Research Recommendations (848)

Continue studying how functional hierarchies, gendered domains, new household functions, and technological innovations (e.g., bathrooms, elevators, service systems) reshaped Portuguese domestic interiors at the turn of the century.

Audience:

Researchers, Educators

Domain:

Domestic Program / Social History of Interiors

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

Medium

Investigate the role of ornament and color as structuring—not merely decorative—devices that produce spatial unity, direct perception, and mediate between tradition and modernity in interior design.

Audience:

Researchers, Designers, Educators

Domain:

Ornament / Color / Spatial Composition

Scope:

Micro → Meso

Feasibility:

Medium

Inventory, preserve, publish, and disseminate surviving interiors, furniture, and paper projects by Korrodi and his contemporaries, since much evidence is ephemeral, altered, or still only exists on paper.

Audience:

Researchers, Org Leaders, Policymakers

Domain:

Documentation / Heritage Preservation

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Define specific fields of analysis for design objects in museum contexts so that graphic-design artefacts can be studied and presented using criteria adapted to the discipline.

Audience:

Researchers, museum professionals, design historians

Domain:

Museum Documentation / Design Objects

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Develop and apply an inventory sheet for posters based on national and international museological norms, with analytical fields adapted to design and communication objects.

Audience:

Researchers, cataloguers, museum professionals

Domain:

Poster Inventory / Museum Standards

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

High

Extend these documentation principles to other graphic and communication objects, building broader documentation frameworks for design heritage in museums.

Audience:

Researchers, museums, heritage institutions

Domain:

Design Heritage Documentation / Generalization

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Develop museums in cyberspace and new museographic practices that make collections more accessible, expose less visible content, and connect online and exhibition contexts more effectively.

Audience:

Researchers, museums, digital curators, educators

Domain:

Cybermuseology / Digital Access

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Expand online didactic, educational, and interactive activities in museum cyberspace so that users move from passive spectators to active visitors capable of making choices across multiple communication levels.

Audience:

Researchers, museum educators, digital curators

Domain:

Interactive Museum Education / Online Engagement

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

High

Further develop the Museu Virtual do Cartaz Cultural as an open and inclusive design museum that combines permanent sections, temporary exhibitions, and featured works while preserving the flexibility to incorporate new projects and diverse access modes.

Audience:

Researchers, curators, museums, digital designers

Domain:

Virtual Museum Development / Design Museum

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Continue the investigation and dissemination of graphic-design knowledge through exchange among technicians and researchers, participation in national and international initiatives, and publication of articles that help delimit and strengthen the field.

Audience:

Researchers, museum professionals, academic networks

Domain:

Field Building / Graphic Design Museology

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

High

Investigate the historical foundations of observation-drawing methodologies through treatises, manuals, drawing curricula, and other historical sources from the remote past to the present.

Audience:

Researchers, design historians, drawing educators

Domain:

History of Drawing Education / Methodologies

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Critically investigate the observation-drawing methodologies currently applied in Portuguese design curricula, refining the analytical indicators tested in the thesis through new quasi-experiences, interviews, and surveys.

Audience:

Researchers, design educators, curriculum leaders

Domain:

Current Portuguese Design Education / Observation Drawing

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Renew and reorganize the image bank relating observation drawing and conception drawing using a tighter selective and organizational criterion, with updated graphic productions.

Audience:

Researchers, design educators, archives, visual-culture scho...

Domain:

Image Bank / Observation and Conception Drawing

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

High

Collect side-by-side graphic testimonies from the same producers in both school and professional phases, comparing observation drawing and conception drawing across time.

Audience:

Researchers, educators, students, professional designers

Domain:

Longitudinal Drawing Development / School to Professional Pr...

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Expand the study of observation/conception relations beyond drawing alone by integrating all other bi- and tridimensional, analog and digital media used by designers in project activity.

Audience:

Researchers, designers, media scholars, design educators

Domain:

Multimodal Design Representation / Media Ecology

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Debate, refine, and consolidate a Portuguese nomenclature for type design, drawing on current usage, historical workshop vocabulary, and relevant Brazilian terminology where appropriate.

Audience:

Researchers, typographers, educators, translators, students

Domain:

Portuguese Type-Design Terminology / Nomenclature

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

High

Refine and extend the analytical grid proposed for serif text typefaces so that it can support broader and more systematic analysis of type design.

Audience:

Researchers, type designers, typography educators

Domain:

Analytical Grid for Type Design / Serif Text Typefaces

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Investigate more deeply how Portuguese type designers combine openness to international influences with historically informed practice, in order to clarify whether a shared Portuguese mode of being in type design exists without implying a fixed national style.

Audience:

Researchers, design historians, type designers, cultural sch...

Domain:

Portuguese Type Design Identity / Tradition and Contemporane...

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Further investigate the relationship between Design and Museology, especially the intervention of Design in museums.

Audience:

Researchers, Designers, Org Leaders

Domain:

Design + Museology

Scope:

Meso → Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Develop and test new exhibition methods and mobile spaces for communicating tridimensional objects and democratizing cultural access.

Audience:

Researchers, Designers, Educators

Domain:

Mobile Museography / Exhibition Design

Scope:

Meso → Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Reanalyse the exhibition project so it can be applied to functions beyond the museological field.

Audience:

Designers, Org Leaders

Domain:

Adaptive Reuse / Cross-Sector Exhibition Systems

Scope:

Meso → Macro

Feasibility:

High

Extend analysis to a larger and more diverse set of design-centered museographic projects to identify viable, innovative, and economically sustainable strategies and methodologies.

Audience:

Researchers, Org Leaders

Domain:

Comparative Museography / Design Strategy

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Continue the investigation with a broader set of constructive elements and technical integrations (e.g., lighting and acoustics), even if this increases complexity and cost.

Audience:

Designers, Engineers

Domain:

Exhibition Systems / Technical Integration

Scope:

Meso

Feasibility:

Medium

Investigate how materials, especially their texture and colour, can promote comfort, support spatial perception, and facilitate route identification for older users in domestic environments.

Audience:

Researchers, interior designers, materials specialists, gero...

Domain:

Materials, Texture, and Colour for Ageing-in-Place

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium

Study acoustic control in older adults' domestic environments, considering noise levels, sound transmission, intelligibility, and reverberation time in order to improve acoustic comfort.

Audience:

Researchers, acousticians, interior designers, housing speci...

Domain:

Acoustic Comfort for Older Adults

Scope:

Macro

Feasibility:

Medium