Research Recommendations (848)

Prioritize recycled-crystal architectural cladding (“cristalejos”) as the lead application and industrialize its production through resizing, alternative manufacturing routes, and installation refinements to reduce cost and improve adoption.

Audience:

Designers, Engineers, Product/Service Owners

Domain:

Architectural Cladding / Material Systems

Scope:

Meso → Macro

Feasibility:

Medium-High

Concentrate future product development on solutions where recycled crystal visibly preserves its core qualities—especially transparency/translucency, light refraction, and brightness—because these attributes drove the best evaluations.

Audience:

Designers, Researchers

Domain:

Material Expression / Product Semantics

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

High

Implement traceability and end-of-life labeling for recycled-crystal products so they can be correctly routed, recovered, or reprocessed when they reach the end of their useful life.

Audience:

Designers, Policymakers, Org Leaders

Domain:

Circularity / Product Stewardship

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Pursue price-parity strategies versus conventional alternatives—especially by industrializing production, resizing products, and simplifying processes—because market acceptance drops sharply when recycled-crystal products cost more.

Audience:

Org Leaders, Product/Service Owners

Domain:

Manufacturing Economics / Market Entry

Scope:

Meso → Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Design explicit end-of-life recovery solutions for crystal–cement composites before scaling urban products, since composite disposal was a recurring concern in the expert validation.

Audience:

Engineers, Policymakers, Org Leaders

Domain:

Composite Materials / Circularity

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Expand architectural applications beyond the current prototypes to include exterior light-transmitting cladding, translucent roof/tile systems, and hydraulic floor surfaces incorporating recycled crystal.

Audience:

Designers, Engineers

Domain:

Architecture / Building Components

Scope:

Meso → Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Investigate recycled-crystal products for urban mobility and comfort—such as directional signage, green-zone delimiters, drinking fountains, planters, tree guards, and beach/coastal equipment—taking advantage of the material’s resistance in saline environments.

Audience:

Designers, Policymakers, Community/Participants

Domain:

Urban Design / Public Space

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Test hybrid recycling routes that combine recycled crystal with other compatible industrial glasses and with rare-earth additives to generate new optical effects such as iridescence, fluorescence, or photoluminescence.

Audience:

Researchers, Designers, Engineers

Domain:

Material Experimentation / Glass Technology

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

Medium

Develop thermoformed textures and tactile/informational sign systems—including Braille and broadly understandable codes—to turn recycled crystal into accessible guidance and communication surfaces.

Audience:

Designers, Community/Participants, Policymakers

Domain:

Accessibility / Information Surfaces

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Explore therapeutic and sensory-environment applications (for example Snoezelen-type settings) that use recycled crystal’s light, color, and texture effects as part of multisensory design.

Audience:

Researchers, Designers, Community/Participants

Domain:

Therapeutic / Sensory Design

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

Medium

Readjust the semantic differential scales used in the research according to the degrees of understanding of each attribute, and consider including 'institutional' as a recurrent attribute in future scales.

Audience:

Researchers, communication designers, branding scholars

Domain:

Research Methods / Typography Perception

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

High

Apply the method to case studies that cover all classes of the Vox / ATypI (1961) classification in order to compare results and broaden the available evidence.

Audience:

Researchers, typography scholars, design educators

Domain:

Typographic Classification / Comparative Study

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Extend the study to smaller-scale brands and to corporate visual identity projects created by designers who are indifferent to the semantic selection of identity signs.

Audience:

Researchers, branding scholars, communication designers

Domain:

Brand Scale / Professional Practice Comparison

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Repeat the test by associating letters with product images, since comparing letters and product images may simulate more realistically how clients evaluate new products.

Audience:

Researchers, designers, branding and product scholars

Domain:

Letter–Image Association / Product Evaluation

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

High

Expand the study toward typographic syntax, relating the letter to other graphic elements on the page rather than isolating it from the broader visual system.

Audience:

Researchers, typographers, communication designers

Domain:

Typographic Syntax / Page Composition

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Develop a comparative study of the connotations generated by contrasts within the same type family.

Audience:

Researchers, typographers, branding scholars

Domain:

Typeface Contrast / Connotation Studies

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

High

Evaluate ultrasonic-seam manufacturing for the swimsuit and compare it against the current sewing solutions in terms of performance, resistance, bulk, and comfort.

Audience:

Researchers, Designers, Engineers

Domain:

Garment Assembly / Seam Technology

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

Medium

Run fully integrated in-pool tests of the complete BIOSWIM suit and its end-to-end data-processing pipeline, instead of testing most subsystems only in modular or dry/partial conditions.

Audience:

Researchers, Engineers, Product/Service Owners

Domain:

System Integration / Field Testing

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

Medium-High

Develop new textile substrates that offer differentiated containment levels and can self-regulate the compression applied to the user’s body.

Audience:

Researchers, Designers, Engineers

Domain:

Smart Textiles / Compression Systems

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

Medium

Carry out dedicated hydrodynamics studies focused on the swimsuit and on high-performance swimming conditions.

Audience:

Researchers, Engineers

Domain:

Hydrodynamics / Swim Performance

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

Medium

Conduct anthropometric studies of athletic populations and classify their body characteristics to improve sizing, fit, and functional design parameters.

Audience:

Researchers, Designers, Engineers

Domain:

Anthropometry / Sizing

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

High

Study body compression for elderly and rehabilitation users so the system can be translated safely from elite sport to health-support contexts.

Audience:

Researchers, Engineers, Community/Participants

Domain:

Health / Rehabilitation Compression Garments

Scope:

Meso → Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Advance biomechanical studies of the swimmer and quantify the energy expenditure associated with the intelligent swimsuit during use.

Audience:

Researchers, Engineers

Domain:

Biomechanics / Energy Expenditure

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

Medium

Study the integration between 2D CAD systems and Seamless production systems in order to derive reliable, transferable design parameters for this class of garment.

Audience:

Designers, Engineers

Domain:

CAD/CAM / Seamless Workflow

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

High

Investigate the use of shape-memory materials to stabilize oscillating masses during swimming.

Audience:

Researchers, Designers, Engineers

Domain:

Advanced Materials / Motion Stabilization

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

Medium