Research Recommendations (856)

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

Develop online materiotecas so they not only provide material information but also gather and cross-reference concepts and values associated with materials, together with variables such as age, gender, profession, country/market, and purchasing power.

Audience:

Researchers, materioteca developers, data curators, design e...

Domain:

Semantic Material Databases / Online Materiotecas

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Collect and compare information from other countries in order to understand how deeper knowledge of materials influences design education and project implementation in different contexts for students and young professionals.

Audience:

Researchers, educators, design-policy actors

Domain:

International Comparison / Materials Education

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Develop further research on the relationship between design and urbanity, deepening and broadening the understanding of design's role in qualifying cultural and patrimonial city contexts.

Audience:

Researchers, design historians, urban scholars, policy actor...

Domain:

Design and Urbanity / Urban Design Theory

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Investigate more deeply the interaction between design and the management/governance of cities, especially through direct articulation between designers and city managers in the public interest.

Audience:

Researchers, city managers, designers, policy makers

Domain:

Design, Governance, and City Management

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Explore educational and formative models that connect school and city as complementary ecologies, strengthening a cultural and civic formation in design related to urbanity.

Audience:

Educators, researchers, design students, municipalities

Domain:

Education for Urban Design Culture

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Investigate the conditions that enable or constrain multi-actor synergies among public and private entities, designers, technicians, managers, and citizens in urban design processes.

Audience:

Researchers, municipalities, private actors, citizens, desig...

Domain:

Multi-Actor Collaboration / Urban Interventions

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Replicate pictograms for thematically distinct systems in order to test and verify the design methods identified for universal pictography.

Audience:

Researchers, pictogram designers, information designers, edu...

Domain:

Pictogram Method Transfer / Thematic Replication

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

High

Investigate why the geometric method is the most frequently used when designers are not instructed about the four methods identified in the thesis.

Audience:

Researchers, educators, pictogram designers, cognition schol...

Domain:

Geometric Method Preference / Pictogram Design Behavior

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Study the Pragmatic dimension, following Charles Morris, and relate it to visual perception in order to understand the relationship between symbols and receivers more deeply.

Audience:

Researchers, semioticians, designers, perception scholars

Domain:

Pragmatics of Pictograms / Receiver Relationship

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Deepen the Semantic dimension through user-centred research, including semantic differentials and cluster analysis.

Audience:

Researchers, users, information designers, semiotics scholar...

Domain:

Semantic Dimension / User-Centred Pictogram Research

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

High

Implement and test the MOTEL virtual-museum model through an immaterial collaborative network of global contributors, especially curators, designers, technologists, and related specialists.

Audience:

Researchers, Curators, Museum Professionals, Digital Designe...

Domain:

Virtual Museology / Fashion Curation

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Develop the strategic, economic, marketing, and communication plan required for real implementation of MOTEL, including partner outreach, sponsorship, and a demonstrator webpage.

Audience:

Museum Leaders, Funders, Cultural Entrepreneurs, Platform Bu...

Domain:

Digital Cultural Infrastructure / Implementation Strategy

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Make copyright, appropriation, and property regimes a core part of design education and professional training so designers can act critically and lucidly in digital culture.

Audience:

Educators, Designers, Org Leaders

Domain:

Design Education / Critical Literacy

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

High

Revisit copyright and intellectual-property frameworks for digital design practice and test more flexible licensing models that protect authorship while enabling legitimate reuse, quotation, and circulation.

Audience:

Policymakers, Designers, Org Leaders

Domain:

Copyright / Digital Media Governance

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Treat economic, political, and legal forces as intrinsic dimensions of design practice rather than external constraints, and embed them directly into design methods and critique.

Audience:

Designers, Researchers, Educators

Domain:

Design Theory / Professional Practice

Scope:

Meso → Macro

Feasibility:

Medium-High

Recognize appropriation, remix, and critical reuse as legitimate design/art strategies, but pair them with explicit ethical, contextual, and legal evaluation protocols.

Audience:

Designers, Researchers

Domain:

Critical / Speculative Design Methods

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

Medium

Develop and test critical design interventions that expose how brands, luxury, and price construct the symbolic value of objects, using market-facing experiments similar to ERASED PRICE.

Audience:

Researchers, Designers, Community/Participants

Domain:

Critical Design / Brand Studies

Scope:

Meso → Macro

Feasibility:

Medium