Research Recommendations (848)

Study the wider graphic production generated around the centenaries—such as posters, illustrated postcards, and stamps—in order to identify authors and analyse compositional features, formats, colours, imagery, and typography.

Audience:

Graphic Design Historians, Researchers, Curators

Domain:

Graphic Production / Identity Systems / Commemorative Media

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Undertake comparable analyses of other nineteenth-century commemorations—especially the Centenary of the Marquis of Pombal and the Seventh Centenary of Saint Anthony—to identify continuities and variants in the symbolic system.

Audience:

Researchers, Historians of Design, Cultural Historians

Domain:

Comparative Commemorative Design / National Identity

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

High

Develop an environmental-design framework for analyzing how interior architectural spaces communicate visually across heterogeneous cultures, drawing comparative lessons from successful historical mission systems.

Audience:

Researchers, Environment Designers, Heritage Scholars

Domain:

Spatial Communication / Design of Environments

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Translate the Chiquitos case into operational parameters for contemporary multicultural spaces by testing the communicative role of layout, light, color, ornament, façades, and narrative sequencing.

Audience:

Designers, Architects, Researchers

Domain:

Spatial Communication / Design Guidelines

Scope:

Meso → Macro

Feasibility:

Medium-High

Expand the empirical corpus to all Chiquitos churches and to post-Jesuit phases—especially the post-expulsion period and the restoration era (1972–1996)—to compare how spatial communication changed over time.

Audience:

Researchers, Heritage Managers, Conservators

Domain:

Heritage / Longitudinal Comparative Analysis

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

Medium

Study the geometric and floral designs embedded in the envelopes and surfaces of Chiquitos churches as a distinct design corpus within Chiquitano material culture.

Audience:

Researchers, Pattern Designers, Heritage Interpreters

Domain:

Surface Design / Material Culture

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

High

Use design research as a preservation and mobilization tool for Chiquitano heritage, producing documentation, interpretation, and dissemination that support those who safeguard this World Heritage legacy.

Audience:

Heritage Institutions, Educators, Designers, Local Communiti...

Domain:

Heritage Communication / Cultural Preservation

Scope:

Meso → Macro

Feasibility:

Medium-High

Adopt a design-investment evaluation model for agro-food SMEs that combines strategic orientations and performance indicators, rather than depending exclusively on financial ratios that many firms cannot provide.

Audience:

SME Owners, Agro-food Managers, Design Managers, Development...

Domain:

Design Management / ROI Evaluation

Scope:

Meso → Macro

Feasibility:

High

Frame agro-food design projects around the nutritional qualities of the offer and the Mediterranean Diet Pyramid, linking design action to healthy-eating literacy and sustainable value creation.

Audience:

Agro-food Producers, Designers, Public-Health Communicators,...

Domain:

Food Communication / Sustainability

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium-High

Integrate design from project definition through evaluation, treating it as a management capability that shapes products, services, communication, and spaces rather than as a late technical add-on.

Audience:

SME Owners, Design Consultants, Municipal Project Teams

Domain:

Design Integration / Management

Scope:

Meso → Macro

Feasibility:

Medium-High

Continue piloting, refining, and disseminating the model with agro-food firms and municipalities, using real product and territorial-brand cases to build evidence and encourage adoption.

Audience:

Researchers, Sector Associations, Municipalities, SMEs

Domain:

Model Dissemination / Sector Adoption

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

High

Compare the FLOWS model and its waste-based innovation approach with studies on other material streams, such as wood, metals, rocks, cardboard, rubber, glass, construction waste, and other polymers or composites.

Audience:

Researchers, sustainability scholars, materials and product...

Domain:

Waste-Based Innovation / Comparative Research

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Study in greater depth the sensory and emotional aspects of materials developed from waste, since these significantly influence user acceptance of products.

Audience:

Researchers, materials designers, product designers

Domain:

Material Experience / User Acceptance

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Investigate the social impacts resulting from the transformation of waste into new materials, products, and businesses, since this dimension was not explored in the thesis.

Audience:

Researchers, policy makers, social-innovation teams, entrepr...

Domain:

Social Impact / Circular Innovation

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Develop and test business models based on distributed economies as a viable approach for waste-based innovation, especially from the standpoint of social and economic sustainability.

Audience:

Researchers, entrepreneurs, incubators, business-model desig...

Domain:

Distributed Economies / Business Models

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Use the Business Model Canvas earlier in the FLOWS process—during problem understanding—to explore ways of valorizing waste without necessarily converting it into new materials.

Audience:

Researchers, design teams, innovation facilitators

Domain:

Early-Stage Business Exploration / FLOWS

Scope:

Meso → Macro

Feasibility:

High

Apply the team-management and leadership tools of the FLOWS model in R&D groups in academic and business environments, and preferably in projects that connect both contexts.

Audience:

Researchers, R&D leaders, academic and business teams

Domain:

R&D Team Management / Leadership

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Carry out implementation studies for Stage 7 of the FLOWS model in partnership with companies or through entrepreneurial initiatives such as incubated ventures and innovation agencies.

Audience:

Researchers, companies, entrepreneurs, incubators

Domain:

Implementation Studies / Market Transfer

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Low-Medium

Study the usefulness and viability of the FLOWS model in design education, both at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, as a support instrument for developing solutions from solid waste.

Audience:

Educators, students, curriculum leaders

Domain:

Design Education / FLOWS Model

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

High

Continue future studies using both immersive and semi-immersive Virtual Reality as experimental environments for warning research.

Audience:

Researchers, design scholars, VR labs, safety-communication...

Domain:

VR-Based Warning Research / Experimental Environments

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

High

Extend the research from safety warnings in general to the automotive domain more deeply, building on the study already conducted with traffic simulators and the automotive industry.

Audience:

Researchers, automotive designers, interface designers, indu...

Domain:

Automotive Warning Systems / Applied Safety Design

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Investigate ways of incorporating warnings into the driver's central field of vision, including projection on the windshield or similar head-up-display solutions.

Audience:

Researchers, automotive-interface designers, engineers

Domain:

Central-Field Warning Displays / HUD

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Conduct further experiments showing how information-design principles can improve multimodal warnings beyond designs based primarily on norms and standards.

Audience:

Researchers, graphic/information designers, safety specialis...

Domain:

Information Design for Multimodal Warnings

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

High

Investigate the aesthetic dimension of warning design by distinguishing the appreciation of static warnings from the appreciation of dynamic or multimodal warnings, especially under constraints of time and attention.

Audience:

Researchers, design theorists, information designers, cognit...

Domain:

Aesthetics of Warnings / Time and Attention

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Explore additional multisensory and temporal modalities in warning design—such as vibratory, haptic, and movement-based cues—beyond conventional static visual composition.

Audience:

Researchers, interaction designers, engineers, human-factors...

Domain:

Multisensory Warning Design / Temporal Modalities

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium