Research Recommendations (856)

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

Take indiscipline further as both a hypothesis and a method in studies with and about diffuse designers, and in research that combines theories from within and beyond design.

Audience:

Researchers

Domain:

Design Theory / Diffuse Design

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Explore in depth the diffuse side of design as a way for design experts to better understand the politics of designing things with others.

Audience:

Researchers, Designers, Community Partners

Domain:

Participatory Design / Politics of Design

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Expand the inventive and pedagogic potentials of indiscipline as a concept for understanding the social turn and for practicing socially engaged design in ways that are better for others and for designers themselves.

Audience:

Educators, Researchers, Designers

Domain:

Design Education / Social Design Pedagogy

Scope:

Meso → Macro

Feasibility:

Medium-High

Articulate indiscipline in design education by investigating how and when students may be ready for design practice to become a more living thing.

Audience:

Educators, Researchers

Domain:

Design Education / Professional Readiness

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

Medium

Study the transformation of Project disciplines through the philosophical concept of hospitality, examining how Design, Architecture, and Urbanism can host one another in genuinely transdisciplinary ways.

Audience:

Researchers, design theorists, architects, urbanists

Domain:

Project Theory / Transdisciplinarity

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Investigate the future implications of the technological hand—such as prosthetic and technologically mediated hands—for ethics, neurological relations with the brain, and Project activities.

Audience:

Researchers, designers, ergonomists, technologists, philosop...

Domain:

Technology, Body, and Project Practice

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Low-Medium

Revisit the neglected Alpine and Expressionist strands of architecture within the broader understanding of the Modern Movement in order to better comprehend the totality of the twentieth century.

Audience:

Researchers, architects, design historians, educators

Domain:

Architectural History / Modernity Studies

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Create partnership mechanisms between educational institutions and executing companies.

Audience:

Educators, Industry

Domain:

Education / Industry collaboration

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

Medium

Implement a Technological Observatory to validate projects according to standards and production fluxes.

Audience:

Educators, Industry

Domain:

Technology education

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

Medium

Simulate real time and resource constraints in academic environments.

Audience:

Educators

Domain:

Design Education

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

High

Scale the enabling platform to other contexts/countries.

Audience:

Policymakers

Domain:

Civic

Scope:

Micro → Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Vocational training course within vocational schools using local raw materials.

Audience:

Designers and Engineers

Domain:

Work-Integrated Learning

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium-High

Social innovation through Design as a subject in higher‑education programmes.

Audience:

Educators

Domain:

Education

Scope:

Meso → Macro

Feasibility:

High

Illustrated book explaining strategies for professionals.

Audience:

Org Leaders

Domain:

Knowledge Transfer

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

High

Strengthen the relationship between HEIs and cooperatives (e.g., Aproximar) through courses/projects.

Audience:

Product/Service Owners

Domain:

Knowledge Transfer

Scope:

Micro → Meso

Feasibility:

Medium

Bring SJC and CSOs closer to increase social reintegration.

Audience:

Policymakers

Domain:

Civic

Scope:

Micro → Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Implement the enabling platform in SJC (rollout)

Audience:

Product/Service Owners

Domain:

Project Management

Scope:

Micro → Meso

Feasibility:

Medium