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Campus de Santiago
Universidade de Aveiro
3810-193 Aveiro
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Nina Costa
designobs [at] ua.pt
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Campus de Santiago
Universidade de Aveiro
3810-193 Aveiro
Portugal

Nina Costa
ndc [at] ua.pt

Team

The team involved with this project gathers members from different schools, with experience and scientific interests on the various areas of design

Vasco Branco

Investigador Principal (IP), UA, ID+

Full professor in Design at the Communication and Art Department of the University of Aveiro. Director of ID+ (Research Institute for Design, Media and Culture). Member of international advisory boards: The Design Journal [UK], I+DISEÑO [Spain], Cadernos de Estudos Avançados em Design [Brasil] | ORCID: 0000-0003-3855-1919

Rui Costa

Co-IP, UA, ID+

Rui Costa is a designer, professor (communication and art department at Universidade de Aveiro) and researcher (ID+, Research Institute of Design, Media and Culture). PhD in Design with the dissertation entitled Communication Design as Knowledge (2014), his areas of interest are investigation through project, and information representation. He is co-principal researcher of the Project DesignOBS.: for a design observatory in Portugal. | ORCID: 0000-0002-8881-3174

Nina Costa

UA, ID+

Researcher based in Aveiro University, integrated member at the Research Institute for Design, Media and Culture (ID+). She currently is the main assistant researcher at the DesignOBS project. Her PhD, developed within the MIT-Portugal program, in collaboration with MIT and INESC TEC, focused on integrating Product-Service system Design and Service Design approaches. She has worked in collaboration with companies in different sectors (EDP commercial, Laborial). | ORCID: 0000-0002-2680-2752

Afonso Borges

UBI, ID+/LabCom

Communication and industrial designer. Professor at the University of Beira Interior; invited Professor at the University of Porto, and member of ID+ research institute. PhD in design, he is a researcher of everyday objects. | ORCID: 0000-0002-3071-7980

Raul Cunca

FBAUL, CIEBA

Designer and associate professor at the Fine Arts Faculty of University of Lisbon. Member of several Scientific Committees, referee of the magazine i+Diseño. Developed design activities in different areas since 1986, collaborating with companies and institutions in Europe. | ORCID: 0000-0002-6837-7176

Antonio Modesto

FBAUP, ID+

Studied art and design at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Porto University, where he is an Associate Professor. Beyond the academic activity, he researches and works in design and art. He has been an art director in his own design studio for more than 15 years. | ORCID: 0000-0002-5890-0074

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Contact

Boaventura Sousa Santos

UCoimbra, CED

design.obs.pt@gmail.com

Jamie Allen

NW, IXDM

ndc@ua.com

Christina Melander

DDC

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. 

ID+
Campus de Santiago
Universidade de Aveiro
3810-193 Aveiro
Portugal

Nina Costa designobs@ua.pt