Novos computadores

Chegaram finalmente os novos computadores para a Carla Rocha o Luis Carvalho! O Luis estava nas suas sete quintas a montá-los!

Paragens sobreelevadas em Curitiba

Google Translate

Foi disponibilizada uma nova ferramenta nos blogs do BLOG ROUTER FEUP. Na coluna da direita ao picar no topo "Google Translate" todos os conteúdos aparecerão em tradução automática para a língua inglesa. Sabemos que esta funcionalidade é ainda muito deficiente mas apesar de tudo é uma ajuda para a divulgação internacional dos conteúdos.

Ponto de situação

Começa a perceber-se que será necessário considerar um sistema de forro para o interior...

Experiências de Consumo

Estudos de caso no interior da Classe Média
Alice Duarte
U.Porto editorial, 2009

Localizada na área da Antropologia do Consumo, a presente obra visa contribuir para uma compreensão abrangente dos fundamentos familiares e pessoais da procura do consumo, elucidando sobre a sua utilização enquanto meio de expressão e comunicação de identidades familiares e pessoais. O processo de consumo é aqui analisado enquanto prática cultural capaz de transmutar as mercadorias produzidas em massa em bens singulares detentores de propriedades significativas particulares. Concretizando um dispositivo metodológico qualitativo que articulou entrevistas em profundidade e etnografia, a investigação concretizou-se sobre um universo de estudo composto por 24 famílias, pertencentes às “novas classes médias” e residentes na cidade do Porto e áreas adjacentes num raio de 50 quilómetros.

(see here)

CIVITAS Bus evolution

Design-Driven INNOVATION

Changing the Rules of Competition by Radically Innovation What Things MEAN

Personal Mobility Device

Honda Develops New Personal Mobility Device With the Goal of Co-existing in Harmony with People -World's first drive system that enables movement in all directions --

TOKYO, Japan, September 24, 2009 - Pursuing the concept of "harmony with people" Honda has developed a new personal mobility technology and unveiled U3-X, a compact experimental device that fits comfortably between the rider's legs, to provide free movement in all directions just as in human walking - forward, backward, side-to-side, and diagonally. Honda will continue research and development of the device including experiments in a real-world environment to verify the practicality of the device. (link here)

Workshop - Interiorismo Ferroviário e Subsistemas - Indústria Nacional

A Alstom é líder global no mundo da geração de energia e infra-estruturas ferroviárias e constitui uma referência em tecnologias inovadoras e "amigas do ambiente". É responsável pela construção dos comboios mais rápidos e dos metros de funcionamento automático com maior capacidade do Mundo, fornecendo soluções integradas tipo chave-na-mão para centrais eléctricas e serviços associados a uma gama variada de fontes de energia, incluindo hidroeléctrica, nuclear, gás, carvão e vento. O Grupo emprega 81,500 pessoas em 70 países e registou encomendas de 24,6 mil milhões de euros em 2008/09.


A Alstom, em parceria com o DesignStudioFEUP, e o AICEP realizará no próximo dia 12 de Novembro de 2009, a partir das 10h, no Auditório da Estação do Alto dos Moinhos (Linha Azul do Metropolitano) dia 12 de Novembro de 2009, um workshop de lançamento de uma rede de Empresas Portuguesas fornecedoras da Indústria Ferroviária, dedicado ao tema "Interiorismo Ferroviário e Subsistemas - Indústria Nacional".

Uma dezena de empresas, durante cerca de 10 a 15 minutos cada, irão divulgar as suas competências e mais valias com potencial de aplicação nesta área.

Seguir-se-à um debate no qual as restantes empresas presentes, que não tiveram oportunidade de intervir dada a limitação de tempo, poderão igualmente apresentar-se e expressar o seu interesse em vir a participar na rede.

A fechar a sessão, a partir das 17h, serão apresentados os resultados do "Alstom AGV Design Award Portugal", a qual culmina um projecto nacional levado a cabo com a colaboração do DesignStudioFEUP, envolvendo Escolas Superiores de Design que foram desfiadas a imaginar o interior de um comboio de Alta Velocidade á luz da Cultura Portuguesa.

