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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...
Perspetiva dos diretores técnicos sobre a solidão das pessoas idosas em ERPI
Lima, CláudiaIntrodução: A presente dissertação enquadra-se num projeto de investigação com o título: “Estratégias de intervenção no combate à solidão das pessoas idosas em Estruturas Residenciais para Pessoas Idosas (ERPI): desafios atuais”. Este projeto é coordenado pelo Centro Lusíada de Investigação em Serviço Social e Investigação Social (CLISSIS) da Universidade Lusíada, em parceria com o Instituto Superior de Serviço...
Intersections between craft and sewing practices: A case study on community hou...
Lima, Cláudia; Penedos-Santiago, Eliana; Martins, NunoThis paper describes the case study of Escola Oficina, a non-profit social school implemented in 2015 in Balteiro social housing estate (Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal), aimed at providing occupation and sewing training to long-term unemployed women from the municipality. Its goal is twofold: learning to create artefacts through sewing while being prepared for the workforce. The project is based on the concept of ...
COVID-19 Associated Longitudinal Extensive Transverse Myelitis with Cerebral Sp...
Gomes, Fábio; Lima, Cláudia; Valente, Cristina; Vaz, João; Correia, Lurdes; Correia, InêsThere have been multiple reports of COVID-19 associated neurological symp-toms, including several cases of para-infectious myelitis.We report a case of an 84-year-old male patient presenting with acute paraparesis coinciding with active mild COVID-19 pneumonia. Spinal cord magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) showed longitudinally extensive transverse myelitis (LETM) affecting the entire cervical cord to the tenth ...
Design of a dog waste station for the municipality of Vila Nova de Gaia
Guimarães, Ana Luisa; Oliveira, Beatriz; Perez, Juana; Silva, Sara; Lima, Cláudia; Mendonça, RuiThis article describes the methodological process for the design of a dog waste station for S. Paio park (Vila Nova de Gaia, Porto), developed in an academic context as part of a partnership between the University of Porto and Vila Nova de Gaia City Council. The methodology included a mapping of containers in national and international parks, a SWOT analysis of these containers, observation and documentation of...
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; Penedos-Santiago, Eliana; Fernandes, Marta; Martins, Nuno; Dolbeth, JúlioThis 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...
A Contribution of Design to the Waste Problem Generated by the Construction Ind...
Alencar, Mayra; Lima, Cláudia; Mendonça, RuiThe construction industry is characterized as the most polluting on the Planet. This sector is responsible for considerable environmental, social, and economic impacts with the impacts at all stages of the production process. The waste generated by this industry (construction and demolition waste - CDW) represents about a third of all waste generated in the world. The production of large quantities of waste mat...
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 ...