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The main goals of this Research Project were to contribute to the deeper understanding of what was a seminal sector of Industrial Design in Portugal, as well as to a more informed perception of the country’s official institutions and industry. Simultaneously, the Project contributed to the in-depth knowledge of a milestone in Portuguese Design History, namely through the construction of the project website and mounting an exhibition at MUDE – Museu do Design e da Moda, entitled "Rehearsal for an archive. Design in Portugal between 1960 and 1974”. This presented the public with more than a hundred documents and various objects related to the main participants and activity of the “Art and Industrial Architecture Nucleus”/“Industrial Design Nucleus”. The final publication, with the same title and co-produced with MUDE, represents the project’s concluding contribution to historical research on Design in Portugal.

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MoMoWo is a large-scale cooperation project co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme within the Culture sub-programme. It is an interdisciplinary non-profit project that contributes to creating European added value, as intended by Creative Europe. The MoMoWo partnership brings together 7 universities and research centres from 6 Member States: Italy, Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands, Slovenia and Slovakia. MoMoWo highlights, reflects and debates the diverse contributions of women’s work within architecture, urbanism, landscaping, civil engineering, interior and industrial design professions since the advent of the Modern Movement, promoting their cultural and economic significance. All MoMoWo activities are designed to raise awareness of women's work within the designing fields with the potential to generate a long-lasting impact, strengthening the social and economic roles of women, whether they're working in a particular design field or are still in training.

Keywords: Transdisciplinaridade; Aprendizagem Colaborativa, Inovação, Co-Design, Sustentabilidade

The L3 project was developed by a consortium of 3 Portuguese Universities (IADE – Universidade Europeia - project leader), FSCH-IHC – Universidade Nova de Lisboa and IST-IN+ - Universidade de Lisboa), working in diverse scientific fields (Design; Contemporary History and Engineering, respectively). The aim of the project was to promote collaboration between academia and society, fostering interaction and forms of mutual learning in order to solve real problems affecting vulnerable communities in Lisbon. The city, more than a pedagogical resource, was considered an educational agent in a collaborative learning process. Knowledge acquisition, technical and soft-skills were applied in areas such as product, interior and communication design, sustainable development and urban metabolism, science technology, education policies, and contemporary history, while trying to solve diverse problems ranging from energy consumption to environment and urban social problems. There were diverse outputs from this project, including advanced training (PhD research), 6 peer reviewed papers, 1 paper in an index journal, more than 13 presentations/seminars with all stakeholders, 3 lectures/presentations at scientific and social forums, social and cultural activities, as well as designs for sustainable innovations and entrepreneurship, impacting on approximately 500 students, 20 BA and Master’s lecturers, around 17 stakeholders and 120 projects.

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UNIDCOM-IADE and DGS established a cooperation agreement to promote applied research focusing on 2 major national health programmes: Healthy Eating (PNPAS) and Prevention and Control of Infections and Antimicrobial Resistance (PPCIRA). The PNPAS research goal was to promote the consumption of healthy food so as to improve people’s nutritional condition and health, through the design of communication materials. PPCIRA research promoted compliance with hand hygiene protocol among health-care professionals, through the design of materials for a national campaign, aiming to reduce the rate of healthcare related infections. Generically, both cases were research-through-design projects carried out by teams composed of specialists from the DGS and partner organisations (e.g., doctors/nurses, nutritionists, psychologists, educators), senior UNIDCOM researchers, and doctoral/master level students, working in an interdisciplinary manner. The major deliverables were the design of communication materials, in printed and/or digital formats (e.g., promotional, educational and warning materials: e.g., posters, flyers, brochures, banners; manuals, infographics, videos, image bank); a report identifying the major obstacles and guidelines for effective communication; 1 PhD study (on-going); 4 master’s theses, 3 peer reviewed papers and 2 presentations/lectures.