This paper aims to show the design process of a project being developed by the 3rd year students of the Licenciatura in Design of the Universidade de Aveiro. The project is part of a wider challenge launched to all Portuguese Design Universities called “Action for Age”, an initiative of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) in partnership with Experimenta Design and sp...
There is growing awareness that the planet we live in cannot support many more years of intensive use such as that which took place in the twentieth century. Having accepted that fact, the major question now is how to invert the situation, how to continue to satisfy today’s needs and aspirations without jeopardizing the needs of future generations. The environmental impacts aggravated in recent decades by uncon...
This study is aimed to establish knowledge about the relationship of the strategic issues of design, focusing on the value of the product as a market strategy and the importance given by a national industry with wide experience in cod fishing in the area of Aveiro. We tried to study and analyze the codfish industry to use a new marketing strategy based on recovery of yellow codfish - distinct product and with p...
The present paper works on the potential applicability of design research based on a practical experience with the Portuguese company Recipor — Recuperação e Valorização de Resíduos (residues recovery and valuation), S.A., who’s mission is to collect, treat and valuate in a profitable way plastic residues e non iron metals, with domestic or industrial origins. The ecological appeal, the economical recovery proc...
This paper aims to present an emerging phenomenon based on social innovations, which is striving to associate sustainable social, economic and cultural behaviours to the prevailing unsustainable socio-economic model. This emerging phenomenon has been designated as Creative Places, i.e., urban spaces where people collaboratively promote and manage a mix of creative initiatives that foster social innovations an...
This paper will focus in the urban territory and its social, cultural and economic dynamics, and in particular in the different manifestations of creativity that can be found here, namely in spaces in which spontaneous and diffuse forms of social innovation and creativity are emerging: Creative Places. It is in this urban context that Creative Places thrive, working as incubators of change, sustainable behaviou...
This paper presents a proposal for a pilot project in an old milk factory in Milan, which is part of an ongoing PhD research that aims to develop a solution to enhance the growth and development of creative places for a new urban everyday life. Places where groups of people collaboratively promote and manage a mix of creative initiatives in the fields of art and culture, economy and production, social services ...
This paper aims to show some cases of creative communities based on collaborative services as a way to promote sustainable development. This scenario (creative communities and their services) offers design a different approach and a new opportunity to develop and enhance a sustainable future. The transition from the industrial age to the age of knowledge brings about diverse changes in the way we live. The coll...
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