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In Europe, Design Centers and Associations are considered as key infrastructures to efficiently promote and represent the discipline. However, in some countries with a lower maturation of Design culture – such as the case of Portugal - there are no official actors fully dedicated to these activities. Previous research indicated Design schools as a potential alternative infrastructure to promote and represent Design, but further research is needed to understand what they can learn/adapt from the activities currently undertaken by Centers and Associations. This paper maps the European landscape looking in particular at BEDA (Bureaux of European Design Association) members. Based on these insights and recent infrastructuring literature, it develops adapted strategies for observation activities to test with Design schools in the Portuguese territory. The results obtained are a first step to bring countries with lower maturation of design culture under the EU Design Ecosystem radar.
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This article is a result of the project Design Obs. Towards a design Observatory in Portugal: models, instruments, representation and strategies supported by Lisbon Regional Operational Program (LISBOA 2020) and the Competitiveness and Internationalization Operational Program (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.
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Costa, N. et al. (2021). Design Infrastructures: Proposing Alternative Strategies for Countries with a Lower Maturation of Design Culture. In: Raposo, D., Martins, N., Brandão, D. (eds) Advances in Human Dynamics for the Development of Contemporary Societies. AHFE 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 277. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80415-2_16
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