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Self-initiated practices in the urban community of Balteiro: Design challenges ...
Martins, Nuno; Brandão, Daniel; Penedos-Santiago, Eliana; Alvelos, Heitor; Lima, Cláudia; Barreto, Susana; Roberti, Ana Clara NunesThis project aims to identify, document, interpret and disseminate current self-regulated community practices in social housing neighborhoods in the city of Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal, in 2021. The main, specific case study is the neighborhood of Balteiro. We present methodologies and the first outcomes of the ethnographic work developed at Balteiro, namely an analysis of the origins, dynamics, needs and curre...
Designing awareness: a collaborative initiative for climate change engagement i...
Barreto, Susana; Pires, JulianaThis paper addresses an exploratory design initiative that revolves around the imperative to enhance public awareness of climate change and encourage proactive engagement at the individual level. The focal point of this initiative is a poster advertising campaign consisting of ten posters intended for exhibition on digital billboards in Porto. This collaborative project was conducted within the framework of the...
Visualising science: crafting memes in design pedagogy
Barreto, Susana; Alvelos, Heitor; Lima, Cláudia; Carneiro, José; Veiga, Pedro Alves da; Penedos-Santiago, Eliana; Fernandes, Marta; Martins, NunoThis paper details and analyses the methods and outcomes of nine pedagogical workshops in design courses at Portuguese universities, centered on the unlikely mix of online memes and scientific knowledge. The workshops took place between March and July 2023, were conducted within the exploratory project ‘Sci-Bi: An Infodemic of Disorientation: Communication Design as a Mediator Between Scientific Knowledge and C...
Sci-Bi: an infodemic of disorientation
Alvelos, Heitor; Barreto, Susana; Lima, Cláudia; Penedos-Santiago, Eliana; São Simão, Fátima; Pereira, Jorge; Carneiro, José; Dolbeth, JúlioRecent years have seen the emergence of two particular challenges to scientific knowledge and application. In both instances, communication design may be underperforming in its potential for contribution: 1. The exponential rise of social media has potentiated an equally exponential range of phenomena such as fake news, pseudo-science and superstition; as seductive, de-centralised, continuously reconfiguring we...
Visualizing science: crafting memes in design pedagogy
Barreto, Susana; Alvelos, Heitor; Lima, Cláudia; Carneiro, José; Veiga, Pedro Alves da; Penedos-Santiago, Eliana; Fernandes, Marta; Martins, NunoThis paper details and analyses the methods and outcomes of nine pedagogical workshops in design courses at Portuguese universities, centered on the unlikely mix of online memes and scientific knowledge. The workshops took place between March and July 2023, were conducted within the exploratory project ‘Sci-Bi: An Infodemic of Disorientation: Communication Design as a Mediator Between Scientific Knowledge and C...
Novas abordagens de acolhimento estudantil nas residências universitárias portu...
Rosa, Marcela; Barreto, SusanaAo considerar o aumento exponencial de estudantes internacionais em Portugal nos últimos 20 anos e o seu alto índice de participação nas universidades portuguesas (OECD, 2019) discutimos o modelo organizacional de residências destas instituições no acolhimento de estudantes frente à multiculturalidade presente. Ancoramos este debate em estudo de caso de uma residência da Universidade do Porto (UP) cuja capacida...
The missing story behind Portuguese design: a view on women designers
Néo, Maria Bruno; Barreto, Susana; Mendonça, LuísThis article describes a lack of inscription and use of knowledge and experience of female artists and designers in Portuguese design history. This fact has been noted in the literature review, particularly after the Portuguese revolution of 1974, but nowadays it is even more critical, which highlights the need for mapping and analysis, the present and the past. Portuguese design literature tends to use the sam...
When in Memeland, speak in memes: contributions of design towards the bettermen...
Alvelos, Heitor; Pereira, J. F. B.; Chatterjee, Abhishek; Barreto, Susana; Lima, Cláudia; Santiago, Eliana; Veiga, Pedro Alves daThis research tackles a current tendency towards scientific mistrust among segments of the population: we posit that channels traditionally employed by scientists and policy-makers may not be sufficient to reach skeptical individuals and communities, as exponentially and pervasively evident in social media circles. We thus propose to explore informal online channels and formats such as memes, short videos, and ...
Just between meme and you: online memes as health communication tools in design...
Alvelos, Heitor; Barreto, Susana; Lima, Cláudia; Penedos-Santiago, Eliana; Pereira, Jorge; Veiga, Pedro Alves daThis study posits that current online trends of mistrust in health policies may be partly overcome through an exploratory employment of memes. It aims at filling a critical gap whereby unexpected communication channels might succeed in addressing subjective bias seemingly immune to fact-based cognitive persuasion channels. We propose that the classroom may be a particularly apt context for this exploration: as ...
Self-initiated practices in the urban community of Balteiro: design challenges ...
Martins, Nuno; Brandão, Daniel; Santiago, Eliana Penedos; Alvelos, Heitor; Lima, Cláudia; Barreto, Susana; Roberti, Ana ClaraThis research aims to identify, document, interpret and disseminate self-initiated practices in social housing neighborhoods, in the city of Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal. The study aims to assess the consequences that the COVID-19 pandemic had on these practices and how Design can contribute to the resonance of these initiatives in other equivalent social contexts. Two local initiatives were identified: Recreati...