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Nina Costa
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Nina Costa
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Publications

DesignOBS – PhD Explorer

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.

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.

Towards a Design Observatory: The Case of Scholarly Design Research in Portugal [Design2020]

Costa, N., Branco, V., Costa, R., Borges, A., Modesto, A., Silva, A., & Cunca, R.

The DesignOBS project was created to collect, map and interpret data about the Portuguese Design Ecosystem, providing supportive information for decision making. This study takes advantage of a participative Design perspective to define and test an observation process via a case based on Design doctorates undertaken in Portugal. It emphasises the need for additional participatory analysis and curation by experts to evaluate and develop more reliable information about the discipline. Moreover, it develops recommendations that can enhance the communicability of Design doctorates.

Minard Revisited – Exploring Augmented Reality in Information Design [DIGICOM]

Marques A.B., Branco V., Costa R.

This study intends to test and confirm the interest and viability of incorporating augmented reality (AR) technologies in cultural mediation driven by information design, focusing on narrative representation. It is specifically intended to explore semantic relations between reality and virtuality in augmented narratives, i.e. expanded narratives through the multimodality enhanced by the use of interactive processes based in augmented reality systems.

DesignOBS – PhD Explorer

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.

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.

REDE#02 – National Design schools meetings

The booklet of the event REDE#02 is already available!

Representation of knowledge: interpretations about the design companies in Portugal [posters]

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.

Design infrastructures: proposing an alternative design observation system for countries with a lower maturation of design culture [AHFE21′]

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.

Mapping the Research thread of PhDs in Design: a PhD citation analysis of the Portuguese doctorates [Ico-RD21′]

Costa, N.; Branco, V.; Costa, R.; Borges, A.; Modesto, A.; Cunca, R.; Silva, A.,

The present study undertaken within the DesignOBS project, is based on 172 PhD theses in Design submitted to the Portuguese National Design Schools between 2005 and 2019. It focuses in particular on the extraction and analysis of 522 PhD citations appended to design doctoral work. The analysis is used to observe school impact, explore the weight of previous design-focused and non-design doctoral work to develop PhD research in Design in the country. The results reveal few connections between doctorates and few overlaps in- between as well as outside design schools thus indicating poor continuity and reproducibility of domestic doctoral work, little tradition of PhD citation, and an important weight of non-design schools. A network-based visualisation of the connections between PhDs in Design within PhD thesis, by use of a citation analysis method, enabled to draw reflections on the status of domestic doctoral research in Portugal and provides an empirical approach to explore the reproducibility of this type of research which may be used in other countries.
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National project that looks at design as a factor of innovation as well as cultural and socioeconomic development. The project collects and interprets data from the Portuguese Design ecosystem to promote its knowledge and to influence public policies.

2021 Observatório de Design. Towards a Design Observatory: models, instruments, representations and strategies. Supported by Lisbon Regional Operational Programme (Lisboa 2020) and the Competitiveness and Internationalisation Operational Programme (POCI-01-0145-FEDER-032445), under the PORTUGAL 2020 Partnership Agreement, through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and FCT – Foundation for Science and Technology.
Code + Design by  K I C K V O I D L Ö O P ,  Communication + Design Cooperative. 

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Campus de Santiago
Universidade de Aveiro
3810-193 Aveiro
Portugal

Nina Costa designobs@ua.pt