Dr Mariana Fonseca Braga's Outputs (15)

Social Design at the Brink: Hopes and Fears. (2024)
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This hybrid conversation aimed to creatively explore and define the current
and future roles and challenges of social design and designers in promoting positive
societal changes. Our approach was inspired by Paulo Freire’s culture circles, a
conve... Read More about Social Design at the Brink: Hopes and Fears..

Pluriversal Design as a Paradigm (2024)
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The concept of the Pluriverse refers to a world where many worlds fit. But what is pluriversal design? While it has been used as a synonym for initiatives around diversity, equity, and inclusion, this track argues that pluriversal frameworks represen... Read More about Pluriversal Design as a Paradigm.

Adaptive Materials and The Role of Design[ers] (Research[ers]) in Shaping Transformative Futures (2023)
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Imagine if our structures (buildings, cities) or objects (medical prosthetics, clothes) could be grown, self-healed and have multiple properties (shape, textures, composition etc) tuned or adapted to meet fluctuating demands. This could significantly... Read More about Adaptive Materials and The Role of Design[ers] (Research[ers]) in Shaping Transformative Futures.

Community empowerment: lessons learned from a local health programme (2023)
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The use of complex public health systems to empower communities is often met with challenges and frustrations. Community empowerment programmes focus on improving mental and physical health needs, enabling individuals to become active members of the... Read More about Community empowerment: lessons learned from a local health programme.

Shaping Social Design with communities (2023)
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This position paper presents key Social Design work being conducted in the Design-led Research Centre, ImaginationLancaster, at Lancaster University in the UK. We position our local and global research in the Social Design landscape, defining the des... Read More about Shaping Social Design with communities.

Design Research Need in Helping to Address International Conflict Intersections in Southeast Asia (2022)
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Design-led research on conflicts arising from anthropogenic and environmental factors, such as that from forest management in Indonesia, are largely under-represented in the design research community. In this position paper we discuss the need for mo... Read More about Design Research Need in Helping to Address International Conflict Intersections in Southeast Asia.

'Parametric Matter': Pushing’ Updates into Materials and the Implications of Legacy and Lag (2022)
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This paper discusses an ongoing interdisciplinary research project that develops a design and fabrication approach termed; tunable environments. This is an explorative approach, which enables updates from a digital parametric interface to be ‘pushed'... Read More about 'Parametric Matter': Pushing’ Updates into Materials and the Implications of Legacy and Lag.

Values and challenges in rapid prototyping of global health policies (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper identifies the value and challenges in introducing rapid
prototyping of policy to design non-expert and expert groups by analysing an online
workshop series that was conducted with early-career professionals, policy makers,
and design r... Read More about Values and challenges in rapid prototyping of global health policies.

Design capabilities for community resilience: Towards dialogic practices and policies (2022)
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This paper draws on a pilot study insight into Brazilian informal-settlement communities’ problems, adaptative strategies and needs during the COVID-19 pandemic. Although communities play a noteworthy role in resilience, emergency and recovery plans... Read More about Design capabilities for community resilience: Towards dialogic practices and policies.

Understanding public health communication design globally during the Covid-19 pandemic: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (2021)
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Community-led design capabilities during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond (2021)
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COVID-19 threats have been impacting disadvantaged communities even harder. This paper looks into challenge areas and community responses to those in Brazilian informal settlements during the COVID-19 pandemic. These were identified through online ro... Read More about Community-led design capabilities during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.

Design thinking for public good (2018)
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Introducing design-driven innovation into Brazilian MSMEs (2018)
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The value of design: an issue of vision, creativity and interpretation (2016)
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What is the value of design? Why should firms invest in design? The paper aims at clarifying the value of design, its dimensions and its variables (qualitative and quantitative) throughout a literature review and analysis. The premise is that firms i... Read More about The value of design: an issue of vision, creativity and interpretation.

Design boundaries in Brazilian SMEs : A case study in the furniture sector (2015)
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Most design approaches have their foundations in the United States and European western countries (e.g. Design Thinking; Design Culture, Strategic Design). When dealing with different contextual frameworks we face diverse constraints and problems as... Read More about Design boundaries in Brazilian SMEs : A case study in the furniture sector.