Author(s): Gomes, Rute ; Dinis, Paulo ; Dias, José Silveira ; Félix, Maria João
Date: 2025
Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10773/44912
Origin: RIA - Repositório Institucional da Universidade de Aveiro
Subject(s): Design for sustainability; Educational tool; Furniture industry; Professional education; Design education
Portuguese furniture industry sector has a constant demand for specialized human resources. Lately the Institution in charge of the Nacional Professional Qualifications, on the wood and furniture industries sector, has made a consultation near Industry to simplify and update their offer. Leading them to propose new qualifications and update all syllabus in general. Having this, the authors identified the opportunity to propose the inclusion of more sustainability contents into professional education levels, and in a more transversal way. The goal of this study is, meeting this Industry demands, to propose design for sustainability strategies, as subjects within a sustainability compendium, that will serve professionalizing undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate students, for this industry sector. To achieve this, a literature review on the main design for sustainability strategies was carried and crossed with the existent educational levels for the Sector. The results lead to the identification of twelve subjects, that are systematized into operational or systemic, accordingly to necessary competences of the students. Further, the development of a Sustainability Compendium, will be a great contribution to all students and professionals, that will work in the Furniture Industry.