PROGRAMA
WORKSHOP: INTERIORISMO FERROVIÁRIO e SUBSISTEMAS - INDÚSTRIA NACIONAL
10:00 Abertura da sessão - Eng. Ângelo Ramalho, Presidente Alstom, Professor Carlos Aguiar, Design Studio FEUP
10:10 Panorama industrial nacional perspectivas futuras - Dr. Basílio Horta, Presidente AICEP
10:30 Interiorismo Ferroviário e Subsistemas - oportunidades para a indústria Portuguesa
Xavier Badia-Sancho, R&D Director Alstom
11:00 Intervalo para café
11:15 Apresentações empresas (5 x 10 minutos)
Polipoli | TMG Fabrics | Simoldes | Metricube | EFACEC
12:15 Pausa
12:30 Apresentações empresas (5 x 10 minutos)
Vidropol | Inapal Plásticos | Amorim Cork Composits | Couro Azul | Alma Design
13:30 Almoço ligeiro
14:30 Apresentações empresas (4 x 10 minutos)
Strong | Sunviauto | Montemeão | Caetano Components
15:15 Debate com a participação das restantes empresas e entidades presentes na assistência
16:00 Balanço da jornada Alstom - Eng. Paulo Ferreira, Customer Director Alstom
16:30 Intervalo para café
ALSTOM AGV DESIGN AWARD PORTUGAL
17:00 Abertura da sessão pública com exibição de filme documentário sobre o concurso
17:05 Intervenção da Alstom, Designer Xavier Allard
17:20 Intervenção do Design Studio FEUP, Professor Carlos Aguiar
17:30 Intervenção do CPD, Designer Henrique Cayatte, (Presidente)
17:40 Intervenção da Alstom, Eng. Paulo Ferreira, (Customer Director)
17:50 Intervenção e entrega do Prémio Design Alstom pelo Ministro dos Transportes (a confirmar)
18:00 Encerramento

Inscrições obrigatórias em dstudio@fe.up.pt

Que imagem queremos para o nosso comboio de Alta Velocidade?

A Alstom Portugal desafiou alunos de 6 Escolas de Design a imaginar a Alta Velocidade adaptada à nossa cultura.

Como seria um comboio de alta velocidade português?
Que atributos e factores distintivos deveria ter?
Que inovações nacionais deveria integrar?

O Design Studio Feup organizou o concurso e deu apoio à sua realização

Divulgação de resultados e entrega de prémios decorrerá em Lisboa, no Auditório da Estação do Alto dos Moinhos (Linha Azul do Metropolitano) dia 12 de Novembro de 2009 pelas 17:00H.

Só para bons pisos mas mesmo assim genial!

Acesso BUS por plataforma sobreelevada

Concurso IKEA

A IKEA Portugal convida os alunos estudantes de design, universitários e do Ensino Superior para participarem no IKEA Design Contest, destinado a premiar a criatividade e inovação, bem como a partilhar experiências e know-how na área dos artigos de decoração e mobiliário para o lar.

Ver informação aqui

Nova modelação CIVITAS para chassis Toyota

Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, National Design Awards

The National Design Awards were conceived by the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum to honor the best in American design. First launched at the White House in 2000 as an official project of the White House Millennium Council, the annual Awards program celebrates design in various disciplines as a vital humanistic tool in shaping the world, and seeks to increase national awareness of design by educating the public and promoting excellence, innovation, and lasting achievement. The Awards are truly national in scope–nominations for the 2009 Awards were solicited from a committee of more than 800 leading designers, educators, journalists, cultural figures, and corporate leaders from every state in the nation.

The National Design Awards is one of the few programs of its kind structured to continue to benefit the nation long after the Awards ceremony and gala. A suite of educational programs will be announced this summer in conjunction with the Awards by Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum’s award-winning Education Department, including a series of public programs, lectures, roundtables, and workshops based on the vision and work of the National Design Award winners













Smart Design
ver em : http://www.nationaldesignawards.org/2009/honoree/smart-design

Smart Design creates informed and inspired design for people and memorable brands for its clients. Over 90% of their designs have been successfully brought to market. By revealing actionable insights, Smart Design’s process clarifies which products and experiences to create, and how to purposefully develop brands.













Bill Moggridge
Ver em: http://www.nationaldesignawards.org/2009/honoree/bill-moggridge/?p=292

Bill Moggridge is a co-founder of IDEO, a global design consultancy, creating impact through design. A Royal Designer for Industry, Moggridge designed the world’s first laptop computer. He pioneered interaction design and is one of the first people to integrate human factors into the design of software and hardware. He has been a trustee of the Design Museum; visiting professor in interaction design at the Royal College of Art in London, lecturer in Design at the London Business School and a member of the Steering Committee for the Interaction Design Institute in Ivrea, Italy. He is currently consulting associate professor in the design program at Stanford University. His book, DVD and Web site “Designing Interactions” tell the story of how interaction design is transforming our daily lives.
Copyright | Privacy | Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution
National Design Awards 2009

