Research Recommendations (848)

Translate ergonomic wearability findings into garment specifications: prioritize natural/stretch fabrics, pattern blocks that respect articulation and morphology, easier fasteners than small buttons, and waist/abdomen accommodations that do not compress the body when seated.

Audience:

Apparel Designers, Patternmakers, Manufacturers

Domain:

Ergonomic Apparel / Patternmaking

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

High

Design and evaluate safer lower-body dressing solutions and dressing protocols—especially for socks, shoes, and trousers—that support seated or supported dressing and reduce fear of falls during daily routines.

Audience:

Designers, Occupational Therapists, Older Adults, Care Teams

Domain:

Dressing Safety / Lower-Body Garments

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

Medium-High

Investigate clothing requirements for older adults with specific physical and cognitive limitations that more strongly compromise autonomous dressing/undressing, extending beyond relatively independent and healthy seniors.

Audience:

Researchers, Designers, Care Providers

Domain:

Inclusive Clothing / Aging with Limitations

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Refine and replicate interdisciplinary mixed-method protocols that combine anthropometry, strength/dexterity, mobility testing, interviews, and simulated dressing tasks to generate richer evidence for elderly-clothing design across populations and contexts.

Audience:

Researchers, Design Labs, Human-Factors Teams

Domain:

Research Methods / Clothing Ergonomics

Scope:

Meso → Macro

Feasibility:

High

Work on sustainability from the beginning of the degree to reduce student'sdifficultyin dealing with the compelxity of inserting it.

Audience:

Educators, Curriculum Designers

Domain:

Design Education / Sustainability

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

Medium

Avoid separating projects into “sustainable” and “non‑sustainable”, treating sustainability as a transversal premise.

Audience:

Educators, Students

Domain:

Design Education / Sustainability

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

Medium

Have specific sustainability courses to reduce fragmented knowledge.

Audience:

Educators, Program Coordinators

Domain:

Design Education

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

Medium

Working on sustainability through project‑based approaches to reduce the difficulty of applying concepts in practice.

Audience:

Educators, Students

Domain:

Project-based Learning / Sustainability

Scope:

Micro → Meso

Feasibility:

Medium

Including sustainability in course syllabi to avoid dependence on the teacher’s individual will or vision.

Audience:

Program Coordinators, Educators

Domain:

Curriculum Governance

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

Medium

Proposing classroom practices to address sustainability, supporting teachers in identifying the most effective teaching approaches.

Audience:

Educators

Domain:

Pedagogical Tools

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

Medium

Develop a dedicated course model with defined objectives, contents, and competencies to minimise fragmented knowledge and existing gaps.

Audience:

Educators, Curriculum Designers

Domain:

Design Education / Sustainability

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

Medium

Conducting sustainability workshops and meetings to ensure instructors remain updated and to align divergent pedagogical perspectives.

Audience:

Educators

Domain:

Faculty Development

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

Medium

Develop a questionnaire to diagnose how sustainability is being integrated into higher education.

Audience:

Researchers, Policymakers

Domain:

Education Evaluation

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Implement the proposed model and assess impacts using the questionnaire before and after.

Audience:

Researchers, Educators

Domain:

Design Education / Sustainability

Scope:

Meso → Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Conduct studies in additional countries to verify whether the model can be applied in other contexts.

Audience:

Researchers

Domain:

Comparative Design Education

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Adopt the processes tested in the thesis within design project courses, explicitly redirecting them toward social demands in vulnerable neighbourhoods.

Audience:

Educators, design students, social-design researchers

Domain:

Design Education / Social Design Pedagogy

Scope:

Meso → Macro

Feasibility:

High

Structure a university extension project centred on 'design culture' to first strengthen the university community’s understanding of design and then extend this work to the social demands of São Luís.

Audience:

Universities, educators, communities, public institutions

Domain:

University Extension / Design Culture

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Disseminate the thesis results through journals, scientific events, seminars, and networks in order to consolidate a scientific community around social and participatory design and its relation to the right to the city.

Audience:

Researchers, educators, network coordinators

Domain:

Field Building / Social Design Research

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

High

Strengthen ties between UFMA, FAUL, and other Portuguese research institutions in order to continue studying public funding instruments such as BIP/ZIP and their impact on social design and the professional survival of social designers.

Audience:

Researchers, universities, policy actors

Domain:

Funding Models / Social Design Infrastructures

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Investigate parametric modeling as a core strategy for 3D-printed wearable design and test how it should be inserted into fashion-design curricula, especially in Brazil.

Audience:

Researchers, Educators, Program Leads

Domain:

Parametric Design / Curriculum

Scope:

Meso → Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Conduct user testing of 3D-printed wearable surfaces, focusing on tactile perception, visual perception, comfort, acceptance, and perceived usability.

Audience:

Researchers, Designers, Educators

Domain:

User Research / Wearability

Scope:

Micro → Meso

Feasibility:

High

Expand research from isolated wearable surfaces to full garments, investigating how 3D printing can rethink silhouette and challenge traditional clothing concepts.

Audience:

Researchers, Designers

Domain:

Garment Form / Silhouette

Scope:

Micro → Meso

Feasibility:

Medium

Form transdisciplinary research teams to study material properties, new uses, and experimentation pathways for 3D-printed fashion surfaces and products.

Audience:

Researchers, Designers, Engineers, Org Leaders

Domain:

Materials / Transdisciplinary R&D

Scope:

Meso → Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Transfer 3D-printing research beyond the academic environment into industry and user co-creation, including personalization and user participation as creator.

Audience:

Designers, Product/Service Owners, Community/Participants, O...

Domain:

Industry Transfer / Co-creation

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Take the research as a starting point to continue performatively deconstructing and recomposing visual communication design so that its possibilities for different kinds of social design practices become visible.

Audience:

Researchers, Designers, Educators

Domain:

Visual Communication Design / Social Design

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium