Research Recommendations (848)

Develop interview and survey programs focused on designers and consumers—separately and in combination—to operationalize the thesis’s theoretical platform in empirical research closer to design practice.

Audience:

Researchers, Designers, Consumers

Domain:

Empirical Experience Research

Scope:

Meso → Macro

Feasibility:

High

Investigate and prototype alternatives to hedonistic, privatized experience design, using the object-in-the-world—not only isolated well-being—as the measure for future design strategies.

Audience:

Researchers, Designers, Cultural Critics

Domain:

Critical / Alternative Experience Design

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Translate the thesis into academic training materials for experience design, especially in higher education, so that students learn its key concepts, distinctions, and critical stakes.

Audience:

Educators, Students, Program Leads

Domain:

Pedagogy / Curriculum

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

High

Disseminate “cultura projetual” and material-culture perspectives to broader audiences interested in objects, everyday life, and design, rather than restricting experience-design debate to specialist circles.

Audience:

Researchers, Cultural Institutions, General Public

Domain:

Material Culture / Public Engagement

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

High

Develop design-experience approaches that preserve the agency of objects and the common world while still addressing well-being—avoiding both pure marketing “positioning” and purely private, individualized experience.

Audience:

Designers, Researchers, Product/Service Owners

Domain:

Future Product Strategy

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Develop support tools and practical guidance that help graphic designers communicate technical color data more correctly from the beginning of the project.

Audience:

Researchers, graphic designers, educators, production teams

Domain:

Color Communication Support Tools

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

High

Create educational and organizational strategies that help all actors in the color-reproduction process speak 'the same language' and cooperate more effectively around color-management systems.

Audience:

Designers, producers, educators, industry stakeholders

Domain:

Shared Color-Management Culture / Training

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Expand the ColorTranslation platform with updated color settings, PDF presets, and preflight resources so that it remains technically current and practically useful.

Audience:

Researchers, tool developers, designers, production speciali...

Domain:

ColorTranslation Expansion / Technical Updating

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

High

Personalize the ColorTranslation platform so that printing companies can provide clients with company-specific settings adapted to their own conditions, equipment, and workflows.

Audience:

Researchers, printing companies, designers, software/tool de...

Domain:

Company-Specific ColorTranslation / Client Integration

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Undertake deeper author-specific studies of the representation of Black figures, beginning with Laura Costa and extending to systematic analyses of illustrators such as Raquel Roque Gameiro and Fernando Bento.

Audience:

Design Historians, Illustration Researchers, Educators

Domain:

Illustration History / Colonial Visual Culture

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

High

Collect and critically triangulate testimonies from relatives, friends, and acquaintances of the illustrators in the corpus, using them in conjunction with documentary and bibliographic evidence.

Audience:

Researchers, Archivists, Oral-History Practitioners

Domain:

Design History Methods / Oral History

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

Medium

Extend the study of Black representation into illustrated periodicals and other objects of popular culture, such as toys, where the thesis identifies promising but only lightly explored material.

Audience:

Researchers, Curators, Cultural Historians

Domain:

Popular Visual Culture / Race Representation

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Expand the temporal scope of research on the representation of Black figures in Portuguese children’s and youth literature to works published before 1925—especially from the nineteenth century onward—and to works published after 1960.

Audience:

Researchers, Design Historians, Literary Scholars

Domain:

Longitudinal Design History / Children’s Literature

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Incorporate measurable flexibility levels into housing regulation, using a coefficient or equivalent metric that links physical area to functional/virtual area created by flexible use.

Audience:

Policymakers, Housing Regulators, Architects

Domain:

Housing Regulation / Adaptable Dwellings

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Replicate the methodology and the project requirements in other furniture typologies and in other domestic activities with strong space constraints, not only storage.

Audience:

Furniture Designers, Researchers, Housing Innovators

Domain:

Residential Furniture / Activity-Based Design

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

High

Develop product-service systems around modular residential furniture, including maintenance, upgrades, reconfiguration support, and communication channels that extend the product’s useful life.

Audience:

Manufacturers, Service Designers, Furniture Brands

Domain:

Circular Furniture / Product-Service Systems

Scope:

Meso → Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Structure future implementation through a coordinated triangle of development, production, and communication so the modular system can be manufactured, updated, and clearly explained to users.

Audience:

Manufacturers, Design Managers, Communication Teams

Domain:

Furniture Implementation / Market Transfer

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

Medium-High

Harmonize public higher-education Design curricula with Bologna directives, reducing the curricular incongruities identified between institutions and between the first and second cycles.

Audience:

A3ES, Program Leads, Policymakers, Curriculum Committees

Domain:

Curriculum Alignment / Bologna Implementation

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Deepen competency-based teaching in Design through stronger use of project work, experimental practice, and transversal-skills development, replacing overly passive content-delivery models.

Audience:

Educators, Program Leads, Students

Domain:

Pedagogy / Competency-Based Learning

Scope:

Meso → Macro

Feasibility:

High

Train Design students to “learn to learn,” adapt quickly to technological, scientific, and professional change, and understand the broader social function of design—not only its immediate technical outputs.

Audience:

Educators, Students, Program Designers

Domain:

Graduate Profile / Professional Formation

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

Medium-High

Expand structured collaboration with communities, companies, and research-and-development partners through live projects, visits, seminars, and formal protocols that connect theory, practice, and experience.

Audience:

HEIs, Students, Companies, Community Partners

Domain:

University-Society Partnership

Scope:

Meso → Macro

Feasibility:

High

Strengthen transition-to-work mechanisms in Design education, including closer employer contact, clearer insertion-into-active-life supports, and systematic tracking of graduate outcomes.

Audience:

HEIs, Career Offices, Employers, Students

Domain:

Employability / Transition to Work

Scope:

Meso → Macro

Feasibility:

Medium-High

In future studies, include alumni and professional workplaces in data collection so that analysis extends beyond current students and captures the post-graduation effects of higher-education policy on Design practice.

Audience:

Researchers, Alumni Offices, Employers

Domain:

Research Design / Longitudinal Evidence

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

High

Identify, compare, and disseminate the strongest pedagogical and curricular practices across public Design schools, using them as shared references for improving teaching quality and institutional learning.

Audience:

Educators, Program Leads, Policymakers, Researchers

Domain:

Best-Practice Exchange / Teaching Quality

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

High

Create a scenario-reconstruction project that recreates nineteenth-century commemorative urban settings in order to make the symbolic system of national identity visible and tangible in space, including the Centenary of India.

Audience:

Design Historians, Curators, Educators, Exhibition Designers

Domain:

Exhibition / Scenario Reconstruction / Visual History

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium