Research Recommendations (848)

Deepen knowledge about the social impacts of the furniture sector and its products so that design can incorporate this information simply and effectively into new product development.

Audience:

Researchers, companies, sustainable-design specialists

Domain:

Furniture Sector / Social Impact

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Apply similarly focused sustainable-design approaches to other sectors, beginning with related sectors such as office furniture, in order to test whether sector-specific focus improves operational capacity.

Audience:

Researchers, sector specialists, design educators

Domain:

Sector-Focused Sustainable Design Approaches

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Adopt a stronger consumer-focused approach by studying consumer awareness, emotional and psychological factors, purchasing and use behavior, and clearer communication tools that support more informed sustainable choices.

Audience:

Researchers, designers, marketers, consumers

Domain:

Consumer-Focused Sustainable Design

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Develop, prototype, and validate the “Sustainable Communication Design – toolbox” as a practical, research-supporting instrument that translates the thesis’s principles and process into everyday design work.

Audience:

Researchers, Educators, Designers

Domain:

Communication Design / Design Tools

Scope:

Meso → Macro

Feasibility:

Medium-High

Implement the Sustainable Communication Design Process in higher-education classroom projects and case studies so teachers can build a comprehensive pedagogical approach aligned with contemporary sustainability challenges.

Audience:

Educators, Researchers, Designers

Domain:

Pedagogy / Curriculum Innovation

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

High

Run professional-context pilots that apply the methodology in real studios/agencies, with concrete exemplification of how communication designers can respond to sustainability challenges in practice.

Audience:

Designers, Org Leaders, Researchers

Domain:

Professional Practice / Studio Methods

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

Medium

Investigate how communication design can address cultural sustainability and ‘personal fulfilment’ in less material, less appearance-driven ways, shifting value toward internal development, belonging, and deeper human fulfilment.

Audience:

Researchers, Designers, Educators

Domain:

Cultural Sustainability / Well-being

Scope:

Micro → Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Develop a dedicated ethical framework for Sustainable Communication Design, detailing how responsibility for actions and consequences should guide decision-making in projects, messages, and professional conduct.

Audience:

Researchers, Designers, Org Leaders

Domain:

Design Ethics / Responsibility

Scope:

Meso → Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Study sustainable policy and sustainable-growth opportunities in communication design, including how sustainability can function as a catalyst for innovation, differentiation, and entry into new markets rather than as a constraint.

Audience:

Researchers, Designers, Org Leaders, Policymakers

Domain:

Policy / Entrepreneurship / Market Strategy

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Continue the project through an Inclusive Design lens so that the “Poetic Map” and all routes become accessible to all citizens, including people with visual, auditory, mobility, and age-related limitations.

Audience:

Designers, Cultural Mediators, Public Institutions

Domain:

Inclusive Heritage Mediation

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Add new informational fields to poem cataloguing and to the itineraries — for example, the date of each poem’s first book publication — so users can compare the poetic image of Lisbon with the city experienced today.

Audience:

Researchers, Designers, Cultural Mediators

Domain:

Heritage Information Design

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

High

Design and prototype a new nightlife itinerary — “Lisbon, a Place of Perdition” — around the bars of Cais do Sodré, using poetry by Al Berto and Cinatti.

Audience:

Designers, Cultural Curators, Visitors

Domain:

Cultural Itinerary Design

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

High

Design an exhibition and corresponding exhibition-design project, including multimedia resources, that compares present-day Lisbon with the city the poets saw when the poems were written.

Audience:

Museums, Cultural Institutions, Designers

Domain:

Exhibition / Heritage Mediation

Scope:

Meso → Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Extend the graphic models to all supports and routes, prototype the materials, test them with diverse communities, and implement the modifications identified as necessary.

Audience:

Designers, Cultural Institutions, Communities

Domain:

Prototype Testing / Multi-Support Communication

Scope:

Meso → Macro

Feasibility:

Medium-High

Continue applying the Methodological Model in academic activities and expand it into professional practice through experimentation with paper and cardboard materials.

Audience:

Educators, researchers, designers, packaging professionals

Domain:

Methodological Model Application / Education and Practice

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

High

Deepen the study of information design in packaging and systematize disposal symbolism to improve communication of use and discard.

Audience:

Researchers, packaging designers, information designers, edu...

Domain:

Information Design / Disposal Symbolism

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Develop future studies on ergonomics and usability in packaging, especially for specific user groups such as elderly people and children, seeking technological solutions that benefit all users.

Audience:

Researchers, packaging designers, ergonomists, inclusive-des...

Domain:

Packaging Ergonomics and Usability / Inclusive Design

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Investigate packaging form and user interaction more deeply, especially in cardboard packaging, taking advantage of the material's expressiveness, texture, tactility, and moldability.

Audience:

Researchers, packaging designers, materials specialists

Domain:

Packaging Form / Interaction / Cardboard Materiality

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

High

Deepen and systematize the Methodological Model for other packaging segments, expanding it with more specific tools.

Audience:

Researchers, packaging designers, educators

Domain:

Model Extension / Other Packaging Segments

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Investigate distribution systems capable of reducing or even eliminating produced packaging, and explore packaging designed with reusable parts or entirely reusable structures.

Audience:

Researchers, logistics specialists, packaging designers, pro...

Domain:

Distribution Systems / Packaging Reduction and Reuse

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Develop more research on Environmental Design in museums, applying practical design projects based on the strengths and weaknesses identified in this study.

Audience:

Researchers, museum professionals, environmental designers

Domain:

Environmental Design in Museums / Practical Projects

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Deepen the study of the variables involved in Environmental Design practice in order to better understand the communicative potential of museum spaces in promoting learning and personal development.

Audience:

Researchers, museum scholars, designers, educators

Domain:

Environmental Design Variables / Museum Communication

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Extend the orientations derived from this study to other sociocultural institutions and learning spaces where the impact of the environment on lived experience may influence cognitive and affective involvement.

Audience:

Researchers, educators, cultural institutions, designers

Domain:

Environmental Design Beyond Museums / Learning Spaces

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Investigate how physical and expressive attributes of museum environments can be designed to promote easier and more effective communication between museums and society in an inclusive knowledge-building context.

Audience:

Researchers, museums, designers, educators, audiences

Domain:

Inclusive Museum Communication / Environmental Attributes

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Create and maintain an accessible, secure, and regularly updated database of completed doctoral theses and related research information in Design, so that the community can observe patterns over time and understand how theses are being conducted.

Audience:

Researchers, universities, doctoral-program leaders, policy...

Domain:

Design Research Infrastructure / Thesis Database

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium