Hugo Reis Rocha

Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia Fluminense (IFF) | IFF · Design Gráfico

The world faces crises that find an unprecedented match in contemporary history that create complex challenges and a society that struggles to solve them. Nevertheless, whilst being a time of crisis, it is also a time of opportunities for Design and Design Education to prepare future designers to assume a position of change agent. Our study was de...

The present paper intends to present an overview the status quo of design education, pointing out aspects from its creation and evolution over timed. It was made a short analysis that confronts the teaching model with the dynamics in which the world is today. It also points out the characteristics of a "new" designer, active in the creative economy...

The present paper is part of a Ph.D. research in Design that aims to understand how Design Education can foster social innovation and sustainability. The primary goal of this work was to outline the Higher Education (HE) framework with particular focus in Portugal analyzing if Design Education is responding to the need of train designers for a para...

The present paper intendsto present the early stage on a bigger attemptto discuss design education and its role in aparadigmshift moment, pointing the need to change how designers think and learn to face wicked problems in a more complex society. New active methodologies will be considered in order to promote a teaching-learning process that reinfo...