Engaging with heritage
Making cultural heritage participatory, accessible and relevant for diverse audiences.
Pluralism in practice.
PLURAL. is a non-profit organisation based in Porto, Portugal, working across heritage education, culture and critical thinking in Europe.
We design and implement projects that help people engage with multiple perspectives — in history, in technology, in society.
Embracing other perspectives
Developing the tools to question narratives, challenge assumptions and consider different viewpoints.
Collaborating across cultures
Bringing together people, institutions and perspectives across countries and cultures.
Mission.
PLURAL. promotes pluralism, critical dialogue and multi-perspectivity in heritage education, culture and society.
We believe that the ability to consider multiple viewpoints is not a luxury — it is a foundation for informed citizenship, meaningful learning and cultural understanding.
Why we exist
PLURAL. was founded in 2026 in Porto, Portugal, by two practitioners who had been working in European education and cultural cooperation for years, and saw the need for a structure dedicated to pluralism as a practice, not just a principle.
The organisation brings together operational and technological capacity with cultural and pedagogical depth, allowing us to bridge implementation and meaning in everything we do.
What that means in practice
We develop projects that bring different perspectives into contact: in classrooms, in cultural settings, in public life. Our work focuses on creating the conditions for people to engage with complexity rather than simplify it away.
This includes designing educational methodologies, producing pedagogical and cultural content, organising training and public events, and implementing national and international cooperation projects.
PLURAL. — Associação para o Pluralismo is a non-profit association registered in Porto, Portugal.
“In the end, we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught.”
Expertise.
PLURAL. brings together a set of complementary competences developed across years of work in European cooperation, heritage education and cultural research.
We bring together organisations across countries and disciplines into shared initiatives, managing work plans, timelines and partner alignment.
Our team has coordinated projects involving partners across seven European countries, delivering published outputs and training programmes.
We research how heritage is interpreted and experienced, and translate that into accessible resources for diverse audiences.
Our outputs include published toolkits and playbooks on heritage engagement, educational workshop formats, training materials for educators and cultural routes connecting communities with their local heritage.
We apply participatory and design-driven methods to heritage and education challenges, from facilitating innovation hackathons to integrating AI and digital tools into learning environments.
Our team brings hands-on experience from startup competitions, technology hackathons and co-creation processes, applying rapid prototyping methods to cultural and educational contexts.
Organisations we have collaborated with
Team.
PLURAL. was founded by two people with distinct but deeply complementary paths: one rooted in cultural research and education, the other in engineering and organisational strategy. Both shaped by lives lived across countries, languages and disciplines. Together, they bring the kind of perspective the organisation’s name asks for.
Bruna Souza
Co-founder & President
Originally from Brazil, Bruna came to Europe to study and work on the questions that matter most to her: how knowledge is shaped, who gets to tell which stories, and what happens when heritage meets the present.
With a background in International Relations and Art History & Visual Culture, she has spent years working inside European cooperation projects — not from the outside looking in, but as someone who researches, designs learning approaches and coordinates the people involved.
She is also an educator and mediator, comfortable translating academic ideas into experiences that resonate with diverse audiences. Whether in a classroom, a museum or a cross-border project team, her focus is the same: making complex subjects accessible without flattening them.
At PLURAL., Bruna shapes what we work on and why: leading research, defining educational frameworks and ensuring that every project stays grounded in the questions that gave it purpose.
Nathalie Saikali
Co-founder & Treasurer
Belgian-Lebanese, Nathalie trained as an engineer and has spent her career learning how to make things work — not just technically, but for the people who use them.
Her path moved from Biomedical Engineering through a management programme at the University of Cambridge and into years of professional experience in digital and AI-driven companies, translating between technical teams and the people they build for, structuring processes, and turning abstract ideas into things that function in practice.
What runs through all of it is a focus on communication and clarity: understanding what people actually need, and finding the simplest way to deliver it.
At PLURAL., Nathalie brings that same approach to how the organisation operates: structuring projects, enabling collaboration across disciplines, and leading the integration of technology, including AI, into the work we do.
Get in touch
We are open to collaboration, partnership enquiries and conversations about shared projects.
Location
Porto, Portugal