Her study is driven to deepen mankind's ability to communicate through diverse media, embracing the potential of visual discourses. To apprehend new languages within the practice of design, to face and develop conceptual responses in distinct creative ways, based on the direct confrontation between design, science, technology and humanity.

Interested in the formats of communication, Joana Areal develops her skills mostly in visual elements, experimenting with the question of authorship in design, working the designer's status as both an artist and a cultural agent, the subversion and transformation of what is public and what is private. She places herself in a field that is neither art nor technology, facing design as the discourse and its restraints as a language.