare Esperienze, immagini, Narrazioni. Dare senso al paesaggio Vol. 2, a cura di Silvia Aru e Marcello Tanca, Milano: Mimesis.
• REKER, Moirika. 2015. ”O Jardim como ideia de contemplação e espaço publico”, in Filosofia & Atualidade: Problemas, Métodos, Linguagens. Jornadas Filosóficas Internacionais de Lisboa 2015, ed. Filipa Afonso, Ubirajara de Azevedo Marques, Leonel Ribeiro dos Santos, 213 – 226. Lisboa: eCFULeditions.
• REKER, Moirika. 2015. “Do corpo na apreciação estética da paisagem”.  In Vicente’15, Sagrado, Corpo e Imagem, ed. Mário Caeiro, Lisboa: Mercador do Tempo Lda /Projecto Travessa da Ermida, pp. 31 – 40.
• REKER, Moirika. 2015. “European Cities and Public Orchards”, in Images of Europe. Past, Present, Future 2014 Conference Proceedings. Porto: Universidade Católica Editora, pp. 1003-1011.
• REKER, Moirika e Júlio Barêa Pastore, 2013. “Uma Intervenção Paisagística no Território”, in Filosofia e Arquitectura da Paisagem. Intervenções, Adriana Veríssimo Serrão (coord.), Lisboa: Centro de Filosofia da Universidade de Lisboa