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Handbook of Design and Industry by Maria João Félix (Hardback)
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9781032701011
Published:
09 Sep 2025
Format:
Hardback
Number of pages:
504 pages
Dimensions:
234mm
Weight:
0.453kgs
Author:
This book brings together researchers, academics, policy makers and designers with the objective of developing a focused vision that enhances innovation through design and industry for a better future. Readers will gain an interdisciplinary perspective on what good design can achieve and why it is needed to challenge the climate crisis.
The 21st century has been beset by a global pandemic, war and increasingly concerning environmental disasters. Designers and industries have been forced to imagine a world in which the only way to move forward is to look back. The design and industry sectors need to understand the role they can play in removing obstacles to social progress and work together to create healthier human societies that can interact with the world in a sustainable way.This book presents contributions from leading experts that show through good work and system design, a better and more prosperous world is achievable. This book consists of chapters that bring together researchers, academics, policy makers and designers from technology companies and business associations with the objective of fostering and actively developing a focused vision that enhances innovation through design and industry for a better future. Through a transdisciplinary scientific exchange, it lists responses to the challenges of climate change and environmental degradation that will contribute to a more modern, resource efficient, competitive economy, with smart, sustainable and inclusive growth, promoting knowledge, inter-sector collaboration, health, education and a digital society for all. Through putting the human at the heart of what can be accomplished, this book investigates better design in the disciplines of work, healthcare, product, system, manufacturing and industry amongst others. The reader will gather an interdisciplinary perspective on what good design can achieve and why it is needed to challenge the climate crisis.Design and Industry: Scenarios for Sustainable Futures is essential reading for researchers and academics in the fields and disciplines of ergonomics/human factors, occupational health and safety, industrial design, product design, industrial engineering, materials engineering, process engineering, computer engineering, communication designers, electronics and telecommunications engineering.
About the Author: Maria João Félix is a researcher and an Industrial Designer, Design Specialist and Design Professor at the Polytechnic Institute of Cávado and Ave (School of Design) in Barcelos, Portugal. She has a PhD in Design from the Lisbon School of Architecture in the Universidade de Lisboa. Maria João is a full member of CIAUD (Center for Research in Architecture, Urbanism and Design), REDES (Research & Education in Design research group), and has worked in the furniture industry as a Co-Founder and Creative Director.Rita Assoreira Almendra is a Professor at University of Lisbon's Lisbon School of Architecture. She has a PhD in Design, her Masters' in Design Management from the Universidade Católica Portuguesa and she has also an MBA with marketing specialization. She started as a Lecturer at FAU Lisbon in 2000, become Assistant Professor in 2010 and Associated Professor in 2016. She is the Head of the Project Design Department, member of the Scientific Council and has published 20 articles in journals, 30 book chapters and coauthored two books.Fernando José Carneiro Moreira da Silva is Professor Emeritus in Architecture, Urbanism and Design at the Lisbon School of Architecture (FA), at the University of Lisbon, Portugal. Previously a Lecturer in Design, Human Factors, Inclusive Design and Fashion and Color, Fernando is the author of three books, many book chapters, articles, papers and communications in Product Design, Communication Design, Fashion Design, Color, Inclusivity, Human Factors, Ergonomics, Research Methodologies and Accessibility. He has been a Member of the Portuguese National Fine Arts Academy since 1989 and Member of the Portuguese Color Association since 2011, being its Honorary Member since 2021.Fátima Pombo is currently Associate Professor with Aggregation in Design at University of Aveiro, Portugal. She was guest professor at the Department of Architecture at KU Leuven, Belgium for several years and lectured for short periods within Erasmus+ Programme and Athens Programme at other European Universities. She is Senior Researcher of ID+ Institute for Design, Media and Culture, coordinator of the research group OIKOS-Design for Ecosystemic Spaces and director of the Master in Product Design and Engineering. Her current research interests focus on sustainable design, interior design, product design, ecosystems and phenomenology.Paulo J. S. Cruz is a Full Professor of Construction and Technology at the School of Architecture, Art and Design of the University of Minho and Researcher at the Laboratory of Landscapes, Heritage and Territory (Lab2PT). Previously, he was President of the School of Architecture, Art and Design (2021-2023 and 2004-2011), Pro-Rector of the University of Minho for Quality of Life and Infrastructure (2017-2021), Director of Lab2PT - Laboratory of Landscapes, Heritage and Territory (2015-2017), President of the Design Institute of Guimarães (since 2015), and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal "Architecture, Structures and Construction" (since 2021). His R&D activity aims to drive the convergence of Architecture, Construction, and Technology through pioneering research and education related to recent breakthroughs in the art, practice, and theory within these multidisciplinary domains.
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