Research Recommendations (848)

Test other sustainable textile materials—potentially including artificial fibers—with higher resistance than discontinuous silk (anafaia), both for the support base and for the material used to produce the embroidery itself.

Audience:

Researchers, Engineers, Designers

Domain:

Sustainable Fibers / Materials

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

Medium-High

Develop new applications of the resulting materials and techniques in textile and fashion design beyond women’s clothing, extending the innovation to other product categories and user groups.

Audience:

Designers, Industry Partners

Domain:

Product Diversification / Market Transfer

Scope:

Meso → Macro

Feasibility:

High

Create improved methods for stabilizing and transferring motifs onto nonwoven supports—such as temporary reinforcements/interlinings and mold-based motif transfer—to overcome the difficulties observed when using horizontal frames and when marking designs directly on the surface.

Audience:

Designers, Artisans, Engineers

Domain:

Embroidery Process / Stabilization

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

High

Validate whether the proposed model is applicable to ceramic claddings other than glazed tiles (azulejos).

Audience:

Researchers, Manufacturers, Architects

Domain:

Ceramic Claddings / Model Transfer

Scope:

Meso → Macro

Feasibility:

Medium-High

Embed the strategy across the company’s broader product-portfolio and dissemination strategy, rather than limiting it to the design process alone.

Audience:

Manufacturers, Design Managers, Marketing Teams

Domain:

Portfolio Strategy / Ceramic Industry

Scope:

Meso → Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Create a database that documents typical behaviours of ceramic glazes under different viewing and geographic conditions, including context, light, and observer position.

Audience:

Researchers, Manufacturers, Designers

Domain:

Materials / Glaze Behaviour / Perception

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

Medium

Develop an evidence base on how tile patterns — including colour, composition, motif scale, and motif density — affect surface appearance and spatial perception.

Audience:

Researchers, Designers, Architects

Domain:

Pattern Perception / Spatial Design

Scope:

Micro → Meso

Feasibility:

Medium-High

Study alternative installation/application solutions that reduce the cost impact of using tile-based claddings.

Audience:

Manufacturers, Engineers, Architects

Domain:

Installation Systems / Cost Reduction

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

High

Verify the real-world impact of adopting the strategy among producers, architects, and users when products are developed according to the proposed model.

Audience:

Researchers, Manufacturers, Architects, Users

Domain:

Adoption / Stakeholder Impact

Scope:

Meso → Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Assess whether the strategy can be transferred to design models for other product types beyond ceramic claddings.

Audience:

Researchers, Designers

Domain:

Cross-domain Design Strategy

Scope:

Micro → Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Optimize and develop symbolic-reference practices as information-aggregating processes in dynamic teaching-learning models for Communication Design.

Audience:

Researchers, Educators

Domain:

Design Education / Symbolic Representation

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

Medium-High

Study drawing/schematic representation as an active memorization tool in design projects, including its role in searching for solutions and communicating ideas.

Audience:

Researchers, Educators

Domain:

Design Cognition / Memory / Drawing

Scope:

Micro → Meso

Feasibility:

Medium

Investigate drawing as an expression of dramatic-intensity variation and as a way to map paths or event sequences in continuous-progress schemas.

Audience:

Researchers, Educators, Designers

Domain:

Visual Representation / Audiovisual Design

Scope:

Micro → Meso

Feasibility:

Medium

Frame future experimental work as an ecologically valid quasi-experimental contrast study with two groups and two evaluation moments (immediate and delayed).

Audience:

Researchers, Educators

Domain:

Educational Experimentation / Learning Assessment

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

High

Investigate why the drawing exercise was experienced as cryptic yet symbolically positive, including the role of individual interpretation and mental imagery.

Audience:

Researchers, Educators

Domain:

Learning Experience / Mental Imagery

Scope:

Micro

Feasibility:

Medium-High

Extend the chromatic-planning methodology from the three Lisbon case-study quarters to the remaining neighbourhoods of Lisbon and to other existing or new urban developments.

Audience:

Researchers, municipalities, urban designers, planners

Domain:

Urban Furniture Chromatic Planning / Method Extension

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

High

Develop applications of the chromatic-planning methodology for smaller exterior environments such as forest parks, theme parks, zoos, and sports complexes.

Audience:

Researchers, park managers, environmental designers, municip...

Domain:

Chromatic Planning in Smaller Exterior Spaces

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Apply the methodology in large interior environments that require specific orientation systems, such as hospitals, congress centres, airports, transport hubs, educational institutions, and large commercial areas.

Audience:

Researchers, interior designers, hospital planners, transpor...

Domain:

Interior Wayfinding / Chromatic Planning

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Investigate the impact that unpleasant or provocative images have on receivers in the context of contemporary-art posters.

Audience:

Researchers, visual-culture scholars, designers, curators

Domain:

Emotional Impact of Images / Poster Reception

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Study the future, destination, and status of the contemporary-art poster as an exhibition memory object, collection object, and heritage artefact requiring preservation and archival safeguarding.

Audience:

Researchers, museums, archives, curators, collectors

Domain:

Poster Preservation / Collection and Heritage

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Investigate future brain mechanisms involved in the selection of provocative images and explore how this knowledge could be applied in everyday visual communication.

Audience:

Researchers, cognitive scientists, designers, communication...

Domain:

Cognitive Mechanisms / Visual Selection

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Low-Medium

Validate the proposed design-process methodology through wider application in Almadesign projects and in other design practices using active research cycles.

Audience:

Researchers, Designers, Org Leaders

Domain:

Design Process Management

Scope:

Meso → Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Study in more detail how specific critical factors influence design-process development at each stage.

Audience:

Researchers, Designers

Domain:

Critical Factors / Process Diagnostics

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

Medium

Clarify the importance of surrounding cultural environments and cultural background for the success of creative solutions generated by the design process.

Audience:

Researchers, Educators, Org Leaders

Domain:

Culture / Creativity / Design Outcomes

Scope:

Meso → Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Investigate the role of designers’ experience and individual/collective memory in design decision making inside organizations such as design studios.

Audience:

Researchers, Educators

Domain:

Design Cognition / Expertise / Memory

Scope:

Micro → Meso

Feasibility:

Medium