Ver na Seed

Convite à Apresentação de Projectos em 2009 sobre Eco-Inovação

"Junto enviamos em anexo convite à apresentação de projectos em 2009 sobre Eco-Inovação, a pedido da DGAE, dada a importância da iniciativa e a interface com as nossas áreas de competência. O LNEG integra competências desenvolvidas por departamentos e unidades orgânicas do ex-INETI – Instituto Nacional de Engenharia, Tecnologia e Inovação, onde se incluem as actuais competências da Unidade Produção-Consumo Sustentável (UPCS), a que pertencemos.
A UPCS é uma unidade de I&DT cuja missão é contribuir para a resolução de problemas estratégicos da Sociedade, apoiando as políticas públicas e criando estímulos para o desenvolvimento mais sustentável de processos, produtos e sistemas inovadores, com maior valor acrescentado em termos energéticos, ambientais e sociais. Na prossecução desta missão, e tendo presente uma perspectiva de ciclo de vida, a UPCS gere um portfolio de estratégias, ferramentas e tecnologias, e intervém em projectos transversais suportada pelas seguintes competências agregadas:
·Desenvolvimento e análise de sistemas, produtos, componentes, e processos (incl. AV, ACV, ecodesign);
·Ecoeficiência e produção sustentável (incl. análise I/O);
·Produção-Consumo sustentável (incl. rotulagem, compras sustentáveis);
·Reciclagem e reutilização (incl. produtos em fim-de-vida, resíduos, efluentes térmicos, água);
·Monitorização e ecotoxicologia;
·Gestão responsável das organizações & Agenda 21 Local (incl. ética e responsabilidade social, e gestão ambiental preventiva)."

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Transcrição do "convite em anexo":


"Convite à Apresentação de Projectos de Eco-inovação

Eco-Inovação: Quando os Negócios se Associam com o Ambiente


Objectivos

- Apoiar projectos relativos à primeira aplicação e a entrada no mercado de tecnologias e de práticas inovadoras;

- Colmatar o afastamento entre investigação e desenvolvimento e o mundo dos negócios; e

- Superar as barreiras de mercado ainda existentes que actualmente impedem o sucesso de Produtos e de Serviços Eco-Inovadores, especialmente pelas pequenas e médias empresas (PME).

Apoios à Eco-Inovação

O financiamento comunitário à Eco - Inovação é enquadrado no mencionado Programa para a Competitividade e Inovação (CIP) e dispõe de cerca de 200 milhões de Euros entre 2008 e 2013, para projectos nos domínios das tecnologias, produtos e serviços inovadores que permitam uma melhor utilização dos recursos naturais e a redução da pegada ecológica europeia.

Para mais informações consultar o site:
http://ec.europa.eu/environment/eco-innovation

Candidaturas em 2009

O período de candidatura de projectos em 2009 teve início em 20 de Abril último e termina a 10 de Setembro de 2009.

Para mais informações consultar o site:
http://ec.europa.eu/environment/eco-innovation/call_en.htm

InfoDay Europeu sobre Eco - Inovação

Consultar o site:
http://www.apambiente.pt/Destaques/Paginas/InfoDayEuropeu.aspx

Ponto Focal Nacional

Para informações adicionais contactar o ponto de contacto nacional:

António Oliveira
Telefone: 21 791 91 00, ext:1814
antonio.oliveira@dgae.min-economia.pt

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Informações da DesignList Newsletter do CPD

e-design
Visões para o Ensino na Europa nos Novos Contextos Ambientais e Económicos
O e-design Congresso do Ensino Superior de Design, no âmbito do Projecto do Observatório do Ensino Superior de Design, decorrerá nos dias 6 e 7 de Novembro próximo, nas instalações da Culturgest.
O Congresso conta com o endorsement do BEDA The Bureau of European Design Associations.
A iniciativa tem por objectivo reflectir sobre o ensino desta área científica em Portugal e na Europa (1º, 2º e 3º ciclos), o impacto de Bolonha e da profissão no mercado.
O Congresso tem como destinatários as Unidades de Ensino Superior que leccionam Design, as Unidades de Investigação em Design, directores/coordenadores de cursos, professores e investigadores.
Conta já com um vasto painel de oradores confirmados.
Mais informação no micro-site: www.congressoe-design.eu


Associação PIN | Petição online
Foi criada e colocada online uma petição ‘Joalharia Contemporânea em Risco’. A Associação acredita poderem ser assim reunidas as condições necessárias à reformulação da legislação da Contrastaria em Portugal.
www.pin.pt/pin2
http://www.peticaopublica.com/?pi=P2009N269


Exposição ‘Ícones do Design’ da Colecção Paulo Parra
A Câmara Municipal de Évora inaugurou no passado dia 11, na Igreja de S. Vicente, a exposição ‘Ícones do Design’, da colecção Paulo Parra.
Objectos utilitários, criados no século XX, considerados ícones do design. Muitos dos quais também constam de outras colecções como a do Museu de Arte Moderna em Nova Iorque, do Design Museum de Londres, do Centre Georges Pompidou de Paris, ou do MUDE de Lisboa.
Estão expostos objectos de Peter Beherens, Wilhelm Wagenfeld, Henry Dreyfruss, Walter Dorwin Teague, Mario Bellini, Jacob Jensen ou Philipe Stark. ‘A estes nomes, protagonistas no processo de humanização dos sistemas tecnológicos, é atribuída a autoria de algumas das peças mais importantes da história do design industrial.’
Algumas peças tivemos ou temos em nossas casas, outras gostaríamos muito de as ter.
A mostra estará patente ao público até dia 30 de Setembro.
www.cm-evora.pt | http://ppdesign.tripod.com


