Research Recommendations (848)

Use richer narrative structures—such as the proposed three-act flow model—to balance engagement and concentration in VR game experiences.

Audience:

Game designers, narrative designers, researchers

Domain:

VR Game Narrative / Engagement

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

High

Develop innovative and more experimental forms of fashion exhibition that allow visitors to see, experience, and think about clothing beyond conventional display formats.

Audience:

Curators, museum professionals, researchers, exhibition desi...

Domain:

Fashion Curation / Museum Innovation

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Integrate the written, visual, and material dimensions of fashion artifacts—vêtement-écrit, vêtement-image, and vêtement-réel—more deliberately in curatorial and editorial projects.

Audience:

Researchers, curators, editors, museum educators

Domain:

Fashion Interpretation / Curatorial and Editorial Methods

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Use non-visual and multisensory devices—such as sound installations—to evoke absent garments, memory, and embodied imagination in museum contexts.

Audience:

Curators, exhibition designers, researchers, museum educator...

Domain:

Multisensory Fashion Exhibition / Sound and Memory

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Develop curatorial and editorial projects that use historical fashion material without nostalgia, treating the past as a resource for rethinking the present and future.

Audience:

Researchers, curators, editors, fashion historians

Domain:

Fashion Heritage / Temporality and Memory

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Curate fashion exhibitions as intellectually rigorous, aesthetically compelling, and socially engaged museum experiences that reflect fashion’s cultural, economic, and political significance.

Audience:

Curators, museum leaders, researchers, cultural institutions

Domain:

Fashion in the Museum / Public Engagement

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Create or adapt design-specific analytical instruments for studying tattoos, enabling systematic graphic manipulation, classification, and interpretation.

Audience:

Researchers, Graphic Designers, Tattoo Scholars

Domain:

Tattoo Studies / Graphic Analysis

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

High

Undertake a dedicated semiotic study of tattoo symbolism, with explicit procedures for collecting, describing, and synthesizing symbolic meaning in context.

Audience:

Researchers, Semioticians, Tattoo Scholars

Domain:

Semiotics / Symbolic Interpretation

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Develop a systematic study of color in tattooing—combinations, categorization, and culturally situated meanings across different contexts of application and appropriation.

Audience:

Researchers, Tattoo Artists, Color Scholars

Domain:

Color Studies / Tattoo Design

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

High

Investigate tattooing as personal branding, especially the strategic interface between communication design and marketing in the construction of bodily self-presentation.

Audience:

Researchers, Communication Designers, Marketers, Tattoo Prof...

Domain:

Personal Branding / Communication Design

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium-High

Support continuing graphic-design training for tattoo artists so they can remain competitive in markets increasingly driven by customized, communication-rich tattoo projects.

Audience:

Tattoo Artists, Educators, Studio Owners

Domain:

Professional Development / Tattoo Practice

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

High

Explore formal educational pathways in tattooing—such as a specialization or higher-education program—integrating design with health expertise from nursing, dermatology, and plastic surgery.

Audience:

Educators, Professional Bodies, Health Specialists, Tattoo S...

Domain:

Education / Professionalization

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Develop the proposed Food Design degree at ELISAVA and formalize the Food Design Lab in order to disseminate the term in Catalonia and build enough social interest for student enrolment.

Audience:

Researchers, university leaders, curriculum designers, desig...

Domain:

Food Design Higher Education / Institutionalization

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Continue building FORK as a non-profit platform and strengthen recurring dissemination initiatives such as World Food Design Day and the efood2024 conference.

Audience:

Researchers, designers, chefs, academics, professional netwo...

Domain:

Field Building / Food Design Networks and Events

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

High

Expand the scope of the research by incorporating food industry actors and agricultural and livestock production into the Food Design discourse.

Audience:

Researchers, food-industry entrepreneurs, agricultural produ...

Domain:

Food-System Expansion / Industry and Primary Production

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

It is essential to ensure that training opportunities in data visualization are provided at various levels…

Audience:

Educators

Domain:

Education

Scope:

Meso → Macro

Feasibility:

High

Reformulate/update case studies in OCS PT and compare with other countries.

Audience:

Community/Participants

Domain:

Knowledge Transfer

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

Medium

Deepen the history of dataviz from a feminist/decolonial perspective.

Audience:

Researchers

Domain:

Culture/Creative

Scope:

Micro

Feasibility:

Medium

Transform the book into a renewable collection of publications.

Audience:

Org Leaders

Domain:

Knowledge Transfer

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

High

Evaluate the 8‑hour training with exercises and long‑term assessment.

Audience:

Community/Participants

Domain:

Education

Scope:

Micro

Feasibility:

High

Evaluate inclusive clothing prototypes and workshop-developed models with real users, comparing the effects of pattern/cut, fabrics, fasteners, colors, textures, and patterns on wearability.

Audience:

Researchers, Clothing Designers, User-Test Teams

Domain:

Inclusive Clothing / Prototype Evaluation

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

High

Integrate users directly into clothing-development processes so functional, aesthetic, and symbolic requirements are refined without descaracterizing familiar garment types.

Audience:

Designers, Users, Caregivers, Rehabilitation Teams

Domain:

Co-Design / User-Centered Clothing Design

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

Medium-High

Reconfigure modeling and technical attributes—fit, openings, fabrics, and fasteners—to promote independence in dressing/undressing for people with Parkinson’s and comparable motor limitations.

Audience:

Clothing Designers, Manufacturers, Researchers

Domain:

Patternmaking / Technical Apparel Design

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

High

Investigate the symbolic, aesthetic, and identity dimensions of inclusive clothing—including stigma, self-esteem, age-coded appearance, colors, and patterns—so products support belonging instead of segregation.

Audience:

Researchers, Designers, Social Scientists

Domain:

Consumption / Identity / Inclusive Fashion

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Complement laboratory protocols with home-based qualitative studies so dressing/undressing is observed in more realistic consumption contexts.

Audience:

Researchers, Ergonomists, Apparel Designers

Domain:

Field Methods / In-Home Use Studies

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

Medium