Research Recommendations (848)

Apply the proposed Form Language Model to other design studios in professional or academic environments in order to test its transferability and comparative value.

Audience:

Researchers, design studios, educators

Domain:

Model Transfer / Comparative Studio Research

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Auscultate the Portuguese manufacturing industry to understand its problems of acceptance and expectations regarding Design activity within companies, updating and deepening the prior questionnaire base.

Audience:

Researchers, manufacturers, policy actors, design educators

Domain:

Knowledge Transfer / Industry Perception of Design

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Review the curricula of master's programs in Product-Service Design (or similar nomenclature) in order to implement or optimize curricular units linked to management and entrepreneurship.

Audience:

Curriculum leaders, educators, universities

Domain:

Curriculum Review / Product-Service Design Education

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Complete the development of the TIES Toolkit by producing practical examples for each of its tools, so that the toolkit can be considered fully operational.

Audience:

Researchers, educators, students, interface organizations

Domain:

TIES Toolkit Development

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

High

Disseminate the TIES model through workshops in higher-education institutions, companies, and design studios, making its functioning and advantages more visible to different stakeholders.

Audience:

Educators, companies, design studios, researchers

Domain:

TIES Model Dissemination

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

High

Implement and evaluate the two proposed actions—alumni talks and the OI-TIES interface organism—in the short term at FAUL as a practical continuation of the thesis.

Audience:

Researchers, alumni, students, universities

Domain:

Implementation of Alumni Talks and OI-TIES

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Establish continuous digital-preservation workflows for online content, including cataloguing, migration, and software updating, so that archived information remains accessible rather than merely stored.

Audience:

Archives, Newsrooms, Digital Preservation Teams, Platform Ow...

Domain:

Digital Preservation / Archive Governance

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium-High

Develop digital archives as progressively more visual systems by consolidating and applying a flexible visual lexicon derived from information-visualization structures.

Audience:

Designers, Newsrooms, Archivists, UX Teams

Domain:

Visual Archive Systems / Information Visualization

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium-High

Maintain stable navigation and interface conventions in visual archives so users can build familiarity over time and face a lower learning curve when exploring archived content.

Audience:

UX Teams, Newsrooms, Archive Product Managers

Domain:

Interface Stability / Archive Navigation

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

High

Extend the P3 laboratory archive project into a longer-duration, fully functional model, so that the proposed visual archive can be tested beyond exploratory prototype conditions.

Audience:

Researchers, Newsroom Product Teams, Developers

Domain:

Prototype Development / News Archive

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

Medium

Create cross-linked visual archives for design history - connecting authors, themes, dates, and places - so that relationships in design’s intangible heritage become visible and searchable.

Audience:

Design Historians, Curators, Educators, Digital Archivists

Domain:

Design History / Linked Archives

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Advance research at the intersection of big data, thick data, and multifaceted dashboard-like interfaces to support richer visual archives and evolving forms of interpretation.

Audience:

Researchers, Data Designers, Digital Humanities Teams

Domain:

Data-rich Interface Research

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Use Tool i as a systematic project-support instrument so that inclusiveness and identity are integrated from the earliest stages of urban resting-equipment design.

Audience:

Urban Designers, Product Designers, Municipal Teams

Domain:

Inclusive Urban Equipment / Design Method

Scope:

Meso → Macro

Feasibility:

High

Translate the tool results into project guidance that favors neutral colours, textured and local materials, wooden modular solutions with backrests, rounded edges, and bench types suited to longer stays.

Audience:

Urban Equipment Designers, Municipal Procurement Teams, Manu...

Domain:

Urban Resting Equipment / Design Guidelines

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

High

Adapt Tool i to a digital and mobile format so that the evaluation process becomes easier to deploy, document, and reuse in design practice.

Audience:

Designers, Municipal Teams, Researchers

Domain:

Digital Tooling / Urban Design Support

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

Medium-High

Improve the digital version of Tool i with a standardized evaluation grid, image upload, individual object sheets, and fields for recording the object’s exact implantation location.

Audience:

App Developers, Researchers, Municipal Asset Managers

Domain:

Data Capture / Evaluation Workflow

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

High

Disseminate Tool i and monitor its acceptance and impact among designers, municipalities, and companies, while using it to support the development of new urban-equipment concepts.

Audience:

Municipalities, Firms, Design Studios, Researchers

Domain:

Tool Dissemination / Practice Uptake

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

High

Convene municipalities, professional studios, design schools, and user groups to test the digital version of Tool i, and release the application in Portuguese and English to broaden access.

Audience:

Municipalities, Design Schools, User Groups, International P...

Domain:

Participatory Testing / Internationalization

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Extend the multipurpose-chair sample into an accessible, editable database that incorporates new chair classes and additional chairs, so the descriptive base evolves together with the ontology and supports broader retrieval and comparison.

Audience:

Researchers, Design Historians, Tool Developers

Domain:

Design Data / Chair Typologies

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

High

Formalize, extend, and implement the ontology so that functions, materials, part connections, higher shape detail, and additional generation processes are systematically represented and shareable.

Audience:

Researchers, Knowledge Engineers, Computational Designers

Domain:

Ontology Engineering / Product Representation

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

Medium-High

Extend the Multipurpose Chair Grammar with rules and parameters for greater shape detail, explicit part connections, solid-part positioning, material descriptions, and languages that go beyond multipurpose chairs.

Audience:

Computational Designers, Researchers, Furniture-System Devel...

Domain:

Grammar-Based Generative Design

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

Medium

Undertake broader analytic and synthetic tests on the MCG and Meta-Grammar by incorporating other existing specific grammars, generating new specific grammars, and applying the meta-grammar to other product classes.

Audience:

Researchers, Computational Design Evaluators

Domain:

System Evaluation / Grammar Testing

Scope:

Meso → Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Expand ChairDNA so it can generate additional multipurpose-chair variants (such as asymmetric chairs), other chair and seat types (such as longue chairs and benches), other furniture types (such as dining tables), and reusable templates for materials and design types.

Audience:

Software Developers, Designers, Researchers

Domain:

Digital Design Tooling

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

Medium-High

Refine ChairDNA with higher shape detail and automatic modes: constrain random generation, automate collections/styles/hybrid generation, and add optimization routines that select solutions against goals such as lower material use, higher resistance, or lower cost.

Audience:

Tool Developers, Designers, Optimization Researchers

Domain:

Computational Design Optimization

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

Medium

Apply the Design for Social Inclusion model in other socially excluded neighborhoods and multicultural urban contexts, adapting it to local residents, associations, and resources.

Audience:

Designers, Municipalities, NGOs, Community Associations

Domain:

Social Design / Community Inclusion

Scope:

Meso → Macro

Feasibility:

Medium-High