Ambientes, Esboços e Int(erv)enções. Propostas | IPVC
O Curso de Design de Ambientes do Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo promove uma exposição de trabalhos académicos em Viana Castelo. O âmbito desta exposição assume um conteúdo de trabalhos com o intuito de projectar para a comunidade parte da produção que a equipa docente e os alunos concebem e realizam. O título desta iniciativa encerra um quadro amplo de ideias e de actos desenvolvidos durante o corrente ano lectivo.
A exposição estará aberta de 17 a 26 de Julho, no Posto de Turismo de Viana do Castelo.
anacurralo@estg.ipvc.pt | http://portal.ipvc.pt


Finalistas de Design do Produto dão resposta à crise dos sectores da filigrana e da cerâmica com o projecto Luxtiles | IPVC
O curso de Design do Produto da Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão do Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo afirma-se, há mais de uma década, como uma referência do ensino em design no Norte de Portugal. Uma das motivações do curso é fortalecer as ligações com o mundo empresarial enquanto futuro cenário de trabalho para os alunos formados.
Os futuros designers do Politécnico de Viana do Castelo desenvolveram um projecto inovador, o ‘Luxtiles’ cruzando a filigrana dos ourives da Póvoa de Lanhoso com os materiais cerâmicos de alta tecnologia, apresentado à imprensa no passado dia 16, pela Câmara Municipal da Póvoa de Lanhoso e pelo Museu do Ouro de Travassos.
A exposição está patente ao público até 31 de Agosto, na Oficina Cultural do IPVC.
aparo@estg.ipvc.pt


‘Duas Estradas’ e ‘Andar por aí’, dois novos livros do Planeta Tangerina
No passado dia 16, no Mercado de Oeiras, o Planeta Tangerina surpreendeu os já habituais leitores com o lançamento de dois novos livros ‘Duas Estradas’ e ‘Andar por aí’. Lembramos que os livros podem ser adquiridos em várias lojas e livrarias e encomendados por e-mail.
editora@planetatangerina.com www.planetatangerina.com
http://www.youtube.com

PND Prémios Nacionais de Design 2009

PND Prémios Nacionais de Design 2009 | Candidaturas até 31 de Agosto
Todas as informações sobre os regulamentos, as fichas de inscrição e a composição do júri dos Prémios Nacionais de Design, este ano com três vertentes, estão disponíveis para consulta no site do CPD.
O Prémio Sena da Silva visa distinguir e promover as melhores práticas de Design que contribuam para a inovação, a competitividade, o desenvolvimento económico e seus impactos na sociedade.
O Prémio Daciano da Costa pretende distinguir e promover as capacidades e competências de jovens designers de Produto/Industrial.
O Prémio Sebastião Rodrigues visa distinguir e promover as capacidades e competências de jovens designers de Comunicação/Gráfico.
paula.gris@cpd.pt | www.cpd.pt

e-design Visões para o Ensino na Europa nos Novos Contextos Ambientais e Económicos

O e-design Congresso do Ensino Superior de Design, no âmbito do Projecto do Observatório do Ensino Superior de Design, decorrerá nos dias 6 e 7 de Novembro próximo, nas instalações da Culturgest.
O Congresso conta com o endorsement do BEDA The Bureau of European Design Associations.
A iniciativa tem por objectivo reflectir sobre o ensino desta área científica em Portugal e na Europa (1º, 2º e 3º ciclos), o impacto de Bolonha e da profissão no mercado.
O Congresso tem como destinatários as Unidades de Ensino Superior que leccionam Design, as Unidades de Investigação em Design, directores/coordenadores de cursos, professores e investigadores.
Conta já com um vasto painel de oradores confirmados.
Mais informação no micro-site: www.congressoe-design.eu

METRO BUDDY

Revista Arcos Design

Prezados(as) pesquisadores (as)

A Revista Arcos Design - www.esdi.uerj.br/arcos - é um periódico Científico coordenado por professores do Programa de Pós Graduação da ESDI/UERJ - Escola superior de Desenho Industrial da Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro.

O lançamento do número 50 está previsto para novembro de 2009.

Nesse momento convidamos os pesquisadores da área de design e áreas afins a enviarem artigos para submissão. O prazo para recebimento para publicação no próximo número será em fluxo contínuo. O recebimento de textos para serem avaliados para inserção em números subseqüentes é 15 de Setembro do corrente ano. As normas para publicação estão no nosso site

Certos de contarmos com sua colaboração
Atenciosamente
Os editores

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Dear researcher

The Journal Arcos Design - www.esdi.uerj.br / arms - is a journal run by teachers of the Graduate Program of ESDI / UERJ - School of Industrial Design at the University of Rio de Janeiro.

The launch of the number 50 is scheduled for November 2009.

At this time we are inviting researchers in the field of design and related areas to send articles for submission. The deadline for receipt for publication in the next issue will be in continuous flow. The collection of texts to be evaluated for inclusion in subsequent figures is September 15 this year. Standards for publishing can be see on our site.

The Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA)

The Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) is responsible for the management of certain parts of the EU's programmes in the fields of education, culture and audiovisual.

Fully operational from the 1st of January 2006, the Executive Agency operates under supervision from its three parent Directorates-General of the European Commission:

(read more)

International Design Scoreboard: Initial indicators of international design capabilities

Design is increasingly being recognised as important for national competitiveness. However, to date there has been no comprehensive collation of available data to enable reliable comparison between nations in terms of performance in design. This report provides a framework for measuring national design capability and brings together the best available data for 12 countries and their design capabilities.

The report has the following aims:

* To provide an initial comparison of nations’ design capability based on currently available data
* To highlight the challenges in comparing data from different nations
* To develop a framework to enable ongoing data collection and international comparison.

(see link here)

PRINT 3D

(see here)

Congresso de Design na Culturgest

Nos próximos dias 6 e 7 de Novembro, na Culturgest, em Lisboa, terá lugar o Congresso Europeu do Ensino Superior de Design, com o objectivo de promover a criação de uma task-force para reflexão do estado do ensino de Design no nosso país, criando sinergias entre os seus diferentes actores e interlocutores.
Mais informações no site e-design.

In the coming days 6 and 7 November in Culturgest in Lisbon, will be the European Congress of Higher Education of Design with the aim of promoting the creation of a task-force to reflect the status of the teaching of design in our country, creating synergies between its different actors and stakeholders.
More information on the site

Product Development Technologies, Inc. (PDT)

In 1995, Product Development Technologies, Inc. (PDT) began as a two-man operation. Driven by an entrepreneurial spirit and genuine passion for our work, PDT has grown into a full service, award winning product development firm with global reach.
The same spirit that brought us where we are today powers our team of designers and engineers, focusing their enthusiasm and energy to envision and bring to life incredibly innovative products for clients worldwide. PDT understands the big picture in product development - we don't just design products, we help clients build their business through design.... (see link)

Na CORE 77

IAAD

Who are we and why

The Istituto d’Arte Applicata e Design in Torino is born in 1978 in the capital city of Industrial design by the initiative of a group of professionals that operate in the field of visual communication and product design, becoming a reference point for schools, forming and industry.
Design is culture of planning, a system able to correlate the production with end users. Design must attend to research and innovation, pointing to give social value and cultural meaning for assets and services. Shape and function are cornerstones for conscious design. (link)

Casos de Diseño - FOROALFA

Una nueva categoría de contenidos en FOROALFA, destinada a publicar lo mejor de la práctica profesional del diseño. Casos de Diseño reales, de todas las áreas y especialidades, que constituyen verdaderos aportes a la profesión. Presentados por los propios autores y narrados en detalle para ayudar al lector a comprender cómo es que trabajan los mejores diseñadores. (link here)

the DESIGN SOCIETY

the future of innovation

Seed and The Council on Competitiveness brought together thought leaders from science, business, academia, and design to discuss the future of innovation (see here)

Design de fichas electricas

ver aqui

Dexigner Newsletter

Já é possível aceder-se à Dexigner Newsletter de Julho. Basta clicar aqui.

Apelo aos leitores

Manter estes blogs representa, para mim, um enorme esforço de tempo. Não tendo a percepção se este trabalho tem ou não alguma utilidade, esse esforço torna-se quixotesco e inútil. Se os leitores não iniciarem uma prática de comentário ao que leem, ainda que seja apenas escrever "olá! li isto!" duvido que estes blogs tenham futuro. Toda a gente fala em cidadania mas quanto a participar num esforço colectivo....Este blog pretendia ser isso mesmo: a contrução de um colectivo em torno do design e de valores. Mas um colectivo só tem sentido se for participado. É com alguma tristeza que vejo o fim chegar, custa-me dizê-lo mas é bom que todos tenhamos consciencia que é essa a consequencia inevitável da presente postura de quem o lê. É pena. Sinto que fiz a minha parte, mas não vou continuar a falar para uma parede com uma porta fechada.

Carlos Aguiar

Consultório de Ideias NET-BIC em colaboração com a FEUP

Tem uma ideia para um negócio? Pretende criar a sua empresa? Então o Consultório de Ideias é para si.
No Consultório de Ideias, iniciativa desenvolvida pela NET-BIC em colaboração com a FEUP, encontra um especialista ligado ao empreendedorismo que irá esclarecer as suas dúvidas e aconselhá-lo sobre como transformar a sua ideia ou projecto numa empresa inovadora!
Podem participar nesta actividade Alunos(as) de Mestrados Integrados e Graduados(as) há menos de dois anos, alunos(as) de Mestrados e Doutoramentos, Docentes e Funcionários da FEUP, sendo obrigatória a inscrição através do formulário próprio, que deve ser enviado para empresas@fe.up.pt, até à véspera da actividade.
O próximo Consultório de Ideias realiza-se no dia 15 de Julho, entre as 14.30h e as 17.30h, na sala B229.
Seja empreendedor. Torne a sua ideia realidade!

