Research Recommendations (848)

Test different textile surface finishes and protective treatments on the substrate to improve comfort, water behavior, insulation, and system reliability.

Audience:

Researchers, Designers, Engineers

Domain:

Finishes / Surface Engineering

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

Medium

Revitalize the ‘global project’ approach in architecture by integrating arts, engineering, and design from the conceptual stage so the built work is conceived as a coherent whole.

Audience:

Designers, Engineers, Org Leaders

Domain:

Architecture / Integrated Project Delivery

Scope:

Meso → Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Involve artists from the beginning of the design process and pre-conceive artworks as architectural components rather than adding them late as decoration.

Audience:

Designers, Community/Participants, Org Leaders

Domain:

Architecture + Public Art

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

Medium-High

Treat interior architecture, furniture, landscape, and technical systems as intrinsic architectural specialties, developed in continuous dialogue with the main architectural concept.

Audience:

Designers, Engineers

Domain:

Interior Architecture / Furniture / Landscape

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

Medium-High

Build well-coordinated multidisciplinary teams, led by a project architect but structured to incorporate engineering knowledge as an indispensable part of modern architectural design.

Audience:

Designers, Engineers, Org Leaders

Domain:

Multidisciplinary Team Organization

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

High

Protect dedicated budgets and commissioning mechanisms for artworks in public buildings, since financial constraints repeatedly block meaningful artistic integration.

Audience:

Org Leaders, Policymakers

Domain:

Public Procurement / Cultural Budgeting

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Adopt typology-sensitive architectural languages instead of imposing one formal vocabulary across all projects; let function, context, and program shape different yet coherent design responses.

Audience:

Researchers, Designers

Domain:

Architectural Typology / Design Language

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

High

Update the discourse of ‘integration of the arts’ toward a model of dynamic balance that preserves artist autonomy and rejects the architect’s authoritarian control over artistic contribution.

Audience:

Designers, Community/Participants, Educators

Domain:

Art–Architecture Collaboration Theory

Scope:

Meso → Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Continue systematic inventorying, cataloguing, and archival preservation of long-running ateliers and public-building documentation to support research, conservation, and future design learning.

Audience:

Researchers, Org Leaders, Policymakers

Domain:

Archives / Heritage Knowledge Infrastructure

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium-High

Create a practical and useful evaluation system for printed objects in graphic design, capable of recording evidence about how such objects are conceived, made available, incorporated into material culture, and actually used.

Audience:

Researchers, graphic designers, educators, communication-des...

Domain:

Printed Object Performance Evaluation / Graphic Design

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Study other electronic devices and more recent digital creations in order to extract additional categories of interactivity and participation that may complement printed objects.

Audience:

Researchers, interaction designers, graphic designers, desig...

Domain:

Digital-to-Print Translation / Interactivity Categories

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Carry out a comparative study between the process used in interaction design and the process followed in graphic design, in order to test whether certain phases can be implemented to improve outcomes in printed-object design.

Audience:

Researchers, interaction designers, graphic designers, educa...

Domain:

Process Comparison / Graphic Design and Interaction Design

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

High

Prolong the practice-based investigation by applying and experimenting with interactivity and participation in a wider range of printed graphic-design domains, including visual identity, branding, editorial design, packaging, exhibitions, information design, promotional objects, and point-of-sale objects.

Audience:

Researchers, graphic designers, students, educators, profess...

Domain:

Practice-Based Graphic Design Research / Expanded Domains

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

High

Broaden the observation, categorization, and study of graphic design so that interactivity and participation become regular analytical dimensions in the description of printed objects.

Audience:

Researchers, historians, critics, educators

Domain:

Graphic Design Analysis / Interactivity and Participation

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Build a national inventory and identification program for Portuguese serial furniture (1951–1974), including pieces not captured in this study, to strengthen preservation and public recognition of its patrimonial value.

Audience:

Researchers, Museums, Org Leaders

Domain:

Heritage Documentation / Inventory

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Produce a detailed, chronologically organized history of Portuguese serial furniture that reconstructs creative, productive, and commercial solutions, using this thesis as a foundation rather than a final history.

Audience:

Researchers, Educators

Domain:

Design History / Historiography

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Refine and standardize a taxonomy and nomenclature for modern furniture pieces and components so that research, curation, teaching, and production can describe objects consistently across cases.

Audience:

Researchers, Educators, Designers

Domain:

Classification / Knowledge Organization

Scope:

Meso → Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Systematically monitor social change and segment demand so producers can anticipate emerging furniture needs and align product strategy with specific user groups rather than react late to market change.

Audience:

Designers, Product/Service Owners, Org Leaders

Domain:

Market Sensing / Product Strategy

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

High

Shift from excessive product diversification for the internal market toward specialization in exportable furniture families, with stronger optimization of production, quality, and price.

Audience:

Org Leaders, Product/Service Owners

Domain:

Industrial Strategy / Export

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Use large public and private commissions as design laboratories, then translate validated solutions into marketable product lines for broader diffusion.

Audience:

Designers, Engineers, Org Leaders

Domain:

Innovation Transfer / Commission-to-Market

Scope:

Meso → Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Develop domestic furniture systems with stronger user interface, adaptability, phased acquisition, and associable/evolutive functions rather than static one-time objects.

Audience:

Designers, Product/Service Owners

Domain:

Furniture Systems / Housing

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

Medium

Preserve and study the work trajectories of the period’s furniture creators and use the objects they designed as core teaching and research resources for the future of Portuguese furniture design.

Audience:

Educators, Researchers, Museums

Domain:

Design Pedagogy / Professional History

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Extend the research beyond metallic materials to other common material families—such as ceramics, wood, and stone—as well as to new materials that do not fit easily within traditional taxonomies.

Audience:

Researchers, design educators, materials scholars

Domain:

Material Perception / Comparative Material Families

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Expand the study population to include broader age ranges and greater geographic, social, economic, and educational diversity in order to identify variations in material perception across different groups.

Audience:

Researchers, educators, policy actors

Domain:

Expanded Population Studies / Material Perception

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Create a system that maintains information on materials permanently up to date, ideally through association with an online materioteca as part of a strategy for continuous data renewal and broader reach.

Audience:

Researchers, materioteca managers, design educators, digital...

Domain:

Online Materioteca / Data Infrastructure

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium