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Visual exploration of the PhDs in design undertaken in Portugal. Starting with the information extracted from the databases produced during the investigation, the company Calibro developed its dynamic representation. Made in Flourish.
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.
The booklet of the event REDE#02 is already available!
Matos C., Vinhas N., Nogueiro S., Monteiro C., Silva M., Sierra S., RIbeiro C., Gonçalo B., Silva I., Rodrigues J., Santos L., Palinha S., Guerreiro M., Aleixo P., Campos S.
During one semester design master students worked in the interpretation and development of five posters about the design companies in Portugal.
Costa, N.; Branco, V.; Costa, R.; Borges, A.; Modesto, A.; Cunca, R.; Silva, A.,
In Europe, Design Centers and Associations are considered as key infrastructures to efficiently promote and represent the discipline. However, in some countries with a lower maturation of Design culture – such as the case of Portugal - there are no official actors fully dedicated to these activities. Previous research indicated Design schools as a potential alternative infrastructure to promote and represent Design, but further research is needed to understand what they can learn/adapt from the activities currently undertaken by Centers and Associations. This paper maps the European landscape looking in particular at BEDA (Bureaux of European Design Association) members. Based on these insights and recent infrastructuring literature, it develops adapted strategies for observation activities to test with Design schools in the Portuguese territory. The results obtained are a first step to bring countries with lower maturation of design culture under the EU Design Ecosystem radar.