Melhores Cumprimentos,
Marta Rodrigues
SICC/DCoop – Divisão de Cooperação/Cooperation Office
Cooperação Empresarial
Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto
Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, s/n
4200-465 Porto
PORTUGAL
Telefone: +351 22 5574199 (ext. 3545)
Fax: +351 22 5081440
E-mail: empresas@fe.up.pt

Call for papers : ICSID Design Education Conference 2009

22 November 2009
Temasek Polytechnic, Singapore.

The call for papers for the Icsid Design Education Conference 2009, as part of the Icsid World Design Congress 2009, is now open, with the theme, ‘Design Difference - Design Education 2050.’

Participants are invited to submit papers in the areas related to the conference sub-themes in design education: 2050, and particularly work addressing paradigm shifts mapping the future. Papers may reflect on a wide spectrum of design disciplines such as industrial design, architecture, environmental landscape, interior, visual communication, new media, transportation and urban design.

(see more here)

Can design students help make the design domains more visible?

Design suffers from a lack of recognition because people cannot grasp what it is. What is design? Designers have been debating that question for years but there is no satisfactory answer. Also, it keeps designers‘ potential clients in ignorance. A major step will come when designers are able to make design visible at a glance and show what design can achieve economically and socially. If a drawing is worth a thousand words it must be possible to draw a chart, a map of design outcomes, organised by domain? Could design students make design visible in this way?

(ver artigo completo aqui)

universal design award 2010

Dear Sir or Madam,
The international design competition for trendsetting architecture, interior architecture, product design and services moves into the third round.
We look forward to your participation at the “universal design award 2010” as product designer, graphic designer, architect, interior designer, manufacturer, service provider and service designer in the topic categories of universal design and assisted living. The winners of a “universal design award 2010” will be selected within the framework of a non-public adjudication session by an expert jury composed of competent jurors and chaired by Prof. Fritz Frenkler, Munich, Germany.
Specific
The winners of the “universal design consumer favorite 2010” will be selected for the 3rd time by a representative cross-sectional group of 100 test persons.
Please mind our registration deadline on December 15, 2009!
You will find all information, dates and charges online at:
http://www.ud-germany.de/cms/ud/en/universal_design_award_2010/the_award
The winners of the “universal design award 2010“will be exclusively presented at the “design: driving innovation” special display within the scope of CeBIT from 2nd to 8th of March 2010 in Hannover, Germany.
For more information please do not hesitate to contact us.

With kind regards

Thomas Bade
Phone: +49 (0) 511/8930044
mailto:tb@ud-germany.de

Alexander Manu no Porto

Em breve estarão disponíveis a apresentação e demais informação sobre o evento da entrega dos Prémios do CIFIAL Design Award.

Até lá pode consultar alguns videoas de Alexandre Manu no link (aqui)

THE GREEN GOOD DESIGN AWARDS 2010

DESIGN FOR A BETTER WORLD NOW, Deadline November 1, 2009

The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design (link aqui) and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies have joined forces on two continents to present
an innovative and challenging new public program: GREEN GOOD DESIGN.
GOOD DESIGN™ was founded in Chicago in 1950 by Eero Saarinen, Charles and Ray Eames, and Edgar Kaufmann, Jr. to promote and foster a greater public understanding and
acceptance for Modern Design.
In 2010, six decades later, this new edition of GOOD DESIGN aims to bring a parallel public
appreciation and awareness for an equally revolutionary design approach—a new
design thinking led by a current generation of visionary architects, designers, urban planners, corporations, governments, individuals, and private and public institutions for a design and
a public environment based upon the ideals of energy conservation; the reduction of toxic waste and greenhouse gases; the diminishing dependence on fossil fuels; and a sensitivity for waste, pollution, and the depletion of the world’s energy resources. This new design
approach centers on the idea of repairing our worldwide environments with sustainability and for total ecological restoration.
Now in turn and in 2010, GREEN GOOD DESIGN's goal is to bestow international recognition to those outstanding individuals, companies, organizations, governments, and institutions—together with their products, services, programs, ideas, and concepts—that have forwarded exceptional thinking and inspired greater progress toward a more healthier and more
sustainable universe. (full document here)

A New Map for Design / by Paola Antonelli / June 3, 2009

As the focus of design shifts from the production of finite goods to a practice of experimentation, ideas take precedence over products.

in (http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/a_new_map_for_design/)


Earlier this spring, manufacturers and designers from all over the world were shipping their wares to Milan to prepare for the Salone del Mobile. Anybody involved in design knows this is the most important rendezvous of the year—or at least it used to be, when design meant mostly furniture and objects. Designers anticipate meeting new talent and inspiration; they seek out curators, writers, teachers, students, and, of course, each other—this is a chance to meet with their peers and trade war stories. It’s hard to tell in advance whether Milan will be blooming with wisteria or gray, rainy, and dreary at this time of year, but the event is inevitably alive with the sound of design. The Salone is to design what Cannes is to film: the most useful and most productive yearly trade meeting. But is the future of design here?

