Research Recommendations (848)

Identify and understand the dynamics underlying the evolution of visual expression in Portugal in terms of complexity.

Audience:

Researchers, design historians, visual-culture scholars, cul...

Domain:

Complexity in Visual Expression / Portuguese Visual Culture

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Probe the possible future evolution of visual expression by interpreting the historical trajectories, patterns, and tendencies identified in the studied past.

Audience:

Researchers, design theorists, educators, visual-culture sch...

Domain:

Future Directions of Visual Expression / Historical Interpre...

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Develop new design methodologies that improve time management, strategic adequacy, and total quality management; approach wicked problems with solution-focused synthesis.

Audience:

Researchers, Designers, Org Leaders

Domain:

Design Methods / Management

Scope:

Meso → Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Research and test case-based design and constraints/decisions posting; evaluate CCPM-like time management approaches in design projects.

Audience:

Researchers, Design Ops

Domain:

Project Management

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

High

Monitor and compare decision-making processes of freshman design students and experienced designers.

Audience:

Researchers, Educators

Domain:

Decision Making / Expertise

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

Medium-High

Introduce Decision Making as a transversal topic in the Design program (studio, management, product engineering).

Audience:

Educators, Program Leads

Domain:

Curriculum

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

High

Use the decision-making framework/model to design exercises; integrate Education and Business.

Audience:

Educators, Industry Partners

Domain:

Work-Integrated Learning

Scope:

Meso → Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Assess the role of group dynamics in decision making; strengthen negotiation, communication, and team management content.

Audience:

Educators, Team Leads

Domain:

Team Dynamics

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

High

Investigate how idea generation in the design process relates to decision making.

Audience:

Researchers

Domain:

Creativity & Decision

Scope:

Micro → Meso

Feasibility:

Medium

Investigate the role of intuition in decision making and in the design process.

Audience:

Researchers

Domain:

Intuition

Scope:

Micro → Meso

Feasibility:

Medium

Study the impact of cultural differences on the design process and on decision making.

Audience:

Researchers, Educators

Domain:

Culture

Scope:

Meso → Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Leverage design cognition in education to strengthen the research–education–industry relationship.

Audience:

Educators, Org Leaders

Domain:

Knowledge Transfer

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

In school practice, ensure students work with diverse design problems and distinct approaches.

Audience:

Educators

Domain:

Pedagogy

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

High

Stimulate structured approaches so designers strengthen group dynamics management, idea generation, information management, and decision making.

Audience:

Educators, Team Leads

Domain:

Skills Development

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

High

Systematically capture and disseminate created knowledge; establish a network for information exchange to expand Design Thinking.

Audience:

Educators, Researchers, Industry

Domain:

Knowledge Management

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Carry out finer and broader investigations into how the information in school textbooks is perceived by students, in order to produce more accurate evidence about communication design and learning.

Audience:

Researchers, educators, textbook designers, publishers

Domain:

Textbook Perception / Communication Design

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Study what communication-design alterations should be introduced into textbooks for different age levels and pedagogical objectives, avoiding infantilizing simplifications that may hinder cognitive development.

Audience:

Researchers, curriculum specialists, designers, publishers

Domain:

Age-Appropriate Textbook Design

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Undertake deep comparative research on the communicative design of textbooks used in countries whose students achieve better academic results, in order to identify potentially transferable lessons.

Audience:

Researchers, policy actors, publishers, educators

Domain:

International Comparative Textbook Research

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Investigate the future role of textbooks across paper and electronic formats, including whether their function should vary by educational level or discipline and how communication design should respond to those shifts.

Audience:

Researchers, publishers, educational technologists, designer...

Domain:

Future of Textbooks / Print and Digital Media

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Use painting—not only fashion plates—as a primary pedagogical and research source for studying nineteenth-century costume and fashion, especially where texture, color, brilho, volume, and accessory detail matter.

Audience:

Educators, Researchers

Domain:

Pedagogy / Visual Sources

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

High

Refine and extend the analysis/cataloguing sheet used in the thesis so that paintings can be studied systematically as documents of costume, fashion, interiors, and social life.

Audience:

Researchers, Educators

Domain:

Source Analysis / Cataloguing

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

Medium

Recover and study non-canonical Realismo Quotidiano / peinture de genre artists as key documentary sources for costume and fashion history, beyond the usual canonical avant-gardes.

Audience:

Researchers, Educators

Domain:

Art-Historical Recovery / Fashion History

Scope:

Meso → Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Treat painting museums and collections as research infrastructure for studying social life, dress, and fashion history—not only for exhibiting and studying art objects.

Audience:

Researchers, Curators, Org Leaders

Domain:

Museum Studies / Research Infrastructure

Scope:

Meso → Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Build stronger interdisciplinary and pedagogical bridges among History of Costume, Fashion History, and nineteenth-century Painting, including study of the reciprocal impact between Art and Fashion.

Audience:

Educators, Researchers, Program Leads

Domain:

Interdisciplinary Curriculum / Art–Fashion Relations

Scope:

Meso → Macro

Feasibility:

Medium-High

Extend the graphicbrands model to other public-service sectors (e.g., culture, environment, transport) and combine identity analysis with service/space/product communication and usability observation to generate user-oriented prototypes.

Audience:

Researchers, Designers, Org Leaders

Domain:

Service Design / Public Communication

Scope:

Meso → Macro

Feasibility:

Medium