The article “Pedagogical Methodology of the Designesart Project” explores how design pedagogy influences projects in education programs, with a focus on preserving local identity and territory. The study focuses on the Designesart project, part of a master’s programme. This project exemplifies how the union between education, design practice, and collaboration can result in significant artefacts. The project en...
O Biodesign combina conhecimentos de Biologia aos do Design, trabalha com organismos vivos e matéria orgânica em sua prática, e possui forte preocupação ecológica. Apesar de, na maioria das vezes, ser exercido dentro de laboratórios e independente de um contexto territorial, surgem abordagens recentes denominadas “Biodesign Situado” ou “Bioregional” que relacionam o Biodesign com regiões determinadas. Este estu...
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A identidade é uma dimensão em constante mutação e transformação, sobretudo através da manipulação dos elementos culturais, onde encontra sempre novas práticas materiais, ideológicas e rituais. Esta relação bilateral entre cultura e meio produz a identidade e é também o lugar que a abriga. Nesta dimensão conceptual, a identidade além de cons-tatada, pode ser reinventada e o seu conjunto material parte sempre de...
This article describes and discusses the findings of practice-based design research conducted with the fruits of the Crescentia cujete tree. The research aimed to examine the feasibility of designing products with living organisms in the Amazon Forest context and to identify the necessary knowledge to accomplish such designs. For centuries, local artisans have transformed the fruits of Crescentia cujete into cu...
This chapter explores the results obtained from the application of a participatory process used to interpret databases about the Design discipline. This project was undertaken within the project: For a Design Observatory in Portugal (DesignOBS). The challenge focused on developing a one-page visualisation about at least one database focused on a vector of the design ecosystem (design companies, design research,...
The production of data about design is important to create new knowledge about the discipline and support the development of better public policies. In Portugal, the DesignOBS project is developing these tasks, gathering information about the ecosystem. Databases are very important instruments to understand the discipline to systematically innovate. In this paper, we want to go further and address its literacy....
Este documento reúne as representações do núcleo da exposição do DesignOBS e apresenta a observação crítica dos resultados gráficos dos cartazes desenhados por designers profissionais e estudantes da Universidade do Porto e da Universidade de Aveiro, envolvidos em unidades curriculares no âmbito do Design de Informação.
The third REDE, Design Schools Meeting, took place on the 3rd December 2021 at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon. The aim of this meeting was to give voice to teachers who have actively contributed to a reflection on design education in Portugal. We had the collaboration of six guest speakers, who make up a representative panel of several design schools from different geographical areas and e...
The present study undertaken within the DesignOBS project, is based on 172 PhD theses in Design submitted to the Portuguese National Design Schools between 2005 and 2019. It focuses in particular on the extraction and analysis of 522 PhD citations appended to design doctoral work. The analysis is used to observe school impact, explore the weight of previous design-focused and non-design doctoral work to develop...