Milan still represents a big red dot in the geography of design, but design is changing rapidly, and so are its maps. There are myriad forms of design, many of which don’t require movement of materials and artifacts; only curiosity, an internet connection, and the ability to seek, learn, and synthesize from other fields and cultures. These mutants are the future of design and the place to find them is not at big design trade fairs, but rather in interdisciplinary gatherings, pluralistic exchanges and, especially, in certain schools. Programs like the Design Interactions at the Royal College of Art (RCA) in London or the Department of Design at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) are trying to merge poetry and beauty with advanced technology. A crucial contemporary effort was pioneered, of course, by such groundbreaking centers as the Media Lab at MIT, the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) at New York University, and the Knowledge Interaction Design Laboratory (KID) at Tokyo University. However, the newer initiatives at RCA and KAIST are attempting an even more daring synthesis of digital media, this time not with art, but rather with design, which was not a priority before (despite what KID’s name might imply).

Since the industrial revolution ushered in the modern idea of design, different poles have anchored design, attracted designers and intermediaries, and concentrated cultural and technological production. The manufacturing plants themselves, which vertically integrated all aspects of production and marketing from design to distribution, were the first. The great Josiah Wedgwood, whose groundbreaking 18th-century company was recently sold and is in danger of being obliterated, is the archetype of such a manufacturer. This model persisted until after World War II, when the poles began to shift. Companies then began to subcontract most of the actual construction, while they continued to handle the pre- and post-production phases themselves. This is still the model used by either very big companies such as Herman Miller or Steelcase, or smaller companies producing objects in different materials, each of which requires dedicated plants and technologies. Even in that context, however, the geography of design shifted. Whereas subcontractors once tended to be located in specific areas such as Michigan, California, or north of Milan, today they are spread all over the world.

Just as the landscape of manufacturing has changed, so has the conference scene. Milan’s Solone has been joined on the map by a number of fairs and salons that make up smaller red dots, including London (in September), Tokyo and Kortrijk, Belgium (in October), Paris and Cologne (January), and Berlin and New York (May). Several opportunities now exist for people to meet and do business, and new forms of design that have, for instance, multimedia and interfaces as their focus, have entered the mix. Other gatherings not traditionally considered “design,” such as Ars Electronica in Linz or TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) in Monterey, have begun competing for designers’ attention and money.

Moreover, the tough financial situation and dwindling travel funds; the increasing number of resources and opportunities available online; the ease of movement from digital design to digital production that renders prototyping almost unnecessary until the moment of distribution; the shrinking of the luxury industry, where much of this type of design resides; the increased sensitivity to the footprint caused by air travel; and especially the massive shift of the design profession from making things to proposing models, visualizing complexity, and building scenarios, are all working together to further endanger this latest design world map. What is important now is the production of ideas: The poles have become lighter and more immaterial, having rid themselves of much of the baggage of material production. The geography of design has transformed; systems are now built around schools rather than industry.

Design education’s path since the second half of the 19th century is a fascinating and rather unexplored subject. That may be a result of the protean definition of design—that vague noun always in need of a modifier to make complete cultural sense, whether it is “graphic,” “furniture,” “automotive,” or “fashion.” Moreover, examples of schools entirely devoted to design are rare, as design often figures as a division within schools devoted to the arts or, as with polytechnic schools, to architecture and engineering. The best contemporary design schools are the most important centers for the production of ideas, having earned preeminence over the R&D departments of corporations and other think tanks by progressively shedding the focus on the immediate production of finite artifacts to privilege experimentation. As a result, they usually flourish where students and teachers can find interdisciplinarity and pluralism, in areas with a strong cultural identity—be it the arts, engineering, architecture, technology, craft, or in any other discipline from which designers draw on a daily basis—that have connections and access to other cultural poles, such as departments of universities, museums, galleries, and so on. Along with KAIST and the RCA and several other institutes in London—always a great design incubator— many vibrant schools have created new centers of design gravity around the world, from Eindhoven’s Design Academy in Holland, to Bezalel in Jerusalem.

The dismantling of a static geography of design is not over yet, however. As the forever far-sighted Neil Gershenfeld explained previously in Seed (Is MIT Obsolete?), the system of schools and other educational institutions is becoming wider and more open. It will hopefully foster the development of identity and personality, the ultimate pointillistic and open-source destination of the design trajectory.

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Paola Antonelli is the senior curator of design and architecture at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, and writes the DESIGN column on the interface of science and design.

Scan 3D do convés do "Celta"

Nos passados dias 26 e 27 procedeu-se ao levantamento tridimensional do convés do "Celta" na sequência do trabalho que se tem vindo a desenvolver sobre a Monografia da Classe Vouga.

