This 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...
This 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 ...
This paper aims to present aplan to analyse the communication problem of Escola Oficina (EO), a non-profit organization for social solidarity, located in Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal, when trying to disseminate and sell its hand made products to its target audiences. EO’s main goal is to train, empower and integrate unemployed citizens. This study used qualitative research methodologies, namely an exploratory in...
The study presented in this paper is part of the investigation project “Echoing the Communal Self (ECHO)”, consisting of the develop- ment of an online platform that identifies, interprets and dissemi- nates current self-regulated community practices in social housing neighbourhoods in the city of Vila Nova de Gaia, in Portugal. This online platform intends to reach individuals of similar disadvan- taged commun...
Recent 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...
This 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...
No presente artigo pretende-se demonstrar de que modo a investigação em design de comunicação pode contribuir para a disseminação de práticas comunitárias em contextos economicamente desfavorecidos, como é o caso dos bairros sociais. Este estudo surge no âmbito do projeto de investigação ECHO, onde a principal missão é conhecer e documentar duas práticas comunitárias auto-iniciadas no bairro social do Balteiro,...
No presente artigo pretende-se demonstrar de que modo a investigação em design de comunicação pode contribuir para a disseminação de práticas comunitárias em contextos economicamente desfavorecidos, como é o caso dos bairros sociais. Este estudo surge no âmbito do projeto de investigação ECHO, onde a principal missão é conhecer e documentar duas práticas comunitárias auto-iniciadas no bairro social do Balteiro,...
No presente artigo pretende-se demonstrar de que modo a investigação em design de comunicação pode contribuir para a disseminação de práticas comunitárias em contextos economicamente desfavorecidos, como é o caso dos bairros sociais. Este estudo surge no âmbito do projeto de investigação ECHO, onde a principal missão é conhecer e documentar duas práticas comunitárias auto-iniciadas no bairro social do Balteiro,...
This 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 ...