Research Recommendations (856)

Apply the model in new studies and train professionals in ecodesign.

Audience:

Educators

Domain:

Knowledge Transfer

Scope:

Meso → Macro

Feasibility:

High

Survey of formal and informal businesses operating in the sector.

Audience:

Community/Participants

Domain:

Manufacturing

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

High

LCA of MDF including transport, use, and end of life.

Audience:

Researchers

Domain:

Sustainability

Scope:

Micro

Feasibility:

Medium

Demonstrate the conceptual model through practice in multiple domains—social, consumption, education, and health—to verify its adequacy wherever participatory collaboration is central.

Audience:

Researchers, Educators, Social-innovation Teams

Domain:

Participatory Design / Cross-Domain Application

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Apply and validate the model in real professional contexts—not only academic tests—especially in retail-like and social settings, including projects aimed at improving the quality of everyday urban life.

Audience:

Researchers, Practitioners, Urban-innovation Teams

Domain:

Urban Experience / Event Design

Scope:

Meso → Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Simplify the visual schema of the model and develop a procedural guide so that its concepts, relations, and movements become easier to understand, teach, and apply.

Audience:

Researchers, Educators, Practitioners

Domain:

Method Communication / Knowledge Transfer

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

High

Develop domain-specific application typologies and practical demonstrations of the conceptual model through trials in professional (non-academic) project contexts.

Audience:

Researchers, Practitioners, Project Leads

Domain:

Application Typologies / Professional Practice

Scope:

Meso → Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Test the model against the sociotechnical systems of concrete problem-situations, including stakeholder needs and expectations, human physical and cognitive capacities, and the relation between behavior and technology.

Audience:

Researchers, Designers, Stakeholders / Community Participant...

Domain:

Sociotechnical Design / Human Factors

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Investigate, from an anthropological perspective, the comparative relation between models of social ritualization and non-linear cultural models of time.

Audience:

Researchers

Domain:

Anthropology of Design / Time and Ritual

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Low-Medium

Extend co-learning, non-formal co-production laboratories such as EPAT and Capulanar to other graduate design schools and formal learning environments.

Audience:

Educators, Researchers, Design schools

Domain:

Design Education / Social Innovation

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Reinforce formal accreditation, technical upskilling, and labor recognition for African immigrant tailors through tailored educational programs.

Audience:

Policy makers, educators, vocational schools, immigrant supp...

Domain:

Vocational Education / Tailoring / Inclusion

Scope:

Meso → Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Design training programs that integrate technical and theoretical learning simultaneously within a shared cultural context, contextualizing knowledge transfer at each phase.

Audience:

Educators, training coordinators, vocational instructors

Domain:

Co-learning Pedagogy / Tailoring Education

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

High

Use cultural knowledge as a design resource to co-create products that embody affectivity and slow-fashion, thereby strengthening African identity in diaspora contexts.

Audience:

Designers, researchers, fashion educators

Domain:

Fashion Design / Cultural Sustainability

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Develop Capulanar as an open-source platform to update the uncut capulana in contemporary African sartorial practices and to position emerging Mozambican designers within sustainable fashion systems.

Audience:

Fashion designers, educators, entrepreneurs

Domain:

Open-source Fashion / Sustainable Fashion Systems

Scope:

Meso → Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Conduct larger-scale studies with statistical analysis of hostel data in order to validate and refine the proposed interior-design / sustainability / well-being model.

Audience:

Researchers, Hospitality Analysts, Interior Designers

Domain:

Hospitality Evaluation / Sustainability

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Study the effect of hostel website design on hostel choice, and its relation to online word-of-mouth and feedback.

Audience:

Researchers, Designers, Hostel Managers

Domain:

Digital Experience / Word-of-Mouth

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Carry out cross-cultural, cross-sectional studies comparing hostels in different cities and countries.

Audience:

Researchers, Hospitality Networks

Domain:

Cross-Cultural Hospitality Design

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Undertake longitudinal studies on the evolution of the identified characteristics over time, including seasonal, weather-related, and other external indicators.

Audience:

Researchers, Hostel Managers, Sustainability Analysts

Domain:

Longitudinal Indoor Environmental Quality / Well-Being

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Transform the exploratory conceptual model into a real-life assessment and design-guide tool for practitioners.

Audience:

Designers, Practitioners, Hostel Managers

Domain:

Assessment Tool / Design Guide

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

High

Expand the use of user questionnaires to enrich the qualitative findings and further improve the evaluation instruments.

Audience:

Researchers, Designers, Hostel Managers

Domain:

User Feedback / Instrument Refinement

Scope:

Meso → Macro

Feasibility:

High

Develop and systematize transdisciplinary practices (art + design) aimed at social innovation in vulnerable urban contexts.

Audience:

Researchers, Designers, Cultural Institutions, Policymakers

Domain:

Art & Design Activism / Social Innovation

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Apply participatory and co‑design methodologies as a central axis of projects with citizens from vulnerable residential areas.

Audience:

Designers, Community Organizations, Municipal Services

Domain:

Participatory Design / Co-design

Scope:

Micro → Meso

Feasibility:

Medium-High

Use a transmedia logic to document and disseminate interventions (photography, video, archive) in order to amplify learning and public awareness.

Audience:

Researchers, Cultural Institutions, Public Audiences

Domain:

Transmedia Documentation / Communication Design

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

High

Create and maintain a visual and audiovisual archive/atlas of the interventions, with public access and curatorship, in order to generate knowledge and promote social awareness.

Audience:

Researchers, Archivists, Cultural Institutions

Domain:

Archiving / Visual Atlas

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium-High

Strengthen the evaluation and validation of projects through expert panels (e.g., Delphi) to ensure rigor and improve future interventions.

Audience:

Researchers, Policymakers, Public Administration

Domain:

Impact Evaluation / Delphi

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium