Research Recommendations (848)

Adopt student‑centred learning pedagogical models.

Audience:

Educators

Domain:

Pedagogy / Learning Design

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

High

Use co‑design workshops with students and teachers to develop soft skills teaching pedagogical strategies.

Audience:

Educators, Researchers

Domain:

Design Education Research

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

Medium

Develop pedagogical frameworks and practical activities to guide teachers on the promotion od the use of soft skills in design projects.

Audience:

Educators

Domain:

Pedagogical Tools

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

Medium

Promote learning environments based on reflection, sharing, and co‑creation.

Audience:

Educators

Domain:

Learning Theory

Scope:

Micro → Meso

Feasibility:

High

Conduct additional empirical studies on soft‑skills teaching methods.

Audience:

Researchers

Domain:

Design Education Research

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Evaluate longitudinally the effectiveness of the proposed pedagogical model for the lecturing of soft skills in design.

Audience:

Researchers, Educators

Domain:

Educational Evaluation

Scope:

Meso → Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Encourage groups of students to visit local spaces in order to discover their origin and provenance, identify visually meaningful objects, and document and disseminate them through design.

Audience:

Educators, students, researchers

Domain:

Design Education / Heritage Documentation

Scope:

Meso → Macro

Feasibility:

High

Build interdisciplinary alliances with the social sciences in order to develop broader and more robust research proposals around local heritage and visual culture.

Audience:

Researchers, educators, interdisciplinary teams

Domain:

Interdisciplinary Heritage Research

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Develop short-, medium-, and long-term heritage-valuation and communication actions with the actors identified in the Patrimonio silencioso model, using final TGI/TGP outputs as tangible carriers of memory.

Audience:

Researchers, students, community actors, cultural institutio...

Domain:

Heritage Communication Strategy / Model Implementation

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Expose the heritage-communication problem in academic contexts in order to stimulate thesis projects and research lines that cluster isolated initiatives and make them durable over time.

Audience:

Educators, students, researchers, academic managers

Domain:

Academic Field Building / Heritage Communication

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

High

Recognize the heritage character of elements of the urban landscape and investigate them systematically as graphic and cultural objects.

Audience:

Researchers, designers, heritage specialists

Domain:

Urban Graphic Heritage / Urban Landscape Studies

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Research the evolution of graphic design in relation to cultural heritage and the identity of a city or region.

Audience:

Researchers, design historians, cultural analysts

Domain:

Graphic Design History / Urban and Regional Identity

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Study the influence of local culture and traditions on graphic-design production, including the relationship between typography and the cultural identity of a city.

Audience:

Researchers, typographers, graphic designers

Domain:

Culture, Typography, and Graphic Production

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Investigate the relationship between graphic design and the touristic promotion, social diffusion, and preservation of cultural heritage.

Audience:

Researchers, tourism actors, designers, heritage communicato...

Domain:

Tourism, Heritage Promotion, and Social Function of Design

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Investigate in greater depth the competencies, methods, and decision-making patterns of the three predominant designer roles identified in city branding—articulator, strategist, and activator—and determine whether additional roles emerge.

Audience:

Researchers, designers, city-branding professionals

Domain:

City Branding / Designer Roles

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Examine more closely how designers collaborate with professionals from marketing, management, communication, architecture, and urbanism within multidisciplinary city-branding teams.

Audience:

Researchers, designers, public managers

Domain:

Interdisciplinary Collaboration / City Branding

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Investigate whether design education is adequately preparing students to deal with the complex, strategic, and systemic challenges involved in city branding and similar territorial projects.

Audience:

Educators, curriculum leaders, researchers

Domain:

Design Education / Strategic Design

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Refine and extend the analytical matrix and integrated map developed in the thesis by detailing parameters such as designers’ roles and by testing them in additional city-branding cases.

Audience:

Researchers, place-branding analysts, public managers

Domain:

Research Methods / City Branding Analysis

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

High

Implement pilots of the Topia Digital Platform (PDT) and the Topia Living Lab (LLT)

Audience:

Researchers, Org Leaders

Domain:

Design for Social Innovation / Territory

Scope:

Meso → Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Carry out participatory actions with rAM communities to gather ideas and proposals about PDT/LLT system functioning.

Audience:

Community, Researchers

Domain:

Co‑creation / Community engagement

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

High

Develop tools for social‑impact assessment and measurable indicators.

Audience:

Researchers, Policymakers

Domain:

Impact assessment

Scope:

Meso → Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Investigate the possibility of replicating the PDT/LLT model in other territories.

Audience:

Researchers, Policymakers

Domain:

Territorial innovation

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Explore future research directions in Mold Design from a more artistic and exploratory perspective.

Audience:

Researchers, Designers

Domain:

Pattern Design / Artistic Research

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Investigate the relationship between the body and its representation in mold design as a research line.

Audience:

Researchers

Domain:

Design Theory / Body Representation

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Emphasize the process (as a means of representation) as a central element and develop research that documents and analyzes the gesture of measuring and drawing the body.

Audience:

Researchers, Designers

Domain:

Pattern Design Process

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

Medium