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Designobs.pt is a national project that collects and interprets data from the portuguese design ecosystem to promote its knowledge and influence public policies

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PUBLICATION: CUMULUS conference

As Design is gaining traction globally different observation models were developed to map the Design landscape. However, the application of these models in contexts with a slower maturation of Design culture and no institutional Design infrastructure can be difficult. With this challenge in mind, this paper presents a new distributed approach to support Design observation.

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Interviews with design students of the Design Master course, Aveiro University – representing design companies in Portugal

Master students from the design course at Aveiro University participating in the “Representation of Knowledge” course were challenged to work with the “design companies in Portugal” database, for one semester. Their objectives were to create representations and metaphors; and convey carefully thought messages about the sector. The course resulted in five posters, presented in late February 2021.

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Fabric of Design Education

Autor: Oupas!Design + Data Collector: Costa, Nina + Data Curators: Branco, Vasco; Costa, Rui; Borges, Afonso; Cunca, Raul; Modesto, António; Silva, Ana Catarina

The project uses paper to represent the distribution of design schools throughout the territory. The proportion of the crosses varies according to the number of graduates within the region. In the cosmopolitan areas, such as Lisbon and Porto, the crosses become smaller, not due to the number of graduates, but because of the density and variety of schools. This poster was developed based on the geographical location and number of design graduates in Portugal. The visualisation was commissioned by the team of the DesignOBS project (Towards a Design Observatory in Portugal, www.designobs.pt), following a distributed and participatory approach.