SWAP'n'GO

SWAP’n’GO GREEN received a new honour, being the only non Australian product named in the 2009 Powerhouse Museum Selection. The Powerhouse Museum through its support of excellence in Australian design and innovation makes an annual selection of products from the finalists in the Australian International Design Awards. The recipients of the Powerhouse Museum Design Selection have proven to demonstrate excellence in design and innovative use of new technologies to provide significant benefits to users. As a result, SWAP’n’GO GREEN will be on exhibition at the Powerhouse Museum for 12 months commencing in August 2009.

The Powerhouse Museum

The Powerhouse Museum has a unique and diverse collection of 385,000 objects that spans history, science, technology, design, industry, decorative arts, music, transport, and space exploration. The large majority of these objects never get to be on public display, but carry with them interesting, humorous, and fascinating stories. This blog will introduce you to some of the Powerhouse Curators, their favourite objects, and the stories behind them. (see here)

Alain Findeli

Alain Findeli is Full Professor at the School of Industrial Design of the University of Montreal where he has been teaching for about 30 years. Trained as an engineer in physics (INSA, Lyon) and researcher in materials science (IIT, Chicago and Polytechnics, Montreal), he reoriented his career and interests toward the human and social aspects of engineering, technology, and design (M.A. in Architecture, Montreal; Doct. in Aesthetics, Paris). He concluded his extensive study of the history of design education in his book 'Le Bauhaus de Chicago: l'oeuvre pédagogique de Làszlò Moholy-Nagy' (1995). His current research topics and recent publications cover more general philosophical issues of the theory and practice of design (logic, aesthetics, ethics) as well as some key pedagogical aspects of design research education. He is the founder and current scientific and pedagogical director of the Master's program in "Design & Complexity" in Montreal. As a Guest Professor at the University of Nîmes (France) in 2006, he is planning to introduce a research agenda on the most recent developments of design theory and methodology (service and social design, sustainable public projects, quality of place in rurban living environments). (link aqui)

What do we Lack?

The urgency in the discussion and formulation of concrete proposals in face of the current economic system’s incompatibility and of the preservation of the planet requires a careful observation of our lifestyle.
It is not about just respecting the future generations anymore, ensuring the same use of material and natural assets we had the right to, but about a search for new actions and thinking models. We would have already had a curious inversion of values, when changing the focus: And what if the development degree of the countries were measured not by the industrialization index and the GDP, but by the production of solid residues, pollution and energy consumption? Architect Bernard Rudofsky suggested us that if we opened our eyes a little wider than their accustomed aperture, if we could observe without ethnic bias, we would look at our own environment with a more critical awareness.
Considering the Brazilian reality, anthropologist Darcy Ribeiro, defined that the opening of our horizons will only occur: “when we prohibit the past and present of forming the future corresponding to its being and its bias. We shall only accomplish our own potentialities by projecting ourselves the future we want. This will only occur when we develop lifestyles and ways of consumption which are not governed by profit, but fundamentally intended to answer the needs of our population.”
The design represents a relevant role in the promotion of this change, overall when we consider that it deals with satisfaction of the needs of the body and spirit. In this sense, the question is not what is still to be designed or redesigned, but what do we lack?
In academic experiences and pedagogic practices involving Design students with a local context of poverty and exclusion, the emerging problems and issues reveal us that there is still much to be accomplished. One of the first aspects is the insertion of excluded or marginalized populations in a social equity and visibility level. In many cases, the very notion of community must be rethought, for its territorial occupation, many times, does not record traces of memory, belonging and voice. “I” is almost inexistent. "Us” is unknown.
Talking about a sustainable planet requires the existence of an actual collective, marked by continued actions, by the involvement of the civil and governmental organizations, without the weight of assistencialism or indifference. The work of Victor Papanek, Alain Findeli, Bernard Rudofsky, among others, contains a historic legacy and a broad critical debate indicating the crucial insertion of the design in the construction of such common future. This is what many of us, design students throughout the world, long for.

(Tatiana Sakurai ; Maria Cecília Loschiavo dos Santos)

VOLVO OCEAN RACE

After a frenzied night of battle, Telefonica Black had fended off all challenges for her lead and was still in control at the corner of the ice box. And by 10:00 ZULU this morning, the fleet had covered about two thirds of the 175 mile eastward trek along the southern edge of the exclusion zone. Behind Black, Ericsson 4 was up to second and Telefonica Blue had powered back into contention. All the gaps had opened as each boat got round the corner and extended, while those behind were still sailing upwind.

The wind was blowing from the south, around the mid-teens, and providing some fast miles. There was a surprising amount of north-to-south leverage for a short, straight-line eastward dash, with PUMA and Delta Lloyd investing in a position to the south, looking for a Gulf Stream pay-off (...ver aqui)
(link para o site Volvo Ocean Race na coluna da direita)

Secções do levantamento do CELTA

À primeira bvista parece que não estão correctas. O casco estará deformado pelo tempo?