News
- 01.03.2021
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.

- 25.10.2020
The event REDE#02 National Design Schools meetings occurred on October 31st 2020 at the Polytechnic Institute of Cávado e do Ave, Barcelos, Portugal. In total, 26 design schools and 49 participants contributed to develop and discuss multiple topics related with design education and models of collaboration with companies.

- 18.11.2021
A terceira REDE, Reunião de Escolas de Design, irá decorrer no próximo dia 3 de Dezembro, na Faculdade de Belas-Artes da Universidade de Lisboa. Pretendemos com esta reunião dar a voz aos professores que ativamente têm contribuído para uma reflexão sobre o ensino do design em Portugal.
Para tal, contamos com a colaboração de sete oradores convidados, que compõem um painel representativo de várias escolas de design de áreas geográficas e subsistemas de ensino diferentes.
- 18.05.2021
Dr. Nina Costa, researcher based at Aveiro University was invited for an interview by Faculti.net on March 2021, to talk about her work at the DesignOBS.pt project.
- 01.03.2021
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.
- 07.01.2021
We published the research analysis of 522 PhD citations appended to design doctoral work undertaken in Portugal at the IcoRD'21 conference, index to the Springer Nature series.
- 10.12.2020
The third national inquiry, aiming to characterize the design professionals in Portugal is online!
- 01.11.2020
We published the first curated dataset covering a specific vector of the design ecosystem model proposed by Ana Whicher: design reseach, more specifically, doctoral research.