Research Recommendations (848)

Investigate thermal comfort in older adults' homes, especially in relation to low metabolism and reduced peripheral circulation.

Audience:

Researchers, environmental designers, housing specialists, g...

Domain:

Thermal Comfort / Older Adults' Housing

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Develop products for older users that minimize obstacles, facilitate everyday tasks, and support stronger integration of these individuals within the domestic environment.

Audience:

Researchers, product designers, inclusive-design specialists...

Domain:

Products for Older Adults / Domestic Integration

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

High

Expand the body model by incorporating additional disciplinary understandings of the body and new links between them, especially from psychology, human movement studies, medicine, and neuroscience.

Audience:

Researchers, Designers, Educators

Domain:

Body Theory / Interdisciplinary Design

Scope:

Micro → Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Experiment with the proposed “model-map” in real design projects and in design teaching to assess its usefulness for project development and studio pedagogy.

Audience:

Designers, Educators, Researchers

Domain:

Design Practice / Studio Pedagogy

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

High

Articulate the “model-map” explicitly with design methodologies and process models so that it can operate as a methodological tool, not only as a conceptual framework.

Audience:

Researchers, Designers, Design Managers

Domain:

Design Methodology

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

Medium-High

Develop product/object prototypes and a teaching-oriented version of the map, with briefs and prompts adapted to different levels of university education.

Audience:

Educators, Designers, Students

Domain:

Prototype Development / Teaching Tools

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

High

Investigate a new “imponderable body” model for extreme or zero-gravity conditions — a body outside Earth — as a frontier case for product design.

Audience:

Researchers, Designers, Space/Extreme-Environment Specialist...

Domain:

Extreme Environments / Space Design

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Low-Medium

Develop additional documentation and publication formats beyond the existing website and dissertation so the action can generate greater visibility and contribute more effectively to intangible-heritage dissemination.

Audience:

Researchers, Community Organizers, Cultural Mediators

Domain:

Documentation / Heritage Dissemination

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

High

Investigate how learning workshops, technical support teams, shared workrooms, stronger participant ties, and longer timeframes can improve the process and continuity of participatory façade-painting actions.

Audience:

Community Organizers, Designers, Facilitators

Domain:

Participatory Process Design

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

Medium

Replicate and adapt ViverCor in other contexts and scales — including urban, public, and semi-public settings, and communities facing exclusion, fear, or identity loss.

Audience:

Community Organizations, Designers, Local Authorities

Domain:

Public Space / Co-Design Replication

Scope:

Meso → Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Use QR codes and curated public databases to create augmented readings of each painted façade, its process, and its associated narratives.

Audience:

Visitors, Community Participants, Cultural Mediators

Domain:

Digital Heritage Interpretation

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

High

For new actions, prepare the presentation in the field, open a Facebook page from the outset, and use a prototype that clarifies possibilities without overdetermining the final outcome.

Audience:

Project Drivers, Facilitators, Community Organizers

Domain:

Action Launch / Community Engagement

Scope:

Micro → Meso

Feasibility:

High

During negotiation and collective discussion, preserve safety and informality, explain the open process and its benefits clearly, remain transparent about political positioning, and use public discussion plus external specialists to deepen reflection.

Audience:

Project Drivers, Facilitators, Researchers

Domain:

Negotiation / Ethics / Facilitation

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

Medium-High

In the implementation phase, maximize participant autonomy by encouraging participants to propose and solve practical problems themselves whenever possible.

Audience:

Project Drivers, Participants, Facilitators

Domain:

Implementation / Autonomy

Scope:

Micro → Meso

Feasibility:

High

Adopt the proposed organizational model in which design is integrated as a strategic resource within Technological Centres in order to improve the practical contribution of research to the National Innovation System.

Audience:

Policy makers, technological centres, universities, industry...

Domain:

Technological Centres / Strategic Design Integration

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Low-Medium

Carry out future experiments involving the infrastructures and processes of the National Innovation System in order to promote mutual understanding, cooperation, synthesis capacity, and strategy building among specialists from different disciplines.

Audience:

Researchers, innovation-system actors, interdisciplinary spe...

Domain:

Interdisciplinary Experiments / National Innovation System

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Encourage national Design Associations to evolve into a professional order capable of regulating the deontological principles of the design profession.

Audience:

Design associations, policy makers, professional designers

Domain:

Professional Regulation / Design Associations

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Low-Medium

Develop a broader and more exhaustive diagnosis of public perception of design in Portugal in order to understand how design is currently understood, ignored, or misinterpreted across society.

Audience:

Researchers, universities, policy actors, cultural instituti...

Domain:

Public Perception of Design / Design Studies

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Refine and apply the survey developed in the thesis to political and cultural actors, media professionals, teachers, and other strategic citizen groups that are decisive for the characterization and transformation of public perceptions of design.

Audience:

Researchers, policy actors, media professionals, educators

Domain:

Survey Extension / Stakeholder Mapping

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

High

Investigate design in governance, focusing on how the State uses design in the objects, interfaces, and services through which citizens relate to public administration.

Audience:

Researchers, policy makers, public-service designers, govern...

Domain:

Governance Design / Public Services

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Develop a multi-actor design policy for Portugal involving not only the State but also universities, private institutions, professional organizations, and citizen groups.

Audience:

Policy makers, universities, professional organizations, cit...

Domain:

Design Policy / National Design Strategy

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Low-Medium

Undertake a more detailed and comparative analysis of Daciano da Costa’s exercise briefs across his teaching career, using the dissertation appendices as a structured primary source base.

Audience:

Researchers, Educators, Design Historians

Domain:

Design Education History

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

High

Use the unpublished interview testimonies gathered in the dissertation as a primary corpus for a dedicated future investigation into Daciano da Costa’s teaching trajectory and influence.

Audience:

Researchers, Historians, Educators

Domain:

Oral History / Design Pedagogy

Scope:

Meso → Macro

Feasibility:

High

Study the authors and books most read by Daciano da Costa—including points of agreement and disagreement—to reconstruct his theoretical reflection and track how his didactics changed over time.

Audience:

Researchers, Educators, Historians of Design and Architectur...

Domain:

History of Ideas / Design Pedagogy

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

Medium

Analyze and compare airline-design projects developed in the territories of the former Portuguese colonies, including not only the major carriers of Angola and Mozambique but also smaller regional airlines.

Audience:

Researchers, design historians, aviation historians

Domain:

Airline Design History / Colonial and Postcolonial Contexts

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium