Dr Mariana Fonseca Braga's Outputs (7)

The Fifth Order of Design: The Value of Design in Times of Transition (2023)
Journal Article

Failures in achieving sustainability are being recognised worldwide. Approaches to tackling sustainability challenges often fail to address the roots of these challenges. This paper contributes to a necessary discussion of an emerging necessity, a re... Read More about The Fifth Order of Design: The Value of Design in Times of Transition.

Community engagement in water, sanitation and hygiene in sub-Saharan Africa (2022)
Journal Article

This transdisciplinary literature review paper aims at addressing the literature lacuna in community engagement and water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) in sub-Saharan countries. By responding to a set of identified WASH-related questions to communit... Read More about Community engagement in water, sanitation and hygiene in sub-Saharan Africa.

Community engagement: The key to tackling Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) across a One Health context? (2021)
Journal Article

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a One Health problem underpinned by complex drivers and behaviours. This is particularly so in low – and middle-income countries (LMICs), where social and systemic factors fuel (mis)use and drive AMR. Behavioural cha... Read More about Community engagement: The key to tackling Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) across a One Health context?.

The potential of design to build freedoms: a case study of design for sustainability in a scavengers association (2021)
Journal Article

This paper presents a case study conducted at ASMARE (Paper, Cardboard and Reusable Material Collectors Association), in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. ASMARE is a “scavengers” association that screens recyclable waste to sell it to recycling companies. The... Read More about The potential of design to build freedoms: a case study of design for sustainability in a scavengers association.

Design for Resilience (2020)
Journal Article

Rompendo com o comportamento da cópia (2017)
Journal Article

The choice of design. From businesses’ conditions to businesses’ attitudes (2017)
Journal Article

This paper addresses a psychological approach to creativity use as a decision in order to understand design management capabilities absorption within small businesses throughout three design policy programs focused on the integration of design into M... Read More about The choice of design. From businesses’ conditions to businesses’ attitudes.