Research Recommendations (848)

Monitor design curricula and the results of design graduations more systematically, given that Design is still a relatively new scientific area in research terms.

Audience:

Researchers, curriculum leaders, universities, policy makers

Domain:

Monitoring of Design Curricula and Doctoral Outcomes

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Establish solid doctoral programmes in Design based on tested precedents before expanding rapidly into new modalities that may threaten the reliability of the knowledge base the field requires.

Audience:

Universities, doctoral-program leaders, policy makers, accre...

Domain:

Doctoral Programme Consolidation / Design Research Quality

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Low-Medium

Develop a project that treats information specific to the Design field as a strategic marker, promoting a stronger research culture, knowledge transfer, and shared reference patterns in Portugal.

Audience:

Researchers, research centres, doctoral programmes, design c...

Domain:

Research Culture in Design / Strategic Information Project

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Adapt the proposed discourse-structure model to other target users beyond Digital Natives.

Audience:

Researchers, interface designers, communication designers, e...

Domain:

Model Transfer / New Target Users

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Develop the video modality within the proposed model in order to increase expressive richness and creative operability for users.

Audience:

Researchers, multimedia designers, interface developers, use...

Domain:

Video Modality / Expressive Richness

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Deepen communication design for Digital Natives in contexts other than affective communication.

Audience:

Researchers, communication designers, digital-culture schola...

Domain:

Digital-Native Communication / Non-Affective Contexts

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Implement the application as the full formalization of the proposed model and make it available to Digital Natives, while improving its creative operability through more image, sound, and video manipulation tools and evaluating the technical dimension.

Audience:

Researchers, developers, Digital Natives, interface designer...

Domain:

Application Implementation / Technical and Creative Developm...

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Develop database support for ready-to-use clips, shared template/do-it-yourself elements, and emotional qualification labels in order to strengthen the application's archival and communicative infrastructure.

Audience:

Researchers, developers, information architects, interface d...

Domain:

Backend Information Architecture / Emotional Archives

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Verify the resistance of recycled open-end cotton yarn in knitting on flat looms without blending with virgin raw material, for the production of clothing articles.

Audience:

Researchers, textile engineers, fashion designers, manufactu...

Domain:

Recycled Yarn Performance / Textile Production

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Promote laboratory research focused on integrating recycled raw material into new textile and clothing production.

Audience:

Researchers, textile laboratories, designers, producers

Domain:

Recycled Raw Material Integration / Laboratory Research

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Statistically validate the consumer-behavior findings and explore additional variable crossings, such as age versus clothing styles used or age versus disposal practices.

Audience:

Researchers, consumer-behavior scholars, fashion marketers,...

Domain:

Consumer Behavior Validation / Sustainable Fashion

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

High

Develop a specific Environmental Involvement Scale linking fashion and sustainability, with particular attention to the questionnaire issues between points 14 and 24.

Audience:

Researchers, psychometricians, fashion scholars, sustainabil...

Domain:

Environmental Involvement Scale / Fashion and Sustainability

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Register in Portuguese the clothing-design methodologies known as Subtraction Cutting, Jigsaw/Jigsaw Puzzle, and Tesselation, translating and formalizing them as 'Modelagem por Subtração', 'Quebra-cabeças', and 'Fragmentação'.

Audience:

Researchers, educators, fashion designers, students

Domain:

Method Translation / Clothing Design Methodologies

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

High

Finalize in practice the essential wardrobe proposed by the thesis, analyzing the full functional diversity of all pieces considered basic.

Audience:

Researchers, fashion designers, educators, prototype develop...

Domain:

Essential Wardrobe / Practical Completion

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

High

Continue testing the multifunctionality based on the similarity between arm length and inseam measurement, especially through fabric prototypes.

Audience:

Researchers, fashion designers, pattern makers, textile spec...

Domain:

Multifunctionality / Anthropometric Similarity

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Use the preceding actions as a basis for opening a spin-off sustainable brand focused on recycled yarn, recycled textiles, and sustainable clothing production.

Audience:

Researchers, entrepreneurs, producers, designers

Domain:

Spin-off Sustainable Brand / Circular Fashion

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Adopt an integrated view of place as a baseline for public-art and participatory-design projects, explicitly relating human, social, cultural, historical, ecological, economic, and labor/resource dimensions before intervening.

Audience:

Researchers, Designers, Community/Participants

Domain:

Public Art / Place-based Design

Scope:

Meso → Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Use empathic participatory interaction design—based on listening, dialogue, and non-hierarchical knowledge exchange—as the preferred methodology for working with local communities in public art.

Audience:

Designers, Community/Participants, Researchers

Domain:

Participatory Method / Interaction Design

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

High

Co-create public artworks with peripheral or marginalized communities by treating local narratives, objects, labor routines, and life histories as legitimate sources of artistic knowledge and public representation.

Audience:

Designers, Community/Participants

Domain:

Co-creation / Community-based Public Art

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

Medium

Expand multi-sensory, documentary, and archive-based public-art strategies that move beyond a vision-only model and communicate local realities through sound, video, objects, and spatial experience.

Audience:

Designers, Researchers, Community/Participants

Domain:

Multisensory Public Art / Documentary Methods

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

Medium

Include systematic validation with participants, general audiences, and expert panels in participatory public-art projects in order to assess community impact, methodological adequacy, and place-based understanding.

Audience:

Researchers, Designers, Org Leaders

Domain:

Evaluation / Participatory Arts Assessment

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

High

Repeat and support this type of participatory place-based art regularly, since recurrent projects can dynamize places, raise local self-esteem, and strengthen the relationship between communities and their environments.

Audience:

Org Leaders, Community/Participants, Policymakers

Domain:

Cultural Programming / Local Development

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Study and teach domestic interior design as an integrated discipline—coordinating plans, ornament, lighting, materials, and furniture as one spatial system rather than as disconnected decorative parts.

Audience:

Researchers, Educators, Designers

Domain:

Interior Design / Design History / Pedagogy

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

High

Reposition Ernesto Korrodi within the history of design in Portugal as both architect and designer, and continue research on his interiors, furniture, and authorial methods as part of the genealogy of Portuguese design.

Audience:

Researchers, Educators, Policymakers

Domain:

Portuguese Design History / Historiography

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium-High

Investigate Art Nouveau in Portugal beyond façades by documenting how it enters domestic interiors through furniture, azulejaria, ceilings, wallpapers, industrial products, and spatial innovations.

Audience:

Researchers, Designers, Heritage Professionals

Domain:

Art Nouveau / Domestic Interiors / Material Culture

Scope:

Meso → Macro

Feasibility:

Medium