Research Recommendations (856)

Study the mechanisms of Artificial Intelligence and their applicability to specific areas of design, especially within fashion-design processes.

Audience:

Researchers, designers, AI specialists

Domain:

AI in Fashion Design

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Investigate communication with robotized production lines as part of the evolving relationship between fashion designers, digital tools, and industrial manufacturing.

Audience:

Researchers, production engineers, fashion designers

Domain:

Industry 4.0 / Fashion Manufacturing

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Low-Medium

Study the role of the designer in the market of digital co-creation, where design activity is increasingly distributed across platforms, tools, and collaborative actors.

Audience:

Researchers, designers, platforms, educators

Domain:

Digital Co-Creation / Professional Roles

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Explore the new roles of the fashion designer in virtual environments, including the impact of immersive and digitally mediated spaces on project methods and outcomes.

Audience:

Researchers, fashion designers, educators

Domain:

Virtual Environments / Fashion Design Roles

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Present the proposed textile-design teaching-learning model to Portuguese higher-education institutions with design programs in order to assess receptivity to implementation and identify the logistical and institutional adjustments needed.

Audience:

Researchers, higher-education institutions, curriculum leade...

Domain:

Higher Education Policy / Textile Design Education

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Develop full curricular sheets for the course units included in the proposed bachelor's degree in Textile Design.

Audience:

Curriculum designers, educators, accreditation bodies

Domain:

Curriculum Design / Textile Design

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

High

Establish collaboration partnerships between academia, industry, and community in order to support shared teaching strategies and build an excellent textile-design education ecosystem.

Audience:

Educators, industry actors, communities, students

Domain:

Collaborative Ecosystems / Textile Design Education

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Implement and monitor the proposed textile-design teaching-learning model, including mechanisms for long-term impact assessment on the creative textile industry and on students' professional development.

Audience:

Researchers, educators, industry stakeholders, students

Domain:

Model Implementation / Impact Evaluation

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Extend the model through the design of a specialization program (postgraduate or master's level) in more specific textile-design areas such as knitwear, woven fabrics, and technical or functional textiles.

Audience:

Curriculum leaders, educators, advanced students, institutio...

Domain:

Advanced Textile Design Education / Specialization

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Establish international protocols that allow the creation of joint curricular programs in Textile Design.

Audience:

Institutions, policy actors, curriculum designers, internati...

Domain:

Internationalization / Joint Curriculum Development

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Low-Medium

Continue academic and scientific research in textile design and textile-design teaching, given that this remains a nationally underexplored field.

Audience:

Researchers, educators, institutions

Domain:

Textile Design Research / Educational Research

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Define the role of the Editorial Creative Manager within the magazine publishing process, including boundaries of action, decisions, and responsibilities.

Audience:

Publishing Professionals, Researchers

Domain:

Editorial Design / Creative Management

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

Medium-High

Specify, test, and validate the transversal and phase-specific competencies required for the Editorial Creative Manager.

Audience:

Publishing Professionals, Educators, Researchers

Domain:

Professional Competencies / Editorial Design

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

High

Map the editorial process and identify the phases and tasks where the Editorial Creative Manager should intervene to improve creative and communicative performance.

Audience:

Publishing Professionals, Researchers

Domain:

Editorial Process / Workflow Design

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

High

Develop and implement a creative toolkit (Aglaya Toolkit) to support communication, coordination, and decision-making among editorial professionals.

Audience:

Publishing Professionals, Researchers

Domain:

Toolkit / Editorial Innovation

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

High

Investigate whether creative management and visual categories influence the communicative-persuasive performance of magazines, including potential sales and readership outcomes.

Audience:

Researchers, Publishing Professionals

Domain:

Editorial Communication / Reader Research

Scope:

Meso → Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Integrate the IORBCA method into new educational spaces, including non-formal learning environments, institutions, museums, galleries, and final-degree-project research contexts within the university.

Audience:

Educators, researchers, museums, galleries, universities

Domain:

Design Education / Method Transfer

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

High

Publish an accessible book on the IORBCA method and on the transformation of the anachronic object so that the methodology becomes available beyond the thesis context.

Audience:

Researchers, educators, artists, general public

Domain:

Publishing / Method Dissemination

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Develop IOMA (Institute of Mundane Archaeology) as a collaborative space for designers, artists, and researchers interested in everyday objects and their potential social, visual, and environmental impact.

Audience:

Researchers, artists, designers, institutions

Domain:

Collaborative Research Platform / Mundane Archaeology

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Build collaborations with institutions, foundations, organizations, and even brands that can support IOMA economically, symbolically, technically, or technologically, especially in digitalization and photogrammetry processes.

Audience:

Researchers, institutions, funders, brands, technical partne...

Domain:

Partnerships / Technical and Financial Support

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Produce an accessible pedagogical manual that explains the IORBCA method as a set of practical teaching tools that other professionals can incorporate into their daily pedagogical practices.

Audience:

Educators, facilitators, cultural mediators, researchers

Domain:

Pedagogical Manual / Method Toolkit

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

High

Name curricular units that teach information design explicitly as 'Information Design' in order to avoid fragmentation and improve disciplinary recognition.

Audience:

Curriculum leaders, educators, institutions

Domain:

Information Design Education / Curriculum Governance

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

High

Create a national core of teachers and researchers in Information Design to centralize key questions, promote exchange, support research, and work jointly on a dedicated curriculum.

Audience:

Educators, researchers, institutions

Domain:

Academic Networks / Information Design

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Develop a networked 2nd- and 3rd-cycle educational offer in Information Design across Portuguese higher-education institutions.

Audience:

Institutions, curriculum designers, policy actors

Domain:

Postgraduate Education / Information Design

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Stabilize the structure, sequence, objectives, contents, methodology, and bibliography of semester-long Information Design units so that students encounter a coherent and meaningful learning experience.

Audience:

Educators, curriculum coordinators

Domain:

Semester Unit Design / Information Design Pedagogy

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

High