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.
- 01.11.2020
"In the particular case of academic design research, written theses are the most commonly known ways of capturing the whole research process of the study in a single, stable, endurable and searchable medium (...) this enduring record is what enables other researchers to criticise or use any results of the research" Durling, 2002.
- 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.
- 11.10.2020
The second national inquiry, aiming to characterize the profile of faculty teaching design courses and disciplines in Portugal is online!
- 06.03.2020
We started fieldwork in the Portuguese territory! Destination: the Polytechnique Institute of Portalegre. Our host, professor Vera Barradas, invited us to talk about the DesignOBS mission, objectives and main results achieve this far.
- 10.09.2019
On September 10th 2020, the DesignOBS team visited the Danish Design Center, Copenhagen, one of the leading EU design Centers, with the aim to collect information about existing observation practices of the design ecosystem.
