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Ana Margarida Ferreira
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Open AccessHealth-illness transition processes in children with complex chronic conditions and their parents: a sco** review
The prevalence of complex chronic conditions (CCC), which cause serious limitations and require specialized care, is increasing. The diagnosis of a CCC is a health-illness transition for children and their par...
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Open AccessCorrection to: The Kelp Forest Challenge: A collaborative global movement to protect and restore 4 million hectares of kelp forests
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Open AccessThe Kelp Forest Challenge: A collaborative global movement to protect and restore 4 million hectares of kelp forests
Marine kelp forests cover 1/3 of our world's coastlines, are heralded as a nature-based solution to address socio-environmental issues, connect hundreds of millions of people with the ocean, and support a rich...
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TechnoFashion2Sustainability. Digital Tools, Modular Strategies and Participatory Design Approach to Brand Engagement and Customized Solutions
Participatory design practices allow users to understand and experience products more deeply. How, what, and why emerge as meaningful questions to answer collaboratively, strengthening the link between creator...
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Designing a Speculative Design Toolkit for Community Biodiversity Activism
This paper forms part of a doctoral research project based on the proposition that a diverse Speculative Design practice can support community biodiversity activism, from which a Strategic Speculative Design F...
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Modular Design and Technology for Diversity and a More Sustainable Fashion. The RTFKT X Nike and CLO Case Studies
Fashion and design are closely linked. Through the various resources that are available it is possible to find varied solutions that, at the same time, allow design creation to be more practical, complete, and...
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Social Engagement and Cultural Adaptation of Young Refugees Through Gaming and Playful Design
The document addresses one of the main themes of the present day, i.e., the problem of forced migration—commonly referred to as seeking refuge. The target user of this study is exiled children who, in most cas...
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Can Diverse Futuring Strategies Inform an Ecology-Centred Speculative Design Practice?
{BIO}DIVERSE FUTURES is a doctoral research project that aims to explore the potential of non-normative and ecological futuring strategies as a way to create speculative design tools and techniques that are d...
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Future Trends in Education for a More Sustainable Human Systems Design: The CREATION Project
Europe faces various challenges towards sustainable development. The influx of refugees, youth and gender unemployment, frequent global health threats, spiraling conflict, cultural intolerance, socially margin...
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Characterising Futuring Strategies for Biodiverse Speculative Design and Systems Design
In this paper, it is proposed that new tools and techniques for speculative design practice are needed to guarantee the biodiversity of global systems, and that they can be based in the non-normative strategie...
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Design for Health and Wellbeing: Innovative Medical Garment Design
This paper is the initial part of Ph.D study is to contribute to innovative designs for fibromyalgia patients improving, as result, their health and wellbeing. A flat design process which is customized is pres...
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A Strategic Framework for Biodiverse Speculative Practices
This chapter provides an emerging framework for approaches to speculative practices that engage with the intersecting challenges of diversifying the practice of speculative research, particularly with respect ...
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The Common-Sense Assessment of Sustainability
Products claiming sustainability benefits have been spreading all over the world in response, manly, to the consumer’s behavior change towards a healthier and more sustainable way of life.
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Sustainable Human Environment: Mouraria, Local Color and Sense of Place of a Historical Lisbon Neighbourhood
At present time, many urban centres of European cities are losing their historical and socio-cultural identity due to ageing populations and a significant increase in tourism. If, on the one hand, there are ma...
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Entrepreneurial Cultural Affinity Spaces (ECAS): Design of Inclusive Local Learning Ecosystems for Social Change, Innovation and Entrepreneurship
The ECAS framework seeks to transform social design theory and practice through an emergent instructional paradigm of heritage-led, local learning ecosystem approaches, to leverage on diverse assets of people ...
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Social Design, Innovation and Ergonomics: Reflections on Education, Transdisciplinarity and New Blurred Models for Sustainable Social Change
Social innovation is not a new fact, but it has grown in importance over the last years as a driver for social change [1]. Although there is no universal definition of it, one widely-used is ‘ideas that are soci...
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Threshold Concepts and Design for Social Change
The transition from ambiguous and unclear areas of academic enquiry towards well-defined knowledge boundaries confronts design for social change. Research relevant to the epistemological dimensions of the rela...
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Cultural Heritage, Collaborative Practices and Sustainable Fabric Design: Ottoman Sultans’ Life Stories on Jacquard Design
In the textile industry, the jacquard weaving industry is an important branch. Jacquard weaving industry offers rich varieties thanks to computer-aided design system used in pattern design. In parallel to chan...
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Internet Use Among Informal Caregivers of People with Dementia: Results of an Online Survey
Informal caregivers (IC) of people with dementia (PWD) possess a greater risk of develo** physical and psychological health problems. The internet was considered a promising modality to provide resources aim...
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Sustainable Collaborative Design Practices: Circular Economy and the New Context for a Fashion Designer
The change of models required to implement circular design brings real problems closer to the field of design education. The complexity of today’s world [8] favours the integration of systems, here a collaborati...
