Research Recommendations (848)

Use photography learning combined with public, open-air exhibitions outside the neighborhood as a recurring intervention to widen young participants’ horizons and reduce stigma.

Audience:

Educators, Photographers, Cultural Mediators, Youth Workers

Domain:

Photography Education / Urban Exhibition

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

High

Design participatory interventions through immersion, trust-building, careful listening, and co-working with residents, using local associations and community resources as the project base.

Audience:

Designers, Community Facilitators, NGOs

Domain:

Participatory Design / Community Mediation

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

Medium

Prioritize children and young people in these interventions so they gain artistic, technical, organizational, and teamwork tools that can support future agency and social mobility.

Audience:

Educators, Youth Programs, Community Associations

Domain:

Youth Capacity Building / Art Education

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

High

Evaluate community-art interventions longitudinally, focusing on political and social effects, quality of participation, and levels of interaction rather than only short-term aesthetic outputs.

Audience:

Researchers, Municipalities, NGOs

Domain:

Impact Evaluation / Community Arts

Scope:

Meso → Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Extend the model beyond photography to other forms of public or urban art and to additional case studies on citizenship and inclusion.

Audience:

Researchers, Artists, Curators, Educators

Domain:

Public Art / Citizenship

Scope:

Meso → Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Complete the legal protection package for the product—brand, idea, and industrial registration—and consolidate a brand standards manual before public market launch.

Audience:

Inventors, Product Developers, Commercialization Teams

Domain:

IP Strategy / Product Launch

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

High

Develop a commercial version of Set-Fly and prepare a first limited production series, including packaging, labels, sales samples, and a detailed cost/price study with industry partners.

Audience:

Industrial Partners, Product Developers, Commercial Teams

Domain:

Product Development / Industrialization

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

Medium-High

Run usability testing on a small series of Set-Fly units and combine the results with a user-validated price study to guide final rectifications before commercialization.

Audience:

Researchers, Users, Product Developers

Domain:

Usability / Market Validation

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

Medium

Prepare a dissemination and go-to-market plan that includes marketing studies, publicity, channel selection and negotiation, and presentation at international fairs.

Audience:

Commercial Teams, Marketers, Industry Partners

Domain:

Go-to-Market / Dissemination

Scope:

Meso → Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Develop and test lighting solutions for low-visibility luggage interiors—such as LED-equipped compartments—so that access to contents becomes easier in dim travel environments.

Audience:

Product Designers, Materials/Technology Researchers

Domain:

Travel Accessories / Lighting

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

Medium

Apply and test the asymmetric colour-and-shape mapping strategy used in Set-Fly in other bags and carrying systems, so users can build intuitive mental maps of where object groups are stored.

Audience:

Designers, Inclusive-Design Researchers, Bag Manufacturers

Domain:

Inclusive Wayfinding / Bag Organization

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

High

Translate the Athena Design & Company Model into an easy-access digital tool with portrait, diagnosis, and scenario-simulation modes, plus visual and numerical outputs for company decision support.

Audience:

SME Owners, Entrepreneurs, Design Strategists

Domain:

Strategic Design / Decision Support Tool

Scope:

Meso → Macro

Feasibility:

Medium-High

Develop the tool through an iterative, user-centred pilot pathway: begin with a generic version, test it with a company association and a small group of selected firms, refine it, and repeat.

Audience:

Researchers, SME Associations, Pilot Companies

Domain:

Pilot Implementation / Iterative Development

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

High

Assemble a multidisciplinary development team covering marketing/sales, finance, HR, ICT/production, UX/design, and innovation/R&D to turn the model into a practical tool.

Audience:

Research Leads, Funders, Support Agencies

Domain:

Team Formation / Innovation Infrastructure

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

Medium-High

Develop derivative versions of the Athena model—such as mathematical, more detailed, or more sector-specific variants—and adapt communication artifacts to different audiences and purposes.

Audience:

Researchers, Educators, SME Support Bodies

Domain:

Model Development / Communication Design

Scope:

Meso → Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Integrate insolvency-prediction ratios and scenario-planning functions into the tool so companies can anticipate declining stages, test alternatives, and take preventive decisions.

Audience:

SME Owners, Financial Advisors, Support Agencies

Domain:

Risk Forecasting / Financial Diagnosis

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

Medium

Disseminate the model through education, training, and design-literacy programs for entrepreneurs, SMEs, and knowledge centers, using clear, inclusive, and audience-adapted communication.

Audience:

Entrepreneurs, SMEs, Designers, Educators

Domain:

Design Literacy / Capacity Building

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

High

Carry out a practical evaluation of the model’s postgraduate P&D block, since the current empirical testing focused mainly on the MAiTE Toolkit’s process block.

Audience:

Researchers, Postgraduate Program Leads, Educators

Domain:

Postgraduate Design Education

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

High

Conduct deeper sector-specific and product-niche studies with the MAiTE approach, instead of relying only on broad cross-sector territorial-promotion exercises.

Audience:

Researchers, Designers, Sector Specialists

Domain:

Sectoral Application / Local Products

Scope:

Meso → Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Map and document local materials and know-how systematically so as to preserve material culture and support future design projects.

Audience:

Researchers, Cultural Institutions, Local Producers

Domain:

Material Culture Documentation / Territorial Knowledge

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Develop a digital and online version of the MAiTE Toolkit to improve interaction, usability, and dissemination, especially across Portuguese-speaking countries.

Audience:

Educators, Students, Designers

Domain:

Digital Toolkit / Educational Technology

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

High

Deepen the study of co-creation within material-driven design for territorial promotion, since this dimension was included but not fully developed in the current model.

Audience:

Researchers, Designers, Local Producers, Communities

Domain:

Co-creation / Material-Driven Design

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

Medium

Reflect on and evaluate the model in the Portuguese context, and potentially in other Lusophone contexts, beyond the Brazilian setting in which it was designed and tested.

Audience:

Researchers, Educators, Lusophone Institutions

Domain:

Cross-Context Transfer / Lusophone Design Studies

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Experiment systematically with alternative, non-elastic materials to replace traditional cotton thread while preserving the bobbin-lace technique.

Audience:

Researchers, artisans, craft designers

Domain:

Craft Innovation / Materials Research

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Develop contemporary and useful products that move bobbin lace beyond its direct association with the traditional napron and other purely ornamental textile objects.

Audience:

Designers, artisans, local producers, retailers

Domain:

Product Design / Craft Resignification

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

High