ID+ DESIS Lab

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ID+ DESIS Lab, Aveiro, Portugal

Address: departamento de comunicação e arte / universidade de aveiro
campus universitário de Santiago
3810-193 aveiro
tel: 234 370389
fax: 234 370868
Email: idmaisdesislab@gmail.com
Website: http://www.idmais.org/desislab

Hosting Institution: Research Institute for Design, Media and Culture [ID+]
departamento de comunicação e arte / campus universitário de Santiago
3810-193 aveiro
tel: 234 370389
fax: 234 370868
Email: idmais@gmail.com
Website: http://www.idmais.org/

Coordinator: Teresa Franqueira, Assistant Professor at Universidade de Aveiro and ID+. Researcher
Address: Campus universitário de Santiago
3810-193 Aveiro
tel: 234 370389
Email: teresa.franqueira@ua.pt

Operations manager: Gonçalo Gomes, Assistant at Universidade de Aveiro and ID+. Researcher
Address: Campus universitário de Santiago
3810-193 aveiro
tel: 234 370389
email: goncalo@ua.pt

Background

The ID+ DESIS Lab is held in the Research Institute for Design, Media and Culture [ID+] which is an organization jointly hosted by three Portuguese institutions: Universidade de Aveiro, Universidade do Porto and CPD- Centro Português de Design (Portuguese Center of Design). This Institute is rooted on the mission to establish effective working ties between Design Research and Institutional Partners towards cultural, economic and social development. The organization of ID+ is based, first and foremost, on a network that links Design, Industry, Culture and Media, based on principles of flexibility, autonomy, efficiency and acknowledgement. In addition, this network invest on national and international academic partners from diverse scientific areas as a clear strategy for broadening its social, cultural and economic impact.
Being ID+ an institution where Social Innovations and Sustainability are assumed as one of the core axis of his investigation, specifically on the Universidade de Aveiro division, there is by now a coherent portfolio of projects where these themes have been developed. Essentially, the studies conducted by our several researchers have been focused on social innovations adesign for sustainability.

Objectives

Stimulate design-led sustainable social change initiatives;
To map creative communities by gathering case studies of social innovation in Portugal;
Promote social innovations and sustainability among the Portuguese design community.

Activities

Workshop “Lugares criativos para uma cidade colaborativa” - Bienal “Para uma Bienal”, in Viana do Castelo, Portugal. October 2010.

Workshop “Action for Age 2” – With Vincenzo Di Maria and Susana António, as part of the Action for Age Project, a collaboration between Experimenta Design, Goulbenkian Foundation and the RSA. March 2011.

Primary Research Areas

- Social creativity
- Creative Cities
- Community building
- Sustainable mobility
- Future cultural heritage

Future programme

Development and Implementation of the Project “Ruas de Cultura”, where a artist´s community will be implemented in the historical, and abandoned, center of Montemor-o-Novo, a small city in Portugal. This project aims to promote the relations between the individuals that will work and live in the spaces that are being equipped as a Business Incubator Center, various image and sound, 3D and theater studios, and artist-in-residence areas. It will start in 2011 and end in 2013.

Main partners

-Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
-Experimenta Design
-Aveiro City Hall

Project Example