Research Recommendations (848)

Use the proposed actions to support curricular change, including the integration of new curricular units, the attribution of credits for participation in external programs, and the reinforcement of programmatic content.

Audience:

Curriculum leaders, educators, higher-education institutions

Domain:

Curriculum Reform / Fashion Design Education

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Create a platform dedicated to Entrepreneurial Fashion Design Education that brings together interested actors, institutional partners, and professionals from the sector.

Audience:

Researchers, educators, industry professionals, institutions

Domain:

Knowledge Platform / Fashion Design Education

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Establish a national or international body to promote entrepreneurship in Fashion Design and to disseminate and support the initiatives proposed in the thesis.

Audience:

Policy actors, institutions, educators, industry leaders

Domain:

Field Governance / Fashion Entrepreneurship

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Low-Medium

Study and disseminate subjective aspects and immaterial dimensions oriented toward sustainability as a relevant way to raise awareness of the environmental impact generated by solid waste.

Audience:

Researchers, educators, sustainability scholars, designers

Domain:

Sustainability and Design Theory / Immateriality

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Promote the application of the Design, Objects and Memory (DOM) itinerary in product-design project units in order to evaluate paradigm shifts among students.

Audience:

Educators, students, product-design programs

Domain:

Design Education / DOM Itinerary

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

High

Continue evaluating individuals’ involvement with everyday objects in order to identify the motives for disposal and to follow the impacts of the energetic paradigm shift in product-design teaching and practice.

Audience:

Researchers, educators, product designers

Domain:

Object Attachment / Disposal / Sustainable Product Design

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Testing with the target audience to measure fluency, comprehension, and completion time.

Audience:

Community/Participants

Domain:

Education

Scope:

Micro

Feasibility:

High

Run a pilot in early‑childhood schools focused on symbol literacy.

Audience:

Policymakers

Domain:

Education

Scope:

Micro → Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Care‑symbol labelling — multi‑brand pilot project.

Audience:

Policymakers

Domain:

Civic

Scope:

Micro → Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Use comics as a tool for literacy in instructional manuals.

Audience:

Designers

Domain:

HCI

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

High

A simpler system with fewer symbols to improve memorization.

Audience:

Designers

Domain:

HCI

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

High

Study the relationship between symbol literacy and disposal/environment.

Audience:

Researchers

Domain:

Sustainability

Scope:

Micro

Feasibility:

Medium

Continue validating the Wi·Air concept through user focus groups, application tests, and scenario-specific experimentation beyond expert review.

Audience:

Researchers, product developers, UX teams

Domain:

Scent Interface Validation / UXD

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

High

Develop Wi·Air as an open, smart-compatibility system for aroma diffusion that operates within existing Wi-Fi infrastructures rather than requiring a dedicated network protocol.

Audience:

Product developers, IoT designers, industry partners

Domain:

IoT / Smart Aroma Diffusion

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium-High

Create a structured database to document ideas, applications, experiences, and test results so that knowledge generated through Wi·Air can be reused and developed in the future.

Audience:

Researchers, developers, innovation managers

Domain:

Knowledge Management / Design Innovation

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

High

Promote continuous and transversal development and testing of applications so that Wi·Air can evolve through collaborative, iterative improvement across multiple teams and contexts.

Audience:

Researchers, industrial partners, multidisciplinary teams

Domain:

Collaborative Innovation / Product-Service Development

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Expand research and product development into the broad range of application domains identified for smart aroma interfaces, including health and well-being, medicine, domotics, safety, training, entertainment, marketing, culture, and transport.

Audience:

Researchers, designers, industry partners, public-sector inn...

Domain:

Scent Interfaces / Application Development

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Critically analyse the implementation of the proposed action model, concretized as a curricular unit within polytechnic education, and test its replicability in other polytechnic institutions and with other endangered craft techniques.

Audience:

Researchers, educators, curriculum leaders, craft communitie...

Domain:

Design Education / Heritage Safeguarding

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

After the model is implemented and consistent relationships with artisans and the local community are established, evaluate the results obtained in order to define new perspectives that contribute to the promotion, safeguarding, knowledge transmission, and production of Nisa inlaid pottery.

Audience:

Researchers, artisans, local communities, heritage instituti...

Domain:

Heritage Safeguarding / Community Collaboration

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Organise a candidature of Nisa inlaid pottery to UNESCO’s List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding, building on the evidence and collaborative structures developed through the research.

Audience:

Policy makers, heritage institutions, researchers, municipal...

Domain:

Cultural Policy / Intangible Heritage

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Low-Medium

Deepen the investigation of materiality as a complementary counterpart to the current hegemony of visual and digital design tools in project practice.

Audience:

Researchers, design educators, practitioners

Domain:

Design Theory / Materiality

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Develop the concept and application of intensive diagrams beyond atmospheric construction, exploring other ways in which the affective body can articulate project processes.

Audience:

Researchers, designers

Domain:

Intensive Diagrams / Design Tools

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Investigate the cognitive mechanisms that may explain how intensive diagrams support designers’ perception of spaces and objects and the transfer of qualities into final design outcomes.

Audience:

Researchers, cognitive design scholars

Domain:

Design Cognition / Perception

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Low-Medium

Explore additional operational and enriching ways in which the capacities associated with intensive diagrams can be applied within design practice.

Audience:

Designers, educators, researchers

Domain:

Design Practice Innovation

Scope:

Meso → Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Use the newly organized archive to identify additional, still-unknown works by Alberto Cardoso and relate them to his confirmed oeuvre.

Audience:

Researchers, archivists, design historians

Domain:

Design History / Archival Research

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium