Research Recommendations (848)

Undertake a more detailed study of Alberto Cardoso’s calligraphic work and hand-drawn lettering, given its experimental and highly distinctive character.

Audience:

Researchers, typographers, historians of lettering

Domain:

Calligraphy / Lettering History

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Carry out a rigorous study of Alberto Cardoso’s exhibition stands, potentially through a stronger dialogue with architecture and spatial-design research.

Audience:

Researchers, exhibition designers, architects

Domain:

Stand Design / Spatial Design History

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Develop a deeper analysis of Cardoso’s illustrated advertising, especially the recurring figurative elements and graphic resources that function as his distinctive signature.

Audience:

Researchers, advertising historians, illustrators

Domain:

Illustrated Advertising / Graphic Language

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Continue the analytical study of Cardoso’s oeuvre using the grid applied in the thesis—or another more suitable tool—in order to produce deeper critical readings and support future Portuguese design-history research.

Audience:

Researchers, design historians

Domain:

Methods for Design-History Analysis

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

High

Implement concrete, practical sustainability measures in editorial and newspaper design, addressing environmental, social, and economic dimensions together.

Audience:

Designers, editors, publishers, sustainability managers

Domain:

Graphic Design for Sustainability / Editorial Design

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Adopt compact or reduced newspaper formats and space-saving layout strategies where they preserve usability, readability, and symbolic value.

Audience:

Editorial designers, publishers, production managers

Domain:

Newspaper Format and Layout

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

Medium-High

Further develop newspaper typefaces and text composition strategies that improve readability while also saving space.

Audience:

Type designers, editorial designers, researchers

Domain:

Typography / Readability / Space Optimization

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

Medium

Use lifecycle thinking and sustainability certifications more systematically in newspaper design and production decisions.

Audience:

Publishers, production managers, sustainability teams

Domain:

Lifecycle Design / Production Sustainability

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Make graphic design for newspapers more inclusive, especially for older readers, while combining sustainability goals with accessibility and reading comfort.

Audience:

Editorial designers, publishers, accessibility researchers

Domain:

Inclusive Editorial Design

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

High

Investigate barriers to implementation—especially managerial conservatism, symbolic attachment to larger formats, and market resistance—and develop strategies to support adoption of sustainable editorial design.

Audience:

Publishers, managers, researchers, industry associations

Domain:

Change Management in Editorial Design

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Ensure the presence of transgressive educators who can challenge dominant epistemologies and pedagogical routines in design education.

Audience:

Educators, Curriculum Leaders

Domain:

Design Education / Decolonial Pedagogy

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Embed pedagogical actions directly within design project practice instead of separating critical reflection from project-based learning.

Audience:

Educators, Students

Domain:

Studio Pedagogy / Decolonial Design

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

High

Start from projects that are explicitly linked to local context, community realities, and lived conditions rather than abstract or imported problem framings.

Audience:

Educators, Students, Community Partners

Domain:

Context-based Design / Community Engagement

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

Medium-High

Seek other epistemological directions in design teaching by incorporating non-hegemonic references, Latin American thought, and plural ways of knowing and making.

Audience:

Educators, Researchers

Domain:

Epistemology / Design Education

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Teach design through historical understanding that values collective memories and resistance movements as sources of design knowledge and critical positioning.

Audience:

Educators, Students

Domain:

History of Design / Memory Studies

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Affirm Brazilian decolonial design education as a political utopia that orients teaching toward transformation rather than mere professional adaptation.

Audience:

Researchers, Educators, Policymakers

Domain:

Design Education Policy / Decolonial Futures

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Low-Medium

Apply a staged action process supported by participatory methods to the development of scenographic television spaces in soap operas and other complex audiovisual productions.

Audience:

Production designers, scenographers, audiovisual researchers

Domain:

Production Design / Audiovisual Processes

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Integrate ethical and sustainable lifecycle thinking into the pre-production, production, and reception analysis of television scenography.

Audience:

Researchers, production teams, broadcasters

Domain:

Sustainable Audiovisual Design

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Use repertory building, mapping, classification, and selection tools to support informed scenographic decision-making in pre-production.

Audience:

Production designers, art directors, design educators

Domain:

Scenographic Decision Support

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

High

Orient scenographic construction toward clearly identified audiences, communication objectives, and value propositions, treating scenic space as a strategic communication device.

Audience:

Scenographers, production designers, broadcasters

Domain:

Scenography as Communication

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Strengthen Production Design education and professional training so future teams can work with rapid, serialized, and industrial audiovisual production in a more integrated way.

Audience:

Educators, students, production professionals

Domain:

Production Design Education

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Adapt the UCD4VR framework to domains beyond digital games while preserving the use of virtual reality and reconfiguring the cultural context.

Audience:

Researchers, students, VR designers

Domain:

Human-Centered VR Design Frameworks

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Integrate eye-tracking and facial-tracking technologies in VR in order to apply Face-Reading directly within immersive environments.

Audience:

Researchers, VR developers, UX evaluators

Domain:

Emotion Evaluation in VR

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

Medium

Redesign emotional-evaluation instruments used in VR so that they are easier to understand, more visually appealing, and themselves engaging to participants.

Audience:

Researchers, UX designers, evaluation-tool developers

Domain:

Evaluation Tools / UX in VR

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

High

Create a unified and visually attractive evaluation tool that aggregates multiple emotional and interaction measures into a single instrument using contemporary interaction media.

Audience:

Researchers, HCI designers, VR developers

Domain:

Integrated Evaluation Instruments

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

Medium