Mapdraft is a mapping service that blends urban planning consultancy with data processing and graphic design. It helps you select and present data in a way that truly tells your story.
Ana Luisa Moura (1981, PT) is the founder of Mapdraft. She is an architect with experience in urban planning, media design, and metropolitan research. Graduated in Porto in 2006, has since then been professionally active in the Netherlands.
With a keen interest in the intersection of spatial design and visual storytelling, her independent work focuses on strategic cartography: using maps as both a research and design tool.
Do you work on spatial policy, design or consultancy and are you curious about the power of mapping? Get in touch.
EXPERIENCE
000 – 2025. Mapdraft | Strategic cartography
000 – 2024. Rotterdam Academy of Architecture (RAVB). Program coordinator Urbanism.
2024 – 2015. Vereniging Deltametropool, Rotterdam. Project leader: independent metropolitan research, networking and policy advice, geo-data analysis. Research expertise: work landscapes, transition of work, industry, logistics and infrastructure (‘Architectuur van arbeid‘, ‘Werken op de kaart’). Spatial consultancy and extensive map production for various governmental and academic partners.
2015 – 2014. Willem de Kooning Academy (WDKA), Rotterdam. Instructor Drawing Station: illustration program ‘Cut&Paste Storytelling’ (Master Media Design and Communication, Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam).
2013 – 2008. Posad Spatial Strategies (since 2018 PosadMaxwan). Assistant designer: urbanism, landscape architecture, architecture.
2008 – 2006. DKV architecten, Rotterdam. Assistant designer: architecture.
EDUCATION
2015 – 2013. Master of Media Design and Communication, Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam. Thesis: ‘The Aesthetics of Ethics’ a study on the visual protocols of social documentary photography.
2006 – 2000. Master of Architecture, Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto (FAUP). Thesis: ‘Typological analysis of the Port Wine production farms’ (Erasmus exchange in 2004 – 2003 at Università degli Studi di Ferrara, Italy).
LANGUAGE
English (Full Professional Proficiency), Dutch (Full Professional Proficiency), Portuguese (Native).
